Solar Showdown

If you do decide to play this game, play it with a grain of salt. Also for the love of god, please read the description with your working eyeballs attached to your brain. Is this game anywhere near absolute perfection? No way. Is it a bit graphically intensive comparatively to what is actually happening on the screen? Absolutely. Is there any multiplayer aspect to this game? Nope, go get a friend for some Couch PVP Is there any way this game is going to actually get updated past release on Jun 14, 2023? 99% chance it is never going to receive another update. Does it NEED two Xbox controllers to be played? Yes, it says so in the description of the game. "Solar Showdown is a 2-player competitive game with RTS and Tower Defense elements. It requires 2 controllers to play local multiplayer." However you have to really think deeper to understand and see what this game actually represents, this is a student-lead Capstone project for a bunch of people who have never actually made a video game before. The time and effort put into this product from people who have no business and absolutely no prior knowledge of how a game is going to be made makes this product, despite it's flaws, a b…

"Solar Showdown" is a student project from the Church of Latter Day Saints via their academic arm at BYU in Utah. Thankfully they made this a somewhat secular effort. This is a "couch co-op" (read: We don't know how to teach our students how to do netcode) PvP game with some lightweight RTS elements and a cartoony theme. The visuals are great because it's from the animation school at BYU, and kudos, they nailed that. Shame they didn't nail the gameplay, too. This is a 1v1 experience and much like they didn't know how to teach the students how to do netcode, they also didn't know how to code any AI, so this is basically a game for nobody. Gameplay is a not even badly concepted blend of tower attack/defense and RTS... this could really go somewhere if the scope of the game wasn't so horribly limited because it's a student project. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's no…

The concept is good, but the game doesn't have CPU (AI) opponents, so it like an empty game to play with yourself.

Press A to play. Well that's if you have a controller. Else it seems unstartable. Alt+F4 to shut down

Solar Showdown takes the familiar foundations of real-time strategy and tower defense and compresses them into a fast, competitive experience designed primarily for two players sharing the same battlefield. Instead of attempting to reproduce the complexity of a traditional RTS, it focuses on a smaller collection of interconnected mechanics involving resource generation, defensive construction, unit deployment, and direct competition. Developed by BYU Animation - Class of 2023 and published by BYU Center for Animation, the game originated as a student capstone project, which helps explain both its creative ideas and relatively limited overall scope. The competition revolves around solar power, which acts as the essential resource behind nearly everything players accomplish. Each side needs to gather and manage energy while deciding whether those resources should immediately strengthen defenses, create offensive units, or contribute toward a more powerful long-term objective. This creates an enjoyable risk-and-reward structure. Spending aggressively can generate enough pressure to disrupt an opponent before their defenses are ready, but excessive investment in attacks can leave your…

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