Fracturo

A story-driven tower-defense game for iPhone and iPad. On a volcanic planet that is coming apart, a geologist holds back the creatures pouring out of a giant fracture.

Status: In development

Who it is for

Players of tower defense on iPhone and iPad who want a story that matters, told through the levels themselves. The whole story can be finished without paying.

What it does

Fracturo is played in landscape, in a 2.5D world. The player builds towers on spots along each level's paths, and the geologist fights on the field beside them: tap him, then tap the ground to move him, and his rock hammer deals with whatever gets past the towers.

The ground is part of the fight. Tremors can open a new path or swallow a build spot partway through a level, so a defence that held one wave may not hold the next.

The campaign runs to 45 levels across nine chapters, with cutscenes played in the game's own engine and companions who join the geologist along the way. Research completes the moment it is bought, with no timers, and what pays for it is earned by playing.

It is in development, and its first levels are being built now.

What it is built with

  • Godot
  • GDScript
  • Blender
  • NestJS
  • MikroORM
  • PostgreSQL
  • A battlefield seen from above at an angle: dark basalt ground, a glowing pit of magma at one end, a pale path winding past rocks and a small hut, and a few crab-like creatures crawling along it toward a figure in a white suit.
    A mock-up of the first battle, made to set the game's look.
  • A dark, rocky crab with glowing eyes and raised pincers, standing astride a crack in the ground that glows with magma.
    The app icon: a young creature from the fracture.
  • The geologist from the chest up, in a crinkled silver heat suit, a black helmet with a lamp, and a closed dark faceshield, on an amber background.
    The geologist, as his dialogue portrait shows him for now.
  • A young man in a canvas jacket and leather apron, carrying a bundle of wooden stakes on his back, leaning on a tall stake, with a small steel instrument box at his hip.
    Concept art of Femi, one of the colonists who joins the geologist.
  • An older woman with grey hair in a knit jumper, holding up a round black mirror with a violet rim in both hands, with a flat case on a violet strap at her hip.
    Concept art of Sanna, a glass-worker.