GORID-19 by BeaverGames
Save the gorbins from the plague!

The Common Gorbin Cold, The Barely deadly Gorbinfluenza, The Novel Goronavirus disease 3219, and the killer Egola
Test the gorbins for the disease

Send them to quarantine to stop the spread

All to stop this:

GORID-19 is a game about a pandemic going through the Gorbin empire, you, the Empire's leader has to quarantine and test anybody with symptoms, and even restrict travel between the four planets.
I'll continue working on this further after play/rate ends and also try and get the %alive and %recovered to finally work.
I'm starting to update the game, the updated game can be found here
| Youtube | https://beavergames.itch.io/gorid-19 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/gorid-19 |
Ratings
| Overall | 1590th | 3.333⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1565th | 3.152⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 619th | 3.591⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 791th | 3.848⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1982th | 2.938⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 894th | 3.138⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 2069th | 2.823⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 39🗨️ |
I'm still not sure how I get the info on the one that I'm not testing myself, (not that I complain, I'd be dead otherwise), I did click on travel restrictions without enough points and I think I got locked out of the option to do it at all.
Really good on you on placing a tutorial ingame!
I then went on to defeat Egola with only 8 dead.
Seems like testing is key to defeat Gorid19, while restricting travel early is key to Egola.
Pretty fun game, and very optmistic too :wink:
sometimes boxes appear and disappear
- Did you think about using middle mouse click to pan around the camera? Sometimes it is hard to follow the aliens when you need to move the mouse to the side of the monitor and back. Clicking middle mouse and "draging" the image below could make it easier to navigate
- Constraining Quarantine space on the planed could be an interesting addition to the game and would need to think about constraining traveling more
Overall great entry :)
Art is cool, but as everyone says, It was too small, and it was hard to click on them.
P.S. If you polish this masterpiece, and add more viruses and planets, and maybe some story, you can publish this on itch.io , and set as paid game (it's free to do so, you just need to go to your setting in Itch.io, and then go to Publisher tab, and then choose Payout mode, and finally change it to "Collected by itch.io, paid later" and now you can make commercial games!)
I played two rounds, in round one i was lucky, found the only infected and put it into quarantine. The game looks fine, but it is a bit complicated. Do I am play just on one planet or on all of them (since I choose a planet at gamestart and I am not sure if I just choose difficulty).
A fifth virus that's harder than both the ebola and covid ones combined would be great. I found this game was too easy once I got the hang of it, and I never lost once, or even got close to it after the first level.
The game could use sound effects as well as a feedback indicator to know if tests were successful or not.
Great job!
Also I found the zoom level and all to be a bit annoying, maybe have larger steps in the zooming effect?
Nice idea otherwise.
I really liked the humorous flavour you gave everything - example:

yes, this did indeed make me laugh :DD
Other than that, I do have to agree with @lery on the difficulty - even when not being able to play (back with the Opera Browser), I managed to get through Gorid-19 with only 1 casualty (but maybe that's just a little, hopeful scripted joke about how we will all make it through the crisis atm). I did manage Egora with no difficulties whatsoever on the Firefox Browser afterwards... so maybe raise the difficulties a bit?
All in all a fun little simulation game :3