Hijack Waves

Hijack Waves is a real time strategy game where you take command of a small defense force being overrun by a much superior fleet. Using intelligence units such as spotter planes and radio-jamming boats, you have to break communications between their forces and delay their strike long enough for the support fleet to arrive.

FEATURES:

• Classic RTS control with heavy emphasis on hotkeys
• 3 very different types of units to command
• 4 levels (holy cow)
• Strategy focus on disrupting enemy organization, not reducing them to ashes
• Casualty counter for increased guilt
• Nuclear launch detected

In this conflict, position and knowledge is stronger than the largest cannon!

HOW TO PLAY: 

• The enemy communicates by sending signal pulses via relays
• Each time a pulse reaches a sub, their threat level rises
• The pulses lose strength over long distances
• When a sub reaches max threat level, nuclear strike
• Use jammers to intercept the pulses, rendering the subs stranded
• Use spotter planes to detect underwater pulses and subs plus their current threat level
• Use bombers to reduce subs threat level and disperse them
• Hold them off until the fleet arrives (cinematic ending was out of scope)
• The THREAT LEVEL meter will always tell you the highest threat level currently in the water

Made entirely by Juan Rodriguez (Great Oak Games - greatoak.gg) for the Ludum Dare 59, theme: Signal

Featuring music by Tito Viera