wellcome to star defender the game where you build towers , train troops and survive as long as you can against the alien invasion ..


how to play ? 

  • build towers by moving the mouse towerd the build areas , which you unluck over time
  • train your troops to give your towers temporary boosts and upgrades
  • troop become untrained after some amount of time so manage your resources wisely
  • each tower has a unique abillity unlock when you have a certain amount of troops from some type
  • the upgrade have a chance of stack even after the troops untrained ( it's not a bug .. it's a feature )
  • building any building and train troops  cost energy or money ( Iam not sure what even is that hhhhh :)   )  which you get from killing enemies and the power generator 
  • you lose when all your troops is dead 


can you survive ?

note  :

this game was made for the GoedWare game jam limited shapes in 9 days ..


star defender 1.1 :

21 / 9 / 2025

a small update I made to fix some issues with the original jam version .. balance the game a little bit and add some new content

I didnt put that amount of effort on it , but I think it made the game much better

whats new ?

  • a new mechanic .. the explosive building area
  • 2 tutorials .. one to explain the main game ideas , and one for the troop training
  • sadly I removed the endless mode ( which is not really endless ) .. but I added 3 levels .. for testing 
  • new level selecter
  • new tower
  • pause menu
  • better lose and win screen
  • balance changing and some other small things

whats next ?

  • more levels 
  • endless mode
  • mini games 
  • story mode
  • better visuals 
  • more towers .. and Iam planning to add the ability to pick whattowers you wanna use .
  • recycling garbge and bad code .
  • sitting menu
  • more troops
  • some bug fixing 

don't forget to write a comment telling me whats do like .. dislike about the newest update .. see you soon !!!

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I love the way the limited shapes are incorporated in this! Seems like there are multiple strategies to this as well! The scaling might be a little off though, as I played for 20-ish minutes and at that point I could not really die or spend the resources.

yeah ... I have a seriouce balancing issue with my game ..

but I will fix  it in future update by changing the states of every tower in the game and adding some more towers .. Actually, I'm thinking of making it a full game for mobile and PC 

do you think it worth a shoot ?

thanks for the feedback

If the balancing is fixed it would probably be super fun. I'd say committing to making this game a full game is purely up to you and your ambitions.