Power Cord

This game is a top-down tower defence game made under 48 hours for the GMTK Game Jam 2021. The theme was "Linked Together". Link power lines from the power sources to nodes and turrets in order to defend the factory from ever-increasing hordes of enemy robots.

HOW TO PLAY: (more in-depth than the wall of text I threw in the main menu)

WASD/Arrow Keys to move.

Left click: Attack towards mouse, any enemies directly in front of the player will be damaged.

Right Click: If used on a node, will destroy all wires attached to that node

You want to defend the factory (center  of the screen) from the enemy robots that spawn along the edges of the screen. You can attack the robots yourself, and also provide power to the defences around the factory in order to aid you.

The yellow nodes closest to the factory are "power" nodes. If you move your character up to these nodes, you will be able to start a wire. The orange nodes on the diagonals are "turret" nodes. Connecting a wire to these (by contacting them with the player while holding a wire) will activate them, allowing them to fire at enemies within their vision range.

However, enemies can cut the wires you create! There are normal enemies, who simply target the factory and cut any wires on their path, tough enemies, who are bigger and move slower, but take one extra hit to kill, and finally sneaky enemies, who are small, fast, and can move out of their way to cut wires you've created.

To stop your wires from being cut, you can connect them to the light blue "electric" nodes. These nodes act as a middle node, as you can connect a wire from a power source to an electric node and then to a turret. (or even several electric nodes). If a wire is connected to any electric nodes, it will be charged and glow light blue. This serves as a protection from enemies - the first enemy to touch a charged wire will be damaged instead of the wire!

However, when a charged wire destroys an enemy, it becomes vulnerable for a short time before charging up again. Do your best to keep your connections and defend the factory from the hordes of enemies to get a high score! Good luck!