Signal Strike by William Capon

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made by William Capon for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

Command your units through 10 challenging encounters, manage your force's composition between missions, and ensure communication is maintained on the battlefield!

Units without signal cannot be commanded until connection is re-established. download (3).png

Chain your units' signal ranges together to complete objectives! download (2).png

Game by William Capon with music by Michelle Eng

Ratings

Overall 220th 3.857⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 128th 3.857⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 478th 3.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 301th 3.952⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 263th 4.048⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 154th 3.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 458th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

Nathanial
Apr 20th · 22:42 UTC
Nice retro graphics, good sound. The command unit shuffling is an interesting additional mechanic and I was surprised to see a secondary mission type. Descriptions of the units before launching into the first attack would have been nice.
Tony Li
Apr 21st · 01:52 UTC
Love the pixel art! This really feels like a complete game with different units, different mission types, and interesting decisions to make.
peppersalt07
Apr 21st · 14:31 UTC
Crunchy isometric ! Took me a bit to figure out, but the signal extending part was a really neat mechanic for this type of game
Paroxysmal
Apr 21st · 18:46 UTC
This seems heavily inspired by something, but can't quite put my finger on it. ;) Very good take on the genre applying the theme. Well done.
HelloImBenjamin
Apr 22nd · 02:51 UTC
really liked the core gameplay loop. honestly a really solid idea. Took me a minute to actually get what was going on, but that’s on me for not reading anything. it felt satisfying and fun. Nice work.
desi
Apr 22nd · 20:09 UTC
the game rly hooked me from the beginning. Rly love the concept and the art looks also cool :)
Frogg
Apr 22nd · 20:35 UTC
The art is so good! It's impressive how much you were able to get done here!
Soothsayer
Apr 23rd · 22:54 UTC
Really cool visuals and sound, would have liked to been able to move and shoot in the same turn. Neat project :)
Asieke
Apr 26th · 06:25 UTC
Cool tactics game!
thunderklaus
Apr 27th · 11:21 UTC
I liked it, nicely done! good graphics, nice application of the theme.
Alex de la Cour
Apr 28th · 11:04 UTC
Absolutely love the isometric pixel art - great job on the graphics! The game feels really well planned out and tightly implemented, but perhaps some sort of description/tutorialisation of the different units and how they work would have been helpful, instead of me taking a mission to figure it out and then restarting the game once I got the hang of things.

But overall a really good entry!