Skillector by Stellar Lily

made by Stellar Lily for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Fend off waves of enemies with your skills!

Your skills are listed in the bottom of the screen. Acquire skills and upgrade them between every wave by spending the coins your foes drop when eliminated.

Be mindful of your spendings, though! Your balance determines your final score should you not make it to the end.

...there is an end to this, right? (no)

Version History

v0.3
- Initial jam version. Enjoy!
v0.3.1 (07/10/2025 - 6:17PM)
- QOL changes:
  - You can dash using SHIFT
  - You can also use 1-6 on the keyboard to scroll through your actives.

Technologies

Game developed with Godot 4.5
Sound effects created with jsfxr
Music composed in FL Studio by NoahAmp/Pengu123

Credits

Code, graphics and sound effects by Erina(Lily), NoahAmp(Pengu123)
Music by NoahAmp
Extra credits on the itch.io page

itch.io	https://stellar-lily.itch.io/skillector
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/skillector

Ratings

Overall	397^th	3.5⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Fun	47^th	4.048⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	756^th	2.333⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Theme	580^th	3.333⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	647^th	2.881⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Audio	170^th	3.725⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Humor	551^th	2.575⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Mood	615^th	3.15⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Given		12🗳️	17🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 251170

Oct 06th · 22:52 UTC

Cute little game, responsive controls, does what it says on the tin! The soundtrack was lowkey a banger and I might've ended up playing this game for longer than I had expected to! Pretty close to perfect hehe... only thing missing was the possibility for a bigger WOOSH! (Or did I miss it!?)

Maytch

Oct 06th · 23:01 UTC

Fun gameplay! Good music too. The upgrades needed to go up in price though! After a couple of waves I could always buy everything each round!

Kabbi

Oct 07th · 12:12 UTC

Cool! It's very playable and engaging! Survived till wave 13. Love all the visual effects

CGraen

Oct 07th · 12:14 UTC

Quite fun survivor-like. I feel though like the speed at which the amount of enemies grew outpaced the one I grew with upgrades quite fast, even though i always had enough money to buy everything. Also the if you dont take the a ranged weapon when the ranged enemies spawn they are very hard to kill. Otherwise a nice little game. Loved the sounddesign ^^

Tommeh

Oct 07th · 12:15 UTC

Fun survivor-like game. Audio-wise this game was pretty really good! I got the machinegun very early and it felt very OP because I barely took any damage. Overall I had a lot of fun with this game!

Porcupine Sashimi

Oct 07th · 12:19 UTC

Fun game! A bit easy though, and I didn't really see the point of using anything other than machine gun after a while.

Mikita gancharou

Oct 07th · 12:41 UTC

Fun - a bit rough, but engaging!
Nice music and smooth gameplay.
The economy and upgrades feel a bit unbalanced, but conceptually it’s a solid release.

Bumble

Oct 07th · 14:37 UTC

I made it to wave 16 and I have to say that I really like the way you force decisions at the beginning because the slots are filled up at some point and you have to live with your 'build'. In the later part of the game it would have been nice to have more than just percentage upgrades, because I was just gaining more and more money at that point :grinning:

Pengu123

Oct 07th · 16:15 UTC

Thanks for the feedback! It means a lot to hear that you all had a great experience so far :D

Regarding the poor game balance and the rather rough visuals, we were a little too ambitious when it came to the game mechanics, and while scoping down we decided to rather focus on polishing the user experience and how satisfying it feels to just move around, dash and use abilities.

We feel it'd rather be unfair to fully rebalance the game for the Jam version itself, but we're taking notes and will make sure to tweak the difficulty better in future non-jam updates!

KafuuChino

Oct 09th · 04:06 UTC

Smooth gameplay and various updates! Graphics are somehow poor but still looks consistent. Well done!

Eugenik

Oct 09th · 11:43 UTC

trop mignon!.

Automathan

Oct 11th · 15:25 UTC

Addictive!

Samuli

Oct 11th · 17:38 UTC

Played 18 waves, then stopped. The game doesn't really scale. I had 2000+ monies and things still cost like 10 and I was just murdering everything. Other than than balancing, the game was cool, I especially liked the music.

Jim jagers

Oct 12th · 14:02 UTC

Incredibly fun game, reminded me of an old flash game I could definetly see young me play this on the school computer instead of following the class lmao.

K48UTO

Oct 12th · 14:53 UTC

the game would have been more enjoyable for me if: the weapon was used automatically and I didn't have to choose one thing, but used everything at once.

Eliasou

Oct 12th · 15:06 UTC

Very addictive! Had a lot of fun with your game!

Wouter52

Oct 17th · 18:32 UTC

oh my did I have a fun time! GF literally yelled across the room "don't forget to breathe!" :grin: I was emerged, the game was easy to get sucked in to :-)

Wouter52

Oct 26th · 08:04 UTC

Congratz with your sub-50 for fun! Very well deserved :smile: