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Viral Attack by mikegbrown

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made by mikegbrown for LD27 (JAM)
You play as a Virus, your goal is to attack and kill the Host Cell. You must attack the host cell for a total of 10 seconds to subdue it, but watch out white blood cells swarm during an attack. Use you repel ability to create space and make another attack.

Update: Re-uploaded web version as it was missing results screen.
Windows http://www.turbidmind.com/Content/ViralAttack.zip
Web http://www.turbidmind.com/Content/LD27 - ViralAttack - Webplayer.html
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=25369

Ratings

Coolness 60% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.11 298
Audio(Jam) 3.06 210
Fun(Jam) 3.06 236
Graphics(Jam) 3.39 261
Humor(Jam) 1.78 440
Innovation(Jam) 3.34 138
Mood(Jam) 3.57 77
Theme(Jam) 2.94 353

Feedback

bvanschooten
26. Aug 2013 · 21:07 UTC
Atmospheric and good-looking game, only the controls are frustrating. Sometimes nothing happens when I attack the red cell.
gravyhands
27. Aug 2013 · 00:46 UTC
Personally, I thought the controls were pretty cool. Although I had the difficulty on 1 and still got killed a fair amount. But maybe I'm just terrible.
oxysoft
27. Aug 2013 · 00:48 UTC
I like the graphics but the controls are very hard to get used to and the game is a little boring overall
keyboardmonkey
27. Aug 2013 · 05:00 UTC
Viral Attack captures the mood and is fun to play. I enjoy this dark theme, and nice representation of your health & mana. Being able to use tactics with the stun ability is a plus! Good work :)
xrm0
27. Aug 2013 · 12:25 UTC
Good game, controls are a bit hard though
RobotParking
27. Aug 2013 · 12:39 UTC
Really enjoyed the mood of this one.
dkilford
27. Aug 2013 · 12:40 UTC
Cool idea, but weighed down by clunky controls. I wouldn't recommend playing this in the web version because it's easy to click outside of the window.
Beavl
27. Aug 2013 · 12:55 UTC
It shares some elements with Osmos. Nice use of the repelling system. We like it!
Zerot
27. Aug 2013 · 14:05 UTC
Nice game. Had to play around with the controls a bit to get used to them, but after that it was quite a nice game to play.
xk
27. Aug 2013 · 15:46 UTC
Took some time to take a grip on controls, but after that game is quite fun! Loved the mood and sound effects, graphics is good too.
Genista
27. Aug 2013 · 16:30 UTC
it Doesn't work in my browsers mozilla or chrome I have an:
Linux 3.5.0-28-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP
i686 GNU/Linux.
TeamFlare
27. Aug 2013 · 16:34 UTC
Cool concept, takes a while to find out whats going on, but then it's fun and challenging :)
ArcturusDeluxe
27. Aug 2013 · 17:21 UTC
Yeah I got a bit of an Osmos vibe from this as well. Took me a sec to figure it out, but cool game.
mutuware
27. Aug 2013 · 17:55 UTC
That 'clink' sounds metallic.
But quite moody atmosphere.
TomCooper3D
27. Aug 2013 · 17:56 UTC
graphics are really nice cool mood and i liked the controls
JimmyDelaney19
27. Aug 2013 · 23:04 UTC
Took me a bit to figure out. I had fun.
Acr1m
27. Aug 2013 · 23:23 UTC
First of all, thanks for checking out my game earlier :)

Nicely done. I actually like the menu. Work on menus sadly is under-rated.

I would like to see a higher res version of the menu to match the level of resolution in the actual game.

Cheers
Angrycrow
28. Aug 2013 · 03:57 UTC
The web player barely fit in my window. The game has a real steep difficulty curve. Also I found that the attack command wasn't always responsive. Sometimes it got interrupted and the reason for that wasn't really clear. Rate me back! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=5288
zillix
28. Aug 2013 · 04:29 UTC
great presentation and concept!
Diogo Muller
28. Aug 2013 · 11:07 UTC
Very fun game. The controls are pretty good, after you get used to it.

Had to download the executable file, the game got so intense after some time that I always accidentally clicked on other tabs, or the Unity dropdown menu showed up :)
nathanhoffer
29. Aug 2013 · 03:46 UTC
I liked the controls actually. It just took me a second to learn them.

I enjoyed this entry thoroughly. It was pretty good.
Zathalos
30. Aug 2013 · 07:18 UTC
Interesting gameplay. It was kind of cool to stun the white blood cells and then ram into them to kill them. If you add some more abilities, it would be even better. Good job.
futuristteletex
30. Aug 2013 · 12:05 UTC
Nice little game!
XaiZil
30. Aug 2013 · 22:53 UTC
Often couldn't attack the red cell, controls seemed unresponsive. I like the movement though
whiteravens
04. Sep 2013 · 04:45 UTC
Could have been a great game if the controls weren't clunky. I don't know if I'm attacking or not as well. Still, one of the most innovative I played so far though.
Per
12. Sep 2013 · 09:40 UTC
Very nice game!
I like the game mechanics, graphics, music and sound.
Well done!