The Swarm
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The Swarm is an endless top down shooter where you have to survive against swarms of intelligent flies.
Try to reach the top of the online highscores by surviving as long as you can. Upgrade your arsenal in the shop between waves. Each round will raise the challenge.
WEAPONS
Pistol: average speed, low damage and infinite ammo.
Assault Rifle: fast rate of fire and large magazine. Useful when dealing with a dense swarm.
Sniper rifle: slow but very powerful. The bullets will pierce through any amount of enemies.
Missile launcher: high splash damage. It can destroy a whole swarm if aimed correctly, but don't shoot too close!
Flamethrower: flames will spread between flies. But be careful, as "The only thing worse than a swarm of flies is a swarm of flaming flies."
CONTROLS
| Move | Arrow Keys |
| Aim | Mouse |
| Shoot | Left Mouse Button |
| Reload | R Key |
| Select Weapon | 1 to 4 Keys |
| Next Weapon | Mouse Wheel |
This project was originally created as a college project to showcase a flocking AI and later extended and polished. Any kind of feedback is welcome!
CREDITS
- Created with Unity
- All coding by Ramil
- All assets were obtained from Unity Asset Store by the following creators
- Models by Aligned Games, Dynamic Art
- Effects by Hovl Studio, Jean Moreno, MHLab, Sherbb
- UI Bars by Codiscite Team
- The character model and animations were obtained from Mixamo
- The highscore service is provided by globalstats.io
- All sounds were obtained from Freesound.org, by creators: ljudman, timmy_h123, ShawnyBoy, shastrocks, AderuMoro, GFL7, SuperPhat, zivs, MATRIXXX_, miksmusic, slamaxu, Jarusca and unfa.
- Ambience music from Freesound.org by Patrick Lieberkind
Download
Install instructions
- Windows: download TheSwarm_Windows, extract the folder and execute TheSwarm.exe. It might trigger a firewall notice due to the internet connection with the highscores service.
- Linux: download TheSwarm_Linux, extract the folder and execute the_swarm_ubuntu.x86_64 (give execute permissions if needed)
Comments
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Ok a few points, enjoyed the game, reminds me of Smash TV. Also this feels very much like revenge of the blender default cubes to me
The hitbox of enemies seems rather small, either that or theres very little visual feedback that enemies are being hit. I have good eyesight but my first thought when shooting enemies was that I wasn't sure it was actually doing anything and I wasnt sure I was doing it right. Perhaps leave some corpses of cubes on the ground. and have a more dramatic particle effect when an enemy is destroyed.
Also consider enlarging the enemies. I appreciate the aesthetic you are going for but each object having its own hitbox makes shooting such small targets frustrating.
Shop needs some balance work, I found myself spending most of my early money on health because I died almost instantly.
The ammo pickups appear bugged, I wasnt getting anything when collecting them which is particularly apparent when I am spending most of my loot on ammo. I spent most of my round 2 and 3 using the pistol because I was out of ammo, this isnt fun. If the ammor is going to be so scarce its useage needs to be felt more dramatically. The only noticable difference was fire rate, which for the sniper is a ddown side. I'm guessing the sniper has some sort of piercing to hit multiple enemies but it wasnt obvious.
Those are good points. The game balance and the visual representation of an enemy kill definitely need some work. I'll also look into leaving corpses, if it does not hinder the performance drastically.
Thanks for the feedback and for playing!
nice game
Thanks! :)