[WIP] Dodge the Swarm

[dioxbow]

Hi all,

 

The name of my game, "Dodge the Swarm", pretty much speaks for itself in terms of the gameplay. You essentially try to shoot and outmaneuver a swarm of enemies in order to survive. The enemies come out from the walls, and the spawn rate increases as the game progresses. The graphics are really simple because I didn't want to spend that much time drawing sprites (and I actually kind of like its retro aesthetic). This is the first game I've made by myself using pure HTML5/Javascript, although I'm not that new to programming overall. So far I haven't spent that much time on this project—part of one day getting the basic gameplay done and then a few more hours over the next couple of days setting up the record storing, polishing the menus, and fixing bugs—and I'm not quite sure where I'll go from here. Some added features and nicer graphics would be good, although I might move on to create something bigger and better instead. Let me know what you guys think since I don't have much previous experience building web apps or programming with graphics in general!

 

You can play the game here: http://git.io/swarm 

(if you want you can also checkout its GitHub repo here, although there's not much in it)

 

The start screen (end/death screen looks similar):

 

Easy gameplay when run has just started:

 

Medium gameplay as the game get well into the first minute:

 

Very hard gameplay (for me at least) as you approach three minutes:

 

P.S. My personal best as of right now is 3:25.64!