In Robots vs Aliens waves of alien swarm across a grid to drain your core’s precious energy. Deploy your robotic defenders using scrap you earn by defeating aliens. Balance your offense with your battery’s charge.

Try the Prototype
This is a game prototype with 6 levels in total. Your feedback on balance, bot behaviors, bugs and cool ideas would be well appreciated. Jump in, scorch some aliens, and keep that battery alive!

StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorGerry
GenreStrategy
Made withAseprite, raylib
TagsAliens, Pixel Art, Prototype, Robots, Tower Defense
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse

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I really enjoyed this game! I love some of the design decisions you made, and I truly think it has so much potential. I hope one day you turn it into a full game. I’d love to play it! :D 

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Hi! Thank you! Our goal was to release a prototype and see how many feedbacks we got. If you have any feedback please let me know!

Hi!

Ok, here are my thoughts on the game:

1. I love the use of an in-game cursor.

2. I really like the concept of the battery being both your resource and health, but I think management could be made easier:

    - A visual indicator when a robot wastes energy attacking empty lanes (I think not having this makes the last level harder than the other ones)

    - A visual indicator when robots are off in lanes with active aliens (it’s easy to miss)

    - An option to disable entire robot lanes

3. I know you’re likely using programmer art/free assets, but aliens should stand out more. Their heads are fine, but their skinny bodies make them easily get lost on the screen.

4. Lane count is fine, but they look tiny on-screen. Using more screen space would help.

5. The progress bar is confusing. Filling it with color as you progress would improve readability.

6. Add pause and restart buttons outside the menu.

7. Maybe robots should consume energy per attack instead of consuming energy idling. This way you could have energy stats per attack.

8. I think the music is good.

Those are great points. Thank you!

i like it! : D