Interloper by hoqjed
Controls:
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- Mouse cursor: move
Hint: the game isn't infinite, there's an ending when you grow large enough!
Created by:
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Farhan Qureshi - https://twitter.com/jedlondo
Dylan Gallardo - https://twitter.com/CriticalMammal
Made with Unity. OS/X and Linux versions untested.
Audio from freesound.org (will add credits list soon)
Background Info
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We were struggling to come up with something that conceptually pleased both of us for quite a while. Eventually we started to settle on different variations of this final micro-organism idea, but it wasn't until about 40 hours in until we completely fleshed it all out. After we had our plan we worked very intensely for the rest of the time and we just barely squeezed everything in by the deadline (somehow). It was a rough process but we're both extremely proud of how far it came along in such little amount of time.
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- Mouse cursor: move
Hint: the game isn't infinite, there's an ending when you grow large enough!
Created by:
-------------
Farhan Qureshi - https://twitter.com/jedlondo
Dylan Gallardo - https://twitter.com/CriticalMammal
Made with Unity. OS/X and Linux versions untested.
Audio from freesound.org (will add credits list soon)
Background Info
----------------
We were struggling to come up with something that conceptually pleased both of us for quite a while. Eventually we started to settle on different variations of this final micro-organism idea, but it wasn't until about 40 hours in until we completely fleshed it all out. After we had our plan we worked very intensely for the rest of the time and we just barely squeezed everything in by the deadline (somehow). It was a rough process but we're both extremely proud of how far it came along in such little amount of time.
Ratings
| Coolness | 65% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.79 | 119 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.97 | 55 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.17 | 439 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.42 | 66 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.93 | 588 |
| Mood(Jam) | 4.18 | 35 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.57 | 435 |
Did you know there's already a game called Interloper? It featured in the previous IGF awards.
If the ending was just the title... Yeah there's really not much to do/not do.
It's really gorgeous :)
I agree that the game ends up being pretty straightforward and doesn't put up much of a challenge. Farhan, our programmer did an awesome job though considering how late we came up with the mechanics for the gameplay. He probably only had 30 something hours (including sleep) to implement pretty much the whole thing. So while it's not the most dynamic thing ever, we're still really proud of the work that went into it.
- Dylan
Btw this game struck me as being a more graphically advanced agar.io, if you haven't played it you should check it out it's pretty fun.
Great entry though, I enjoyed it :)
Nice work!
Anyway, great entry.
You nailed the art aesthetic of microscopic organisms and I felt the sound design and visual effects were very suitable. There is something ominous in a single cell growing larger and larger by engulfing smaller ones, nice ending too.
I had some ideas to do a game set in microscopic world before the Ludum Dare but did something more standard. You managed to produce the kind of thing I'd have liked to do myself :)