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
Fully simulated drones and colonies, inspired by the real life behavior of ants and bees. The drones sense nearby food, signal it's location to allies with attractor signals, and encourage others to spread out and search elsewhere when food is depleted via repellent signals.
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
1. Bevy, of course!
2. bevy_ecs_tilemap powers the isometric grid and tile selection
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I was able to build the game for MacOS after fixing a typo in Cargo.toml
-bevy_console = "0.30.0"
+bevy_console = "0.3.0"
But I made a note to come back and test on a PC with a proper mouse.
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