The Power of Nature by razveck
Nature is powerful. And so are you! But you are doomed to lose your power, and the only way to recover it is by stealing it directly from the source: Nature itself!
Spawn your evil minions, steal Nature's power and protect your domain against Nature's guardians.
Power drains continuously over time. Maintain your power by sending your minions to drain it out of the Nature around you. Summoning minions costs power. The yellow Slime will seek the nearest source of power, while the red Imp will go straight for the strongest source of power. You can protect them with the Devil, which can attack and destroy enemies.
Nature will try to stop you though. Water Spirits replenish the life force of the world and the Guardians will seek out your minions and destroy them.
Balance is important, keep a close eye on the map and the number of each unit. The game will start lagging eventually, as the number of units on the map increases. Playing on "Low" settings is strongly recommended.
The level is procedurally generated. Some runs will be easier than others. If you feel like you're having a hard time, consider restarting the game and trying again.
Have fun!
---Controls---
Camera pan: touch the edge of the screen, arrow keys or Middle Mouse Button and drag
Camera zoom: Mouse Wheel
Summon minions: keys 1, 2 and 3 or click the button on screen
---Updates---
2017/08/01: - Drastically improved performance: decreased the overall poly-count (tree polys decreased by ~90%), decreased the number of trees, decreased the average number of units in play at any one time, optimized some of the code. - Fixed a bug where, if power became negative, you were unable to recover. - Fixed a bug with the interaction between different types of units and the map.
Ratings
| Given | 7🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
- The red guys seem useless. You're trying to make all of the fields dark anyway, so I don't get why I should waste so much power on them when I can spawn three yellow ones instead. The just kept running around across the entire field and often got killed off.
- The Power bar is waaaaay too big. It takes up like 1/5 of the screen.
- There's no audio, might want to opt out.
- Game loads pretty long and my computer fans start acting up. The more units I build the worse it becomes. I couldn't finish the game because after a while the fps got down to about 2 with so many units on screen.
- Devils just ignore enemies. I don't know why, but the enemies were walking right through my devils and they didn't care.
- You said it's challenging, but I found it extremely easy. I just spawned yellow units for the first few minutes and got a really steady income. Then I made a few devils, because I had enough power to make two every second. And then I spammed yellow ones until the game lagged out.
So, the concept is fine, but it really needs a lot more polish. For a compo entry it's really good though. Great job.