Sam'n Slime

DESTROY SAM'S GARDEN.

This is an open source tower defense game except you play as the invader instead of the tower builder. Your goal is to destroy all of your opponent's towers (Sam's plants).

Controls:

• LMB: Pans the camera over the game world.
• RMB: In the preparation phase, spawns the selected slime. In the attack phase, manually tells the slimes to go to the target location.
• Scroll Wheel: Zooms the camera in and out.

Other Features:

• Waves: The gameplay is divided into the preparation phase, in which you build up your armies to attack Sam's garden, and the attack phase, where the fighting actually takes place.
  • Place units down by selecting the desired slime type and right clicking in the starting area.
  • You can start each wave by clicking on the top right button in the bottom bar on the HUD.
  • Note: You will be unable to start a wave until you have spawned at least one slime.
• Control Groups: This is an optional feature that can be used to divide your waves into groups and control them separately.
  •  To use this feature, click the "Create Group" button during the preparation phase, click on the new group, and spawned enemies should have the corresponding group number above their heads.
  • Then when the attack phase starts, you can click on the group in the outliner to tell them to start attacking.

Known Bugs:

• The sprites sometimes (albeit rarely) spawn behind the level.
• • We plan on uploading a newer version after the game jam judging process is over.

FAQ:

• Who is Sam?
  • When we started making our game design document after the theme was revealed, we initially planned on making some kind of base invasion game where your goal would be to attack a "Fake Player" base. However, it got confusing to keep referring to the AI as "the fake player" when talking about the real player at the same time, so we eventually decided to call the fake player Sam. In the end, we had to pivot to a tower defense-esque game due to time constraints, so the game ended up being about attacking Sam's garden.

Other:

• This was a submission to the GMTK 2023 Game Jam. The game's source code can be found at https://github.com/aejjee/GMTK2023.