Implant by fredial

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made by fredial for Ludum Dare 54 (EXTRA)

Implant

Hello everyone, this is the first small game we have made. The programming is done by Mofox and The1not3baody, with Fredial in charge of the art.

We sincerely thank each and every player who has commented and provided feedback. We are continuously updating and optimizing the game, and based on your suggestions, we will be making some changes to the control scheme as shown in the image below. Does this seem feasible?

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Protagonist

The plant planet K has invaded Earth and turned it into a colonial planet. The plants aim to gradually eliminate humans by parasitizing them. Due to the parasites, humans have gained special abilities. They have to collect pink spores to purify their homes and reclaim their occupied houses.

游戏背景

植物星球K侵略地球,地球沦为K的殖民星球,植物通过寄生人类的方式达到逐渐消灭人类的目的,人类由于被寄生获取特殊能力,通过收集粉色孢子净化家园,夺回被侵占的家园。

Game Icon Descriptions in Detail

Protagonist: A human parasitized by mushrooms. 角色横板.png

Plant flying disc: Provides movement ability for the character. Placing it on plant-occupied roads allows movement. biaoshi.png

Buildings: Occupied by plants, immovable. buildingsxiao.png

Items: Various items enhance the protagonist's attributes, such as changing his movement. daoju.png

Pink spores: The collection target for each level. Collect the pink spores and reach the endpoint. theend.png

图标详解

主角:被蘑菇寄生的人类

植物飞盘:为角色移动的能力,铺在被植物侵占的路面上可以移动

建筑:被植物侵占,不可移动

道具:各类道具增强主角的属性,如可以改变角色的移动方式

粉色孢子:每一关的收集目标,收集粉色孢子到达终点

Story Content

If you are interested in the story, please continue reading. ---QUQ---

I was a high school sophomore majoring in science. When Planet K arrived on Earth, I was working on physics questions. I remember, for that question, I didn't know how to solve it.

In fact, we had known about the existence of the Plant Planet “K” for a long time. After assessing its intelligent life forms, the United Government determined its danger level was low. Thus, they signed a cooperation agreement with Planet K - exchanging technologies to accelerate the progress of human civilization.

At first, this seemed like a good thing. Planet K’s eco-technologies allowed humans to freely exploit natural resources. For example, they solved the nuclear wastewater treatment problem, so we could finally eat seafood without worries.

But whether it was heavenly retribution, the ambition of Plant K, or humans digging their own graves, the catastrophe for humankind had begun.

Gradually, I noticed some classmates stopped coming to school, and even some teachers disappeared. The girl I liked, Umaru, was gone too. I was very worried about her - calls didn’t go through and she didn’t reply to my WeChat messages. I looked everywhere for her. Until finally, under the green shade beside the school track, I heard her voice calling my name, “A”. “I’m here.” She had turned into a pink bougainvillea. "Me, Cuica, Siqi, we’ve all turned into plants.” I saw a sea of pink bougainvillea spreading around me. “What’s going on?” “Humankind is going to the end, and so you do.” Another flower said: “Join us.” “Be a flower, bask in the sun every day without work, it’s so fantastic.” But some other voices said: “Pull yourself together, we’ve been parasitized by the plants. This is all Planet K’s doing. Find the purification medicine and save us.”

Seeing Umaru turned into a flower, I set off on a journey to find the purification medicine. Gradually, I started to look like a mushroom. I grew a mushroom cap, and later I got soft limbs. I found out that being parasitized by the plants did not completely take away my sanity. Instead, I could freely enter and exit Planet K’s space station. I took the plant flying disc that the bougainvillea group gave me and embarked on my journey of human redemption.

我,高二学生,理科生。植物星球K降临地球时,我还在做物理题。我记得,那道题,我不会写。植物K星球,在我出生前就已经有这回事了,外星文明嘛。联合政府通过评估K星球的智慧生命危险系数较低,向K星球签订了合作协议,由K星球向地球支援更强大的科学技术。本来是一件好事,即便是无止境地向大自然索取,植物K星球的技术总能很快让大自然喘气后恢复,比如植物K星球解决了核废水难题,我们终于可以肆无忌惮吃海鲜。

但不知是上天的惩罚,还是植物K的野心,又或者是人类自掘坟墓,人类的浩劫开始了。

渐渐的,我发现有一些同学不来上课了,甚至有的老师也消失了。我喜欢的女生小埋也不见了。我很担心她,电话打不通微信不回,我四处寻找。直到在学校跑道旁的绿荫下,听到了她的声音, “A。”她喊了我的名字。

“我在这里。” 她,变成了一朵粉色的朱丽叶塔。

“我,脆脆,思齐我们都变成植物了。” 我看见,这里一片粉色的朱丽叶塔花海洋。

“这是怎么回事?”

“人类要灭亡了,你也不例外。”

另外一朵花: “加入我们。”

“当朵花吧,天天晒太阳不用工作,太棒了。”

也有些别的声音: “振作起来,我们被植物寄生了,这全是植物星球K所赐,找到净化药剂,拯救我们。”

看着变成花的小埋,我踏上了寻找净化药剂的路途。渐渐的,我开始像一只蘑菇了,我长出了蘑菇的伞帽,后来我又有了柔软的四肢。我发现,被植物寄生的我并未完全失去心智,反而可以自由出入植物K星球的空间站。我带上了朱丽叶塔花群送的植物飞盘,踏上了我的人类救赎之旅。

Ratings

Given 16🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

jelliott
03. Oct 2023 · 12:42 UTC
Cover art is very pretty and the game description is quite intriguing but I can't figure out how to play the game. Perhaps some tips in the description on what should be happening?
Music is great too, pretty impressive if you made it during the jam.
treenut
03. Oct 2023 · 16:52 UTC
Looks very cute, could you add a webgl build?
kulmajaba
09. Oct 2023 · 15:07 UTC
Loved the art style, the music and the story, but the gameplay wasn't quite as smooth as I'd have hoped. The movement is a bit cumbersome and I didn't get far into the game.

Perhaps the items I collected would have allowed me better movement but I played myself into a corner in the first level by placing one of the tiles too far, and had to restart, so I was scared to try it again :D I'd really like to see a more polished version of this because I feel like the game has a lot of potential.
pipiMa
09. Oct 2023 · 15:11 UTC
I adore the art and music; it's incredibly cute. However, I found the control design to be somewhat unintuitive. Given that WASD keys aren't currently assigned to any actions, perhaps players could use them for movement instead of relying on F and manual direction clicking. Furthermore, it would be helpful to have a button that allows players to either retract a mistaken move or restart the level, as currently, a wrong move forces a complete game restart. Overall, nice game!
ldkuba
09. Oct 2023 · 15:19 UTC
Art and music are very nice! But is there a way to restart a level? When i got stuck I had to restart the whole game :( I like that the player has to experiment to learn the movement but maybe there could be some visual change when you change forms.
mofox
10. Oct 2023 · 10:21 UTC
Thank you all for your responses, we will continue to update the game。
Thomas Higgins
10. Oct 2023 · 11:15 UTC
Love the art style, and music well done and keep at it
Daniel G
10. Oct 2023 · 13:18 UTC
Great art style!
Kjip
10. Oct 2023 · 13:24 UTC
This game looked super promising, and a very cool artstyle too! However, getting into the game itself were a lot of non-polished things. The game felt quite rigid and movement took more steps than I would've liked. Music was great however!
sansen
10. Oct 2023 · 13:41 UTC
Very nice and cute art style!
ffffchai
11. Oct 2023 · 04:11 UTC
Everything is polished, except for the interaction, which could perhaps be changed to pure mouse operation. But I really enjoyed the art style and the music, and the sense of humor in the introduction! Nice job.
OldDog
11. Oct 2023 · 09:01 UTC
做的hin不错,真的是后生可畏,操作方式要是能简化一些就好了~(大拇指)
enderswype
11. Oct 2023 · 16:12 UTC
looks very cute and music is nice, but unless I missed something i found very annoying to have to pick up and place block one by one all the time, especially if you can only recycle tiles close to you :(((
DSK
12. Oct 2023 · 03:52 UTC
Really like the game's concept art and style, nice job:)

很有意思的想法,游戏的美术非常可爱,玩法也很出色,牛的!!!
mofox
12. Oct 2023 · 04:29 UTC
@enderswype Thank for your advice !We will add level 3 in our game in the future .It will be more fun !
digital bacon
12. Oct 2023 · 10:59 UTC
A very beautiful game. Loved the art and sound. Great work!
Peredom
20. Oct 2023 · 13:32 UTC
- Nice graphics.
- Controls suck. 99% of my mental effort is spent on coordinating the right keyboard presses with the mouse click. If it's supposed to be a puzzle game, controls should be intuitive so I can just think and act about the puzzle.
- Got stuck, had to restart game and eat all the intro again. Escape didn't work and I didn't find a way to restart.
Zeias
20. Oct 2023 · 17:07 UTC
Very cute, I love it!
LDJam user 376027
21. Oct 2023 · 17:55 UTC
nice game, please give us feedback, thanks