Zest & Goop

Zest & Goop

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overall: 3.71
fun: 3.51
innovation: 3.40
theme: 3.83
graphics: 4.40
audio: 3.34
humor: 2.07
mood: 3.12
A Tower Defence game with a twist.

You play as a Ghost and must defend your precious Crystal from the enemy Shades. The Shades drop Goop which your trusty Crystal can convert into Zest, an energy source that will keep your equipment running! Just stand to the left of the Crystal and any Goop you've picked up will rush into it. If the Crystals' health drops to 0, you lose! Survive until the end of wave 10 to ... uh, win? Honestly, win/lose conditions were a little rushed :sweat_smile:

You can move around your Ghost by using "WASD" or arrow keys, use "E" or "ENTER" to toggle your machines on and off and stand on the power pads while they're on to give them zest (if you have any). Some machines passively use Zest while others only use it when attacking Shades, be careful not to waste too much energy.

Once you've collected some Goop from your enemies corpses, be sure to head over to the Crystal Converter to fill it up, once it has Goop it will begin to create Zest.

I just looked up goop and apparently it means "A stupid person", I thought it was gibberish, opps!

Due to Ludum Dare being moved, I couldn't do anything Saturday and Sunday wasn't overly productive (hang over), so sadly a solo game made by comp rules but entering jam :disappointed:

EDIT: Adding web version of game (usually they never work for me)
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