Proximity War

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.88
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.38
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.38
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.64
The blue faction grows more and more unstable as time goes on. Starting from just one ore harvester, can you defeat the unstable blue faction before it's too late?
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* Instructions: *

* Use your harvesters (little red squares) to mine (grey boxes)
* Build barracks from your home bases (large squares)
* Build units from your barracks (large red circles)
* Your "Fighter" units will attack enemy targets in their proximity
* Use mouse to pan around
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Comments20

Jel22175 Oct 2021, 00:09
Cool game, fun gameplay and interesting take on the theme!
Daniel Giorlando5 Oct 2021, 00:09
Neat! A little difficult to control imho though 😭
zakaria5 Oct 2021, 00:12
Fun gameplay solid idea i enjoyed it ^^
SeaM00se
SeaM00se5 Oct 2021, 00:24
The wall-of-text tutorial window is a bit hard to read, but once I figured it out it was actually pretty fun!
xpoho
xpoho5 Oct 2021, 00:31
Хорошее начинание, люблю стратегии. Особенно с синими против красных. Или зеленых. В общем, здорово!
Zapturk
Zapturk6 Oct 2021, 03:22
Pretty good game. Looking forward to where you can go from here
Skyward4d
Skyward4d6 Oct 2021, 09:43
Really interesting idea, solidly implmented.
It was a little unintuitive, and the instructions took a while to digest. But it was a fun experience once I got the hang of it.
Overall, really nice job.
Matthieu Riboulot
Matthieu Riboulot6 Oct 2021, 18:06
A little buggy and too bad there is no fullscreen option, but solid draft of nice small rts.
OminusGalaxy446 Oct 2021, 18:14
this game was a little confusing, but once i understood the controls, it was really fun! really well done, but it would've been easier to understand what was happening with some better indicators.
Joel Davis7 Oct 2021, 06:05
pretty ambitious making a whole RTS in a jam, with enemy AI even. Was pretty confusing to play tho, i had a hard time figuring out what was going on even after reading the instructions. More player feedback next time!
LDJam user 2588637 Oct 2021, 06:10
The locked window then having the mouse pan was a bit iffy! And rts's are hard because of how off they feel without the ability of hotkeys, like the ability to jump back to your base.

But still, crazy how much you got done!
XSchaumiX
XSchaumiX7 Oct 2021, 14:21
Really cool game! The enemy was a bit too difficult for me but I gave him a tough fight before he won ... several times :laughing: Everything is kept pretty simple but i liked it. There could be some Audio but besides that decent game.
Nicolas Cancio7 Oct 2021, 23:10
Struggled with the controls for a minute until I noticed the control scheme hidden in the wall of text. Good idea, but the UI and instructions could use some polish.
hiroboto
hiroboto8 Oct 2021, 03:35
interesting but hard for me to get things moving
TsFreddie
TsFreddie8 Oct 2021, 10:29
Oh hey, a towel defence game with RTS control. It doesn't look like one so it was a bit confusing, but once I realized it, the control is pretty intuitive.
JoeRenglish
JoeRenglish9 Oct 2021, 06:57
Ok so I think this is a really cool idea and pretty impressive for a game jam. However, the application window is so tiny its almost impossible to play. This game needed to either have a larger window, a resizable window, or a fullscreen option. It's a cool idea, but kind of unplayable on a 4k monitor.
SimonL
SimonL9 Oct 2021, 10:16
Oh man, the actual game loop is very enjoyable and challenging. I can totally see myself playing this system more. The fast-paced system is very engaging.

But there are some issues with the user interface that make it very hard in the current state.
The screen does not scale up if you increase the window size. The resolution could stay the same, but it should at least up scale.
And because it is just this tiny window, scrolling the map is way too fiddly. Actually, map scrolling felt like the limiting factor in my playthroughs.
Also, there were some grey artifacts on the map which fooled me several times, because I thought they were mines, but when coming closer, they disappeared.

The controls were not obvious from just jumping in the game, but after reading the instructions it all worked out pretty nicely.

Great entry with lots of potential!
quasar098
quasar09810 Oct 2021, 16:12
super difficult, super confusing.
the mouse should pan with rmb down on white area rather than insanely precise mouse placement.
my units didnt attack, neither did i figure out how to get money in the 20 minutes that i attempted to play

overall very confusing

(and yes i read the instructions 5 times over)
retrome
retrome16 Oct 2021, 15:28
Nice little game. Feels ultra hard to play.

Some remarks on polishing:
1. Window size is pretty small on 4K display, so it is hard to read the text and focus on things.
2. Sometimes harvesters bounce away of resources so no harvesting happens. It happens than you move multiple harvesters together.

Keep going!
lilkrit20 Oct 2021, 03:23
Very difficult game, but quite deep mechanics for such a short time!
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