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totally agree - I ended up spending way too much time on the systems and ai such that we had to cut a lot of our ideas for gameplay. 

Definitely hoping to return to this at some point and finish it, thanks for playing!

Oh no! That is quite hilarious and unintended for the robot to get stuck. I guess the player has the unfair advantage all along 

thank you! As you can probably see from the commits, I was flailing trying to get the Mac release ci to work at the last minute haha

Background

An RTS with highly asymmetric factions, which only interact indirectly with each other and the player.

The game features two factions:

1. A collective hivemind, communicating via a complex system of fields, similar to the attractor and repellent pheromones used by ants. They search for resources and find paths through the maze-like forest, and their colony requires a constant supply of resources to stay alive.

2. An ever expanding, self replicating circuit. It grows exponentially, scanning the world around it and consuming everything in it's path. 

This expansion is unstoppable. Inevitable. One might even say the circuit has an 'Unfair Advantage'. 

It's only matter of time until there's nothing left on the map, and your goal is to keep all of hivemind colonies alive as long as possible.

Features

An implementation of self replicating AI with a discrete internal clock. Each tick, it scans the world and finds optimal paths to new resources.

Simulated interactions between up to 50k entities, with variable simulation speed.

An illustrated and animated isometric, tile-based game world. All art created just for this game jam!

Tools and Assets Used

3. Hexels and Aseprite for sprites and game art

Hi,

Thanks so much for checking it out

The main thematic idea was that the 'robots' who spawn a minute or so into the game are basically unstoppable - growing exponentially and consuming all the resources on the map. I'll definitely add a blurb to the description, thanks!