{"author_link":"\/users\/frederikja163","author_name":"frederikja163","author_uid":1009367,"comments":[{"id":775104,"author_name":"Emilorzz","author_uid":"emilorzz","epoch":1649053073,"text":"Cool game, my highscore is 73!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":787730,"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"jupiter-hadley","epoch":1649157930,"text":"Challenging game! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you\u2019d like to take a look. :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/hRXrVepHVBk","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":798521,"author_name":"CaptainCarrot","author_uid":"captaincarrot","epoch":1649211884,"text":"Oof, got to 72.  Interesting concept and well presented.  Perhaps a different mechanic for healing wounds and infections would make the game a little more interactive since I figured out I could just hold down Q to keep the wounds healed.  I liked the art and the goofy little things he had to say, well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":803496,"author_name":"velvetlobster","author_uid":"velvetlobster","epoch":1649264228,"text":"makes me think of an old creepy online experience where you played as a cell which had to consume the cells of a sibling ... creepy and interesting, with some sound track this could be a sort of management game about avoiding to get sick","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":825306,"author_name":"LDJam user 237588","author_uid":"237588","epoch":1649701845,"text":"I like the sprites :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":825318,"author_name":"zimny11","author_uid":"zimny11","epoch":1649702186,"text":"Nice game! The things are really getting difficult after 70 :P I was able to keep Dave alive till 73. Also, Dave must be extremely clumsy :) Cool art style.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":825327,"author_name":"TeamMonumental","author_uid":"teammonumental","epoch":1649702597,"text":"Unique concept! If you add a currency and a shop, I could see this being expanded into a cookie-clicker type game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":825333,"author_name":"tete","author_uid":"tete","epoch":1649702833,"text":"Nice game, I like the concept. I got to age 73.\nI feel that the game starts a little bit slow. I'd increase the difficulty sooner so that it is more challenging.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":826949,"author_name":"eboatwright","author_uid":"eboatwright","epoch":1649781217,"text":"Cool game! The graphics are nice, although it could've used some music, and a bit more going on in the background. Also, it got chaotic very fast and started lagging XD","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":826961,"author_name":"Jeenfizz","author_uid":"jeenfizz","epoch":1649781611,"text":"What the hell did I just play? :')\nHad fun giving all my heart to save Dave from the virus invasion anyway! Great fun!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":827035,"author_name":"Nakami","author_uid":"nakami","epoch":1649783760,"text":"Cool entry !\n\nWhen I understand that I could spam 'Q' and 'W' and just click the occasional virus the game became really easy.\nBut before that I was a bit chaos ^^","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":827091,"author_name":"VixenMink","author_uid":"vixenmink","epoch":1649786074,"text":"+ I like your choice for this years theme.  \n+ I like how the viruses don't always go straight for the path to the brain to give it spontaneity.\n+ I like the dialogue for poor Dave\n\n\n- Adding music and sound effects can enhance the gameplay a bit.\n- Adding a title screen\n- Either adding a voice or increase the size of the font for Dave's dialogue\n- Adding in a tutorial to help explain what the \"W\" key actually does\n- Add in more features as a bonus like a 'z-pack' to purge all the viruses for that instant\n\nStuff starts getting so real when the viruses clump together.  Well done. You got a lot done in such a short amount of time.\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":827102,"author_name":"frederikja163","author_uid":"frederikja163","epoch":1649786303,"text":"@vixenmink thanks a lot for all the feedback, that is definitely usefull and something i will keep in mind if i ever get to making this into a real game.\nWriting out a detailed comment like that takes a long time, so thanks for taking the time to understand, play and rate the game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld50\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/frederikja163\/LDEngine","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/frederikja163.github.io\/LDEngine\/","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"83283","g_author":"1009367","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"389197","g_title":"Save Dave","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"558","g_commentcount":"13","g_site2_node_id":"287725","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"287725","n_urlkey":"389197","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/save-dave","n_slug":"save-dave","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"9367","n_created":"1649022003","n_modified":"1743980590","n_version":"881734","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":3,"author":9367,"body":"# Save dave.\n[https:\/\/frederikja163.github.io\/LDEngine\/](https:\/\/frederikja163.github.io\/LDEngine\/)\nIn this game you have to try and Save Dave.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWrite down below in the comments what your high score is.\n\n## How to play\n(Not necessary to read, the game has a built-in tutorial).\n\nWhen you hold the cursor over Dave you can see all his bloodveins and muscles.![Screenshot 2022-04-03 234936.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a2c.png) As the game progresses Dave will have a lot of accidents giving him wounds. You can heal these wounds either by clicking ![wound.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a08.png), 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 ![disinfect.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a05.png) or by pressing 'W' on your keyboard. Infected muscles will spawn even more viruses.\n\nIf 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.\n\n## Pictures\n![unknown.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a60.png)\n![Screenshot 2022-04-03 235809.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a64.png)\n![Screenshot 2022-04-03 235826.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a68.png)\n![Screenshot 2022-04-04 000013.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a72.png)\n\n## Disclaimer for after jam development.\nWhile 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nIn 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.","comments":13,"comments-timestamp":"2022-04-12T17:58:23Z","created":"2022-04-03T21:40:03Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":23,"grade-02":23,"grade-03":23,"grade-04":21,"grade-05":21,"grade-06":21,"grade-07":18,"grade-08":18},"id":287725,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":119.63486114005,"feedback":7,"given":28.625,"grade":21,"grade-01-average":2.881,"grade-01-result":558,"grade-02-average":2.595,"grade-02-result":569,"grade-03-average":3.31,"grade-03-result":303,"grade-04-average":3.658,"grade-04-result":301,"grade-05-average":3.079,"grade-05-result":450,"grade-06-average":2.474,"grade-06-result":469,"grade-07-average":2.906,"grade-07-result":258,"grade-08-average":2.719,"grade-08-result":516,"smart":-6.1409364551094},"meta":{"allow-anonymous-comments":"1","author":[9367],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/794\/2\/z\/49a70.png","link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/frederikja163\/LDEngine","link-01-name":"Source code","link-01-tag":[42332],"link-02":"https:\/\/frederikja163.github.io\/LDEngine\/","link-02-name":"","link-02-tag":[42336]},"meta-timestamp":"2025-04-06T23:03:10Z","modified":"2025-04-06T23:03:10Z","name":"Save Dave","node-timestamp":"2022-04-04T14:36:39Z","parent":276397,"parents":[1,5,9,276397],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/save-dave","published":"2022-04-03T22:17:09Z","scope":"public","slug":"save-dave","subsubtype":"compo","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":881734},"text":"# Save dave.\n[https:\/\/frederikja163.github.io\/LDEngine\/](https:\/\/frederikja163.github.io\/LDEngine\/)\nIn this game you have to try and Save Dave.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWrite down below in the comments what your high score is.\n\n## How to play\n(Not necessary to read, the game has a built-in tutorial).\n\nWhen you hold the cursor over Dave you can see all his bloodveins and muscles.![Screenshot 2022-04-03 234936.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a2c.png) As the game progresses Dave will have a lot of accidents giving him wounds. You can heal these wounds either by clicking ![wound.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a08.png), 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 ![disinfect.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a05.png) or by pressing 'W' on your keyboard. Infected muscles will spawn even more viruses.\n\nIf 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.\n\n## Pictures\n![unknown.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a60.png)\n![Screenshot 2022-04-03 235809.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a64.png)\n![Screenshot 2022-04-03 235826.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a68.png)\n![Screenshot 2022-04-04 000013.png](\/\/\/raw\/794\/2\/z\/49a72.png)\n\n## Disclaimer for after jam development.\nWhile 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nIn 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.","title":"Save Dave","wayback_recovered":true,"wayback_source":{"capture":{"original":"https:\/\/api-jam.ludumdare.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/292001+292002+292003+292004+292005+292006+292007+292008+292009+292010+292011+292012+292013+292014+292015+292016+292017+292018+292019+292020+292021+292022+292023+292024+292025+292026+292027+292028+292029+292030+292031+292032+292033+292034+292035+292036+292037+292038+292039+292040+292041+292042+292043+292044+292045+292046+292047+292048+292049+292050+292051+292052+292053+292054+292055+292056+292057+292058+292059+292060+292061+292062+292063+292064+292065+292066+292067+292068+292069+292070+292071+292072+292073+292074+292075+292076+292077+292078+292079+292080+292081+292082+292083+292084+292085+292086+292087+292088+292089+292090+292091+292092+292093+292094+292095+292096+292097+292098+292099+292100+292101+292102+292103+292104+292105+292106+292107+292108+292109+292110+292111+292112+292113+292114+292115+292116+292117+292118+292119+292120+292121+292122+292123+292124+292125+292126+292127+292128+292129+292130+292131+292132+292133+292134+292135+292136+292137+292138+292139+292140+292141+292142+292143+292144+292145+292146+292147+292148+292149+292150+292151+292152+292153+292154+292155+292156+292157+292158+292159+292160+292161+292162+292163+292164+292165+292166+292167+292168+292169+292170+292171+292172+292173+292174+292175+292176+292177+292178+292179+292180+292181+292182+292183+292184+292185+292186+292187+292188+292189+292190+292191+292192+292193+292194+292195+292196+292197+292198+292199+292200+292201+292202+292203+292204+292205+292206+292207+292208+292209+292210+292211+292212+292213+292214+292215+292216+292217+292218+292219+292220+292221+292222+292223+292224+292225+292226+292227+292228+292229+292230+292231+292232+292233+292234+292235+292236+292237+292238+292239+292240+292241+292242+292243+292244+292245+292246+292247+292248+292249+292250+292251+292252+292253+292254+292255+292256+292257+292258+292259+292260+292261+292262+292263+292264+292265+292266+292267+292268+292269+292270+292271+292272+292273+292274+292275+292276+292277+292278+292279+292280+292281+292282+292283+292284+292285+292286+292287+292288+292289+292290+292291+292292+292293+292294+292295+292296+292297+292298+292299+292300+292301+292302+292303+292304+292305+292306+292307+292308+292309+292310+292311+292312+292313+292314+292315+292316+292317+292318+292319+292320+292321+292322+292323+292324+292325+292326+292327+292328+292329+292330+292331+292332+292333+292334+292335+292336+292337+292338+292339+292340+292341+292342+292343+292344+292345+292346+292347+292348+292349+292350+292351+292352+292353+292354+292355+292356+292357+292358+292359+292360+292361+292362+292363+292364+292365+292366+292367+292368+292369+292370+292371+292372+292373+292374+292375+292376+292377+292378+292379+292380+292381+292382+292383+292384+292385+292386+292387+292388+292389+292390+292391+292392+292393+292394+292395+292396+292397+292398+292399+292400+292401+292402+292403+292404+292405+292406+292407+292408+292409+292410+292411+292412+292413+292414+292415+292416+292417+292418+292419+292420+292421+292422+292423+292424+292425+292426+292427+292428+292429+292430+292431+292432+292433+292434+292435+292436+292437+292438+292439+292440+292441+292442+292443+292444+292445+292446+292447+292448+292449+292450+292451+292452+292453+292454+292455+292456+292457+292458+292459+292460+292461+292462+292463+292464+292465+292466+292467+292468+292469+292470+292471+292472+292473+292474+292475+292476+292477+292478+292479+292480+292481+292482+292483+292484+292485+292486+292487+292488+292489+292490+292491+292492+292493+292494+292495+292496+292497+292498+292499+292500?authors&parents&superparent"},"object":"objects\/sha256\/32\/320a6bfd6fddf1eb118eabc8b7dfb1f910b7bf081018cbda5b07e5b8f9917579","record":"shard-1\/json-live-urgent-v3\/records\/6e341da86fd68aa18539b57c491f19a9f76fa046a2c609289710247049e00410.json","sha256":"320a6bfd6fddf1eb118eabc8b7dfb1f910b7bf081018cbda5b07e5b8f9917579","source":"https","stored_at":1784022425}}