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After several early losses, I eventually went full in on damage and that proved to be the best approach.\n\nOverall, good work! I got really close to 1 million points:\n\n![Screenshot 2025-04-07 124929.png](\/\/\/raw\/10c\/93\/z\/6a58e.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1153186,"author_name":"gdman","author_uid":"gdman","epoch":1744835399,"text":"Nice little defense game, where you mostly choosing upgrades and watch outcomes. I think best result are when you first go for damage and gun count upgrades, then going with Piercing and RoF. Nice touch with bursting air bubbles and splats from creatures!\n\n ![screen.png](\/\/\/raw\/24e\/f3\/z\/6c428.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld57\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/tedbrownxr\/ldjam57-abyss-base-crush","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"97694","g_author":"1001617","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"450006","g_title":"Abyss Base Crush","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"3","g_site2_node_id":"412806","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"412806","n_urlkey":"450006","n_parent":"406845","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/57\/abyss-base-crush","n_slug":"abyss-base-crush","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"1617","n_created":"1743986448","n_modified":"1778261379","n_version":"1292545","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD57","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":4,"author":1617,"body":"This is a fun little tower defense toy that doesn't take too long to play. Waves of enemies will come in to attack. After your automated turrets fend them off, select an upgrade or repair, and keep going until the central hub is destroyed.\n\nThere's not a lot of interactivity, sorry. 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Waves of enemies will come in to attack. After your automated turrets fend them off, select an upgrade or repair, and keep going until the central hub is destroyed.\n\nThere's not a lot of interactivity, sorry. 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