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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #89 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Playability | #92 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Cleverness | #93 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Artistic Style | #109 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.
- Fantastic spin on the Vamp Surv genre that utilises the theme in multiple ways to create an entirely new gameplay style, in essence, then creating a new sub-genre. Would love more upgrade variety, and more pickups on the map to encourage exploration. UI is clean, art is beautiful, fully-featured and functional.
- Really enjoyed this one. Fun music, creative, cool progression system, and the theme is front and center! Was a clever spin on the whole zombie apocalypse trope--spreading a cure! Great job!
Did you include your Game Design Document in your downloadable files?
Yes
Tell us about your game!
After the recent but quick spread of a mysterious virus the world has pretty much collapsed. Luckily Dr. J. Ferret was able to develop a miraculous cure but only in a very limited amount of doses.
This cure, much like the zombie virus, has a viral property making it possible to spread it throughout the zombie hordes even with a short supply. Do you have what it takes to... Reclaim the Living?
Controls: WASD(Move), Space (Apply Cure), Mouse (Choose Upgrades)
Did you remember to include your Game Design Document?
Yes
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes
Extra Notes
If you have any issue with browser version please try out the Downloadable version (Just unzip the contents and run the exe).
Thanks to Thor, the Mods and all the goblins for pushing us to try our first game jam. It's was an incredible experience and we learned tons.
Thank you so much for hosting and have fun playing all these amazing entries that the community has put together!
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Comments
Lovely art style and a fun game play loop! I felt the harsh deficit of syringes but it helped with the tense atmosphere.
Awesome work!
Love the graphics and the idea!
Theme implemented perfectly.
Making progress by actually curing enemies instead of killing them is a great twist.
Upgrades make lots of sense.
A very well thought out game.
The graphics <3
Thank you so much for giving it a go! ❤️ Glad you had fun.
We love getting the younglings in the fam to try out our games so tried to solve the apocalypse with little to no violence! Let's just ignore the fact the zombies are still trying to eat you. 🙈
Really nice game, but though as hell. Liked the graphics. Well balanced gameplay. Kudos!
Awesome game, very polished! You managed to take a fairly overused theme (zombies, infection) and still made something unique and fun. Love the graphics, especially the UI! Very well done!
Great game! If I'm honest, I thought this would be another Vampire Survivors clone when I first opened it. However, I really liked the twist you gave to it, by giving the enemies perks as well. The sprites are very polished and work well with what you're trying to do, giving me Cult of the Lamb vibes. I think the gameplay might need a bit more balance, as I didn't notice much some of the perks that were given to me (or the zombies); it would be interesting to add more enemies, as it was fairly easy to escape from the zombies. Good job both of you <3
Wonderful game, the polish feels super good.
Everything seems really well balanced and it all fits together, the mechanics, the graphics, the sound and music. It’s one coherent package.
I really liked the inclusion of the consequence cards rather than just having positive choices, it’s very interesting! Being able to unlock additional rescue zones was a great inclusion as well.
Had a great time with the game, well done!
Thank you! ❤ We're so glad to hear you had a great time playing, means a lot to us!
Loved playing your entry also. Painting the map in all sorts of colors was very addictive. Personally I liked the drones the best!
Really nicely made and well rounded game with an addictive rouge-like loop. Some effort has obviously been put into the game design of this game, well done.
Thank you, so glad you had a fun time! ❤️ Loved your entry also, art and game feel were just sooo good!
Thank you kindly, I think your art eclipses mone by a mile however hahaha. Well done again
holy heck, super well done. lost an hour to it. I love the heck out of a rogue like and this one was delivered so well esp given the amount of time given. super fun take on the theme, really really satisfying. this wouldnt need much more to become a full game. great job.
Thank you so much for the kind message. So happy to know you had fun! ❤️
Your game blew my mind, the blob physics were just so juicy. I am dying to watch Kitboga play it.
- Bernardo, half of 2 Nerdy Nerds (the programming half)
Very neat game, I ended up playing it a lot longer than I would have figured. Game is super satisfying to get a huge chain reaction going
Absolutely love the twist on the zombie genre, really fun and well executed, and gorgeous to look at to boot! The mechanics were super simple but satisfying, so it was easy to jump in and immediately feel the beating, un-undead heart of the game. There was a lot of replayability even with only one level! Superb work, and have a wonderful jam 💚
Thank you for your kind words! ❤❤
Loved trying out your entry too. I can tell your team had loads of fun building it, it clearly comes through what you put together. ❤
Very fun! I really liked the mechanic and satisfying spreading sound! I couldn't figure out how to enable the cards that I picked up or if they were enabled once I selected them. I didn't notice any speed increase on my character as they stayed moving pretty slow even though I selected like 5 cario cards. Very cool mechanics and super polished overall, the art was very very good!
Tremendous! This has been one of my favorites thus far. Concept, art, music/SFX, mechanics -- it's all so well done. You 2 nerdy nerds should be super proud - bravo!
That means so much to us. ❤ Thank you so much for the kind words!
Really well done, superb amount of effort and polish. Best of luck in the Jam 💉
You're too kind! ❤ Thank you so much.
Super fun and polished game! Loved the art style, and the mechanics are super unique. I would enjoy having a restart button, and I'd also increase the speed of the game/characters overall. Other than that, lots of fun.
Thanks for the kind words and great feedback. ❤ So glad to know you had fun!
I love the theme and art of the game! This was a lot of fun. Never have I wanted more syringes in my life lol.
Thanks so much for playing ❤ Gotta make sure to use those syringes sparingly haha maximize the spread!
We had intentions to provide more avenues for syringes but didnt quite get to it in time. Round up those zombs!
I have no idea how to deal with 'hangry', once I got that it was over. But absolutely great take, I love the sort of... inversion of expectation of spreading the cure, that was really cute.
Thank for playing! Means a lot <3
Hangry definitely needed more tweaking but unfortunately ran out of time for the jam. Will revisit that one for sure!
This Game is so polished !
Loved the concept ! Loved the art style !
You two did an amazing job !
Thank you!! Absolutely loved your game ❤
I enjoyed this game with the art and game play. The longest I Survived was 13mins. Gets challenging with dinner bell.
Thanks so much for giving it a try! The zombs sure come out to play when dinner is served! ❤
13 minutes is a great effort!
Love the comic book style graphics, game concept, upgrades and balancing! it did take me a while to realise that the cure can spread but afterwards things clicked into place quite well. I do think the gameplay loop needs something else to make it that much more replayable but it's really cool take on the theme and I enjoyed playing it!
Thanks for giving it a go! Maybe a little tutorial is warranted just to set the stage, added it to the list!
Love this style of soft graphics, is that the right term, anyways awesome loved it.
Give me a dart gun to shoot em, i dont like getting up close and personal.
I liked the progression. Awesome entry.
Thank for giving it a try!!
Definitely need to cook up a dart gun upgrade, YEP.
Had a great time trying out your game also. I imagined it was the micro fight between the cure and the zombie virus in our game haha ❤