Viral is a 2D top-down escape game. You are a Virus. The objective of the game is to escape the anti-viruses who are trying to catch you, to delete you, for as long as possible. There is no win condition.
There are three viruses with different behaviors: Scanner(Purple Magnifying Glass): Slow, but will always follow you Integrity Checker(Blue Alarm): Will only give chase if you get too close Emulator(Yellow E): Fast and will hone in on you. Only lasts for 30 seconds at a time.
To aid in your evasion you are given two traps to use: [/0] - Logic Bomb - Roots the first anti-virus who runs into it in place for 5 seconds [?] - EPO - After a 2 second activation period, the EPO will become part of the map for 13 seconds and block anything around it
Known Bugs: Anti-virus pathing is still a little iffy at times. I ran out of time to polish it. I'm sorry! You will experience some slowdowns if a lot of anti-viruses need to generate paths all at the same time. As above, I wasn't able to fix it in time! No music disable feature - Ran out of time!
I hope you enjoy my first Ludum Dare entry and endure the programmer tier art and last second music. Thank-you!
Simple and fun. The programming-specific powers are great. If you keep working on it, a portal that opened up after X seconds to take you to another level would give a nice change of scenery.
That's an interesting game which I enjoyed playing and which reminded me of pacman: you did a good job for your first LD ! :) As you said, the graphics aren't really the best, but the sound/music does its job. Maybe multiple levels would have been appreciable. It's great that you took time to write progress reports and also a postmortem (try to make a timelapse next time too) !
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Good work on a complete entry.