u/Keggdirdle

Game Title: Code Defenders

Playable Link: https://keggdirdle.itch.io/code-defenders

Platform: Web/Browser

Description:

Code Defenders is a tower defense game built for anyone who's ever survived a code review. You're defending your repo from an endless wave of bad pull requests — junior devs, AI agents, 10x rockstars, consultants, and managers who "just have a small change."

Deploy reviewers to intercept them before they reach production. Linters catch the easy stuff. Unit Tests and QA Engineers handle the bulk. Senior Engineers deal heavy damage. Security Audits reveal cloaked threats. CI/CD Pipelines hit everything in a line. Each reviewer has a unique ability, and placement matters — the map expands as your company grows.

The game spans 15 sprints across three stages: Startup, Series A, and Public. Each stage adds new paths, new enemy types, and new reviewers to unlock. Boss fights include a Lawsuit, a DDoS attack, and a Ransomware incident — each requiring a different strategy to survive. Bosses drain your budget instead of your health, and if you run out of money, your investors pull out and it's game over.

The whole thing is wrapped in dev humor — office culture references, sarcastic leak messages, and cooldown quips. Retro aesthetic with a dark GitHub-style color palette.

Free to Play Status: Free to play - have fun!

Involvement: Solo developer — design, code, art, and audio. Built entirely in vanilla HTML5 Canvas with no frameworks or dependencies. Everything lives in a single HTML file.