Sirus the Virus by eburn184

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made by eburn184 for LD23 (COMPO)
Sirus the Virus

Your name's Sirus and you're a virus. You prey on unsuspecting humans, jumping, and replicating your way through their body, up to their brain. Once there the human realizes you're no ordinary virus...

Move with left/right arrow keys, or A/D keys.
Jump with Up, X, or W.
Collect the red blood cells to replicate. Clones of yourself can jump in mid-air while spawning!
If you get stuck restart with the R button. There is a small camera bug that I did not have time to fix.

Reach the human's brain to infect him!

Ratings

Coolness 75% 2
Overall 3.36 211
Audio 2.24 528
Fun 3.26 180
Graphics 3.43 200
Humor 2.70 225
Innovation 3.36 231
Mood 2.76 366
Theme 3.28 300

Feedback

PapyGaragos
23. Apr 2012 路 14:52 UTC
I found the controlls a bit goofy but it's a really fun platformer with a nice twist. Good job!
PapyGaragos
23. Apr 2012 路 14:52 UTC
I found the controls a bit goofy but it's a really fun platformer with a nice twist. Good job!
mikolalysenko
23. Apr 2012 路 20:04 UTC
This game is frustratingly difficult. Especially in the places where you effectively get stuck after missing a red blood cell jump. Maybe it would be good to make some of them respawn or remove some bottomless pits?
matt
24. Apr 2012 路 01:15 UTC
Nice idea and game. I also found it too difficult.
馃帳 eburn184
24. Apr 2012 路 01:20 UTC
Thanks guys! So far the comments have either been "too easy" or "way too hard". I guess I could say I didn't have time to balance the levels in the 48-hours :/
Skully
24. Apr 2012 路 01:27 UTC
Addictive game indeed
Love the virus infecting the cell and using that as a mechanic for getting across passages.
Also spot on having infinite lives: encourages continuous play and stops it getting frustrating (or at least less so!)
great job
Datw
24. Apr 2012 路 01:32 UTC
Good game, a little bit hard though. I really liked the graphics of it xD
Hazematman
24. Apr 2012 路 01:36 UTC
Very interesting concept for a platformer! It was very fun, but at level 8 It was much too difficult for me :P
pkdawson
24. Apr 2012 路 01:39 UTC
Great game. Really hard, in a Super Meat Boy kind of way - your timing has to be absolutely perfect in a few sections, but that makes finishing it more satisfying.
NefariousZhen
24. Apr 2012 路 02:29 UTC
Quite enjoyable. For some reason chrome kept telling me it was unresponsive but it was very responsive. Otherwise it was fantastic.
馃帳 eburn184
24. Apr 2012 路 02:35 UTC
Thanks! I had Chrome whine to me tonight too while playing Flash games
Syntaxide
24. Apr 2012 路 03:00 UTC
Good game. I only got up to the jumping trick, which I found really cool. I'll definitely play more later.
馃帳 eburn184
24. Apr 2012 路 03:01 UTC
Thanks! I feel the mechanic definitely needs a bit more work if I intend to expand upon what I have.
dacap
24. Apr 2012 路 03:11 UTC
A lot of possibilities are open with this game. I really liked it. Good job!
jacobalbano
24. Apr 2012 路 03:18 UTC
Definitely the most unique game I've seen so far, and the first one to get a 5 star rating from me. Nicely done.
馃帳 eburn184
24. Apr 2012 路 03:39 UTC
Thanks a lot! That means a ton to me
Gornova
24. Apr 2012 路 14:07 UTC
out of theme, but fun game. I hate you for level 5 :D
馃帳 eburn184
24. Apr 2012 路 14:16 UTC
I'm not sure if I quite agree with "out of theme" My interpretation of the theme was you'd be a germ in a human body, which is a "Tiny World". I've seen a handful of germ games, so I can't be the only one who had the same train of thought. Thanks for the rating!
KunoNoOni
24. Apr 2012 路 23:39 UTC
Very Addictive! :)
amidos2006
24. Apr 2012 路 23:47 UTC
Thats really a nice entry :) I love the twist in the game :)
Incredible Ape
25. Apr 2012 路 02:38 UTC
Neat game. Reminds me of Too Many Plumbers.
YMM
25. Apr 2012 路 03:02 UTC
The gameplay itself was interesting and kind of fun.

But I can't help but notice that the loading screen, menu, white bar effect and parts of the source code bear a striking similarity to my (uncredited) game Give Up Robot 2 ( http://games.adultswim.com/give-up-robot-2-online-game.html ) :S Credit would've been appreciated.
Tourgen
25. Apr 2012 路 03:04 UTC
Good game, I'm just bad at it. I couldnt do the 3 stacked jump that alternated directions.
馃帳 eburn184
25. Apr 2012 路 03:09 UTC
Hey Matt, your work is actually a huge inspiration of mine! I'll be more than happy to give credit!
KevinWorkman
25. Apr 2012 路 03:16 UTC
Creative twist, if a little difficult at times. But if you did copy the game from YMM, that ain't cool.
YMM
25. Apr 2012 路 03:25 UTC
Hey, that'd be cool but, uh, I never publicly released the source code for that game! I'm glad I inspired you and I really don't mind people decompiling my stuff to learn from it, but straight-up using a reskin of my menu/preloader in your game feels wrong to me (especially since it goes against the spirit of Ludum Dare).
馃帳 eburn184
25. Apr 2012 路 03:29 UTC
I never decompiled GUR2. The preloader is actually based off Drakenek's preloader on the flashpunk forums, with a static background, text of the game's title, and a second colored bar. I learned how to do tweening from Chevy Ray's Flee Buster entry, which I thought was in the spirit of Ludum Dare. I honestly never meant you any harm. You're one of the reasons I got into making games!
bms
25. Apr 2012 路 03:36 UTC
It's really not cool to decompile games, use the code without permission AND make the code public as if you own it. Thus, I will not rate this game.
馃帳 eburn184
25. Apr 2012 路 03:39 UTC
I never decompiled any Flash games. I can provide all of the forum posts that I got code / concepts from. All of the code in my game is code I've either written, or that is already open sourced via FlashPunk, and its forums.
robcozzens
25. Apr 2012 路 03:46 UTC
Pretty cool idea, but the controls are really difficult.
mneubrand
25. Apr 2012 路 04:28 UTC
Solid platformer with nice innovative game mechanics. Definitely needs some difficulty tweaking but otherwise awesome
bms
25. Apr 2012 路 07:29 UTC
Happy you guys have things sorted out with YMM. It's wierd situation indeed.. Anyway, I Quite like the game! cute graphics, solid gameplay.. Good job!
Kendja
25. Apr 2012 路 08:56 UTC
Very well done. But i given up on the tooth level(the last picture on that page).
4urentertainment
25. Apr 2012 路 11:56 UTC
Okay I played the game all the way through and I must say, I am amazing!

The mechanic is extremely innovative and extremely fun! I also really like how, it's very hard to master, but not frustrating.

I think you did an amazing job with this. Great work!
Angerus
25. Apr 2012 路 13:21 UTC
Difficult but not to much...I will say that's a challenging game! the graphism are funny and the gameplay is really interesting for a plateformer. I find it very fun ! Nicely done!
De10ter
26. Apr 2012 路 15:27 UTC
Unfortunately I couldn't play. After the menu screen I get an error:
Error: Error #2130: Unable to flush SharedObject.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.net::SharedObject/flush()
at com.ld23.worlds::TitleWorld()
at com.ld23::Main/init()
at net.flashpunk::Engine/onStage()
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChild()
at flash.display::Stage/addChild()
at com.ld23::SirusTheVirus/startup()
at com.ld23::SirusTheVirus/onMouseDown()
Broxter
26. Apr 2012 路 16:06 UTC
Interesting concept that kept me playing all the way through (took me a little over ten minutes); I really liked how you seamlessly integrated a meaningful story into such a simple game. However, I felt like you overused the multi-jumping aspect (which made the game slightly frustrating at times) at the cost of more puzzle-type plays on the concept (like in the last level). The graphics were quite nice and consistent for the most part. I thought it was weird when a copy would automatically jump if a red blood cell was infected whilst jumping, and I thought it was unnecessary that you seemingly amplified the jumping sound effect when there were more copies of the player.
Orni
26. Apr 2012 路 20:37 UTC
simply a solid good game
I enjoyed it
馃帳 eburn184
27. Apr 2012 路 03:13 UTC
If you have played my game and I haven't rated your's yet, no worries, I'll get to it this weekend. Thanks!
Draknek
28. Apr 2012 路 15:59 UTC
It's a nice idea, been done before (Tiny Plumbers) but that's not a problem really.

Found level 4 frustrating. Sfx annoying.
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
13. May 2012 路 09:17 UTC
Haha! The graphics and humor are lovely! Kudos!
Toast
13. May 2012 路 15:55 UTC
This game is the most refreshing and complete-feeling I've played so far. Really, good job on this one.