Primordial Guard

by cogcomp
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.12
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.12
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.83
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.28
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★56%
Primordial Guard

Your mission:

Watch over your cells and obliterate

mutations that do not evolve towards

ascension.

Instruction:

Move your guard around by clicking in empty space.

Activate your pulse weapon by clicking on a cell.

Use your weapon to remove cells that are genetically

inclined to move away from the "The way to ascension".

Note that once you turn the weapon on, it is always on.

Click on mouse button to start game.

Click on mouse button to start level when it says "Get ready for level:"

Have fun!

Platform: Windows

Requires: Visual Studio 2010 Redistributable package

Comments15

Rellikiox
Rellikiox29 Aug 2012, 11:56
Cool game, even though it's a bit easy once you get the hang of it.
science4cake29 Aug 2012, 19:08
I feel like the game could have been more dynamic. After a couple levels it gets redundant.
Gidaio29 Aug 2012, 19:50
Interesting, but, as others have set, repetitive and easy.
DevWouter
DevWouter29 Aug 2012, 19:55
Nice way to handle the team but I agree with the others above. Repetitive and easy.
BrothersT
BrothersT29 Aug 2012, 20:19
Nice idea, and quite addictive for the first few rounds, but gets very easy when you realise that you can just crowd around the back of the cells to herd them to the goal. I gave up after the game didn't finish when the level count reached the end of the first line.

I think you should have stopped at 10 levels, ramped up the difficulty a bit faster, and had some way to lose the game as well.
garygreen
garygreen29 Aug 2012, 21:06
Really liked those luminous graphics and the game idea, but I wasn't sure how well I was doing, or if I was doing it right. I managed to get to level 3 though. :-)
ggiraldez
ggiraldez29 Aug 2012, 22:05
Interesting! I would have called it "Cell Herder" though ;)
Kayelgee30 Aug 2012, 11:01
it get's repetitive once you've reached lvl 3+. The controls could also be a little better like left mouse to move and right mouse to shoot the beam.
evilseanbot30 Aug 2012, 11:08
Stopped about four levels in. The concept was neat and it was cool to look at, but there wasn't enough changing to keep me engaged.
JonathanG4 Sep 2012, 19:52
This is an interesting game, I like the way natural selection is used in a gameplay system! Sometimes it seemed that the cells would refuse to evolve to move in the direction I wanted them to though. You could certainly expand this idea.
mohammad4 Sep 2012, 21:05
Was weird, But I kept on playing!
So there is no way to lose eh?
NO LOSING FOR U!!!!!!!!!!
Good job, Pretty addictive!
demonpants
demonpants5 Sep 2012, 06:13
Seems nifty! Can I have a Mac port please?
goerp5 Sep 2012, 19:27
It is an interesting idea. You eradicate the ones that don't have the traits you want. Maybe you can expand on it and have more variety in behavior, maybe going round corners, being able to defend or attack. But then you need a more sofisticated way to kill them. The spray gun you now have is not focused enough. And like other people said: it is quite easy.
triliyn
triliyn14 Sep 2012, 14:14
The cell faces were cute. Aiming the gun was a little difficult; I would have liked a separate button for that instead of having to click on a cell. It's also a bit non-intuitive that you target a point rather than a direction.

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