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GMTK Game Jam 2024

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A jam submission

Locust SwarmView game page

Grow a plague that rampages the land!
Submitted by Pizza0786 — 1 day, 1 hour before the deadline
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Locust Swarm's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#51182.4573.250
Overall#66311.7642.333
Enjoyment#66961.6062.125
Style#72481.2281.625

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Players swarm scales up and down as player eats food, destroys food sources and starves.

Development Time

96 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Ambient Noise: 035379_Grasshoppers by pixabay
All Sprites: Made myself or Unity Engine Defaults used
Menu Fonts: Engine Default Liberation Sans SDF
Medal Fonts: Drawn onto picture manually

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Nicholas Dewberry.Submitted19 days ago

This was pretty fun! It feels good to play as a locust swarm and just go ham all around the map. Loved the camera zoom in. 


Nice take on the theme. I look forward to seeing more!

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Spare Parts
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joaosassSubmitted19 days ago

Very creative

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Baiacool
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EzequielDMLSubmitted20 days ago

I didn't really understand why I lost, but it's an interesting game!

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Scale to Launch
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Pizza0786Developer19 days ago

You most likely ran out of food - need to constantly eat and tiles you've already eaten don't provide any food.

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UwertaDevSubmitted21 days ago(+1)

I like the simulation, but it seems more like a slightly gamified simulation than an actual game. The varying medals were a nice touch, though.

Also the particle effects that are visible in the screenshots here on Itch weren't visible in my game (I was playing on the Linux download).

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G0L14TH
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Pizza0786Developer21 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

Thank you for reporting this

I was testing this on a windows PC and even needed to build it twice for windows because the first time the particles did not show up and assumed the factor that decided weather or not they show up would be consistent depending on behaviour within the editor, but apparently, they are more random than I thought. This is certainly a bug on unity's end, I hope to fix it after the jam. Furthermore, thank you for the feedback. Should have probably only posted the windows version in hindsight.

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vurmuxSubmitted22 days ago

Interesting concept! Love how you did the swarm of insects!

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Scaletons!
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Pizza0786Developer22 days ago

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

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