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A jam submission

Doodle of DutyView game page

A 2D shooter wave defense game with a pen and paper art style
Submitted by scy4 — 23 hours, 3 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#393.5423.542
Graphics#1163.4173.417
Overall#1283.2083.208
Audio#2602.6672.667
Innovation#3002.3752.375
Theme interpretation#3242.4582.458

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/Scyther44/GameOff2025

Game description
Doodle of Duty is a 2D wave defense shooter based on pen and paper games I used to play as a kid. Defend your castle from endless waves of red stickmen and unlock new weapons!

Theme interpretation
I interpreted the theme "waves" as a defense game where the player must defend their castle against endless waves of enemies.

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Comments

Submitted

Minimalist design and at the same time well thought and I really like it, has it's charm, more life in it! Really enjoyed the game. Well developed weapon system and enemies

Submitted

Fun game! I do think that the weapon swapping system is done a bit of a disservice with how easy the game is, as there's pretty much no reason to swap off the cannon once it's fully upgraded, especially with how you can just continually fire at the end of the page at the end of each wave due to no flying enemies spawning past the start/middle. The aesthetic is very charming, good job!

Submitted(+1)

I like the art style!

Submitted(+1)

Great fun game. Reminds me of newgrounds.com and starterupsteve. Ahh the good old days of the internet when everything was new and insane. Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Fun game. Nice art. Got OP after upgraded all weapons. :)

Submitted(+1)

Fun game!  A little too easy though, especially once you upgraded the canon. The gun wasn't needed at all. Also the bigger people should be harder because they have more health, but when the canon is upgraded it still one shots them - making the bigger people actually easier targets because they are so hard to miss. Great job though! Love the vibes. 

Submitted(+1)

The style is really good, the gameplay is a bit easy, but fine.

Good job!

Submitted(+1)

When everyone was bored with the curriculum as a child, they liked to draw matches and fight. But you have achieved it, you are the hero of boys all over the world!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Played to a point where I had all upgrades. No idea if the game has an ending but at that point all waves felt so trivial anyway that I did not see a huge motivation to keep playing.

The best idea of this game is that you can swap between weapons that you acquire. It is almost like an old Quake where you swap between weapons to suit the current situation. Unfortunately, the difficulty of this game does not really do justice to this system - you can essentially complete the game with one weapon if you wish.

The game definitely has that Newgrounds vibe to it. Thanks for your entry!

Submitted(+1)

This game is fun! I agree with what other people are saying that it gets a little easy once you've got a good setup. Very nostalgic, especially the cool S. 
Red Vs. Blue :p

Submitted(+1)

Super fun game! I like the permanent progression and having different weapons you can swap between. My only feedback is that in that later levels it could have been a bit more challenging. Other than that it was a really fun game to play! Keep it up

Submitted(+1)

Ahh this activated my middle school nostalgia...stick figure wars with my buddies, lined paper, and that "S". Awesome! The music and art rules! It was fun playing with the different weapon types. It was a little too easy overall, it felt like it didn't matter what weapon I used ultimately. If you were to expand this, enemies that are more immune/vulnerable to different weapon types would be a fun addition!

Submitted(+1)

Needs a little balance but the game is quite nice. I love the stickman style on a sheet of paper, its pretty original. 

Submitted(+1)

I had to quit the game after level 19, still untouched


Fun little game with lots of cute details that fit the mood :)