GRAFTMIND
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In development · PC
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.
Steam page coming soon.
// THE GAME
01
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.
02
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.
03
Every level up gives you a choice: longer turret range, a faster gun, thicker plating, a laser drone that follows you around. You get stronger as the run goes on, and a run lasts about fifteen minutes.
Between runs, plug the chips you pull from wrecked machines into the Core. They carry over, and you can train them with data from earlier runs.
// INCOMING
// THREE ZONES, THREE GUARDIANS
Near the end of every run, the zone's Guardian shows up.
Scrap Wastes
An open junkyard. The place to learn.
Ashen Foundry
A burnt-out factory. Heavier robots show up earlier.
Severed Grid
A broken power network. Shielded formations and signal storms.
// COGNITION GRID
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.
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.
SCAVENGER HOUND CORTEX
SALVAGE MODEL · RANK 1/8
TRAINING CONSOLE · STDOUT
PERFORMANCE CURVE
PIPELINE IDLE // CUDA DEVICE AVAILABLE
// DEVLOG
Same scenario, same seed. Left is the game in July, right is today. Drag the line.
I post progress like this on X as I go. Follow along on X →
// SCREENSHOTS
// CONTACT
I'm making GRAFTMIND on my own. New footage goes up on X first. The Steam page is on the way.
