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A jam submission

Dr. J. Ferret Reclaims The LivingView game page

The World is overrun. Can you spread the cure throughout the zombie horde before it's too late?
Submitted by 2 Nerdy Nerds (@2NerdyNerds) — 3 hours, 15 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#894.5004.500
Playability#924.5004.500
Cleverness#934.0004.000
Artistic Style#1094.0004.000

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.

  • 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!
  • 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.

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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(+1)

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! 

Developer(+1)

That means so much to us. ❤ Thank you so much for the kind words!

(+1)

Really well done, superb amount of effort and polish. Best of luck in the Jam 💉

Developer

You're too kind! ❤ Thank you so much.

Submitted(+1)

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.

Developer

Thanks for the kind words and great feedback. ❤ So glad to know you had fun!

Submitted(+1)

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.

Developer(+1)

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!

Submitted(+1)

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.

Developer

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!

Submitted(+1)

This Game is so polished !
Loved the concept ! Loved the art style !

You two did an amazing job !

Developer(+1)

Thank you!! Absolutely loved your game ❤

Submitted(+1)

I enjoyed this game with the art and game play. The longest I Survived was 13mins. Gets challenging with dinner bell.

Developer(+1)

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!

Submitted(+1)

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!

Developer

Thanks for giving it a go! Maybe a little tutorial is warranted just to set the stage, added it to the list! 

Submitted

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.

Developer (1 edit)

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 ❤

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