Bacteraemia by TTFTCUTS
Works best in Chrome because of JS engine speed, and obviously much better in Dartium if you happen to have it at hand.
Update: It seems the conversion from Dart to JS has hit the speed hard. I think a measure of it might be rendering related due to all the transparency. I'll see what tweaks I can do.
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Take control of a bacterium just under the skin of a very sick human. Multiply and mutate your way to total system collapse!
If you can grow yourself a weapon, killing white blood cells is a great source of DNA, but be careful - killing them increases the immune response!
Starts slow and easy but gets much, much harder and more hectic as you progress. Consider searching for more plasmids instead of immediately levelling up.
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Requires a WebGL capable browser (which is pretty much everything these days? Safari might need dev tools turning on.) You might also need to refresh the browser once if stuff doesn't load properly.
Written in Dart - the JS version is not thoroughly tested. One obvious issue is the Mitosis button DNA icon being missing for some reason.
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Made by a team of four - with me programming, another doing art assets, and the other two providing concepts, writing and the title card.
Update: It seems the conversion from Dart to JS has hit the speed hard. I think a measure of it might be rendering related due to all the transparency. I'll see what tweaks I can do.
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Take control of a bacterium just under the skin of a very sick human. Multiply and mutate your way to total system collapse!
If you can grow yourself a weapon, killing white blood cells is a great source of DNA, but be careful - killing them increases the immune response!
Starts slow and easy but gets much, much harder and more hectic as you progress. Consider searching for more plasmids instead of immediately levelling up.
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Requires a WebGL capable browser (which is pretty much everything these days? Safari might need dev tools turning on.) You might also need to refresh the browser once if stuff doesn't load properly.
Written in Dart - the JS version is not thoroughly tested. One obvious issue is the Mitosis button DNA icon being missing for some reason.
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Made by a team of four - with me programming, another doing art assets, and the other two providing concepts, writing and the title card.
| Bacteraemia - Web (Dart/JS) | http://atg.lychnobi.com/ttftcuts/germwar/index.htm |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=34395 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 20% | 2022 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.22 | 363 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.89 | 438 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.11 | 120 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.61 | 122 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.67 | 123 |
The black boxes are, I think, the images failing to load in time for the start of the scripts. I've been trying to work out how to make sure it happens at the end, but dart isn't as helpful with that as JS.
I think the gameplay is too slow, but it works for simulating the blood fluids.
It'd be helpful to now which direction the bacteria is facing right now, with maybe a mark or something.
My mother loved this game - to her it was educative and she said you seem to know a lot about this subject.
It's a shame that the compiler made it less playable.
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To everyone else, sorry for the slowness... the dart VM really is so much faster than JS that though I was expecting some slowdown, I wasn't expecting it to be *THIS* bad. I'll be making a couple of tweaks tomorrow to fix the nasty difficulty curve and try to speed it up.
I'm not putting down your game, because you did the hard part really well, unfortunately the little things like lag and balance hurt the gameplay experience too much. Keep at it though, you clearly have talent.