Swap Turret

Nice graphics! I included it in my GM48: One Tool, Many Uses compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/i6dgliSj-A0

I like tower defenses but I gotta admit it's a bit counter-intuitive.

At first, I was getting rekt as all the enemies were super fast and everything. Only then I realized that when you said "they get damaged", you meant the enemies, not the turrets. So there's that.

After it was the opposite. once you lay down the turrets, you just spam them everywhere except outside the path and you win (I didn't even notice the goal was to get 50 turrets until I swapped with my bazillion turrets). So I didn't feel the challenge in there... It's right away difficult as hell until you discover the path turret technique and you're basically just forced to place them on the enemies path, without ever needing to swap or explode them. If anything, swapping leaves you exposed cause the enemies are fast as hell. A bit of progression would have been nice.

I did it! 50 turrets and I didn't even have to watch the video :D

This is a really fun concept (and I love TDs), but there're definitely some balancing issues (which is not too surprising for a jam game). Took me a while to realize I could just put my turrets on the path, and like Joseph said, once you've done that it gets pretty easy.

Maybe a variation in ennemies would have helped a little to force the player to use other strategies, like flying enemies that don't take damage when colliding with standing turrets for example.

Oh and yeah some kind of interactive tutorial or slow progression would have definitely helped, but the tips and gifs you put on the description are good enough.

Honestly the game is still pretty easy once you figure out the optimal strategy. I just placed the turrets on the path as soon as possible instead of in the shiny part (which is the more intuitive place, but the less effective). I got 50 turrets and 188 kills and it went to the game over screen so I'm guessing that I won (screen still says to play again to get more kills so I don't know).

But towards the end I just swapped all my turrets on myself and shot straight upwards from the start and didn't even have to move, so that wasn't too particularly fun.

The ideas are really cool though. I love how you press space once and all the guns come to you, and you press it again, and they all go back to where they were. Feels really cool. Biggest thing it needs is a "playable" how to play section, because a lot of things don't feel very intuitive (like placing turrets where the monsters walk over them). The text wall "how to play" didn't really help me much.

When I saw the gif, I was thinking this game was something like Dance Dance Revolution, the turrets look like arrows haha.

I love the concept, the problem is I'm really bad at the game, I lose very fast.

Still, I loved the "Turrets Assemble" gameplay. With more types of turret, enemies, a pulsing light background and eletronic music you have a gold mine on your hands haha

That was confusing to say the least. There's no ramping of difficulty to get used to the control, your just thrown in and the enemies are spawning really quickly from the start. The wall of text at the start can be confusing when you haven't played yet. Maybe in the future, if time allows, start the game slower, and bring up text as things happen to explain the concepts.

Doesn't really follow the theme too much, as the turrents seemed to only deal damage to enemies. Do they have another use?

Didn't enjoy the gameplay it seemed weird atleast on a computer and it has nothing to do with the theme i rated this low for these reasons and the controls were also complicated.

You gotta be pretty fast and it all controls as it says. Enemies are funny looking and the turrets have more than one function which is nice due to all of the enemies on screen. Really stable and easy to start up. Crisp artwork and colors were used. Pretty challenging and fun!