Inside Job
A reverse tower defense (tower offense, if you will) where you need to siege your own city to raise your approval rating. The farther your minions move on the map, the more abilities and units you unlock.
Made for GMTK Jam 2023 (theme: Roles Reversed), placed 55th overall and included in the GMTK Personal Top 20.
Note: Inside Job does not endorse conspiracy theories. Any similarities to real-life events are completely coincidental.
Controls
WASD/Arrow keys — movement
1, 2, 3, 4 — abilities
Escape — skip the story
Mouse — everything else
Credits
Art & coding: @FeatureKreep
Want to support me? You can donate to my ko-fi ☕ or to my Patreon
Development log
- Inside Job gets an update 🎉May 31, 2024
Comments
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is there a download for this?
Is there supposed to be 3 towers on level 3? Every video I can find has two and it might be impossible from what I've tried
I beat the game using only starter guys
Cute game, but extremely easy to cheese just by spamming 1.
It's the most interesting tower defense game I've ever played, really fun and cute graphics and it was such a perfect game it was a very enjoyable experience thank you for the real thing!
Amazing game but i guess i either didn't understand how spells work or they just didn't work for me
Because of that beaten the game with spam all i have+upgrade
Cool game! Is it normal that I beat the game only using the skeletons that spawn with the “1” button?
That means you're an Inside Job pro!
nice
How do you pass level 2? If you spam spawns, you eventually get one through but it takes ages. You can't attack towers, upgrade your soldiers or do anything productive afaik.
If it's messing with the game speed, that's kinda cruel to expect players to know to buck the trend.
I LOVE PIXEL ART LIKE DIS <3
IS THAT THE FUCKING BLOONS POP NOISE
Not going to confirm nor deny
i think its slightly different
Skeleton coin farm on level 12 to make lightspeed knight go brr
Can't unlock all the skins because last level doesn't reward the coin.
Literally unplayable. (/s)
The art is amazing, though.
It's a very impressive game idea.
This is crazy, I had this exact idea and along with classmates made an incredibly similar game back in 2021 down to the little details, albeit our game is less polished (it was my first ever game haha). Our game "Tower Siege" is on my itch account. Are you my classmate??? I'm so shocked right now.
It is a short game you could make it like a bit longer pls it would be great
Working on it as we speak ;)
我点击了1按键，但是我没有生成小兵
Cool concept! Is a different take on TD games 10/10
Hi , are u playing on continuing the project?
bc it's so goddamn awesome
Love the references, especially the jet fuel one
Hi, are you planning a sequel
I am. I'll introduce more levels, more units, more spells and more references to conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the answer. I wish you success with the game
It is a fun short game. And i love it! :p
Does the reverse tower defense game have to upgrade the minions? Couldn't there just be combination uses for each type. Also why is the Cleric and Knight only playable in the last level? Aaaannd you can do this game fast without using anything but basic skeleton with the upgrade system sooo.
It's a super casual game done in two days for a game jam, so there were tons of features and levels scrapped due to time constraints. I might revisit this project at a later date but for now it is what it is.
This was really good!
i need more more!
That was great. I need more <3
Nice sprites, nice idea, good gameplay! I liked it very much.
10/10
i wanna download this game
Fantastic game. Love the concept!
Absolutely love it.
Bush simulator
This is a very nice game, even though it is so short. please release more levels.
Hey for some reason I can't move with the wasd or the arrow keys
Maybe the game window is not active? Try clicking anywhere on the field.
i love this game i love come insidejob
😍😍😍😍
Very Very Nice!
Very fun and polished!
Great game!