okay uh movies test test test test hello and welcome everyone to this live stream about drone swarm i hope you hear me alright and welcome to tokyo game show so yep here we are i'm going to show off one of our latest builds for drone swarm which goes beyond what can be experienced in the demo so i can show you a little bit more than what you saw before and show you how the game progresses how you you know it evolves over time and yeah if you're curious please let me know any questions you have i will try to answer them as much as i can i'm here in the awesome dusseldorf germany so yeah here we go i would say so here we are in the main menu and one of my still favorite features is the ability to just disturb the swarm with the cursor you know i really like that gimmick obviously it's it's just a gimmick what's that it's really nice please remember that every single drone we have here on the screen are 32 000 of them so there's quite a bit but every single one is simulated individually so if you look closely like you see whenever you move the cursor that they're reacting individually they're moving they're doing their thing and uh together from the feeling of a powerful swarm mix up between fish and insects and yeah obviously also inspired by a lot of cool movies like endless game guardians of the galaxy star trek and the fourth so yeah i would say let's jump right into gameplay and have some fun so we are now on the galaxy map i played a little bit already so we are here at the end of chapter one or close to the end of chapter one this is the area that you can experience in the demo we're progressing a little bit further now so i can show you some things upgrades wise uh we have now one skill point available so we can check out what can be done we can either i mean we got already the cannonball so the cannonball ability and the end snare ability both work out um we have now get the railgun and the immovable so the the the walls wouldn't dissipate fast or the ray gun which is a very good ability that i'll just get now and show you in game so let's see what we can do um yeah let's jump in and have some fun again again let me know if you hear me all right it is just making sure that you can understand everything ooh the rogue ai so there's three factions in drones one unless it cannot be the three factions in ronson the dvor the dashan and the rogue ai um let's build up a couple of walls just to be protected but you see i mean this this might protect me and i couldn't even go as crazy as this you know like protect me from all sides i don't care but look at this 24 000 drones are not committed to defense and they have a mere 8 000 to do anything else which would be quite insufficient i would say when i can do some significant damage still uh this is definitely a tactic like some turtling so to say but it makes the the uh let's say the fight quite tedious so instead i will break down the walls and use more and more drones to attack so you see the base mechanic is very simple to explain you you have um path like attack path defense path you can switch them here right ooh a wall buster they just disabled like half of my drones what the heck okay let's build up a wall uh maybe ensnare that's another cool ability that if they run into this wall they will be caught in there the wall buster is really getting on my nerves let's try to get rid of him there you go it's gone and now let's go here destroy this one oh no i lost this this was indeed fast uh well yeah that's uh this this bad boy over here really took it out of me um i i yeah i just was not careful enough so okay here here we are back at the old dilemma of of of let's say um development bills right so it can happen that something is not working as expected but you know that's the honor of getting to see the very latest build so yeah that's that's the trade-off sorry about that so let's do the same thing again just this time actually win it um and yeah check it out again so we have the vore the the the shun and the roku is the three main factions the rogue ai is actually a very weird one because it's basically you never get to talk to them they simply uh try to get as much materials as possible to replicate more and more of themselves or not replicate this maybe the wrong word they build together ships out of any tech they can find oh that one i missed so with right click i can uh i can just like cancel any order i've given really you survive and the length of the path matters a lot the more dro the longer the path the more drones are uh committed to the path and thus the more damage you do so it it pays not to be frantic like this is gonna be four thousand each thus about four thousand uh in damage this is a ten thousand one though so yeah cannonball we can try that one out uh and get rid of this guy so he doesn't get to to nuke us with his laser he has shields so i'm just demonstrating this real quick uh going onto the shield with too much disables all my drones right see that that is obviously not great for my drones and especially my attack not going through at all so let's charge it up get rid of it again see there he was already charging the laser so we need to find the gap which is in the rear so let's do it this way fortunately he's very fragile of course why would i not want to never mind so then jumping is super cool so it's 11 days since we left earth we have a new skill point no we don't but we will soon and we received an upgrade that we can get in the future once we receive the new skill point then let's go to animation this transporter belongs to the other alien species we met the dasha the ship seems to be stranded so let's hope they don't feel threatened when we jump in for our scans okay so there is some the shunt transporter here let's jump in and see what's going on there is a asteroid coming in uh we need to be careful about part of the boer those at some point but rebelled against them are also known for their ruthlessness care about these ones so the asteroids we need to be careful about because if they hit the argo that's pretty bad for us the good thing is um we can even use if you just nudge them a bit we can use them to build that asteroid wall around us which protects us from others right so that's pretty decent uh tactic there okay interceptor assault assault shield so he has the front shields that we already encountered before and now let's see okay they have a wall buster so i would say let's get two walls here if one is busted i mean they didn't form yet but if one is busted it doesn't uh give the other ships a chance to penetrate so let's see how we position ourselves i would say this way here look at this look at this what we're going to do with them bam here you go now only this one is left um so i just wanted to show why i wasn't attacking him like this before because then the drones move there and hit his shield right um so instead we want to make them go from the side you know so they actually arc in nicely and deal a crazy amount of damage so this is how you deal about with him this was a very nice intro mission on this type of enemy because obviously once you kill this water damage damaging vessels you can get rid of him in quite a corn because the blue torpedo everything is collocated you see blue torpedo is only there to disable stuff you know like the drones like like uh any systems ships whatnot right whereas the red stuff that is the one you have to be careful about in combination are really bad if you just have one blue missile firing ship left that's not a big deal six four frigates so that's quite a bit we got access to a new skill but we still have no uh skill point so i would say we just move on so here we are at difficulty two rated encounters are picking up the sun merchants and the ball fleet captain by now i'm pretty sure they're going to drag us into their fight again so there's no point in trying to contact them okay so here are a couple of local hazards that we can use and jose should be careful about there's some darshan let's get over well they are actually also yeah so they get out okay let's get a wall up this is a disabling gas cloud you see the ship is disabled weapons are disabled regularly while in this cloud and this is a damaging cloud that explodes from time to oh a mine layer a mine layer okay that's that's interesting okay okay okay how do we deal about with those um i would say let's go here okay we're going through the gas cloud which isn't great but only a part of the drones are disabled so it's not that big of an issue for the mine liar usually you can and snare stuff right but especially the mind layer will not be in snare because it simply laser mind that disables the drones and goes through so this is one of the early counters oh great great thank you thank you that's why you keep them alive for longer um i i can actually show how this works out let them be pushed in there they are going in and the gas cloud triggers and that's that right watch out so now we need to be careful listen usually the second or third wave those are really the nasty ones so there's another mine layer layer guy ooh a wall buster too now that one we should take out fairly fast because otherwise it's gonna be a pain here you go the big cruises being wrecked by the gas clouds that's nice so jones swarm is all about countering your tactics and you needing to be efficient about the dispatch so just say of any enemy vessel oh come on because i mean right now i mean you have to i'm quite good at this game obviously being part of the development team and whatnot i played it a lot but um you have to understand that about challenge and making you also fail from time to time like so you you've developed new strategies and your tactics on how to approach it like for instance a typical pattern we see a lot in in in in various playthroughs is that initially people go like crazy with with a very short path on top of a ship tac-tac-tac-tac-tac and then suddenly there is enemies which just doesn't work anymore that have emp blasts that have shields there that have uh also something like an avoidance system where they when they turn on their thrusters really harshly like afterburners and just scoop away before your attack swarm arrives so it's about countering whatever tactic we can think of with various enemy types so you have to rethink how do i approach this encounter and basically yeah how do i how do i win it ultimately so especially some of the side missions the defense perimeter are quite challenging i mean we are doing regular play tests and such to make sure that the balancing uh gets to a nice shape when i was reading uh talking over the setup here so this is more like a puzzly kind of situation let's let's jump in there's a couple of platforms weapon platforms that are in that sense repairing each other see you modified speed and yeah that's a global effect and they're being repaired so if i start attacking this one for instance it's very fast regenerating its health so like let's unleash the entire swarm which uh still does barely attend into it ah maybe i can burst it so yeah the repair is is quite annoying but if we look closely we see one very important thing every platform is repairing its lower neighbor that means this one is not being repaired so let's just take this one out instead and i mean i why do i use so many swarms here just because it looks darn cool look at this i mean you can even try to hit them twice with the same swarm this way you are super efficient about it this one a set of coordinates i'll mark it on the map okay seems like we got another set of coordinates that we can take care of 14 days so we're two weeks out from new earth uh from earth searching new earth in the process haven't found it yet this one is threat level three we have even an m-class system so damage is increased here and we got a new skill point so let's take it again raygun is the one i wanna go for and i will show it to you right away in the in the game so there's a lot of upgrades in the game and you will get more and more abilities for the swarm also upgrades for the argo equipping weapons to the argo support systems and so on so uh there is quite a nice progression there that gives you ever more tools gives it ever more tools to yeah destroy the enemy and ultimately be creative about solutions right so i can show you the ray gun ray gun goes like similar like the cannonball in charging up right i mean that's the chargeability of the attack though and then you can just and i mean it takes a lot of time to charge up and everything because the drones have to travel there thus for a single ship it's usually not that let's say efficient [ __ ] is approaching but if you hit more than one that is interesting the ship is entirely surrounded by shields entirely how the heck should we go about this maybe it gets damaged maybe the ray gun gets through let's see no not at all not a dent he just collided with one of his own so that is maybe the way to go oh yeah that worked nicely nice so some collision damage a perfect perfect perfect i really don't need to fight another one of those ever again so aiden the guy who just spoke he is actually within the swarm he um that's also why you have this weird reverb in his voice he's talking psionically to you being the captain and it was his brother so he uh transferred his soul into the drone to take over one drone um as so to say owner and so did likewise in the introduction it was shown likewise 32 000 humans overall 32 000 psionics overall mining ships transferred their soul to take over the swarm as a whole [Music] it also means you are the key person who can control the swarm as a whole because you just talk to your brother very too much you have a very strong connection that makes you uh quite suitable to the job which is also how you got captain got to be the captain on the argo right because i mean it's the uh humanity's last hope uh for survival see the asterisk just punched through and here you can actually see very nicely how every single drone is simulated it's doing a nice thing and this the wall is slowly regenerating later there's even an upgrade for you to regenerate it a lot faster so that's here you go that's the option opportunity i was going for um you see or that did put a dent in i'm down to 22 000 drones just because whoa that wasn't a powerful push no i missed okay we need to survive here for a certain amount of time the the these mining ships are more tough than they look because they also repair themselves while mining oh roger i really really i need to get out of here all in all i'd say it was worth the trouble ah let's get out of here as usual let me know if you have any questions so i can answer them to the best of my knowledge space fan field our first argo upgrade we can install this baseband field that will allow us to slow down any enemy in the closed vicinity of the argo that makes the argo like a trap if you want or like a local hazard if you will so yeah this is one way to go and now i would say show you a little bit a later state of the game where yeah we are further progressed because i have here a safe game with 32 days already so that's quite substantially later let's check that out and see what the game later will bring i i just also didn't want to spoil the end of chapter one so let's instead go here so where are we here this is chapter one right that we where we have just been playing it's chapter two and now we're chapter three and there's chapter four and so on so it's quite an amount of content we have eight chapters in total so we have a very decent play time about 10 hours i would i would guess is it in the end on average so yeah there's quite some things to do what upgrades do we have just so we have a little bit of an overview we have the space band field still in here with the pulse laser that we can also get and the meta manipulation and so on so attack curve focus is something we didn't get yet but we got the orb of power and we got the oh we got this one this one is great raygun swarm pool outpost this is really really cool stuff so i would say let's just go for it a total of 16 swarm abilities awaits you like different swarm abilities plus upgrades for individual ones like longer lifetime for war for for walls d defragmentator or defragmentator he is highly resilient and priority target why is he a priority target though i guess we don't wanna find out so let's get the asterisks out of the way and as you might have just seen we can now get 20 000 drones on a single path that also means an odd we are being battered i'm now down to the pacing of of the previous chapters and yeah well this is a different kind of pacing so yeah we need to be careful ah we need to be very careful let's maybe make a small loop attack here so we can get rid of this healer unit see that's the loop attack for that one we could write also just pushed him in uh works only if he doesn't hit the shields right so let's go here attack on this front let's see what our hard-earned ship has to offer unexpectedly it was worth so laser feedback loop so we got the laser look at this fat lady up there that's great we are going to have so much fun with this so rampant being the next one fun fact the the info here on the right hand side right uh this one is pretty accurate because this is actual real life data this is exoplanets taken from another uh database accessible to everyone so yeah this is actual real exoplanets that are being scanned so to say and they're not of course they're using the same tactic as before then stabbing our backs okay this is a big cruiser we have to be kept oh this one has this one has uh cbs look at this oh we need to get rid of them self repair even so there is the laser at some point it will shoot let's get to the earth battery again with 20 000 drones i mean it deprives me quite a bit but it's better for the cbs because the little laces are really killing drones by the hundreds whoo that looked uh okay here come another set we had we are lucky one teleported into a asteroid so let's make a really big no he has the disabling shockwave he busts through any kind of war that you can find uh so instead we will just use the environment against him because if he busts our our charge up ah darn it okay whoa that was our laser soon we'll wipe out their bio planet is weapons with these weapons in their hands here are the coordinates we will wait for you they are not wrong what if we find another planet and that deshawn call the same trick again true it's a small mercy that no one was on new earth when they hit it okay that was a tiny spoiler there but i guess you you can't forget about it it's made of pure energy we need to learn how to do this energy thing even talking about okay there is an energy state right now we have attack defense and kinetic right there's a fourth state that we can learn about so yeah maybe it's time for the energy zero so that's great sweeping the turret this one is also pretty neat look at this very nice very nice attack curvature that one is pretty cool it boosts our attack substantially you if you draw curves so the drones get more powerful in curves i think that is what i want so we have now the energy state with r this is going to be fun i'm getting a distress call a bunch of civilian ships got attacked by the rogue ai and they can't warp out pretty sure they would have done that if it was possible they aren't with the darshan we fight they didn't attack us thank you me neither fall back to prevent friendly fire whoa this one is being battered quite harshly so let's see what we can do this is a shielded ship so what we can do is uh have the the the energy state here and then buff our attack with it because those actually get through right now better yet we can do it in a curve there is time for such a thing this mind liar is really getting on my nose okay yeah this sounds good this sounds good okay our friend seems to be out of trouble at this point i will just take the next batch no i didn't look i was becoming too cocky oh okay that's uh that was not that great so let's restart this one so yeah let's just click through it come to me he doesn't darn it what this one does oh this will be amazing this is space billiards oh if that dude hits that's like crazy no ah fortunately that worked out two of those whoa and wallbusters that's harsh i'm just glad i'm efficient about this this could have been very very nasty so i i think this is a nice moment of triumph to show her to end our little presentation again if you have any questions let me know um otherwise i will now yeah come to an end please check out dronesome you can download the demo at steam directly check it out yourself play with the swarm and have some fun overall we are going to release in october 20th so once it comes out you can get full access and so i invite you to wish us that so you will be informed about that but on top of that um if you um yeah if you if you want to pick take part in any play tests or anything that we're conducting please hop over to our our newsletter or join our discord and you shall be informed about it and then be able to participate pre-release but again full release is planned for 20th of october so very soon and i hope you enjoyed this presentation so yeah i wish you a lot more fun at the tokyo game show and see you next time around we will do another stream on saturday so here see the amount of skills i got i mean crazy so yeah thanks everyone and bye bye