The death animation for when you run out of time!

Watch the bottom of the lighter edge. This slow-mo reveals how the 3D tile animation is just a visual trick, done by scaling a square.

These are batteries, they hold the excess electricity you've generated and distribute power to the rest of your structure.

You can now press tiles again

Overwhelmed is my entry to the GMTK Jam 2021, with the theme of "Joined together".

You can play/rate it here:

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2021/rate/1084592

Development will be resumed once I have completed my current project.

We have a main menu!

I told myself I'd start posting devlogs again once I'd added a more interesting palette but I kept putting it off and a month went by.

A background!

This actually took 2 attempts, you can see the first attempt in gif 2. I rejected it because it was too distracting. It makes lines in your peripheral vision.

Particles and camera shake, to add to the panic. This is something that I envisioned in the original concept, I just didn’t have time to add it during the jam.

Original concept: https://gamejolt.com/p/the-jam-theme-is-60-seconds-this-is-a-con…

Created a simple crown animation!

The more you play, the more crowns you earn, which can be used to purchase customisations you can flex on your friends in multiplayer.​

These are nodes. They're used to connect stuff together and transport resources throughout your base.