Endless Escalation (Alpha)

Great game, a bit unintuitive at times due to the overwhelming amount of upgrades and slight bugs. Some levels froze and i had to restart them and i also encountered some small audio glitches, but all in all, i wish it was slightly longer, since i enjoyed my time.

Fun game! I only realised fairly late that upgrades increase the cost of similar upgrades, some tooltip about that  would be nice.  A way to sell upgrades and buildings would help, given this mechanic (I know there is a respec button, but that is not ideal)

This game sadly suffers from dubious gameplay experience. Starting from level 6 I had no trouble on any ordinary level but would get stuck on boss levels. That means I would seep through 9 or 10 levels in about 3 minutes and then get trapped in repeat loop every 30 seconds on boss level and have to grind for almost an hour getting upgrades to be able to counter long range, rapid firing, high splash enemies.

Technically you can reset your builds and change profile of your 'army' but it just doesn't feel comfortable without presets. Also, the rounds last only a minute, two tops, so I feel discouraged from tinkering with my units, especially since at later stages I can hardly even tell what I could optimize.

I'm not going to give you an advice on how to fix your game because I don't even know what you're aiming for, but I can tell you that the gameplay is just not satisfying. I really like the aesthetic, though. And the game loop is interesting - at least on paper.

Very stupidly funny strategy, once there's 4 or more enemies, 

put all your factories FAR FAR away, and have your base be maxed out on range and splash.

The enemies don't really go for your base (as much, they still do) because there's no units/factories drawing towards it, lol

i managed to get up to 9.1 by using probably a cheese strategy

get 1 factory with just damage and spawn frequency, then constantly move it around to dodge the bullets and take out the base and factories that way

(started doing it at about 4.3 or so it just felt impossible to survive using any other method other than what feels like cheating but you gotta do what you gotta do)

camera zoom resets upon resetting the level pls fix

Love the game so far. This seems to be the farthest I can get. Can't wait for future updates and features.

Another thing: when multiple attackers focus on a single target.

After target is destroyed  all fired projectiles continue aimed towards that non-existent enemy. Whole volleys of fire are lost, as the projectiles do not continue moving forward to the next enemy.

I would like to suggest a way to the save file be available, so we could play in multiple computers/browsers without losing progress.

it doesnt work. i get errors after downloading and attempting to run.

Just a heads up on the upcoming update:

- level selection

- upgrades respec (with resource refund up to your storage capacity)

- auto upgrades

- passive income

- upgrade value evolution fix

- factory selection fix

- probably a save reset

7/10, excellent game prototype. I look forwards to where this heads, it could easily become 9/10 with more polish.

Color choices, UI design, game mechanics, are well done. Would recommend a less-bright off-white so that some boxes/icons aren't too harsh on the eyes, OR surrounding them in a gray box to lighten the contrast of near-black with white.

Overall very fun, and scaling's decently balanced. Lack of a passive income upgrade is very mildly annoying (it'd be nice as a simple way to resolve softlocks where the base gets instakilled so you can't even farm materials). Perhaps always generate 0.1% of max storage of each material?

Lack of minor QoL is probably due to how new the game is. Assuming that is all fleshed out, then this game is worth a 9/10 imho.

Feedback:

Adding anti-aliasing to a game with graphics like this would be great.

Factories need to automatically bounce apart when colliding with the base or other factories, so their menus don't become inaccessible. 

Add map-scrolling, either via minimap click/drag, arrow keys, or right-click-drag (or all 3, toggleable in settings, etc.)

Be able to reset or undo upgrades (i.e. by selling a factory, so I can replace it with a new one without upgrades that are weaker in endgame, like factory-health, or unit-range).

I personally dislike the choice of pentagon units, there's aliasing issues from the awkward angles especially when the unit turns. I'd personally use circles, and perhaps change the bases into hexagons, since the bases never rotate (so they will always look okay).

Button click feedback (darkening + impressing) is subtle and nice.

Scrolling around with arrow keys or right-click-drag would be very nice, if you have any factories in unreachable positions (would be nice if factories "bounced" out if they are placed/collide with the base too, a factory placed in the base by accident is permanently unreachable).

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upgrading factory health by accident instead of base health is the worst feeling

I like the scaling; it's very refreshing to see a game do it right, with the potential to make actual builds rather than the usual slop of per-item exponential progression that basically locks you into upgrading everything at once.

Of course, it would be nice to have some form of refund option, and some sort of stats menu to identify contributions of each individual shape factory.

All my data was reset during the update... But thanks so much for adding the music menu

Also maybe add a mute button; it's sort of loud.

If you refresh the page, the tutorial goes away and you can't get it back; if you don't want to reverse that bug maybe just add a tutorial button.