Power Struggle by Kriss
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WebGL Link: https://ksowinski.itch.io/power-struggle
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Instructions
Your goal is to survive as long as possible in Power Struggle! Gather resources, upgrade your turrets, fight giant bugs, but above all, keep everything charged up!
Player 1: Arrow keys to move, right shift to charge/build/upgrade.
Player 2: WSAD to move, TAB to charge/build/upgrade
Press TAB to start player 2
Game-play mechanics
Structures Each structure has a blue power bar, which is depleted when performing actions or repairing itself. Charge a structure up by walking up to it and repeatedly pressing the action key.
Drill The drill gathers resources for building a second drill or building and upgrading turrets. Resources are displayed underneath the HQ building.
Turrets The turrets fire on enemies in range. Enemies will also attack the turret when fired upon. If the turret’s red heath bar drops to zero it will be destroyed and a new one will have to be built.
HQ The HQ must be protected at all costs. It will use its power to repair itself, but if it’s red health bar drops to zero the game is over.
Upgrading Turret fire rate can be upgraded up to level 5. Between enemy waves an icon will appear below each turret along with the cost of the upgrade. Stand on the icon and press the action button to purchase the upgrade.
Building The cost of building is displayed at each vacant hard point. To build or replace a turret or build the second drill, walk to the relevant hard point and press the action key.
Enemies Enemies will be spawned in waves of increasing numbers. They can only be destroyed by turrets, so keep them charged!
Tools Used
Unity 2017 + VS, GIMP, SFXR
Other / assets
WavySpriteby Andrii (https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/89634)
Foliage by Warlock's Gauntlet team (https://opengameart.org/content/top-down-foliage-collection)
Ground Tile Set by chabull (https://opengameart.org/content/ground-tileset-grass-sand)
Music Midi by RenzoSquall (https://www.yout ube.com/watch?v=6DIhPJK081c)
| HTML5 (web) | https://ksowinski.itch.io/power-struggle |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/power-struggle-3 |
Ratings
| Overall | 430th | 3.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 451th | 3.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 698th | 2.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 632th | 3.15⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 633th | 2.947⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 398th | 3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 432th | 2.368⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 679th | 2.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
Good graphics and I liked the music and soundFX. The enemy behaviour was also pretty well done. I would have liked some more feedback about what my character actually was doing when I was running around spamming shift.
Nice work!
Great game!
It took me some time to understand what the drills were, but after a while I started to get a hang of the game. Too bad you can only build in predetermined locations.
I love the feeling that you have to run around and keep everything going. I just think that the power of the drills and the turrets gets used up too fast. You never have the feeling that you have things under control. I think it would be better if for the first few waves everything went fine and you had things under control, and only slowly over time things would get out of hand.
The controls of the character don't always feel "tight" (I only tried single player). Especially when you bumb in to corners you kind of get stuck in a weird way. Also it's not always clear what you are interacting with, especially with the turret upgrades.
When I have some weird audio glitches (Google Chrome, on a new notebook), especially when go in fullscreen mode.
Overall, very cool game mechanics. Music is also very good. And impressive that you were able to make a 2-player game!