STEM by Kaleido
Play as a lone stem cell with your heart set on evolution. Divide into other cell types to help you on your journey. Stay oxygenated and gather protein and nucleotides. Build scaffolding cells to mark your path. Keep the stem cell alive.

| Youtube | https://kaleido.itch.io/stem |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/stem |
Ratings
| Given | 4🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
The art was clean and consistent, the gameplay was unique, although the connection to the theme was a bit lacking as there were no real threats aside from you just getting stuck without red blood cells comming to save you.
I would love to see some kind of viral threat you have to combat against as you begin to explore around, as well as speeding up the process as for the first 5 minutes I was stuck waiting for proteans to load which isn't very fun.
Overall, good foundation, but needs some more content as well as some form of threat.
also some way of locating the nucleotides for a cost would be great, or at least some reward for exploring.
I love the game mechanic of the red blood cells acting as sorts of workers, like in typical Blizzard RTS(Starcraft, warcraft). Except instead of delivering gold on their route, they deliver the actual ability to move at all. That's a very interesting mechanic. I'd like to see that mechanic expanded on in a real time strategy game where you control an army rather than one stem cell. That could be super cool.
Great game! GJ!
I like this game, it's like a biology-themed-TransportTycoon or something. :sweat_smile:
The music was really nice and atmospheric, even though the track was a bit repetitiv. But I liked the idea with building multiple cells and needing to decide, where the cells would be most beneficial for you.
In the end I thought it was a bit tedious, but the concept kept me going. I would love to see what can be made by building on it.
Awesome! :smile: