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Swarm survivor [GMTK 2023]'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #508 | 4.113 | 4.113 |
| Overall | #1260 | 3.528 | 3.528 |
| Enjoyment | #1312 | 3.321 | 3.321 |
| Creativity | #2790 | 3.151 | 3.151 |
Ranked from 53 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?
It's a vampire survivor, but you're the enemy.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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Well done !!! I really like it ! ❤
Hey cool take on a reverse-survival type game! It was fun sending swarms of enemies against the hero. One time I only upgraded and used the little guys and had so many I had super lag!! The game is pretty hard though. I finally won the third time by only using the ranged guys and an occasionally little guy to distract the hero.
Overall really cool! Good job with this!!
Looks very nice. Plays well and is quite understandable. The Leveling Up menu can be sometimes not noticed cause it's in the same spot as the spawn menu so it is prone to missclicks. The screenspace is a bit small and because the units spawn off-screen I wasn't sure it worked sometimes. I won twice, it was rather easy but felt nice. With some iteration this could be really fun. Well done for 48 h!
The art on display is brilliant, great presentation. I just spam spawned/upgraded the big guy and won pretty comfroatbly. But for a jam game this is a cool idea, great work!
I really liked this game all around! The visuals were extremely well made great job on that, and the gameplay worked well. We seem to have made basically opposite games which is kind of funny haha. Loved the game overall, and I would love it if you checked my game out :)
Wow, what a great entry! You should work on this more and release it! Well done!
Check our game out, its billiards, with a very cool parry mechanic!
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2023/rate/2159488
We working on it ! :P
At first it seemed a bit too simple, but as I progressed, it became more and more satisfying to unleash hordes of aliens against that poor robot. However, it does have some serious performance issues when there are a lot of characters on the screen.
Yes we working on a new version for this reason ! :)
I did quite like it and played it a few times. However, eventually I realized that the player's leveling happens once a minute, whereas the hero's leveling requires killing the player's monsters. Thus, there is a dominant strategy of just waiting until you leveled a few times, and then spam with your notably over-leveled team.
If the player only leveled based on doing damage to the hero, that would definitely address this dominant strategy
Yes we work on a new version and thinking about avoiding the “AFK” build. :)
I like the artstyle but unfortunately it's pretty mindless to win :( I didn't give much thought to it, although just spamming first unit doesn't work (good) and cause my bruhwser to lag (lol). I eventually won almost without using 3rd unit (spawned a couple in the end just to see them).
Good music also.
In fact the best is invoke unit 1 for take the focus and using 2 to hit the hero ! 3 need a huge buff
Best game so far. It took me a couple tries to beat. Very fun. It would be cool if leveling your guys game them differente abilities or you got to draft from a couple of monsters. Different "heroes" to beat would be cool too. I see this going places.
That’s great to hear your enthusiasm! I’m currently re-coding the entire game from scratch to make it even better. Feel free to follow to stay updated on the latest game news!
Pretty neat lil game! Gets a little laggy if you summon too many entities, and sometimes got a bit confused if I had summoned them or not due to the delay between clicking the button and them appearing. But overall pretty well put-together! :)
Awesome artwork!
This game is great! The only thing I'm missing is more levels and a score to compare with others ;)
Very cool graphics! But it starts to lag when there are too many critters :P
That was good! A minimalist yet great management game paired with nice pixel art. Great job!
Neat. Good art and presentation. The big tank unit seems underpowered. Sometimes I pick the wrong upgrade since Im spamming to spawn a unit and then the upgrade screen appears and I pick that unit. Wish the hero got more unique upgrades like weapons that could make you change up your decision making. Good job!
The idea is solid, I like idea of being the swarm that attacks the player and slowly building up the swarm over time. I would have loved to see some variation in attacks that could have influenced the strategy, but still a very solid game!
Pretty neat. Visuals are great, the artist did a very good job. Very nice that you can use keyboard numbers to summon enemies. Wished if you could also upgrade with the keyboard numbers as well so you don't have to touch the mouse very often. The game is quite good and enjoyable nontheless.
Fun game. Cool concept. Good Work!
The monsters are so well done! It'd be nice to know the stats of each of them, and how the upgrades affect them. Overall really fun game
Great art style, and good concept. Funny enough very close in story to ours. Great minds