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Fight or Flight by chertkov

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made by chertkov for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

Humans are caught in the middle of fight with overwhelming alien forces. The only way to save them is a swift and strategic evacuation.

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Fight or Flight is a strategy tower-defence game where you have to defend your base by building protective towers and assigning your workers to operate them.

Place towers, mines and rockets using buttons on the right, left click the buildings to select and operate them, when building is selected you can use menu buttons or hot keys:

Left click - Select building

E - Assign worker

Q - Free worker

F - Upgrade

X - Sell building

Space to launch rocket when it's selected

Right click - remove selection, cancel placing of the building

Once again, you have to assign workers to buildings in order for them to attack / start gaining gold.

Once the population of your base turns 0 (from either enemy damage or evacuating all the people) the game is over

The goal of the game is to evacuate as many people as possible by buying and sending rockets.

Programming by 3079, art by blobasaur, audio by chertkov.

Made in Unity, Photoshop, Ableton Live 11.

Link https://3079.itch.io/fight-or-flight
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/fight-or-flight

Ratings

Overall 921th 3.354⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 883th 3.208⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1059th 2.891⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1046th 3.326⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 798th 3.5⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 569th 3.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 970th 2.472⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 836th 3.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 31🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

Enjl
05. Apr 2022 · 20:55 UTC
Love the premise, and the creatures you defend yourself from are really creepy and great! My experience has unfortunately been hampered by me being unable to figure out how to actually gain more gold, so I sadly had to watch as my base slowly succumbed to an ever-growing onslaught of insectoids and cheetahs. I think with a bit more player guidance, and perhaps a small grace period at the start to let players figure out how everything works, this could be a game I could sink quite a while into.
Angrybeard
06. Apr 2022 · 09:18 UTC
i like your implementation of the tower defense mechanic, the playfield looks very clean and it is easy to place structures. But i also need a couple of tries till i found out the basic mechanics of manning the towers and mining gold + i didnt realy got the concept of the rocket. So more tutorials would benefit your game i think :)
Sodoj
06. Apr 2022 · 09:20 UTC
First of all, thank you so much for making this game available in WebGL!

When I started the game, I was really confused. I started making buildings, but they didn't seem to do anything at all. Luckily, I figured out quickly that you are supposed to fill them in with capable soldiers and the game quickly became really fun management/tower defense rump!

Good stuff!
OddballDave
06. Apr 2022 · 09:20 UTC
This is a solid tower defence game. Very simple to understand, and hits all the right marks for the genre. Then the added twist of trying to evacuate the workers was very clever. It's a constant balance of trying to have enough workers to man towers and trying to save as many workers as possible. I'm wondering as the developer what your best score is? Is it possible to get a perfect score or, as in life, do some sacrifices _have_ to be made?

Good Stuff :8ball:
pev
06. Apr 2022 · 09:33 UTC
Good idea to combine tower defense and escape strategies! I couldn't find my balance though, units number is too small and saving 9 people seems to be a good idea...
I think you can extend the idea after the jam and add more tower kinds.
Nikolay Fedotenko
06. Apr 2022 · 14:11 UTC
Cool tower defense game! Congrats with completing your jam
LDJam user 269161
06. Apr 2022 · 14:29 UTC
Nice Starship Troopers themed game :smile: I liked your music
🎤 chertkov
07. Apr 2022 · 14:56 UTC
@oddballdave we were losing our minds while making the wave generator during the submission hour, so perfect balance is not guaranteed 😅. Consider this a hi-score game. Here is my PB.![hiscore.png](///raw/0d0/d2/z/4d5f6.png)
benbennett
09. Apr 2022 · 08:09 UTC
I liked the concept and loved the art and music, great job! I had some trouble figuring out the upgrade mechanic and couldn't figure out how to get the resource needed for the mortar. I think some more information presented to the player would help, things like upgrade cost, what the upgrade actually does, upgrade level, etc
elysiagriffin
09. Apr 2022 · 10:45 UTC
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450162412?t=06h38m44s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
ilikescifi
13. Apr 2022 · 15:02 UTC
A bit complicated in the beginning to understand everything but nice concept and VERY nice for a game jam! Thumbs up!
Glaikunt
15. Apr 2022 · 11:06 UTC
Had fun playing the game. I only got 8 though. A button to start waves I think would add a lot. The game itself has a lot of room for expansion. Great job!
Skruffye
15. Apr 2022 · 22:29 UTC
I don't know if I was just really bad at this or if it wasn't intended to go on for very long, given the theme...! :grin:

All the same, I'm a bit of a sucker for tower defence games--I liked the mechanic of assigning workers to beef up towers, although I wasn't all too sure how to go about getting the second resource that wasn't gold?

I get the feeling that the main thing holding this game back is probably a lack of tutorial. I'd be interested to play it again if I had a better idea of what I was supposed to be doing! :laughing:

Good work on the sprites--they were simple, but effective and entirely self-consistent. That soundtrack was really engaging, too! Gave the whole game a very epic feel to it.

Great job! :smile:
alight
16. Apr 2022 · 00:04 UTC
Bit hard but too damn good. Good music and I absolutely loved the home screen :smile:
mmason
20. Apr 2022 · 02:52 UTC
really solid game, a little bit hard to learn everything in one play, but on my third try I think I started getting the hang of it
Ava Skoog
21. Apr 2022 · 15:21 UTC
Pretty cool tower defence 😗 Like others have said, the evacuation is a neat twist. It was pretty difficult for me to get very far and I never seemed to be able to get ahold of any of that "atomic" icon resource. How do I get those? Is there any way to get your population back up again, or is that where the inevitability comes in? Looks and sounds pretty nice and is mostly intuitive altho at least on my computer in the web player the click controls were a bit unresponsive and I had to click several times for it to register—did you perhaps put that code in the fixed update? Also worth noting that on initial load the game was bigger than my screen, but zooming out the browser or going fullscreen solved that so not a huge deal 😅 Overall well done!
lupercalia
21. Apr 2022 · 15:40 UTC
Very well made! I like the graphics, the music and the overall mood of running (flying) for your live. Well implemented idea, fitting to the theme, as a tower defense game. From what i played i would judge you made an ideawise very well made strategic design between deciding how to assign the workers on your defense on on the possibility to escape. I like this dilemma as a strategy idea.
blobasaur
21. Apr 2022 · 22:19 UTC
@ava-skoog thanks for playing our game! the "atomic" resource is science points, and you get them if you send enough people to space (they are supposed to be useful even if they are not on the base😅). The population does not come back, it is a very limited resource. About the controls - everything runs smoothly on pc and on other pcs in our team so I don't know what to tell you ☹️. Altough there's one interaction where you can't build anything if something's already building - maybe this was your case? Anyways, thanks for playing and leaving feedback!