Skeleton Scramble Deluxe

Just watched Angory Tom play this on youtube and had to pick it up! This is a fun game. Really good job, if anyone is remotely thinking about picking it up you absolutely should. Highly recommend. There's a pleasantly surprising amount of depth to the strategy in terms of viable trade-offs you can make. I've played a ton of Starcraft 2, so it was really satisfying to see my zerg economic focus paying off, or being punished, by different AI's accordingly. Highly aggressive AI's like the Jungler/Industrial ones, can punish your greed if you're not careful. I think I found those 2 to be the most interesting AI's, since the Industrial one was essentially what I would do, except not as many towers. The Jungler was an interesting rush strat, ostensibly far more viable than trying to build portals early. The basic towers are quite strong & cheaper than a skelly portal, and since they one shot skellies and fire at a rate faster than they can be amassed, it's extremely easy to turtle, and generally difficult to break through. Although, if you've invested in portals and they've invested in turrets/econ, and you drop a Cultists, well, it's a bloodbath. I also really like that you can sacrifice your own health in the early game to force mana to spawn, it lets you take risks to boost your econ and expand quickly. It's also fun that, since skellies always head towards the opposing Necromancer, you can set up some aggressive turrets on on side preferably the one a far away from wherever they're expanding their economy, and then quickly go drop a bunch of portals on that other side, and then run back do your own econ behind your turrets. Their forces won't be able to break through, and since they're trying to get to you, they also won't be pushing against the skellies pouring out of your portals. Then drop a Cultist and instantly win lol. Minor Criticisms - Note, none of these are dealbreakers, these are just tiny things I noticed or me trying to find something to nitpick. 1. I will say, having to cycle through the list of structures you can place is a little rough. 2. No remapping controls is also rough. Number keys is sorta okay, but given how slow you move you kinda need to keep moving all the time, which means reaching the number keys is a little annoying. 3. It'd also be nice to have an option that made it so you could only place structures by hitting space (or w/e your build button is), instead of also sending the command to build them when you try and quick select them via number keys. 4. Tutorial feels a bit restrictive in how hand-holdy it is, I know I'm supposed to do the thing, but I'd maybe also like to be free to do a little bit more of the previous step before I'm forced to do the next one. Or I'll try doing it, but once wasn't good enough and there's an invisible amount of times I actually need to do it to progress the tutorial steps. Also it's a little annoying that the message box takes up most of the screen and never goes away. 5. That's all I could think of. God, this game is fun lol. I usually win by using a ghost to force mana to spawn before the 2nd harvest pops, going pure econ, and then as soon as the AI starts sending units my way, I take aggressive positions with turrets and continue maxing my economy behind them until I'm making more mana than I can keep up with, then I switch entirely over to producing units/territory wars. I want to experiment with some builds that involve a more classic kind of, zerg swarm approach? But idk if early portals are viable, maybe if I try spreading them out....or dumping a line of them on the edge of the map? hmmm Fantastic work, very well done. :D