Oct 2 - Oct 9 Devlog - The Dataswarm

From our continuous feedback, we felt our game lacked enough complexity to design interesting and fun games. As a result, we went through some overhauls in our game in regards to gameplay.

Instead of just getting from point A to B, you will have to overclock enemies, turning them into souped up versions of themselves and able to spread the overclocking to other people!

As a result, we created more levels in order to showcase this new mechanic.

So, what is 'overclocking'?

Overclocking aims to allow players to apply controlled chaos onto the map, by increasing an enemy's movement speed. In addition, we felt making enemies deviate from their simplified control paths creates some interesting game design, and can quickly spiral out of control!

Feel free to test out this build! We'd love to hear any feedback from you!

Sincerely,

The Into the Dataswarm Team

Updates:

Art

• Completed
  • Confirmed art direction
  • Main character model finished

• To-Do
  • Re-design enemies
  • Main character texturing
  • Main character rig & animation

Music

• Completed
  • Sound effects for movement and camera panning
  • Mixing and fine tuning of existing tracks, rehashing clashing aspects of the mix
    
• To-do

  
  

  • Add/polish sound effects based on future builds
    
  • Finalize main menu theme
  • Build/alter tracks around slightly changed theme
    • Greater focus on a blend of fantasy and cyberspace

Programming

• Completed
  • Overclock mechanic
    • x2 Speed
    • x3 Speed
    • Diagonal
    • ReachEnd (goes in one direction until it hits an enemy/obstacle
  • Shooting Mode UI implemented
  • Gun toggle Bullet type menu 
    
  • Cross-fade effect
  • Projectile Fire Distance limited to 4 spaces
  • Enemy and player movement smoothed out
  • NEW possible Victory condition: Overclock all enemies

• SFX and Music from last week uploaded
  • Damage SFX when player is hit

• Todo
  • Instructions Screen
  • Knight Movement Type