Hello itch.io players. Today we are launching swarmybots on itch. Thus far, it has only been available by direct url at swarmybots.io.

Swarmybots is a Unity game developed with tremendous help and contribution from my 12-year-old son. We're mostly using his pixel art, with some placeholder Unity template sprites for terrain, until he produces his own. I've had the idea for this game since ~2010 but never had an artist willing to work with me. Thankfully, I was able to grow my own!

The gameplay of Swarmybots is chiefly inspired by:

1. Shattered Galaxy
2. Spore
3. Agar.io
4. Robokill
5. various Tower Defense games

While online PVP is available today (and pretty fun already IMO) the long-term goal is to have Swarmybots grow into a persistent world multi-faction territorial dispute game. Like Shattered Galaxy we plan to have 3 factions with a central ever-evolving war front.

We plan to regularly update the game with more weapons, abilities, eventually an item shop, and player accounts. If you'd like to follow along between release updates on itch.io, feel free to join our Discord at https://discord.com/invite/k3wtXm8nDK