I.T. Kid

Swarm is kbaum's arcade original and the first game of the series: a single room, a swordsman, and a swarm of razor wasps to cut down. The mouse drives the blade -- the game's own ActionScript tracks a crosshair with `onMouseMove` and swings the sword where it points -- while the swarm closes in from every side, so the guard has to keep moving. The game teaches itself: it opens on a training page before the first room, and its own advice is to read it. CrazyMonkeyGames' Swarm 2, which calls itself *"a much-improved sequel to Swarm"*, followed the same year.