🐛Centibleed & The Necropods🩸 by MEGA Marlon

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made by MEGA Marlon for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

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As a magical centipede you've woken from your century-long slumber. In your hibernation another centipede has encroached on your territory. There's only one option, use your magic to summon an army of isopods and… ATTACK!

OVERVIEW:

🐛 <- This is you, a magical centipede.

🪲 <- These are your isopods that you'll summon to attack an evil sinister centipede.

🩸 <- And this is the blood of your enemies that you'll use to upgrade your isopod army.


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CONTROLS:

🖱️ Left Click - To purchase upgrades


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Ratings

Overall 647th 3.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 459th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 772th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 762th 3.447⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 516th 3.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 496th 3.368⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 418th 3.324⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 763th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 31🗳️ 21🗨️

Feedback

Spexxilove
15. Apr 2024 · 22:43 UTC
I do like the concept. It just didn't give me a lot of choice. I was mostly just clicking the button that I could click.
Nice graphics and it's fun to just watch them fight!
maybe a bit too heavy on the camera shake^^
but overall a nice entry.
Danyclockworker
15. Apr 2024 · 22:43 UTC
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A realy great and fun game, but I really ask you to remove the camera shake; towards the end of the battle, because of this, everything was jerking wildly and creating the feeling of 2-3 fps.
Marnova
16. Apr 2024 · 17:07 UTC
Great wee game. Seeing my guy get annihilated whilst I figured out what was going on. As the others have said, camera shake is a bit much but doesn't affect playability too much. 3 options to control on your way to victory :)
nardandas
18. Apr 2024 · 04:12 UTC
I really enjoyed that. I suppose it wasn't super deep, but oh my god when I got the guns it was so satisfying. Very cool!
anaastaska
20. Apr 2024 · 16:57 UTC
Good idea of the game, but as for me it’s too shaky camera🙂‍↔️ Cute visual, I enjoyed the game!
LDJam user 314794
02. May 2024 · 23:05 UTC
Super cool! I love the graphics and the overall vibe of the game.
ErikU
02. May 2024 · 23:16 UTC
Fun little game - almost similar to an "idler". The only real interaction choices are the order in which you make the upgrades. After losing a protracted first game where (as others have said) the camera shake got a bit extreme (and the FPS started dropping), I realized the trick was to suppress them with early investments in "guns", which snowball early and ended in a win after about a minute. This concept would be interesting to extend with another layer of tactical depth. Well done.
Arman
03. May 2024 · 05:17 UTC
Really love the art-style. Fun little game, but kind of simple. I also noticed the camera shake and FPS issues that others were talking about.
Rugg
03. May 2024 · 09:17 UTC
This was really fun. The battle audio, speeding up balls of fury and the camera shakes go really well together - great mood. Can I also play as Necropods, please? :D
Levi
03. May 2024 · 14:37 UTC
Thanks all for the feedback so far! It's been a busy couple weeks for us, so we have only just got to seeing this. We hear you on the screenshake -- bad call on the shake settings and sadly didn't have time to make an in-game options. But we still appreciate your insect-oriented enthusiasm :) @rugg @eriku @arman @lildyll @marnova @nardandas @spexxilove @eriku @danyclockworker <- thanks!
LDJam user 99418
03. May 2024 · 16:56 UTC
It wasn't very clear to me which upgrades let to what changes in the isopods. But overall pretty satisfying and unique entry!
Zinkler
03. May 2024 · 21:09 UTC
Simplistic but fun. I wish there would be a bit more gameplay than buying the cheapest upgrade the second it becomes available, maybe some controls over the units or strengths and weaknesses system? Still, had a lot of fun, the style is superb
UngarBlapp
03. May 2024 · 22:39 UTC
Really liked the art style, and the game certainly has potential for further development!
I wasn't very good at it, ha!

All round good Stuff!
Rowlof
03. May 2024 · 22:44 UTC
I like a lot about what you put down, but I think one issue could be that the upgrades you buy won't matter in the long run apart of influencing the amount of health the big guys have. That's because your income is practicly unaltered by the upgrades you buy, where usually in a competetive game between two equal players there is some snowballing in the mechanics to speed up the game after one player is winning consistently, think of HearthStone where if your opponent has way better cards on the field the game is usually over within a few moves, or some other game you play doesn't matter. Meh, this could just be my oppinion lol.