A strategy-survival tower-defense title for Steam — defend the base against waves of evolving mutants, place and upgrade turrets, adapt tactics as pressure scales with every round.
Tower-defense is a crowded genre on Steam; a new entry has to offer something players feel within the first match, not after hour three.
Procedurally evolving enemy abilities and multi-system progression (turrets, base, research) had to stay readable under heavy wave pressure.
Performance targets covered everything from modest laptops to mid-range gaming rigs, with no hard FPS dips during late-wave swarms.
Built a Unity-based wave engine with ability-composition for enemies, so variety comes from combinations of traits rather than hand-tuned archetypes.
Designed a readable base-and-turret HUD around glanceable upgrade paths — upgrade decisions that feel fair even when the player is under pressure.
Shipped through Steamworks with achievements, cloud saves, and workshop-ready hooks for future content drops.
Profiled late-wave frame budgets on target specs weekly and enforced a hard cap on simultaneous on-screen AI behaviours.
A flagship Steam release that survives its first 90 days — the period where most indie tower-defense titles stall.
Post-launch seasons ship without engineering escalation thanks to a data-driven enemy and turret config.
Players reach wave 20+ regularly without frame dips on target hardware.
Every engagement ships with a named set of measurable outcomes. These are the numbers that mattered for this one.
The exact tools in the delivered system. We pick the stack to fit the problem and the team — not the trend cycle.
Most clients renew for a second engagement. The ones who don't usually hire someone from our team to run the project in-house.
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Dragonfly has been working with the team at Cloudini for several years now on building out our web-based platform and APIs. One of their strengths is quickly building out a multi-disciplinary team to work on the development and delivery of features with different technical requirements. Their support has allowed us to accelerate our development work without building an internal team. They have also worked seamlessly with other third parties both during the acquisition of Dragonfly and development of our mobile app. Cloudini has been instrumental in bringing our ideas to life and providing guidance to help us make the best technical decisions. I would recommend getting in touch with them if you're looking for support.
We've been building software since 2010 — 16 years of delivery across finance, healthcare, retail, logistics, energy, the public sector, and beyond. We're a consultancy, not a body-shop, and we've kept the same engineering discipline across every engagement shape.
Thirty minutes with an actual engineer. No sales, no drip campaign. If we're the wrong fit we'll tell you and point you somewhere better.
