About

Gridbound is a fast-paced 2D tower defense game that puts you in command of a space station under constant siege. Deploy and merge turrets to fend off endless waves of space enemies. Each moment you survive raises the stakes, as enemies become faster, tougher, and deadlier. The question is simple: how long can your space station survive?

Gameplay & Theme Implementation

Limited Space

Only a 5×5 grid is available to manage your turrets. Every move shifts the entire formation, forcing you to carefully plan positioning and merges within extremely limited space.

Limited Color

A fully optimized 16-color palette delivers maximum visual impact with minimal resources.

How To Play

Shop

Click on the turret in the shop while preparation phase to buy them for 50 energy.

Turrets

Gunner turrets can reload faster and shoot more bullets.

Sniper Turrets can pierce through enemies, bouncing between them.

Done

click on the done button to end preparation phase, starting the wave.

Movement

Using WASD, you can move ALL turrets between tiles. Moving all turrets costs 1 energy

MERGE!!!

You can merge turrets by by colliding 2 identical together. up to tier 3

Lock & Unlock

during the preparation phase, you can click on turrets to lock their movement when moving them. It costs 5 energy.

Enemies

Each time a wave starts, enemies will come to attack the station. When enemies destroy all station tiles, you lose. enemies get harder every wave.

Fixing Tiles

you can click on the destroyed tile to fix them for 100 energy.

Team Name: Arutala

Teammates

Name	Role
Hafidz Giga Samesta	Game Programmer, Team Leader, Audio Designer
William Wilbert Anggoro	Game Programmer, Game Designer
Muhammad Asraf EL Farras	Pixel Artist, Video Editor

Credit

Font:

- https://fontmeme.com/fonts/litebulb-8-bit-font

SFX:

- https://sfxr.me/

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- https://freesound.org/people/subquire/sounds/833601/

- https://freesound.org/people/Mellau/sounds/506053/

BGM:

- https://freesound.org/people/cormi/sounds/567741/