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Losing swaths of my wall was crushing and I couldn't recover in time. Good entry!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":798590,"author_name":"Zack HD","author_uid":"zack-hd","epoch":1649212595,"text":"Reminds me a lot of Vectorio, I really like the concept. I'm a big fan of games like these so I was glad to see it pop up. I just wish I had more resources at the start to be able to make some mistakes for learning's sake. Solid entry.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":798627,"author_name":"LDJam user 282870","author_uid":"282870","epoch":1649212988,"text":"Well done, a really good effort","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":800174,"author_name":"jsec","author_uid":"jsec","epoch":1649233426,"text":"I like tower defence games, but its hard to start, you really don't know what to do.\nTowers also sometimes glitch out and target enemies far away and ignoring those close by.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":806447,"author_name":"Celtican","author_uid":"celtican","epoch":1649283835,"text":"Tower defense game! Woot!\n\nIt was pretty fun balancing between placing refineries to get more income in the long run and towers to actually survive incoming enemies. I also liked that you have to build factories to place the different towers, instead of just having access to everything off the get-go. 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