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Swarm or Die by villhest

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made by villhest for LD24 (JAM)
Swarm or Die!

A game about the survival and evolution of a species.

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Sadly we weren't able to finish it on time, but I'll post what we got running and we'll keep working on it.

There's not much gameplay at the moment, but here's a list of some started but unfinished features:

- Better control of the swarm / camera
- Ability to kill / be killed
- Procedural generation of animals at start and after each "level"
- Mating minigame
- Online leaderboards

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Graphics: bitslap
Code: zyark
A little of each and unity: villhest

Web https://www.dropbox.com/s/cz3hubcby1m9k71/LD24incompleteWeb.html?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=12294

Ratings

Coolness 44% 667
Overall(Jam) 1.95 266
Audio(Jam) 2.23 177
Fun(Jam) 1.45 273
Graphics(Jam) 3.52 94
Humor(Jam) 1.31 221
Innovation(Jam) 2.04 245
Mood(Jam) 2.22 209
Theme(Jam) 2.00 225

Feedback

馃帳 villhest
28. Aug 2012 路 01:52 UTC
Thanks to bitslap and zyark for their hard work thus far. It's too late to turn back now!
midgard
28. Aug 2012 路 04:44 UTC
I can't run it and I have Unity's Webplayer installed :/ on W7 64 bit.
abdavid84
28. Aug 2012 路 07:55 UTC
Sad indeed. This being my first unity project, I am quite certain that the next compo will go more as planned. Thanks to villhest for his guidance on how to use the Unity IDE and thanks to bitslap for his awesome graphics! /zyark
馃帳 villhest
28. Aug 2012 路 14:31 UTC
@midgard

I built it on Mac. I'll try to make a standalone Windows build. What happens when you try to run it?
DustyStylus
28. Aug 2012 路 15:11 UTC
Yeah, I get the "Install Unity" page as well. A shame, as this looks great. (and I definitely have the Webplayer installed... I've just been playing a few Unity web games).
DustyStylus
28. Aug 2012 路 15:14 UTC
AHA! Don't make your link HTTPS... make it HTTP. It stops Unity working from the Dropbox location for some people.
Ragzouken
28. Aug 2012 路 15:20 UTC
Sad that you couldn't finish gameplay, but these things happen - it looks like a very nice world :)
DaviDeMo
28. Aug 2012 路 15:30 UTC
error 404 :-(
馃帳 villhest
28. Aug 2012 路 15:30 UTC
@DustyStylus
Thanks! That solved it, at least for me! Now it works in Chrome as well as Safari.
DaviDeMo
28. Aug 2012 路 15:31 UTC
woot, you just updated it. testing now =D
DustyStylus
28. Aug 2012 路 15:33 UTC
Hooray, it's working now. :)
DaviDeMo
28. Aug 2012 路 15:36 UTC
yeah, that you couldn't finish gameplay. Maybe the next time =D
Good luck
zkenshin
28. Aug 2012 路 17:41 UTC
Really liked the graphically style. :)
DustyStylus
28. Aug 2012 路 19:43 UTC
Nice graphical style! With more time to work on the gameplay it could still be really good, possibly with an old-style "Bullfrog" feel to it. Plenty of potential there!
hamster_mk_4
30. Aug 2012 路 04:13 UTC
It looks pretty, but I can't figure out what I am supposed to do.
vilya
30. Aug 2012 路 21:23 UTC
The curse of ambition. :-) Too bad you couldn't finish it, looks like an interesting start.
johnfn
30. Aug 2012 路 22:24 UTC
Beautiful graphics. I guess that there isn't too much gameplay though? Keep working at it.
Dietrich Epp
31. Aug 2012 路 11:51 UTC
Windows version: "There should be 'LD24incompleteWin32_Data'
folder next to the executable" Web version works fine, I can't figure out how to play it though.
Sgt Squirrelly
01. Sep 2012 路 00:37 UTC
Pretty and like the sound, but its a shame that there's not any gameplay.
joekinley
01. Sep 2012 路 18:46 UTC
Nice graphics and sound.
Also it really looks interesting. But I have no idea what is happening. Like to see more of it though.
samoojamies
02. Sep 2012 路 12:35 UTC
Had no idea what was going on but cool looking graphics!
alvivar
04. Sep 2012 路 18:02 UTC
So funny! Nice music and graphics, I like the style.