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Immune Defense by Tempii

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made by Tempii for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

"We've all been thoroughly informed how important the immune system is for our health. Take the place of a white blood cell and protect the body from deadly viruses. It's your job to keep it alive!"

A little Top-Down-Shooter to keep you company inside. This is actually a couples project to see if we could accomplish a whole (tiny) game together. So planning and content were a team effort, while programming was on my part, and my girlfriend made the graphics. (Also, I made her write this, which made her quite uncomfortable because writing about yourself in third person feels weird.)!

Controlls:

-Move with WASD, or the arrow keys

-Aim with the mouse

-Shoot with mouse0 or space

Gameplay:

-In each level you have to kill all the viruses before they kill your human.

-Every virus damages the human in a specific interval, which isn't identical for all viruses though.

-You have to be patient while fighting the viruses since they can also harm you on contact.

Edit:

In the first level/Main menu you have to press the start button to start the actual levels.

I added a Day 1 Patch Version to itch, where the startmenu shouldn't be as confusing as before and I fixed an audio issue in the third level.

I now also added a version to itch which I will keep updating, current updates:

-I fixed a scaling issue with the UI, when you were scrolled in or out within your browser

Youtube https://t3mpii.itch.io/immune-defense
Youtube https://t3mpii.itch.io/immune-defense
Youtube https://t3mpii.itch.io/immune-defense1-1
Youtube https://t3mpii.itch.io/immune-defense1-1
Youtube https://t3mpii.itch.io/immune-defense-ongoing
Youtube https://t3mpii.itch.io/immune-defense-ongoing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/immune-defense

Ratings

Overall 1204th 3.5⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 993th 3.432⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1855th 2.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 807th 3.841⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1383th 3.5⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1381th 2.7⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1641th 3.136⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

MickGerritsen
21. Apr 2020 · 13:44 UTC
Your game sounds interesting. But now I can't play and rate it because the build doesn't work
petitpois
21. Apr 2020 · 13:47 UTC
Nice entry few bugs though.I eliminated all the enemies in the level but can't go anywhere after..is there only one level?
Kristian Kurktchiev
21. Apr 2020 · 13:55 UTC
It's a fun little game, I enjoyed it a lot! The difficulty scaling is pretty intense though, especially at level 3. Had a hard time getting through it! Good job guys!
Francisco_caal
21. Apr 2020 · 13:55 UTC
It's interesting to have the HP going down no matter what, I would've liked the virus to attack you in some form.
llwyd
21. Apr 2020 · 13:56 UTC
Thought this was a good entry, I thought the visuals were clear, controls intuitive and I liked the audio too. My only comment is that I'd like the viruses to be more aggressive in trying to attack the player. Other than that, great job!
Philip Sawyer
21. Apr 2020 · 14:02 UTC
Fun game, but the last level is way too hard.
Nonon
21. Apr 2020 · 14:02 UTC
Easy and intuitive but I was stuck at lvl 1 after killing all the enemies.
Ben Toosey
21. Apr 2020 · 14:05 UTC
Fun game and nice sprites :) I really like the interactive start menu as the tutorial!
Twistashio
21. Apr 2020 · 14:06 UTC
Really cool game!! Was able to play without any bugs. However the game gets a little repetitive after a while :( Otherwise really cool art and game.
Yskuma
21. Apr 2020 · 14:06 UTC
Fun game, the idea of having barriers you can shoot through but not move through is nice. Really struggled to get past level 3.
Jojo The Clown
21. Apr 2020 · 14:12 UTC
To answer @petitpois, no there are four.

I was a tad confused at first. The intro level is really a title screen, and the WebGl build doesn't load the 'start' and 'end' text. It shows perfectly if you download it though. The game is fun, and the music is extremely fitting. The final stage is perhaps a pinch too difficult, but then again, I could just be bad at the game.

Overall, good work though.
🎤 Tempii
21. Apr 2020 · 14:17 UTC
@nonon @petitpois since both of you got stuck after level 1 (first of all, you ar sure all enemies are gone right? Not missing one out of sight?), which build are you using? Maybe this can help me debug.
And did you get the "LEVEL COMPLETE!" message or did that also not trigger?

Normally there should be 4 levels, not one
🎤 Tempii
21. Apr 2020 · 14:18 UTC
@mickgerritsen which build are you using? In the web version you have to click once into the window to make the movement working, probably that is the problem?
🎤 Tempii
21. Apr 2020 · 14:22 UTC
@kristian-kurktchiev @philip-sawyer @yskuma
The difficlty curve is definitly not polished a noticable ramp up for level 3 and 4 is intended though. Especially Level 4 is meant to be a real challenge, since I tend to make pretty hard games at LD and wanted to include at least one really hard level this LD also :)
🎤 Tempii
21. Apr 2020 · 14:26 UTC
@llwyd thanks for the comment, we thought about that two but we liked the idea that the main thread is the human dying (partly because of the theme) and getting damaged yourself is only a little thread with moving fast through the level and bumping into enemies. Since they don't chace you we set you helath to 2 so you are only allowed to bump into them once, it could be an idea to set it even to 1 since they aren't chasing you.
Also of course there could be different enemy types later and we also thought of ally NPCs both of this wasn't possible for us to include in the entry though. Maybe we will ad stuff later to also make the game less repetetive (as @twistashio mentioned)
🎤 Tempii
21. Apr 2020 · 14:53 UTC
@jojo-the-clown thank you very much for the explaining :thumbsup:
What exactly do you mean with "the WebGl build doesn’t load the ‘start’ and ‘end’ text"?
With exception of the "exit" button the builds should be pretty much the same and also seem to be for me.
Oh and which browser ar you using (I'm testing with chrome)? Maybe this causes the difference?
Drazihnya
21. Apr 2020 · 17:09 UTC
Really like the game and the controls in particular but I'm too shit at it
Jojo The Clown
22. Apr 2020 · 19:14 UTC
@tempii I try viewing the game on chrome, but the start and exit buttons load outside of the buttons themselves. The collision is also sideways.
![CommentScreenshot.png](///raw/de0/e2/z/3280e.png)
My theory is that other players simply figured the menu screen was the first stage and didn't see the buttons.
Hope this helps.
SludgeKey
22. Apr 2020 · 20:17 UTC
I really liked the level parts you could shoot through but not fly through!
🎤 Tempii
23. Apr 2020 · 00:01 UTC
@jojo-the-clown thanks for the feedback, In the day 1 patch I added a hint to start the game after defeating all enemies in the menu.

The misplacing of the buttons and text seem to occur because the browser is zoomed, I'll also look into way for fixing this.

Edit: I fixed the issue with the wrongly scaled UI and uploaded a new verion to itch (see description)
Joule
23. Apr 2020 · 14:50 UTC
Great game! the difficulty is intense at the final level. maybe put some arrows pointing the remaining enemies?
amkingTRP
12. May 2020 · 08:16 UTC
This was really enjoyable with a great "feel" to the controls. There's some good ideas about the different types of barriers stopping everything, but others just blocking the player (there was one point on the second level where the last enemy was just off-screen and there's no way to get closer).
LaZZyDev72
12. May 2020 · 12:23 UTC
Nice Game. Like the levelDeign. And very Cool Menu Too. WellDone Keep it up