GMTK Game Jam 2024

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A jam submission

BioGuard: Micro WarfareView game page

See if you can survive the horrors of bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Submitted by Olliescottie2002, joseph e — 1 hour, 59 minutes before the deadline

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You are a cell in the immune system, and you have to scale up with other cells to form a stronger structure

Development Time

96 hours

This was actually really fun ngl, I saw the 10 minute timer thinking it would drag on, but it stayed enjoyable throughout!

A few things I loved:

Had some game juice in there with some nice visual effects, every kill felt satisfying
Felt really responsive and smooth
Music and sound effects were in which were great
Game was well explained
Was awesome to progress and get bigger, kept me engaged in the progression

Downsides here were:

the white blood cell was really the only cell that FELT impactful, I can imagine the damage reduction/ health boost ones were helpful but as a player I didn't see/ feel that
More game juice stuff would've been great! (gimme screen shake, michael bay levels of visual effects to really sell how powerful I'm getting)
enemy density never really increased, which undersold the power fantasy of the late game.

But overall, great game, smooth gameplay and really fun!

Submitted

Nice Game!

I feel like the balancing might be a little hard but that's totally fair for a jam game.
I enjoyed it for a bit though :D

Submitted

Haha yes the balancing was tough lmao! Thanks for playing :)