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Bacteria BattlesView game page

Evolve, Divide, Conquer

Submitted by UristMcIO, SPIGS — 6 hours, 26 minutes before the deadline

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GDD: Document seems good. Perhaps add some images / gifs on the mechanics, UI or art section, so it gives more context. A image tells a 1000 words after all. Very good to add an development timeline to showcase the game's state and progress. Game: It is like tetris, DNA and "roguelike" has a baby. I like it a lot. I think the game would benefits a lot if there was a setting for no timer. Also I would like to see a speedup button during auto battle. The game feels really well done. I managed to reach "you win" screen, but I think it would be more fun if it had a endless run. Perhaps leaning into the absurd builds and parameters that could evolve over the game.

Link to your Game Design Doc on Google Drive.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11EiBO4QY1YQzCoGAZeUIUeHUIRNA9nDOcXcLrcXKIcw/edit?usp=sharing

Have you checked that your GDD is publicly accessible ?
Yes

Is your game set to public on itch.io so we can see it?
Yes

Summarise your game!
Bacteria Battles is a top-down auto-battler about genetically engineering a potent microscopic bio-weapon by modifying your genetic code to defeat other, increasingly deadly microorganisms.

It is an auto-battler with a puzzle twist. The game alternates between a block placing puzzle section that increases the stats of your bacteria and a auto-battler section where your bacteria fights to survive.

Please explain how your game fits the theme:
You play as a bio-weapon bacteria that is genetically engineering itself to fight against other bacteria to become the ultimate bio-weapon.

Comments

Gently Rotting ProductionsSubmitted24 days ago

This was a fun and pretty satisfying auto-battler. The music fits the vibe really well as well! I enjoyed seeing my little blobs zooming around.

I think the build controls were mostly fine, but dragging and dropping to the trash was a little frustrating. I would have preferred maybe to hold right click on a piece for a half second or so to trash rather than needing to drag over to the other side.

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From Above

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LaxxiaSubmitted26 days ago

I really like this concept. I struggled to understand the build mechanic at first, and ran out of time resulting in a weak boy, but I got the hang of it. Being able to trash the shapes felt a bit weird, not sure what exactly felt off there, but the act of dragging them all the way over to trash to fish for a shape that worked, but then you're also running out of time. It's a stressful little loop.

The combat, I wish it was a bit more clear which one was mine? I'm colorblind so its hard to differentiate the colors, and I don't think there was any indicator as to which blobbo was mine to begin with.

All of that aside, this felt really fun, there's something here, and it works well, just some polish and I could see myself putting hours into this

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Making A Point

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Mrz740Submitted28 days ago

Really fun game, I feel its a bit easy tho but the whole concept is really cool and watching the cells fight each other is really interesting as well, I feel like its a bit unfair the placement of the cells during the combat phase since the player one is in the middle and sometimes it doesnt get the chance to eat stuff and grow and gets swarmed before. Overally its really nice, I think if you polish it a bit more and fix up some issues it might turn out really good!

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Bloswordy

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LombyGGSubmitted28 days ago

Nice work! Played and discussed on stream here if you want to see first impressions & thoughts

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Secrets of Sunder

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tapessvfxSubmitted30 days ago

Nice concept and interpretation! Love the music too! Keep up the good work! ;D

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CYTOBLADE