Save Dave by frederikja163
Save dave.
https://frederikja163.github.io/LDEngine/ In this game you have to try and Save Dave.
You are the immune system of a man by the name Dave, you have to keep him safe killing the viruses before they reach his brain. Once the viruses reach his brain it is game over.
Write down below in the comments what your high score is.
How to play
(Not necessary to read, the game has a built-in tutorial).
When you hold the cursor over Dave you can see all his bloodveins and muscles.
As the game progresses Dave will have a lot of accidents giving him wounds. You can heal these wounds either by clicking
, or by pressing 'Q' on your keyboard. The wounds will start spawning viruses, you can click the viruses to stop them before they reach any muscles. If they reach muscles you will have to disinfect the muscles either by clicking
or by pressing 'W' on your keyboard. Infected muscles will spawn even more viruses.
If the viruses make their way all the way to Dave's brain, he will die. If Dave dies, it is game over. Your score is Dave's age by the end of the game.
Pictures

Disclaimer for after jam development.
While everything was made during ludum dare, at the time of submission there are massive lagspikes in the end-game due to the way I'm rendering the sprites. I already know a fix for this and will implement it after submission. I will not be adding any new content however.
The lagspikes exist only because I did not give myself enough time to build up an engine before the ludum dare gamejam. As I don't wish to use pre-existing engines in general but like writing my own.
In the future the links below might not work as I re-arrange the repo, so going through the source link is probably the best bet at finding the game after voting has stopped.
| Source code | https://github.com/frederikja163/LDEngine |
| Link | https://frederikja163.github.io/LDEngine/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/save-dave |
Ratings
| Overall | 558th | 2.881⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 569th | 2.595⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 303th | 3.31⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 301th | 3.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 450th | 3.079⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 469th | 2.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 258th | 2.906⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 516th | 2.719⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 29🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
I feel that the game starts a little bit slow. I'd increase the difficulty sooner so that it is more challenging.
Had fun giving all my heart to save Dave from the virus invasion anyway! Great fun!
When I understand that I could spam 'Q' and 'W' and just click the occasional virus the game became really easy.
But before that I was a bit chaos ^^
+ I like how the viruses don't always go straight for the path to the brain to give it spontaneity.
+ I like the dialogue for poor Dave
- Adding music and sound effects can enhance the gameplay a bit.
- Adding a title screen
- Either adding a voice or increase the size of the font for Dave's dialogue
- Adding in a tutorial to help explain what the "W" key actually does
- Add in more features as a bonus like a 'z-pack' to purge all the viruses for that instant
Stuff starts getting so real when the viruses clump together. Well done. You got a lot done in such a short amount of time.
Writing out a detailed comment like that takes a long time, so thanks for taking the time to understand, play and rate the game.