A Tale of Tyrants and Towers (GMTK Jam 2020)

Premise:

This is just like any other tower defense game. You buy towers, defend your base from alarmingly cute enemies who drop money when they die, and then watch in horror as an uprising within your own ranks collapses your doomed regime from the inside.

Wait, what was that last one?

Controls:

• WASD/Arrow Keys to move
• Space Bar to open the shop and place towers
  • You can press F to cancel placing a tower once you've selected it from the shop, just in case you select the wrong one by mistake.
• Ctrl when near a tower to slap it. 
  • A good slap will get a dissenting tower back in line, but everyone has their limit. If you slap your towers too often, they'll snap and turn against you.
• Enter to start a new wave

Issues/Known bugs:

• There were meant to be at least 2 more types of towers on top of the Grunt and the Enforcer (I also forgot to put their names in the shop, whoops), but I ran out of time. I feel like the game lacks a certain depth and balance without them, but I hope I was still able to get across the general concept- a story about the collapse of a regime told mainly through the mechanics of a tower defense game.
• It's possible (very easy in fact) to get trapped in the outer walls in the level. There's no way to fix this except to wait for death or quit and restart. Sorry.
• There's no music, and very limited audio. I always leave this stuff until last and it usually ends up being a smash and grab visit to BFXR.