Globulator by Corbak
Hey everyone, Here is our JAM entry for the LD 42 - Running out of space !
In this game you will play as a white cell and try to eradicate some threats from different organs. You will need to seek & destroy without dying.
Space will eather be filled by dangerous patogens constantly multiplying or by the wastes you create when dealing with them.
We had a lot of fun making it and of course I hope you will get to let us know what things you do like or not. Critics are welcome :)
Some important informations: - Toxic waste slows you - eating bacteria slows you - you can get stuck if you pass too much time playing (purposely) - In order to kill a bacteria with your antibodies (left-click) you need to eat it before - If you are stuck because you are too big, you can hit SPACE to loose some toxic waste (emergency only)
controls: WASD (or arrows) - move
left-click - Launching antibodies




| HTML5 (web) | https://corbak-games.itch.io/globulator |
| HTML5 (web) | https://gamejolt.com/games/globulator/361084 |
| HTML5 (web) | https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/715417?updated=1534184341 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/globulator |
Ratings
| Overall | 576th | 3.401⭐ | 88🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 567th | 3.259⭐ | 87🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 357th | 3.418⭐ | 87🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 565th | 3.535⭐ | 87🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 529th | 3.535⭐ | 87🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 439th | 3.278⭐ | 81🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 87🗳️ | 103🗨️ |
I love the graphics and colour theme ,music UI. One thing that I stumbled upon is the gameply i.e. goal of the game. There are no strikes to correct your play behavior.
-Thank you @juke-games !
@superpokeunicorn Thank you for your critic, We tried to balance it as much as we could. Not too much waste, not too much bacteria etc. But if we had more time we surely would have push the idea further. Of course lots of things still missed for it to be really balanced, but we are glad you liked it :)
@jdhollen You are too kind :)
@arqcenick thank you for your comment, there is some little bugs and we will try to locate them. We tried as much as we can to make it bug free before finishing the challenge.
@batlordz thank you very much :)
@thsnr Yes it is not very well demonstrated. We wrote it in the description to say that you can eat them, and once you eated them you can shoot the antibodies.
@zykroma Thank you very much :)
@heidelbert Thank you that is nice :)
@shafournee Thank you for your comment :)
@max6333 We thought a lot about the toxic waste to see if we could do something better with it, but at the end it suited the gameplay nicely with this mechanic for this little challenge. And thank you :)
@galan Thank you for your critic, hopefully you will pass the stage 4 (it can be done yes) and we know that informations and indication are a little bit hard to follow, I guess we couldn't balanced everything on time but it will be lesson learned :)
@kierkle Thank you for your kind words. The build was designed for windows and the html5 version. I'm sorry if you encountered any issue during your play.
@realmar thanks !
@holy Thank you for your comment :) and Yes it is a bit difficult to read everything and understand the mechanics, we know that is the main issue there, hopefully we will learn from that.
@ratherjolly Haha thanks ! hopefully you will get to finish it ! Thanks again :)
Really nice game!
@anna-petrova thank you :)
@rido Thank you, you are too nice :) The sticky movement are part of the gameplay, when you collide with a wall, enemy, waste etc... we tried the game on several platforms and we didn't see any issue. I'm sorry if you encounctered some but you did nothing wrong, there are still some issue here and there.
@outstar Thank you very much for your critic :) Sorry about the music, we didn't implement all the things we wanted on time but we get it and will surely take notes in the future. The idea of expanding it to mobile or PC is an appealing idea for sure :) Thanks again.
@rupert-nerddaygames Thank you :) yeah we could put the game on DL to have better performance, thinking about it that might not be a bad idea. Sorry for the inconvenience though and thank you for your recommendation :)
@timbelion Thank you very much :)
@antonionp Thank you :) what kind of bug do you have when you touch a wall? I ran several test after seeing your comment on different browsers and I couldn't see what was it. Please let me know.
@crazyguy You are too kind and I'm sure there is better idea out there, I saw plenty! :)
@p1nkmaria Thank you you are very kind :) It was difficult to balance everything on time with the spawning, waste etc.... it surely can be checked to have some challenge. Although at some level you can have only 20 waste. So there is some bits where you can not always eat. Thank you again.
@nam-nguyen Thank you very much :) there is a lot of potential in any idea I guess and you are right we didn't expand it for the JAM, but we are thinking about it. Thank you :)
@annie-owl Thank you for your feedback, the music isn't ours, didn't had time to make one and yes it is a bit repetitive I agree. It's not from you :P wish we could put more mechanics :)
@welliton Thank you very much :) When you start the game you will shoot neutral antibodies (white) but when you eat a bacteria, your antibodies will get the color of that bacteria and you can kill this type of bacteria with the antibodies. But if you want to kill another bacteria, you need to eat it prior to shoot it. I'm sorry it wasn't very clear in the informations :)
@dray Thank you for your feedback, I agree with you we didn't had time to balance everything to make it less repetitive and of course we would love to expand that gameplay into something less repetitive :)
@mrbehemoth Thank you very much :) The music was picked up on opengameart.org, didn't have time to make one and sorry for the inconvenience. Loved your game by the way, it is polished and well programmed !
@veilastrum Thank you ! :) Well if the idea looks pleasant to the people we could make something out of it. With better mechanics and more variety. As long as the LD JAM made us show the idea we are happy, and we had time to make that happen, the idea is present, but the balance and the polishing requires extra time of course. There is some collision bug when bacteria can get through the wall, we are still looking into this bug as it happens not very often and as this bug is harsh. But it is still playable and finishable :) Thank you again !
@n-feofentov You are too kind thank you! :) Actually the stomach level was one of the most difficult for me, but once you understand how to beatit, it becomes the easier and the faster of all levels to beat ! And the most fun one. You can actually beat it under 50 seconds :P come on give it a try! I will give you a hint if you can't as i do not want to spoil you :)
@ljay Thank you very much, as long as you enjoyed the idea we are happy :) The mechanics needs some polishing, but overall we are happy with this entry. Thank you !
and to answer the question at the titled screen..."I would die within minutes" - lol
@prodigalson Thank you for your feedback :) It was a bit messy in the instructions on how to do this or that, I'm sorry your experience got a bit hindered by that. We will make sure to learn from the feedback if we ever pursue the game further :) Keep trying you can finish it! :D
@zicboy Thank you very much ! We will see if we get to pursue the game a bit further. We are thinking about it if people get to like it :)
@wildcard Thank you, that's food for thought! :)
@hellsquirrel thanks!