MICROSCOPIC by XedithDev
MICROSCOPIC is a game where you play as a cell, being overrun by virus cells. Save both you and your human from death by killing the virus cells!
This game was made in about 16 hours total for the Compo of LD39 (Over the span of two days)!
Follow this link to get to the game! https://xedith.itch.io/microscopic
HTML5 link: https://xedith.itch.io/microscopic-webgl
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Tools Used:
Unity 2017.1
Visual Studio
FL Studio 12
Adobe Audition
Photoshop
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This is my second Ludum Dare, I'm somewhat pleased with this!
| Windows | https://xedith.itch.io/microscopic |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/microscopic |
Ratings
| Overall | 408th | 3.176⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 532th | 2.735⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 617th | 2.265⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 484th | 3.176⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 367th | 3.118⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 200th | 3.206⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 444th | 1.885⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 359th | 2.875⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
The audio is also quite nice. Fits in very well with the rest of the game.
I've played for a few minutes and I think there's nothing else happening, so I'll just comment on what I've seen. I'm not sure if the game gets harder after a while, but I never came close to dying or running out of energy. By spawning more enemies you're actually making the game easier, because there are more energy cells available.
There also seems to be a bug where two enemies just randomly die when they get close to each other. I could run around in circles and enemies would just keep dying without me doing anything.
Ultimately I feel like the game needs some kind of goal other than 'survive', because there's not much progression. But since you only worked on it for 16 hours, not a big deal. Good job overall.
The art is very well created, the movement of the cell seems nice as well as the movement trail effect.
I see no downsides here, maybe adding some features like more enemies or more objective along with the main objective.
This has potential, good job.
Works fine the first time around though.
After restart, nothing happens.
**Things you did well:** Gameplay is very simple - straightforward instructions are included in the main menu. Film grain and microscope effect was a nice touch. Soundtrack was alright.
**Things you can improve on:** The game is way too easy - viruses are too slow, and energy refills too quickly; I spent most of the time staying still killing viruses then gobble up the largest field of blue energy balls and repeat the process. Your game, just like mine, suffers from the 'Where's the exit button' syndrome.
I did notice what I think is a bug... when I click to restart, i cannot move the green cell and no red cells come toward me. Seems like it is frozen.
Reminds me of agar.io, very addicting and simple!
Aside from difficulty being to easy and not increasing I thing this is a cool game. I enjoyed playing it!