Freeware Game Pick: Swarm (Alex Vostrov)
Swarm is a customizable strategy game created by Alex Vostrov in one week, where players assume control over a colony of bugs in a two-way battle for supremacy over the map. Health is indicated by two rows of coloured dots at the top of the screen, while waypoints can be moved around by dragging them to a new location using the left mouse button.
Add additional waypoints by clicking on the black flag on the left, choose any location on the map, then left click on the hive and drag a separate arrow towards the new waypoint. Multiple waypoints which are connected to each other can also be designated by using the left shift key when clicking on an existing waypoint.
There are three upgrades to acquire, and AI difficulty can be increased by using command line parameters. (Mac/Windows, 2.06MB)
Comments
is beautiful!
Posted by: guy next to RS | August 22, 2008 10:39 PM
This is great. Took me a few tries to beat it!
Posted by: haowan | August 23, 2008 12:39 PM
I'm using vista, and it won't start. The error message says the application failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Posted by: Tunips | August 24, 2008 3:31 AM
That shouldn't happen, but It doesn't overly surprise me that it does. Deploying applications written with VS2008 is a mess. I've been working on a build that shouldn't have those problems. Give me a couple of hours and it'll be up on my site.
Posted by: Alex Vostrov | August 24, 2008 4:00 AM
Ok, I've uploaded a new version that should be free of any dll problems. Just re-download the zip and it should run fine.
Posted by: Alex Vostrov | August 24, 2008 4:20 AM
"Give me a couple of hours and it'll be up on my site."
20 mins later...
"Ok, I've uploaded a new version"
This is why indies rock.
Posted by: Anonymous | August 24, 2008 4:35 AM
It works for me now; thanks.
I like the elegance of the design and interface. I found it a little surprising just how fast the hive dies when under attack.
Great work!
Posted by: Tunips | August 26, 2008 9:51 AM
j'arrive pas à changer la difficulté du jeu, elle est expliquée dans le readme, mais je comprends pas comment faire, si quelqu'un a réussi, pensez à moi !
merci
Posted by: Luckather | October 1, 2009 12:40 AM
Awww... I tried Downloading it, but I do not think it works on Macs...
Posted by: Sad Panda | April 21, 2010 4:47 AM