My submission for WHEELJAM 2!

SIDELANING is a 3D tower defense wheel-builder with MOBA mechanics. Collect wheel fragments scattered around an abstract white landscape and combine them into powerful towers to fend off hordes of enemies.

Guide

• There is no money in this tower defense. Instead, you'll find vibrant fragments appearing throughout the level, which you must attack to collect, similar to jungling in a MOBA.
• Each fragment contains different stats for damage, fire rate, multi-shot, and shred, signified by the colors orange, yellow, blue, and purple.
• After collecting a minimum of 4 fragments, you can build a tower! Press B and select which fragments you'd like to use. If you select more than 4, the excess will be randomly discarded in exchange for an overall stronger tower (increased range, slow on hit, and burst fire).
• Building is using the persuasion wheel from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, as per the game jam theme. You will be presented with 4 quadrants, one for each of the tower's stats. When you click a quadrant, the associated stat from the fragment currently inside of it will be locked in. The fragments will then rotate clockwise. Your task is to look at the hand you've been dealt and click the quadrants in the order that selects the stats you desire most.
• As time goes on, higher rarity fragments will spawn further along the path, with the best at the very end. The higher stats from these fragments are very important late game, so collect them as early as you can!
• The waves of enemies will get progressively stronger and more dense as time goes on. The largest enemies have a form of resistance built in, which will heavily weaken most of your attacks. The shred statistic on a tower is your counter to this, which negates the enemy's resistance even into the negatives with enough towers (amplifying damage).
• You'll likely want a mix of heavy damage dealing towers and support towers which apply debuffs. Slow lingers for 4 seconds and shred lingers for 10 seconds, so don't place your supports too far away from the damagers!
• Only 10 enemies can get past your defenses before it's game over. Good luck!
• Cheats are available at the bottom of the controls settings, unbound by default.

Controls (rebindable)

• WASD - Move
• LMB - Attack
• B - Build
• Escape - Pause game

Tools used

• Godot 4.6.2
• Photoshop

Credit

• fragskye - Programming, 3D Art, Graphics Programming
• Thank you to Breadman and Joyceisdrawing for playtesting!
• Audio from Ovani Sound