Robotick by primitiveconcept
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Beneath the surface of this robotic tick's metal chasis lies a mind yearning to become conscious. And so, it harvests DNA from beneath the surface of your skin to build up its neural net!
Locate open wounds upon which to feed, to fuel yourself with blood and build up DNA to increase your intelligence. As you gain DNA, the tick learns to speak!
Randomly generated speech with text-to-speech capabilities leads to some hilarious dialogue while you play. Warning: Much of the word lists and phrase particles were built using Cards Against Humanity for inspiration; dialogue may be very explicit and/or offensive.
Left click controls movement; right-click to attack hairs to cut them down, or feed on open wounds. Avoid the pulsating ingrown hairs! THEY 'SPLODE!
Beneath the surface of this robotic tick's metal chasis lies a mind yearning to become conscious. And so, it harvests DNA from beneath the surface of your skin to build up its neural net!
Locate open wounds upon which to feed, to fuel yourself with blood and build up DNA to increase your intelligence. As you gain DNA, the tick learns to speak!
Randomly generated speech with text-to-speech capabilities leads to some hilarious dialogue while you play. Warning: Much of the word lists and phrase particles were built using Cards Against Humanity for inspiration; dialogue may be very explicit and/or offensive.
Left click controls movement; right-click to attack hairs to cut them down, or feed on open wounds. Avoid the pulsating ingrown hairs! THEY 'SPLODE!
| Web (Unity) | http://www.primitiveconcept.com/games/robotick/robotick.html |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=35330 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 50% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.07 | 458 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.24 | 284 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.76 | 496 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.55 | 305 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.11 | 179 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.31 | 235 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.93 | 454 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.00 | 444 |
And I have the impression the blood spots do not respawn? At least it feels as if I had run out...
I do have commits ready now to make both hair and blood respawn over time to make the game "endless," as was originally intended, but I don't know if that counts as a win condition "bug," or a new feature, since I knew it was unfinished when I submitted.
I don't want to break any rules, or the spirit of the jam. Anyone know if there's been similar fixes in the past that would set precedence?
But I have the impression that I cannot win this game. Blood spots seems to run out, and the game still keeps goin until I died.
(Even as I made that comment I feel stupid, surely it's prerecorded). But anyway, dialogue ranged from "wtf" to "looool", game itself was fun after I figured out what to do (I stupidly thought the blood were just scars like.. holes that you'd fall down so I was going for the zits and hairs).
Nice take on the theme. Nice one.