You are a Major of a small town which is under attack. You don’t have enough resources to stop the advance: sooner or later, your entire town will be captured and corrupted by Enemy. Your goal is to evacuate as many people as possible to safety before it’s too late.
\n","source":"soloschenko-grigoriy/js13kgame-2022","stars":1,"comments":[{"at":315648941,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I like the look of the game. I wonder if it’s more suited to mobile than desktop. The concept was good but I couldn’t work out a good strategy to get everyone out.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":315716123,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"It sort of feels like I’m just clicking on things repeatedly in order from the direction of the enemy. I as a play just don’t have enough agency over the situation.
\nIf I could place the defense guns that would go a long way. I strategically place those to defend as best I can. Maybe even I can choose to take people out of their homes to man a new gun so I can choose a tradeoff between people I can save and people who stay behind to defend, and then see how well I can manage that to save as many people as possible.
\nIf you can tweak that to give me as a player a few more things to do and more control, I think you have a really fun game!
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"at":316097183,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"Nice game. Liked figuring out the strategy!
\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"at":316153773,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"I think you could improve the game a bit by making it faster. I spent most of my time waiting for the next evacuation. It also were more challenging if the enemies attacked randomly instead of the predictable order.
\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316328690,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Quite a dark game. Building towers means sacrificing some people. but without those sacrifices it’s impossible to save most people.\nAt first I was confused, because I was expecting to actually see a bus. Once you understand that the attack is happening in a triangular shape, you can start prioritizing certain houses. It’s an interesting concept.\nCute graphics. and simple controls with lots of explanations in-game.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316368824,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"I really found it difficult to play a lot as there were no hotkeys to perform the very repetitious actions required to progress.
\n","games":["Putt Till You Die","Don't Die To Ghosts"]},{"at":316386431,"author":"Ben Clark","login":"bencoder","gh":707117,"twitter":"bencoder","text":"Interesting concept, I played twice and improved my score the second time around. I don’t understand why the game ends when there’s still a few people left in the houses though - I could have saved the last 20 people that were still there but the “Left to evacuate” number had gone down to 0 and the game ended.
\nWould have liked to see a bit more polish - for example, the timer keeps going and the game keeps progressing when you have a popup open but you can’t see it and you have to close and reopen the popup in order to evacuate the people which kept annoying me.\nSound would be nice. A bit more variety / progression in levels would be great. But overall a fun strategy game
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316813471,"author":"Maximilian Schaum","login":"ixam1","gh":74653168,"url":"https://ebay.com","twitter":"ebaytechberlin","text":"Interesting little game with neat visuals.
\nHaving to double click each 5 seconds to evacuate was kind of tedious. Maybe you could make it so you can choose which house will currently be evacuated and then every 5 seconds it will automatically evacuate from that house.
\nOther then that, cool game. Good job!
\n"},{"at":317048578,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"I like the concept, having to choose between sacrificing people or evacuate them. Some sounds and animations would improve gameplay and feedback to the player.
\nI felt I was stuck with building one canon at the same spot. It would be more difficult if the virus attacked from various angles, making the game more hectic.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":317048824,"author":"Richard Chung","login":"gregwoodsfrontier","gh":80141657,"text":"Visuals are kinda alright.\nThis looks like a clicker game and still I feel it lacks tutorial to teach people how to play the game.\nWith extra effects it might be better.\nHaving a pop-up menu to choose my commands is better than overlaying the whole scene in my opinion.
\n","games":["Echoes of Depth"]},{"typ":2,"at":317116116,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"A bit repetitive, but there is definitely a kernel of something fun here in the way you have to have to balance between the sacrifice of some townspeople for the greater good and the hope to evacuate more.
\n"},{"at":317288841,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"“You managed to evacuate: 320 from 490 people” I sarificed a few extra to end the game a little quicker.
\nOnce I had blocked off the virus I just had to play a waiting game.
\nWhen the popup is open you cannot see the timer count down, nor does the button change from close to rescue; you have to close it and re-click.
\nI like the idea; more options would have improved the gameplay.
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"typ":2,"at":317305224,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"Love the narrative going into the game. However there is a lack of explaining how the game works in terms of controls, how you get people to safety etc. The onus is on the player to figure this out. If this is your aim, then having a tutorial specific level would be good.
\nThe sacrificing people part is a little brutal! But it doesn’t feel like I’m actually getting anywhere. I am placing towers and they are being destroyed without the enemy taking any damage. Maybe making the first level a little easier would help people stay in the game. Otherwise, having a health counter on the enemies would also help in figuring out a strategy and ensuring the game doesn’t just end up in a stalemate. Like legit all I was doing was building towers, and they were dying and the enemy kept advancing, even though it looked like they should be dying, or at least taking damage. Took me a while to figure out that you needed to click houses to evacuate citizens. But if you get it wrong to start with, there’s a stalemate where the enemies keep attacking and you can’t do anything.
\nIt would also be great if you could deploy towers or the people in those towers if they are safe. I think mine also glitched out at one stage because I could evacuate everyone without taking any damage. This may be because I built two rows of towers and it stopped the enemies spawning properly.
\nSome music would be great in this game to make it a little more immersive. Sound effects would also help with the game.
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