Locust Swarm by Codedogs

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made by Codedogs for LD33 (JAM)
"What a horrible night to have a curse"

It took 15 stressful hours to make this game.
It took a lack of sleep, horrible spaghetti code, Atari-like art, having patience with my shitty computer, and daring improvision to bring you this masterpiece

My original idea was to make a game about being an IRS Agent because alot of people seem to hate them and consider them literal "monsters". However, halfway through making the game, I realized that I would barely be able to finish it in time for the deadline; and even if I could, I would not get the playability out of it that I hoped for. So then I had this idea for a game about controlling a swarm and battling other swarms and ruining crops and wreaking havoc like a prophecy from the olden days. So then I thought "agar.io clone", I can have bigger swarms overtake smaller swarms, and have smaller swarms move faster to compensate. But then reality struck. I had no time to implement AI for something this complex, nor the time to implement an entire swarm programming code base. So then I decided that it would just be the swarm destroying stuff. The original goal was to have a completely destructable environment that your swarm could interact with in different ways and there would even be animations. But then reality came knocking again, and threw all those hopes and dreams and shit out the window. BlitzPlus is pretty good, but it wouldnt be able to handle what I was about to throw at it. So I had to keep dumbing down my ideas and dumbing it down until I ended up with what I have now. And what have is friggin excellent considering that I did it in under 15 hours. And now ol Robert aint got nothin more to say.


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LordKawaii
25. Aug 2015 · 19:29 UTC
I was unable to download your game, the link just took me back to your website.
metecognition
25. Aug 2015 · 19:31 UTC
Download doesn't work.
kozun
25. Aug 2015 · 21:14 UTC
Link is not working
peecestudios
26. Aug 2015 · 23:09 UTC
Download doesn't work
Gigaraptor
26. Aug 2015 · 23:39 UTC
your website burned my corneas. 10/10