Bugs Must Die by adjo
I decided to build something similar to Orcs Must Die. A tower defense, but you can also run around and shoot. It has quite a weak link to the theme in that the waves are in an endless loop?
You have two phases: - Build phase to set your traps. - Defend phase to stop the bugs getting to the end of the map into the portal.
Built with Lua and LÖVE.
Controls: - WASD/Arrows to move - Left click to shoot / place traps - Right click to destroy trap - Escape to quit

Ratings
| Overall | 463th | 3.125⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 418th | 3.05⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 538th | 2.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 612th | 2.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 523th | 2.75⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 472th | 2.361⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 445th | 1.9⭐ | 17🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 557th | 2.313⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
General: what mission?, over....
Me: the entire floor is covered in spikes, over....
Things I liked:
- The shooting is actually necessary and doesn't feel just tacked on (until the end game, see my comment below)
- also loved the 2nd entrance, caught me by surprise, was exciting
- really well balanced! Felt like all the trap types were useful, and the different bug types were interesting. The level design is good too, there were very few obvious bottlenecks and the branches force you to think a bit about trap placement
- liked the fact that there was some randomness in the bug paths, so wasn't obvious which route they would take
Criticisms:
- bullets are hard to see
- wasn't immediately obvious which side was the spawn point and which was the destination
- retry button would've been nice instead of a forced exit
- got some serious slowdown after around level 7
- you can get to a stage where you have so much money you can coat the floor in spikes and nothing will get through
Great entry!