It took me a short while to figure out how to play, but after that it was pretty simple until I started running out of shapes! Very well done. I like this game.
I didn't test it enough (not a whole lot of time in the compo :P) so I didn't realize the enemy-ship ratio is totally offbalance, so yeah you do tend to run out of shapes a lot
Nice! Got a score of 256, found it relatively easy, but still fun to keep everything balanced, but eventually just ran out of squares entirely and couldn't do anything about the three squares that came along.
tbamberg--running out of resources was the big problem i didn't have time to solve before the time ran out :( the way i ended up solving it mostly (there's a post-jam version of the game on itch.io)was by just making ships appear about twice as often and carry resources depending on the deficiency of resources in the game.
Cool concept. The resource management and combat worked well together. I found I kept wanting to click the shape on the planet rather than the enemy...lol Fun game, I enjoyed it.
Concept was fine. The controls would have required some changes. Now it was time consuming to drag correct ammo to correct place. Gameplay was much about "ensure each planet has balanced stock of ammo".
Instead of providing specific type of ammo, I wonder if cargo ships could bring money, that could be used to fill ammo supplies on planets.
Additionally, instead of "killing a planet", each planet could have also production that would generate money -- enemy ships would steal that money away... and after that they would start destroying the planet.
I wonder if planets should auto-shoot enemies, if they have sufficient ammo.
Controls I changed in the post-jam version, now you drag from a resource icon on one planet to another planet to transfer that resource. Cargo ships bringing money is something I never considered, that's probably a good idea. If planets could produce money, though, ships might not even be necessary...
As for planets autoshooting, I had that in at the beginning but it was kind of boring. I'm not sure I would want to put it back in unless I was sure the game could survive without it
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Instead of providing specific type of ammo, I wonder if cargo ships could bring money, that could be used to fill ammo supplies on planets.
Additionally, instead of "killing a planet", each planet could have also production that would generate money -- enemy ships would steal that money away... and after that they would start destroying the planet.
I wonder if planets should auto-shoot enemies, if they have sufficient ammo.
Overall I liked this. Nice little game.
As for planets autoshooting, I had that in at the beginning but it was kind of boring. I'm not sure I would want to put it back in unless I was sure the game could survive without it