Crowd Runner Framework - Math Gates, Crowd Battles and Finish Stairs Unity Asset

Grow your crowd, win the race.

Crowd Runner Framework gives you the whole genre as clean, tested, reusable systems: a swarm that grows and shrinks through math gates, enemy armies that fight it unit for unit, saws, sweeping bars and spike traps, the multiplier staircase finish, coins, upgrades and saves. Levels are data assets, so a new level is a list to fill in, not a scene to build.

Press Play in the demo and you have a game: a start screen with an upgrade shop, three levels, a results card with confetti, sound, and an autopilot that plays the levels by itself.

The whole genre

Gates, battles, obstacles, finish stairs, coins and upgrades, all wired together in the demo.

Built for crowds

Burst jobs move and fight hundreds of pooled units with no physics and no garbage per frame.

Levels as data

Describe a level in one asset and play a looping sequence of them. Gizmos show it in the scene.

Yours to change

Full C# source, events on every system, any prefab as a unit, and editor tools for gates, patrols and levels.

Description

GAMEPLAY

Player swarm: drag or keys to steer, spiral or grid formation, lane clamping, up to 500 units (configurable)
Math gates: add, subtract, multiply, divide; linked pairs and full-width gates; colour-coded presets
Crowd battles: armies engage at a set distance, charge, and trade units one for one on a tick
Enemy formations: idle, patrolling or charging, with patrol paths you drag in the Scene view
Obstacles: spinning saws (optionally sliding), sweeping bars and spike traps with a warning wobble
Finish stairs: the crowd climbs multiplier steps (x1.2 to x5), paying units for each; the last step sets the reward
Coins along the track, collected by the crowd’s formation

PROGRESSION

Levels as data: gates, enemies, obstacles, coin lines and the finish in one asset
Level sequences that loop forever, with a level number that keeps counting
Coins, end-of-level rewards and upgrades (start units, income) with growing prices
Saved progress through a small interface: PlayerPrefs by default, or your own save system

PERFORMANCE

Burst-compiled C# jobs for formation layout, unit movement, battle contact and hazard hits
Object pooling with prewarming, so nothing is instantiated during play
No physics or colliders: gates, battles, hazards and coins use simple maths
No per-frame garbage in the gameplay loop, checked by allocation tests
Stick figure units animated in the vertex shader, friendly to the SRP Batcher and GPU instancing

FEEL

Feedback Player: sounds and haptics for gates, coins, battles, hazards and stairs, from pooled AudioSources
Haptics through a one-method interface: the built-in vibration, or your favourite haptics plugin
Floating unit counts, death effects and confetti

DEMO

Three levels that introduce each feature, ending with an 80-unit boss army
Start screen with an upgrade shop, sound and vibration switches, progress bar, coin counter and results card
Autopilot that dodges obstacles, collects coins and picks the best gate
A bright, rounded casual look, portrait first and fitting landscape screens
Generated placeholder sounds, free to use

FOR PROGRAMMERS

Clean, commented C# in assembly definitions and namespaces
C# events for code and UnityEvents for designers on every system
Editor tools: Gate Spawner inspector, patrol path handles, level gizmos and one-click scene objects

REQUIREMENTS

Unity 6.6 (6000.6) or newer with the Universal Render Pipeline 17.6+
Burst, Collections, Mathematics, Input System and uGUI (TextMesh Pro), installed as package dependencies
WebGL works; Burst is not available there, so the jobs run as plain C#

THIRD-PARTY

Includes the Nunito font (SIL Open Font License 1.1) in the demo. See “Third-Party Notices.txt” in the package.

If you have any questions, requests or something isn’t working, please send me an email at: support@hardartcore.com