Cicada Defense Force
Now with shadows and screen shake!
Created for the District June Jam (Theme: "Emergence"). Also submitted to the Brood X Jam (Theme: "cicadas").
Cut through the swarm of cicadas and thin out their overwhelming number a little.
Be careful not to get too close to any cicadas or they might get sucked into the engine and cause it to explode.
Controls
- Use mouse to move
- Left mouse button to fire
- Escape key to pause
Changes for the Brood X Jam
- Start with only three jets and get more along the way
- Cicadas now spawn in waves
- Added a pause menu
- Tweaks and bugfixes
Changes after the jams
- Added shadows
- Added screen shake
Credits
- Created in Unity
- Fonts from DaFont
- Music & background sounds from FreeSound
- Sound effects from Kenney
- Tilemap (ground) textures from Kenney
- Everything else created by Taranis Elsu
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Great swarm/flocking behavior! Really captures the feel of a cicada swarm.
Those swarms have some really awesome AI! I'm super impressed!
They are not really intelligent, just following some random walk and flocking steering behaviors like these: https://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-6-autonomous-agents/. It's an example of "emergent behavior" which fits the jam's theme of "emergence".