Skibi Castle Defense 2 v3 (pre-alpha demo for Indiecade) released on itch.io

Gameplay

• Brand new art style for everything in. Yay Annie!
• Music added for main screen, round (Summer), and Battle (SummerBattle) with cross-fading functionality. Yay Vic!
• SFX on most gameplay events (mixing and variants to come later)
• Countdown from X minutes instead of counting up to infinity time (0 time left = fail)
• Hotkeys added for tower building and most gameplay related buttons
• Added 1x - 2x speed toggle button
• Default attack behavior changed from nearest to farthest
• New targeting system - click on a tower to assign preferred targeting against specific flags (closest, farther, most hp, least hp)
• You can also see your range when you click on a tower
• Leaks readded to game, but simply reduce time
• Redesigned a few ranger towers so they had more utility and usefulness 
• Added 'Sprinkles' to help you understand the lane flow in build phase
• Press ESC will open up the game menu, pausing it, and giving you the ability to hop between the game and metagame
• Leaderboard functionality to display scores on score screen works. However, it's only using older v2 data (v2 was just so different).

System

• Metagame added, the main goal of every 'zone' to beat your high score across these scoring vectors. Lower is better!
  • Time (left on the clock at end of battle)
  • Cost (mana cost spent on towers)
  • Distance (max distance any enemy traveled that battle)
  • Gold/Silver/Bronze scoring system (X% then Y% remaining)
• Autosave support added, as well as your max scores by level & name
• New game, continue game, reset game data, and quit added to main game
• Updated level select screen to reflect your progress
• The 'Shop' for the metagame made a brief appearance but for the sake for v3, it is disabled.

Polish / Major Bug Fixes

• Enemies flip as well while moving
• Towers flip when aiming and shooting at enemies
• Towers 'pulse' when attacking
• Random % for quotes added
• Towers that are ready to shoot should wait for an enemy to come in THEN shoot, instead of refreshing their fire rate
• Towers also are ready to shoot at the very beginning of the round
• Started work on making the 'simulation' accurate between round to round but efforts there need to be done closer to major releases as it is a fair amount of refactor. But major things are polished like timing on tower attacks and how enemies spawn.
• Tower and enemy tooltips polished and use a new art style
• Cost tooltip in HUD updates based on whether you can afford it or not (light blue or red)
• Countless updates and improvements for under the hood stuff. Suffice to say, I leveled up as a programmer several times between v2 to v3.