Nuclear Bulwark by FishMasterino

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Extra-galactic conflict!
Fend off against alien enemies while you mine uranium to feed your power plant!
Use your resources to buy stronger arsenal and repel the invaders!
Controls
Click on the power plant to generate resources
Click on enemies to attack them
Trade resources for upgrades
Press Esc or Space to pause
Credits
Christian Hamelain (https://twitter.com/guriid0) - Code
Yu Chan - Code
Axel Signargout (https://twitter.com/fishmasterino) - Art
Dorian Signargout (https://twitter.com/dk_doot) - Code
| Link | https://dodoot.itch.io/nuclear-bulwark |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/nuclear-bulwark |
Ratings
| Overall | 576th | 3.643⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 456th | 3.667⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1303th | 2.714⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1464th | 2.357⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 437th | 3.929⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 591th | 3.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
I got about this far before I realized that this game had no end, at least one I could not see coming any time soon. Which means I was playing this for a while, fun to balance the resource gathering with actively using them to fend off the attackers!
The difficulty gets pretty high, even the bombs barely did damage to the big guys. I did find an exploit that would have let me play the game forever if I wanted to! I would revise how pausing works!
Overall good job! I would set some sort of soft end goal to reach, and endless gauntlet does get aimless after a while.
The pacing and progression felt good and left me wanting more. This is one of the more visual clicker games out there, so seeing my base unfold for a bit felt awesome.
I loved how the simple coloring on the enemies ended up working well together. It was enough shading to show off the structure of the enemies. The ground units in particular were animated very well.
Very cool game overall. I've played every clicker game out there and I think your mashup of idle + strategy is pretty unique. Great job!
Unrelated, but I did end up looking up @fishmasterino and saw that they're a fighting game head. Try out https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/bust-a-loop if you haven't before, you might like it :)
The audio, visual style and animations were all thoroughly enjoyable.
**We made some bugfixes :**
- Adjustments to the pixel perfect display
- Cursors now click in the middle, they clicked in the top left corner before making it hard to click on icons
- The pause now works properly
- Bomb and lightning cursors now match to what they actually do
We are aware that the balance and rythm of the game would be adjusted by a lot, but we feel it is not really in the spirit of the game jam to modify that during rating period.
@toppervideogames usually the wave with four ground walker bosses ends the session, congrats on reaching that far.
@peachtreeoath I tried your combo game, it was pretty fun :D
And the art is really cool !
But, maybe I missed something as I don't get the link with the theme
I wanted more upgrade and stuff, I had maximize my ressource pretty rapidly when I understood what to create first.
But very great start and fun to play :)
Nice one tho