| Engine | Language | Role | Type | Genre | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity | C# | Programmer | Isometric Strategy | RTS | 2013 |
About the game
Swarm - Formicidal Tendencies is a turn-based strategy game where each player controls an anthill. The goal is to kill the opposing players queen.
From your Anthill you can spawn different types of ants. At the moment there's three different types. The drone, which gathers resources. The soldier, which is stronger and more durable than the drone, but unable to gather resources. And the flyant, which can cover great distances in one turn, but have less hp than the soldier.
Each unit has its pros and its cons, and its up to the players to form a strategy where they can use every unit type to its full potential.
Both players start the game with some food, materials and pheromones. The food is used to create units, and the materials is used to upgrade your anthill in order reach higher tiers, will which enable the creation of better units, such as the flyant.
There are plenty of different ways to win. For example, perhaps one player focuses on collecting as many resources as possible, early on in the game in order to upgrade everything faster than the opponent. Such a tactic becomes more effective in the later stages of the game, so at the very beginning it is not as strong. Which means that, if the other player choses to ignore the gathering and go for a full out attack, it can prove devastating.
Resources can be gathered in different ways.
By placing one of your drones on a resource, you will gain 1, or 2 (depending on that specific patch) food or materials each round, for as long as that drone is occupying that location.
Blueberries provide food, while ferns provides materials.
Unfortunately, as fun as it might sound to create an enormous ant army, we have a limit on how many units a player can have at a time. Every time a unit is spawned, it takes some pheromones. When that unit later dies, the used pheromones are returned to the player again, allowing the player to create another unit.
Click on links below to view sample scripts!