This was an interesting concept. I really liked a lot of the visual touches like zooming in on the microscope lens and the sort of pulsing/propagating animation of the arms when you move the root node.
From reading the comments it seems like there are different abilities that the different node types have. I wasn’t able to figure out what that is, but maybe it’s just that I wasn’t able to infect the blue opponent until after I infected the red? Also, sometimes I would see the black patterned cells that I thought indicated that you could infect that node, but it didn’t always seem to work.
Probably most importantly, I wasn’t able to ever infect a root node, so I don’t know what winning was like. The bots moving randomly made it so with some repeatedly clicking I ended up near the root node a couple times but I couldn’t infect it and I wasn’t sure why. It seemed like there was some kind of rule to the infection mechanics that wasn’t easy to figure out. I thought the bots-only mode might be informative but while it was kind of funny to watch it seemed like they just got stuck.
Regardless, I feel like there’s something really cool here, but either not enough of it was working to really feel like it clicked or I just really needed a tutorial to make sense of why some things worked how they did. Will definitely be interested in checking this out when it’s more fleshed out though. Solid start nonetheless!