{"author_link":"\/author\/dig\/","author_name":"DiG","author_uid":"14039","comments":[{"author_name":"Gabboreplau","author_uid":"16617","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1346014080,"text":"WOW! The best game I've ever played! Good Work DiG!"},{"author_name":"bladerstars","author_uid":"16621","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1346014140,"text":"this game it's so beatiful!"},{"author_name":"thefaccio","author_uid":"16619","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1346014320,"text":"Just amazing *___*"},{"author_name":"XenoPixel","author_uid":"16620","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1346014440,"text":"Is Fantastic Dig! °^°"},{"author_name":"Gallux93","author_uid":"16622","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1346014680,"text":"Amazing game! :D"},{"author_name":"kuroakuma146","author_uid":"16554","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1346016780,"text":"what a beatiful game!"},{"author_name":"Xero182","author_uid":"16641","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1346021580,"text":"Haha, this is beautiful! :)"},{"author_name":"RobyIndie","author_uid":"16707","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:03am","epoch":1346054280,"text":"This game is so awesome and proudly made *.*"},{"author_name":"Karel","author_uid":"12356","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:07am","epoch":1346054520,"text":"Reminds me a LOT of osmos, but quite fun!"},{"author_name":"Dadeyemi","author_uid":"15410","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:11am","epoch":1346054760,"text":"I like it :)"},{"author_name":"Bemmu","author_uid":"13321","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:17am","epoch":1346055120,"text":"Getting about 2fps on 2.4GHz 4GB macbook pro, so couldn't play."},{"author_name":"Nick Knowlson","author_uid":"15084","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:19am","epoch":1346055240,"text":"One of the most fun I've played in the compo so far!"},{"author_name":"pjchardt","author_uid":"13158","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:20am","epoch":1346055300,"text":"Really like the presentation and art style. Nice mechanic, although I had a hard time catching enemies as I got bigger. Overall well done."},{"author_name":"ALEXKILLER96xu","author_uid":"16715","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:30am","epoch":1346055900,"text":"It's really good! I play this for hours!"},{"author_name":"cespu","author_uid":"16718","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:42am","epoch":1346056620,"text":"the best game! amazing...."},{"author_name":"Andrei Barsan","author_uid":"4218","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:42am","epoch":1346056620,"text":"I liked the feel! Could go with a menu or something at the beginning. It showed me as dead when the game was finished loading.\r\rAlso, at the very beginning it can be somewhat laggy, maybe some optimizations could be done? Dunno. Core i5 4gb ram windows 7 x64 user with Chrome here."},{"author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:42am","epoch":1346056620,"text":"Can't run this game on my iMac 2.4 Ghz width 2GB ram. As the frame rate is very low.\rIt looked good to play too!"},{"author_name":"manzoman","author_uid":"16716","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:45am","epoch":1346056800,"text":"Awesome game i really liked it"},{"author_name":"Lucas Tiridath","author_uid":"5505","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:52am","epoch":1346057220,"text":"Great little game! Really fun and the effort you made with the graphics and the soundtrack really added to it. Good work."},{"author_name":"KhaoTom","author_uid":"7425","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:03am","epoch":1346057880,"text":"Hey nice! Sadly my game was not winnable since one of the red cells disappeared into the darkness."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:37am","epoch":1346059920,"text":"Nice idea!\r\rBut in dire need of polishing. Framerate is horrible, it's basically a slideshow. After 3 plays I still didn't figure out the rules. Sometimes I absorb cells, sometimes I pass trhough them. And then sometimes I die. But why? :P\r\rStill, nice work!"},{"author_name":"DiG","author_uid":"14039","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:41am","epoch":1346060160,"text":"@matthias You die if you get in touch with any red cell bigger than you (even white cells belonging to that red cell count as an "extension" of the enemy). At the beginning you start and you're only able to get the smallest white cells, after the first 3\/4 you can get the bigger ones."},{"author_name":"TSJ666","author_uid":"10565","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:43am","epoch":1346060280,"text":"Sometimes simple(won in 45 secs), sometimes not(lost in 3 secs), anyways I like it so much!"},{"author_name":"DiG","author_uid":"14039","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:43am","epoch":1346060280,"text":"@Those who havea MAC: did you play the Web Player version or the downloadable one?"},{"author_name":"pintoo","author_uid":"16739","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:50am","epoch":1346060700,"text":"The Best Game EVER :D\rNice Work DiG ;)"},{"author_name":"brother.byto","author_uid":"14461","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:51am","epoch":1346060760,"text":"Really nice.\r\rA little short, but hey, that's always the problem when you have to make your game in such a short amount of time."},{"author_name":"juaxix","author_uid":"10960","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:00am","epoch":1346061300,"text":"I have the biggest balls XDD lol\r\rNicely done, i guess that you have got your inspiration from Osmos, no?\r\ra little bit more speed would be ok, and when yo absorb balls, it would be great that the areas were added correctly"},{"author_name":"Birchmountain","author_uid":"10933","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:09am","epoch":1346061840,"text":"a fun and intresting concept, i get some lag spikes at the beginning though. But overall, a good game!"},{"author_name":"Ragzouken","author_uid":"13822","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:11am","epoch":1346061960,"text":"Pretty cool :) I find it hard to tell if I'm big enough to take on another cell - and sometimes hard to tell if cells are connected to a red one.\r\rThe game started REALLY slow for me, but was fine after some white cells disappeared."},{"author_name":"Krobill","author_uid":"14854","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:32am","epoch":1346063220,"text":"Nice variation on the Osmos gameplay."},{"author_name":"Thurig","author_uid":"14830","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:00am","epoch":1346064900,"text":"Just a small fun game. Loving it."},{"author_name":"4lxp","author_uid":"16618","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:21am","epoch":1346066160,"text":"Fantastic game"},{"author_name":"Zed","author_uid":"4687","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:28am","epoch":1346066580,"text":"Collecting the last few things was PAAAAAAAAAAAAINFULLY slow (I guess that's the point, though), but that ending screen was totally worth it. Now I feel good about myself. Good job!"},{"author_name":"jijaweb","author_uid":"12312","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:35am","epoch":1346067000,"text":"Nicely done"},{"author_name":"gbear605","author_uid":"6087","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:57am","epoch":1346068320,"text":"The mac version is far too laggy (I have a great computer, and I mean GREAT), at the lowest possible settings it was far far far too laggy to play."},{"author_name":"pardue","author_uid":"15733","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1346070060,"text":"I laughed at the end... :)"},{"author_name":"BenW","author_uid":"128","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1346071020,"text":"Very nice game. It wasn't clear to me when the smaller balls were supposed to be absorbed instead of just sticking to you. It seems like it was based on size but I wasn't sure. Also it would be nice if the up arrow key moved you forward."},{"author_name":"Spotlightor Gao","author_uid":"3035","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:10pm","epoch":1346072700,"text":"Simple and addictive game."},{"author_name":"Nidjo123","author_uid":"8224","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:06pm","epoch":1346079660,"text":"Great mechanics, I could play this for hours."},{"author_name":"foxor","author_uid":"9290","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:06pm","epoch":1346079660,"text":"Pretty fun! Although the game decides whether you will win or die in the first 10 seconds, it's still fun to play it out."},{"author_name":"Matt Rix","author_uid":"5646","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1346081040,"text":"Kinda fun but seems a little too osmos-y. Also I think you might have a memory leak because every time I restart the game runs slower and slower."},{"author_name":"LuizHGMonclar","author_uid":"14178","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1346083380,"text":"I felt it was cool. A bit of "Spore meets Katamari" feel to me, had fun! :)\r\rToo bad it lagged REALLY BAD on the webplayer, and I couldn't run the application on Mac.\r\rGj!"},{"author_name":"Ligh7zIncrement","author_uid":"14746","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:16pm","epoch":1346083860,"text":"Very fun up until the point when you are massive and move too slowly, but still very nice game :)"},{"author_name":"Lucariatias","author_uid":"14242","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:20pm","epoch":1346084100,"text":"So much lag! On OS X 10.7.4, with 2.0 GHz i7 quad core processor and 4GB RAM... There has to be a memory leak somewhere, it's unplayable :("},{"author_name":"ahnimal","author_uid":"4149","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:26pm","epoch":1346088060,"text":"Great game, but there's not much to it really. You either die horribly by chance or breeze over everything and win the game."},{"author_name":"Maxium","author_uid":"13926","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1346089920,"text":"Chrome has security issues with the web player link, try changing it from https to http. Fun Game,wish the ball would move slightly fast as it got bigger."},{"author_name":"CaptainIcy","author_uid":"7354","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:26pm","epoch":1346091660,"text":"Awesome awesome! This is such an awesome concept and the gameplay is perfect. So simple and short but so addicting and fun. Very nice. :D\r\rAlso: http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/r03OK.png < I think I win. Take that, evil red ball!!"},{"author_name":"Cryptoporticus","author_uid":"7456","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1346091960,"text":"This is really nice."},{"author_name":"Cell","author_uid":"3295","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:35pm","epoch":1346092200,"text":"this is awesome."},{"author_name":"ChronoDK","author_uid":"10849","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1346092980,"text":"Very nice idea, and who would have thought simple spheres for graphics could make for such a beautiful game? Nice music too."},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1346096880,"text":"On a Mac using unity web player, was pretty much unplayable. Will give the download a shot."},{"author_name":"the.vaber","author_uid":"15183","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1346097960,"text":"First few seconds of the game are quite frustrating, I'm often getting killed before i can even move.. love the idea and music :) (you should use http instead of https for web version, otherwise it doesn't run in chrome)"},{"author_name":"johnfn","author_uid":"3187","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1346100300,"text":"That was fun! But I kept on dying because the red cells were too powerful. In the first few seconds it kinda lagged and during that time it was like they got ALL of the white balls. Arg! Anyway, it was fun enough to get me to play it many times over - good work."},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:07pm","epoch":1346104920,"text":"Well done!\r\rThough the game is simple, it's quite fun. And the sounds really add to the atmosphere.\r\rThe game ran really laggy on my computer (stand-alone version, on windows) on the early stages... but as I grow bigger it began to run more smoothly. (also, my computer isn't really powerfull... so that was probably the cause)."},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1346105220,"text":"Unplayable on my Mac, but was worth firing up a Windows VM for!"},{"author_name":"Vordux","author_uid":"15280","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:20pm","epoch":1346105700,"text":"I always wondered what Beutiful Katamari would look like in 2D and if it would work, well it seems like you nailed that mechanic really well. The game was fun and you captured the theme well as well.\r\rMy only critique is the music, there was an element of repetitiveness I found."},{"author_name":"mortehu","author_uid":"11931","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:14pm","epoch":1346108940,"text":"It doesn't seem like the Kongregate version is Flash? http:\/\/m.bitraf.no\/~mortehu\/skrot\/cellception-kongregate.png"},{"author_name":"Amoaeba Junior","author_uid":"15074","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:31pm","epoch":1346109960,"text":"Great"},{"author_name":"Materie","author_uid":"14231","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:37am","epoch":1346117520,"text":"That was fun :)"},{"author_name":"Aaron San Filippo","author_uid":"12401","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:40am","epoch":1346117700,"text":"Tip: change the unity link to http:\/\/ instead of https:\/\/ (otherwise it continually asks to install the web player)\r\rTried the unity link and the Kongregate unity link. Seems like an interesting concept, however the framerate makes it pretty rough to play."},{"author_name":"turkwise","author_uid":"14340","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:02am","epoch":1346129820,"text":"There is something surprisingly satisfying about this haha."},{"author_name":"Mamick","author_uid":"15144","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:03am","epoch":1346129880,"text":"It was really laggy for me, but nice mechanic. A bit to hard at the beginning and easy\/slow at the end, but great idea and very medetative."},{"author_name":"flyingbear","author_uid":"16232","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:03am","epoch":1346137080,"text":"This was extremely neat! I love the way everything stuck together. I wish my poor computer could handle it better, the game would chug at the beginning of the level."},{"author_name":"Muradin001","author_uid":"16742","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 12:18pm","epoch":1346155980,"text":"awesome"},{"author_name":"Kumquat","author_uid":"14739","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:33pm","epoch":1346189280,"text":"Very nice idea!\r\rI think there are some issues with physics\/lags even with Unity\/Windows."},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 2:11am","epoch":1346205960,"text":"Simple concept but done very well, was quite enjoyable :)"},{"author_name":"thewiseguy99","author_uid":"14421","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 3:53am","epoch":1346212080,"text":"Great job, it is really good. FYI - it does lag some on Kongregate."},{"author_name":"ButtercupSaiyan","author_uid":"4948","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 10:04am","epoch":1346234340,"text":"I can't seem to get far and I just die in seconds..."},{"author_name":"Barry Abrams","author_uid":"14387","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1346244180,"text":"The web version runs too slow to play on my machine, and unfortunately, the mac version doesn't open."},{"author_name":"Accidental Rebel","author_uid":"5728","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 5:37am","epoch":1346304720,"text":"I feel that it is a good improvement on the Osmos gameplay mechanic. I like how they stack up ala-KatamariDamacy. Although sometimes it is hard to determine if an enemy is approaching because of the too many things crowding the screen. And yes, Kongregate lags a lot. Still nice work."},{"author_name":"Gryxitl","author_uid":"14890","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 5:28am","epoch":1346390580,"text":"Nice take on the genre."},{"author_name":"yosh","author_uid":"6851","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 12:30am","epoch":1346631900,"text":"Unfortunately my framerate is damn too low to play : ( \r(Maybe a post-compo no high-config version?)"},{"author_name":"axcho","author_uid":"8060","time":"Sep 13, 2012 @ 5:34am","epoch":1347514140,"text":"I couldn't find any red cells smaller than me. :("},{"author_name":"tomhunt","author_uid":"7773","time":"Sep 16, 2012 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1347821940,"text":"The gameplay is simple enough, but I have get past the first few seconds, which seem to be the hardest of all, in order to get to the more interesting parts. Then it gets really slow and empty at the end. Also it needs an instructions dialog. The music is cute, though, and the visual design is nice and clean."}],"images":["ld24\/14039-89cf6382fd0a7a559524b39386783181.jpg","ld24\/14039-99d9be145d74511796d9be6caf17b8f7.jpg","ld24\/14039-e41029d8e77ee821a5aed565a356a7fb.jpg","ld24\/14039-a99b50aad8ca7405df045f0d0714686c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14583828\/LD24\/Windows.rar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14583828\/LD24\/MacOSX.rar","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/TheDiG3\/cellception","text":"Kongregate"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14583828\/LD24\/WebPlayer\/WebPlayer.html","text":"Web (Unity\/Recommended)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14583828\/Cellception.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29551","g_author":"14039","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29581","g_title":"Cellception","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"292","g_commentcount":"74","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/14039-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/14039-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/14039-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/14039-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Use \"WASD\" to move around and \"Left\/Right Arrows\" to rotate.\r\n\r\nTo win eat all the red cells.\r\nDon't let red cells bigger than you touch your cell with any of theirs.\r\n\r\nP.S. Try to avoid the Flash version, it's \"kinda\" laggy.\r\n\r\nP.P.S. For the ones using MacOSX can you tell me if it lags on the Web Player version too?<\/p>","title":"Cellception"}