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GRAFTMIND

A tower defense game where you fight next to your base.

Robots made from scrap attack the Core from every side. You walk the field, shoot, grab Scrap and build while the fight goes on. There is no pause to build.

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// THE GAME

How it plays

REC · LAST STAND

01

Defend the Core

If the Core breaks, the run is over. Robots come at it from every side, and they keep coming while you build. Generators, Turrets, Arc Spires and Overclock Relays all go down in the middle of the fight.

Turrets need power, so every build is also a question of where your power reaches. Claim Power Nodes out in the field to build further from the Core.

REC · ASHEN FOUNDRY

02

You're out there too

You don't watch from above. You're the Operator, out on the field with a gun, picking up the Scrap every wrecked robot drops. The turrets do a lot of the work, but they won't hold the Core on their own.

UNIT
THE OPERATOR
JOB
KEEP THE CORE ALIVE
STATUS
DEPLOYED
REC · LEVEL UP

03

Pick one of three

Every level up offers three upgrades to pick from: a faster gun, longer turret range, an orbital strike, a laser drone that follows you around, and many more. A run lasts about fifteen minutes and you get stronger the whole way.

Sometimes a card shows up charged. Pick it and that upgrade stays stronger for the rest of the run. Get lucky twice and it stacks.

  • ▲ OVERCHARGED+20% power15% chance
  • ▲▲ HYPERCHARGED+40% power5% chance
  • ▲▲▲ SUPERCHARGED+75% power1.5% chance

// INCOMING

The robots

// THREE ZONES, THREE GUARDIANS

Every zone ends with a boss

Near the end of every run, the zone's Guardian shows up.

ZONE 01

Scrap Wastes

Reclaimer Prime

An open junkyard. The place to learn.

ZONE 02

Ashen Foundry

Foundry Warden

A burnt-out factory. Heavier robots show up earlier.

ZONE 03

Severed Grid

Null Conductor

A broken power network. Shielded formations and signal storms.

// COGNITION GRID

Train what you salvage

Wrecked machines sometimes drop Models. Between runs you plug them into the Core on the Cognition Grid, and each one adds its own upgrades to your next runs. Every Model has a Load, and the Grid only holds so much.

The Cognition Grid: Models plugged into slots around the Core, with the list of recovered Models on the right
  • 44Models to find. Some only drop from a zone's Guardian.
  • 3→6Grid slots. You start with three and unlock the rest with Training Data.
  • 8ranks per Model. Each rank makes its upgrade stronger.

Then you train them

Your runs earn Training Data. Spend it in the Training Lab. Rank Up makes a Model's upgrade stronger, guaranteed. Reduce Load retrains it so it takes less room on the Grid. A retrain only sticks if the new checkpoint beats the old one. If it doesn't, you keep the old one.

And yes, it prints a PyTorch-style training log and draws the loss curves while it runs. This copy runs in your browser with the same numbers and the same log as the game. Go ahead, it's free here.

MODEL TRAINING TRAINING DATA ◆ 5000

SCAVENGER HOUND CORTEX

SALVAGE MODEL · RANK 1/8


        
      

      

        
TRAINING CONSOLE · STDOUT

        

      

      

        
PERFORMANCE CURVE

        
        
PIPELINE IDLE // CUDA DEVICE AVAILABLE

      

    

  







  

    
// SCREENSHOTS

    
From the current build

  

  

    An Arc Spire throws lightning at robots near the Core in the Ashen Foundry
    A Guardian boss attacks the Core
    The level-up screen with three upgrades to pick from
    A late wave: dozens of robots around a powered base
    The Cognition Grid, where recovered chips plug into the Core