DOTS Survivors - Complete ECS Game Project & Instructional Documentation

Quick Links 💫

• FREE 4.5 Hour Tutorial - DOTS-based survivors game (Great Intro to ECS)
• Online Documentation
• Support Discord

Included in This Asset 🎁

• All project files from complete game: DOTS Survivors
• ECS-based source code by Johnny of Turbo Makes Games
• Art & Sound custom made by Cille and Emil of Penzilla Design
• Documentation site detailing all core concepts of game's architecture
• Video overviews of core concepts showcasing code and editor config

Game Features 🚀

• 12 Weapons - each with their own unique behavior and upgrade path
• 12 Passive abilities - modifies various stats on player and their weapons, upgraded through leveling
• 6 Characters to play as inspired by the hosts of The Hot Path Show and their respective pets!
• 15 Enemy types with up to 4 color variations for a total of 42 unique enemies
• Visual and strength enhancements on boss enemies
• Enemy spawn waves and special events (plant circle, enemies that move as a group)
• 3 Stages to explore - The Moon, Mars, and Venus
• Items - Health, Money, Gems, and of course... SUPPLY CRATES!

ECS Concepts Implemented 🧬

• Examples of all data component types - unmanaged, managed, shared, cleanup, tag, flag, enableable, dynamic buffer, singleton, and blob assets
• Shader-based animations controlled via material override components
• Entity interaction system for raising events between different entities
• ISystem & SystemBase systems
• Editor World Systems
• Multithreaded jobs
• Gameplay pausing
• Integration with managed UI, SFX, and VFX
• Keyboard and controller input via input system
• Interesting uses of authoring and baking
• Multiple approaches to ECS prefab management
• DOTS Physics - character movement, collision events, and spatial queries
• And a whole lot more!

Documentation 📚

• Full API documentation of over 420 custom types
• Detailed written documentation core systems and features
• Explanations of common programming patterns
• Video documentation further detailing important aspects of the project
• Information on how to extend or reskin the project to make it your own
• Highlights edge-cases and workarounds necessary for implementing certain gameplay features with ECS in Unity 6

Other Information 🔮

DOTS Survivors was developed using Unity 6 and is intended to maintain compatibility through the Unity 6 generation.