Supercell by Nick Cash

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made by Nick Cash for LD23 (JAM)
Do your best to stay alive in a hostile cellular environment while you vanquish enemy eukaryotes. Devour delicious oxygen to boost your strength, for only the fittest survive.

Special thanks to those who watched on the livestream and contributed various sounds or animations to the game. This was our first Ludum Dare competition, and we'll definitely be doing more in the future!

Ratings

Coolness 46% 688
Overall(Jam) 2.70 179
Audio(Jam) 2.70 141
Fun(Jam) 2.85 109
Graphics(Jam) 2.52 201
Humor(Jam) 2.33 127
Innovation(Jam) 2.26 209
Mood(Jam) 2.50 173
Theme(Jam) 3.26 81

Feedback

sevenupsucks
23. Apr 2012 · 21:10 UTC
Not bad, I gotta say though some of those graphics are killer.
mattchu
23. Apr 2012 · 21:48 UTC
A bit chaotic. The music got a bit repetitive. But otherwise, it's some solid fun. :)

Took me a minute to realize I was scrolling to the top-left, though.
Jeremias
23. Apr 2012 · 21:53 UTC
Here my feedback:

- the music stops after some time (as I read the instructions)
- sometimes while I move to the right, my cell moves left until I stop pressing "D"
- nice game design tweak to make the health-cells shootable.
- I think you used collision boxes for collision detection and maybe, they are a bit too big.
- Nice controls respective shooting (flying bubbles, yeah :D)
- implementing a screen which explains controls and basic gameplay: great!
Redback
23. Apr 2012 · 22:43 UTC
Wow, that gameplay was way harder then I thought it would be!
I really liked it :D The main character looks pretty cute too :P

Awesome :D
tfendall
29. Apr 2012 · 03:32 UTC
Pretty solid, but gets a little repetitive. I like that you had a detailed instruction screen and changed the goal occasionally (from survival to kill x number of enemies). Overall pretty fun.
Hegemege
30. Apr 2012 · 14:25 UTC
I loved the soundtrack :DD I loved the player animation, very cartoonish :DD

Hmm, the enemies could've been a bit more lively, they just spammed from a few corners and it felt slightly repetitive, but the difficulty curve was nicely set for this game. Wasn't too hard at first but clearly started to had troubles a bit later and it was just massacre later D:

I had fun playing it, the soundtrack set the mood for the game! Nice interpretation of the theme as well(my game holds a similar idea, thanks for the comment on my timelapse video as well ^^)
MadGnomeGamer
01. May 2012 · 01:53 UTC
Nice music! Good theme for a shooter. I like the instruction screen and the fact that you could access it in-game and then return to your game (a small but handy feature).
jeffz
01. May 2012 · 03:24 UTC
music was good, character movement too slow. congrats on submitting an entry.
Permanent7
01. May 2012 · 04:03 UTC
Congrats in your first entry!
R3ason
01. May 2012 · 05:39 UTC
Great first entry! Music was awesome and controls felt fluid. It got to a point where there was a ton of stuff on the screen, and I wasn't quite sure what was good/bad! Otherwise, a solid, fun little entry. Thanks!
Jezzamon
01. May 2012 · 08:12 UTC
Interesting... although a little repetitive after awhile.

The music was ok, but it didn't really seem to fit the mood of the game.
ratking
01. May 2012 · 10:31 UTC
Nice for a first game ... I like that the speed of the bullets depends on the distance between cursor and player. But why no sounds for destroying enemies? Generally, there's a lot of feedback stuff missing.
DainVadda
01. May 2012 · 11:48 UTC
A bit confusing at first, but still a very nice game.
Birchmountain
01. May 2012 · 16:46 UTC
A very good looking game, and i really enjoyed the audio!
davidwparker
08. May 2012 · 13:26 UTC
Interesting game... wish I had a clue what was going on. Music was repetitive, but not too bad. Art/style was good.
robcozzens
11. May 2012 · 04:39 UTC
Pretty good. The controls could use some fine-tuning.
crippledgames
13. May 2012 · 16:02 UTC
Pretty good, I don't know why but it kind of reminds me of earthworm jim
MadGnomeGamer
14. May 2012 · 20:09 UTC
Nick, I have something to tell you.

I scanned my computer yesterday and found 33 files infected with Paramite A. You might have become infected from playing my game.

I'm really sorry about this.