Hollow Siege

Play as a scarecrow in Sleepy Hollow as you defend the great pumpkin from fiendish shadows. Plant crops and sell them to build towers and bring the great pumpkin back to former glory in this semi-endless tower defense game!

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Controls

Arrow Keys	Player & Menu movement
Z	Confirms selections, Opens menus, and can be used to upgrade the great pumpkin when close.
X	Quickly sells fully grown crops or towers without opening the menu.
Enter	Pauses the game. Can quit to menu from there.
C / Shift	Changes difficulty on the Stage Select screen.

Instructions: Please check the in-game help menus for info. For more direct info you can find it here! Hollow Siege is a tower defense game with a shared resource pool. Your goal is to protect and grow the Great Pumpkin while waves of Shadows wander towards it. Should shadows get too close, you'll lose HP and at 0 it's game over.

To win you will need your currency, seeds. Seeds can be obtained by planting crops (Pumpkins, Corn, Gourds) and then selling them off once fully grown. Seeds are used for lots. You need them to plant and harvest more crops. You can also use seeds to upgrade fully grown crops into towers that can defeat shadows. Most importantly, seeds are needed to upgrade the Great Pumpkin. Leveling up the Great Pumpkin increases it's aura size which gives passive seeds & a speed boost. Upon the last upgrade (tier 5), you'll win the game! So it's important to balance where you put your seeds and time to survive and win.

The game can be difficult at first. It's suggested to give it 3 or 4 tries to get into it. Winning isn't all though. You can go for the high score by staying alive longer then you need too. Just make sure you have enough seeds to end the stage, a game over will cut your score in half! Or maybe you want to speed run the game too? And there's extra difficulty options as well with Hard mode giving a 1.1xs multiplier. On Death mode you start with 1 HP & 0 Seeds so huddle against the Great Pumpkin and plant some hay to get back up to speed. You'll get a generous 1.25xs multiplier for winning.

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Patch 1:

• Added a new tower for Corn
• Added Difficulties on Stage Select, Score will be multiplied from victory or defeat
• Rebalanced most everything to do with plants
• Enemy behavior changed with cooler enemy types and scaling health
• Great Pumpkin Cost bug fixed and cost is slightly higher
• Viewport increased

List of Known Bugs:

• Sound isn't implemented so for now put on some background music
• Sometimes the UI for the menus freaks out for one frame

Feel free to reach out if there's more problems found out.

Credits:

• JustthePulp : Main Programmer & Minor Artist
• Elosande : Main Artist & Concept
• Godot : Engine Used
• Public Pixel : Font Used

Thanks To:

• Our personal friend group for playtesting and some coding support
• GBJam-12 for hosting this game jam submission