Insane that we got a game programmed in vulkan api for the jam. Honestly good job for even accomplishing it.
The game itself reminded me of World of Warships old aircraft carrier "mini-game" which I remember very fondly so bonus nostalgia points.
I didn't finish the game but I tried several strats, like consequently pushing through the center, pushing through two edges to get as many points as possible and pushing through one edge with all I can. Once I was close to Rissa but I ran out of time.
I liked art both for Jailbirds and enemies. The level design of the map was also nice, there were no clear opening to push through or cheeze the game somehow. Balance wise I think I would eventually win if played more and timed my attacks better. I also liked the option to select a lot of jailbird at once when they were close to the cursor (so I could spam spawn them and them select almost all with one or few clicks).
As for the feedback:
- I think that the selection of jailbirds is very heavily based on the camera position. I had to move the camera to be almost directly above the Jailbirds in order to select them. That wouldn't that big of a deal if not for the next point
- The camera movement is quite slow, regardless of zoom levels, which makes the battlefield hard to control. I would either give option to adjust camera speed or change camera speed based on the zoom level, e.g. the fastest when zoomed out to the max, and slowest when zoomed in to the max
- The outline of the selected jailbird could be a little more visible, like maybe yellow, now I think it is in red, which was visible in close zoom but not in very zoomed out camera
- If possible I would clear the battlefield from dead entities more often, sometimes I would mistake dead jailbird or enemies for still living enties and focus on them, especially in zoomed out camera.
With these points fixed I think it would already be a fine RTS game o7.