After a while I had some thoughts in my mind which were actionable within a short amount of time, so I went for it:

• I’ve readded the post processing: Since the Jam restrictions were in color and effects, I disabled the post processing layer back then. I’ve readded it and made some tweaks - now everything is a bit more shiny and interesting.
• The balancing: Since this is an ongoging thing, I’ve decided to cut the inital pace of the game even a bit more. By starting with 0 coins, decreased the auto-increase steps (50->20) and decreased the earning rates of collectors with every unit (30->20), the game feels a bit better balanced.
• In addition the unit attributes are better balanced now in terms of power, health and speed. Collectors live a bit longer, attackers have a bit faster attack rates and heavy units are feeling better against the stronger towers now.
• Also for the sake of balancing, I’ve added a new unit: Defenders. Those units behave very close to attackers, but only travel to the targets, not the enemy bases. So, it is easier to actually defend a lane without going full aggressive on the opponent.

More to come Like every time when implementing and play-testing something, there are a few new ideas coming up. I collect them here, so they don’t get lost:

• Something like general attributes/buffs/research: e.g. there could be 3 additional buttons on each player side to increase the general speed, attack oder health of units for e.g. a price of 150 for each iteration.
• Bounce back: Sometimes unit get stuck, because the colliders don’t trigger when they aren’t moving. For this, it would be nice to have some bounce back logic if the units are getting stuck for too long.
• Additional units: Something like an assasin unit would be nice: fast, incredible strong, but with nearly no health.
• I also though about switching from the “direct attacking” (which is only visible through the particles) to a bullet/projectile based approach. This would feel a bit more natural.