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Screen Bacteria by Nitrodeus

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made by Nitrodeus for LD31 (COMPO)
You are a geneticly engineered bacteria, created by a computer program who wanted to clean (sterilize) the top of it's computer's screen. Your mission is to kill all the other bacteria. The entire game is therefore litterally on one screen :p

To achieve your mission, you can throw antibodies (press SPACE) to neutralize other bacteria, and you can send bullet proteins (press B) to kill them.
Be careful, as the enemy bacteria are able to shoot their own proteins at you, are able to repair themselves and they even can de-neutralize themselves after some time, so be quick !

Dont forget to surveil your energy reserves and membrane damage, or you may die and fail the mission...
Timelapse Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdghNESbPOk
Windows Installer https://www.dropbox.com/s/d1ip60iwfgl491k/Screen_Bacteria_setup.exe?dl=0
Windows Zip https://www.dropbox.com/s/n3oqicbhrh6tsk7/ScreenBacteria.zip?dl=0
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6c1rjtw4h02osx/LD31%20-%20Screen%20Bacteria.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=26906

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1550
Overall 3.00 749
Audio 2.78 519
Fun 2.82 811
Graphics 3.14 518
Humor 2.85 325
Innovation 3.14 546
Mood 3.00 472
Theme 3.46 740

Feedback

Pcholt
08. Dec 2014 路 13:11 UTC
ph@bach ~/Desktop/LD31 - Screen Bacteria $ python Intro.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Intro.py", line 66, in <module>
ludum_dare = Intro()
File "Intro.py", line 16, in __init__
self.slides.append(pygame.image.load("intro-"+str(i)+".png").convert())
pygame.error: Unsupported image format
馃帳 Nitrodeus
08. Dec 2014 路 19:51 UTC
Ah thanks, bug fixed.
Actually I had left the .psd Photoshop files in the folder, rather than the .png and therefore the program couldn't read the images... :p
ix
09. Dec 2014 路 19:12 UTC
At first I thought this was really hard, then I got the hang of neutralizing the enemies and it got kinda easy. Interesting story, though.
jojocanard
09. Dec 2014 路 19:17 UTC
I managed to reach around 60%. I wanted to see the ending but it seems that it would take a long time to reach it and I wonder if there is one.

Fun to play. Congratulations
Lo-X
09. Dec 2014 路 19:27 UTC
Really good game. Except that the sounds are too loud. I did not quit before I won :) These bacteria are discusting, I don't even wanna know what are these things we throw at each other :) Good point of view about the theme too.
Headmade
09. Dec 2014 路 21:01 UTC
I will be honest, I was too lazy to install Pygame to play, sorry.
TriSquare
10. Dec 2014 路 19:52 UTC
This was an interesting, concept, im not sasd that i didnt think of it though :), but the game play would of been better if the movement was in 2d, not just 1d, the game was 2 easy, and i played through it entirely with out every knowing what the energy bar was used for. other than those minor complaints its a good game :)
leo_gri
10. Dec 2014 路 20:39 UTC
Very fun !
Andynonomous
11. Dec 2014 路 00:24 UTC
Very simple, but I really liked it. I'd love to know how you got that noise background to scroll like you did, I'm trying to generate nebulae on another project. I like the look and scattering effect of the anti-bodies.
Zayron
11. Dec 2014 路 16:19 UTC
I got to around 75% before I got greedy and died. I really like the antibodies. Not sure what the energy was for but overall this was fun. :)
Elemental Zeal Games Studios
12. Dec 2014 路 21:02 UTC
Neat game and cute take on the theme, good job!
benmcnelly
17. Dec 2014 路 03:08 UTC
Watching the timelapse of you making the game was even more fun than playing, really like the constant tweaking and you got it to a good place! :thumbsupdude:
01rafael
20. Dec 2014 路 21:11 UTC
Run bacteria! Run! xD
Shivur
26. Dec 2014 路 16:54 UTC
Very original use of the theme.
Valeour
29. Dec 2014 路 14:22 UTC
First things first: I _hate_ installers for LD games.
The fact that you included an executable zip, is just amazing. Thank you for that consideration.
Game crashed on close though.
Anyway, the game itself is cute and clever. Very difficult, but a good job none the less.
Thank you for all your effort :D
JavadocMD
29. Dec 2014 路 17:20 UTC
Funny use of the theme. Very simple, but some neat ideas. The "blast a bunch of stuff" attack was fun and certainly not something I'd seen in other games, so good work there. A few bugs (at least I think they're bugs) make it difficult to play: all revolving around previously neutralized enemies becoming suddenly un-neutralized. This especially happened when two enemies spawn fairly close. Fighting the second one and having to back up often meant I would run into the first one which was somehow active again.
RugbugRedfern
19. Aug 2016 路 19:19 UTC
Really fun game - I enjoyed playing it a lot! All I ask is it to be a bit shorter, and have less redundant gameplay. Other than that, it's awesome!