A downloadable game for Windows

Step Into is a tower defense game, in which you fight bugs using electronic components: resistors, capacitors and LEDs. However, there is a catch. In order to upgrade your defense, you have to peek inside them revealing another, tiny version of a similar game!

How to play:

The objective is to defend yourself from bugs. They will be going from one side of the cable to the other. Letting 10 through will make you lose. Don't press continue right away (as it starts the wave of bugs)! Select a grid tile (on the cable path, or surrounding board) and choose the towers you want to build:

  • resistor (placed on the path, will slow down enemies while there on it)
  • LED (placed next to the path, damages nearby enemies in range of a chess king every time it lights up)
  • capacitor (placed near the path, zaps once every few seconds dealing x3 as much as LED)

Each new building will cost you BIT$, which you will earn at the end of every round. When you think you're ready to fight your first wave, finally press continue.

As the cost of towers increases with each build, you will eventually have to upgrade your existing towers to defend stronger waves. In order to do so, step into them where you'll see another board. You can send bits to it from the main one using a button. There, you repeat what you did earlier. Each passed wave will grant the outer tower more power.

Beware the Boss awaiting on wave 10!

Unseful tips/FAQ:

  • Every bug has as much health as non-upgraded LED + capacitor deals
  • Deleting a tower doesn't grant you BIT$ (we're sorry)
  • Upgrades doesn't affect tower activation cooldown
  • Reward of BIT$ is proportional to the round number
  • Resistor gets really strong with each upgrade
  • A capacitor upgraded two times is powerful enough to kill a bug by itself.

Collaborators: @misiekii3

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step-into-04.zip 13 MB

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It took me a little bit to figure it out (partially cause i only skimmed the page before playing at first haha), but i like how complex the solution becomes as you allocate more time for components to work.