A downloadable game for Windows

Defend the lighthouse from shadow creatures attacking it. Use your light to see them, and use a variety of towers and abilities to defend yourself. Get resupplies from nearby NPCs by giving them a light to follow.

I underestimated the time it would take me to make this, so it's not finished and contains placeholder/prototyping assets.

Everything was made by me, except for the icons for the abilities, those are from https://game-icons.net/

I'll likely make a post jam update to add music, sfx, particles, replacing/adding more art/assets, a few more abilities and last but not least actually balancing the game a little.

Controls:

Keyboard/Mouse
Mouse Aim
LMB Select
RMBBack
P / EscPause Menu
Controller
Left Stick / Right StickAim
(Xbox) A / X    |   (Playstation)  X / ▢Select
(Xbox) B / Y  |   (Playstation)  O / △Back
Start / SelectPause Menu

How to play:

The lighthouse is being attacked by shadow creatures, which are only visible when you are holding the light towards them. The Inner slots of the radial menu are there to select the direction you want to use any given ability (enemies can only come from said directions, you don't need to check for enemies from other directions). Once a direction has been selected, you can select the ability to use from the outer radial menu (Or cancel with Back to choose a different direction). The (currently T-posing placeholder) package carrying NPCs have more abilities to use, as everything is single use only. You can attract them and get a new ability by shining a light onto them. Shields can be placed to stop the shadow creatures, but shields have limited health and will break when attacked for long enough. Turrets (theoretically could have health, but currently) have a time limit after which they'll destroy themselves. Enemies will (currently) ignore them and attack the lighthouse directly. The projectiles (from turrets or directly from abilities) also deal different amounts of damage, have different range and can be piercing or non-piercing. (The projectile you spawn with is piercing and deals a small amount above half the enemies health, you'll need two of them to destroy an enemy) 
Turrets were planned to be upgradable, but in the current build there aren't any upgrades. Health bar is on the left, ability description on the top right. If you survive long enough, you'll get more direction slots and enemies will be able to come from these new directions. Good luck, my current high score is 79s.

tl;dr: keep up your inventory stock, and defeat the shadows before they destroy you.

Updated 5 days ago
Published 7 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows
AuthorPhilXD
GenreSurvival
Made withUnreal Engine
TagsArcade, Mouse only, Real-Time, Top-Down
Average sessionA few seconds
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse, Xbox controller, Playstation controller

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RadiatingTower.zip 269 MB

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