In The Blood by hexagore

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made by hexagore for LD29 (COMPO)
Try to survive as long as you can.

Small grey things are taggers. If you hit them, you get 'tagged'.

The more tags you have, the faster the big white things will chase you.

When you have tags, you can get rid of them by touching the green things.

Arrows to move.

Works in Chrome and Firefox without any plugins. It's Javascript, HTML, WebGL, Three.JS

*UPDATE* - I have discovered that on slower computers the movement of the virus wasn't being normalised properly which meant it was impossible to play. I have pushed a fix which means that the virus moves at the same speed for everyone now. I hope this is okay.

*UPDATE 2* - Discovered the game was lagging very badly on Chrome today. I killed Chrome completely and started it again and suddenly it was fine. No idea.

*UPDATE 3* - Post Compo version added. This really just tries to improve the visibility and reduce the motion sickness a bit. Adds lighting effects to help indicate how much trouble you might be in and it generally gets harder the longer you survive so there's now progression, but it's basically teh same game.

Ratings

Coolness 95% 2
Overall 3.32 412
Audio 3.15 312
Fun 3.10 482
Graphics 3.98 108
Humor 1.94 901
Innovation 3.03 583
Mood 3.30 307
Theme 3.47 364

Feedback

Ian MacLarty
28. Apr 2014 路 01:51 UTC
87.230s :)
matthias_zarzecki
28. Apr 2014 路 02:00 UTC
Love the atmosphere! The pulsing blood-particles and the beating track really make this :)
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 02:14 UTC
@IanMacLarty haha not bad! I think the green bacteria come along too frequently. Makes it far too easy ;)

@matthias thanks! :) didn't seem like a chip tune sort of game really!
Ian MacLarty
28. Apr 2014 路 03:04 UTC
I really like the way gathering more "markers" causes the anti-bodies to become more alerted to your presence.
jorgemoag
28. Apr 2014 路 10:16 UTC
Wow! I love it!
the atmosphere, the graphics, the sounds, very nice!
mess110
28. Apr 2014 路 10:21 UTC
33s

amazing mood. didn't manage to catch the green things. what happens then?
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 10:30 UTC
When you catch the green bacteria things, any tags you have are passed onto them, which means the white blood cells will ignore you again... until you get another tag. :)
martijn
28. Apr 2014 路 10:52 UTC
"Sorry, you're either on iOS or some antique browser. No 'In The Blood' for you!". As far as I know Chrome is not antique

It worked in firefox though
Halbernacht
28. Apr 2014 路 10:55 UTC
The background is a bit disorienting at first, but once you get used to it the pulsing red blood cells really add some atmosphere to the game.
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 11:03 UTC
@martinjn oh dear. That error pops up if there's any problem creating a WebGL context which can sometimes happen even with decent browsers. Glad Firefox was okay for you!
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 11:04 UTC
@Halbernacht Yes, I've made myself a bit dizzy playing this. Might have gone a *bit* too far...
Crabman
28. Apr 2014 路 11:58 UTC
Nice, love it!
cptalbertwesker
28. Apr 2014 路 12:24 UTC
Love the audio, very atmospheric, and extremely addictive!
Kara Jayde
28. Apr 2014 路 12:24 UTC
Very cool, loved the avoidance style endless runner. Should consider a mobile port down the line ^^ I think it needed a heavy dub beat in the background ;)
ccglp
28. Apr 2014 路 12:24 UTC
Amazing concept, so nice :)
MAT4DOR
28. Apr 2014 路 12:25 UTC
Really great. Loved it.
Emmanuel Ramos
28. Apr 2014 路 12:26 UTC
Not bad!, a bit simple, however that is how actually the inmune system works! the thing about tagging viruses. Nice graphics! and innovation!
maxhaesslein
28. Apr 2014 路 12:26 UTC
I really love the athmosphere and the sound!!
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 12:31 UTC
@Kara Everything sounds better with a bit of wub :)
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 12:33 UTC
@Emmanuel it would have been nice to have more time to really tune the gameplay for sure, difficulty progression etc, more entity types. Oh well!
Franklins Ghost
28. Apr 2014 路 12:45 UTC
94.518s, like the graphics and title screen design.
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 12:51 UTC
94s is pretty good!
CustomPhase
28. Apr 2014 路 13:00 UTC
Nice game, but the pulsation and alot of moving object gave me motion sickness. Soundtrack is really fitting.
Marcus_siactro
28. Apr 2014 路 13:11 UTC
Great work! :)
elpaulo
28. Apr 2014 路 15:07 UTC
Very nice and oppression athmosphere !
madhoe
28. Apr 2014 路 15:19 UTC
Gahhh 50s only. I think the gray hazards should contrast more with the background.
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 15:23 UTC
50 seconds isn't bad. ;)
Tanner
28. Apr 2014 路 15:48 UTC
Wow, I really like it :)
Cosine
28. Apr 2014 路 18:28 UTC
Wow, I loved the feel of this game. It was a little difficult to fully grasp what all the items were, though.
flrn
28. Apr 2014 路 18:53 UTC
I really enjoyed the atmosphere with the sound, and the pulsing, omg, really cool.
vilya
28. Apr 2014 路 20:34 UTC
Very nice! Love the aesthetic & that dark brooding sound. It took me while to get my head around the fact that you're not supposed to collect any of those things. My best time so far was about 35 seconds by the way.
馃帳 hexagore
28. Apr 2014 路 20:51 UTC
@vilya but they're just so collectible! Go on, collect them. What's the worst that can happen?
Lizzip
28. Apr 2014 路 21:13 UTC
13s... One day I will be good at one of your games
terraco
29. Apr 2014 路 02:30 UTC
Can't tell if stuff is good or bad
DesignerNap
29. Apr 2014 路 12:22 UTC
97.832!!! Got on a roll there! Fun game - could be very addictive
aaronjbaptiste
29. Apr 2014 路 12:38 UTC
A little confusing at first, but after reading your postmortem it makes more sense now! Great job on the visuals / mood.
Robber
29. Apr 2014 路 12:43 UTC
solid game, superb sound
pht59x
29. Apr 2014 路 19:41 UTC
Very much a pro game !
GreatBigJerk
29. Apr 2014 路 23:29 UTC
That background is awesome, but a little distracting
馃帳 hexagore
29. Apr 2014 路 23:41 UTC
It's meant to be distracting. :)
Nocturnal
30. Apr 2014 路 06:32 UTC
Love this game! It is awesome. Very relaxing sounds and movement. Good color palette. Beautiful!
nonentheless
30. Apr 2014 路 10:49 UTC
Would play longer but pulsating background is really hard on my eyes :)
Xaychru04
30. Apr 2014 路 15:44 UTC
I really liked the mood of the game, my highscore is 47s! ^^
Oddly Shaped Pixels
01. May 2014 路 11:25 UTC
Catching that green thing is hard!! Nice work on the mood and the graphics!
Lucariatias
01. May 2014 路 20:01 UTC
Very dark, I like it. Quite an original mechanic, sound is good, graphics are impressive.
Could have done with some more depth, it does feel very repetitive, doing the same thing over and over.
jujule
01. May 2014 路 20:46 UTC
I like this kind of concept. It's instantly fun. And I think it perfectly mixed with your take on the theme. Great graphics too, somewhere inbetween photorealism and a abstract shooter.
Good entry, high grades from me.
馃帳 hexagore
02. May 2014 路 00:20 UTC
:)
MintArcade
05. May 2014 路 08:01 UTC
Excellent graphics, idea is super nice - love it.
atomic_swerve
06. May 2014 路 01:28 UTC
Fun, but I didn't get any audio for some reason. I like the atmosphere of the pumping blood!
SlipperyPete
06. May 2014 路 08:28 UTC
This game is awesome, but just that little bit to hard for me, I can't get to the green bits, and when I do, they don't seem to take the tags, do you have to hit them right on or something, I was half on them, I would assume that would count, right? most similar games it does. Maybe if I could be bothered to actually focus on the game I could get a decent score, but hey. really great graphics BTW really great indeed.
Belvar
07. May 2014 路 00:41 UTC
Fun game with original ideas that renew the classic dodge game. The graphics looks great.
馃帳 hexagore
07. May 2014 路 00:49 UTC
SlipperyPete ... It doesn't always take *all* your tags, depends how long you can stay in proximity. If you skim the outside it'll probably get a few, but not all! Also the collision detection is pure approximation based on distance squared, I just punched in numbers randomly until it seemed to be working okay. It could be a straight up bug though. Sorry about that!
csanyk
10. May 2014 路 03:03 UTC
Is 14 seconds a remotely good time? I think I suck, but maybe it's just supposed to be that hard. The heartbeat audio was pretty cool.