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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #20 | 4.563 | 4.563 |
| Overall | #44 | 4.188 | 4.188 |
| Presentation | #54 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Gameplay | #149 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I’m proud of the blood flow logic and the fact that the game runs relatively smoothing given the amount of physical bodies on a large map! It was hard.
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I’m traveling out of the country atm and I can’t stop singing
“my little cell, you were supposed to be a muscle”
“SARCOMA! DONT BE MY CANCER”
🥲 I'm also obsessed with it, could not get it out of my head last week!
This is pretty unique simulation experiment, awesome how performant it is! I really like how meaty it all looks as well. Cool that there's an indication of different sections of the body.
Collision handling makes the movement a little janky, making it too easy to get separated from my other cell masses and too challenging for the Neutrofils to pose a significant threat in large crowds.. I was expecting the physics to run a little more like a fluid simulation. Gameplay also mostly feels like it's just rubbing up against other cells until I absorb them or they kill me. This is, however, a lot of work for a 2-week jam... definitely something to be proud of :)
Best part has to be the song, although I wish there was some more music after it. Cool direction to take the theme in!
Very original concept! And the singing is great. I just wish it kept looping. It's such a unique game. Well done!
The music added a really unique touch to the game!
I love the low bass frequency the closer you get to the lymphocyte popo
I found this game quite original, but also quite grim. I wish the music had kept playing."
The gameplay is relatively simple, and I wish there were more to it (other than high score).
(Thank you for making this available on Linux :))
Wow. This is the best music I've seen in the jam so far, major props to you for working on such an unique piece for the game. Congratulations on the game!
I forgot to take a screenshot during the highscore page! I could go on indefinitely if I played it safe, but my goal was to reach 4 or 5 Lymphocyte "Wanted" Rating. I can't seem to get past 3 no matter how I try or build up mass. Also, neutrophils are hard to find once the lymphocytes spawn so it's hard to keep up aggression when you lose the source for growing mouths.
Wow, you probably have the worldwide best score :o
Yes, the "Wanted" feature is not properly balanced, before it was very easy to get 5 "stars" so I switch to an exponential system but didn’t have time to adjust the curve well enough. I will fix that this weekend :) I also wanted to make a special and interesting boss come for the 5th level, a bit like tanks or helicopters in GTA, but it will have to wait for future developments!
Just to prove I could keep going, and to solidify my world record hahaha. Seriously, once you have the techniques down, you could go on indefinitely. I just literally had to kill myself to stop 😂
looking forward to future builds!
edit: I even took some videos to demonstrate the "techniques". camp large passages with strong flow (left leg and left foot, left hemisphere has better flow than the right for some reason), eat neutrophils in groups of 4-5 then wait out the lymphocyte meter, metastasize dead weight and to distract lymphocytes, use red blood cells as a "shield" or layer to deflect lymphocytes
oO Wow again!
Yes, I know the challenge doesn't necessarily becomes harder once you get a good growing strategy. I will have to find new interesting challenges to make it more meaningful to break the world record! 😁
Cool Game, love to see if this game going to develop further
High Score:1048. This is a brilliant little game, I would absolutely play a full opera's length of cancer consuming a body. Bravo
I like this. Would be good if the music played every run. It played only in first one for me and i really love it
Very glad that you enjoyed it! Yes, I will probably change that and loop the instrumental part with a lower volume, once the voice has finished. I was afraid of the reactions to the music (pretty uncommon for a video game), but you all seem to like it :D
Oh wow this stands out above the rest. This is really really good. Are you the one singing ❤
Oh yes you did you everything as it says in the credits 😊 I hope this idea gets to be developed further because I really like and am enjoying this concept
Thank you for your kind comments :)
I think I will develop it further in the upcoming months, as I had to drop/rush some ideas and spend so much time on optimization.