Ludum Dare #25compo

Infect the World

by cyboot

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★62%

UPDATE 2: added difficult Version (try it if you need a REAL challenge :) )

UPDATE 1: added Timelapse

Uhhh, that was intense...
But here it is, my game for my 3rd Ludumdare!

Its kind of a RTS with lot of clicking and leveling-up. But its hard to describe so just try it :)

More infos:

Web/Applet-Version coming soon...
smaller Resolution hopefully too...

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Disclaimer for Sourcecode:

You know 48h are a short time. So there are some dirty dirty hacks in it, like really really dirty. How dirty? Well if I would read some parts of the code I would want to punch the programmer right into the face ;)

Comments21

loren17 Dec 2012, 18:53

cool unit building, I liked the use of theme too :)

Mythalore19 Dec 2012, 11:13

Weird, but I like the graphics!

DTG19 Dec 2012, 11:17

Neat concept, reminded me a lot of eufloria, I'm not sure if there is a lose condition, but got cured pretty early

rustybroomhandle19 Dec 2012, 11:32

This was pretty good although I totally suck at it. :)

Pitoum19 Dec 2012, 13:00

Cool game. The last level is a bit hard thought! :)

zkenshin20 Dec 2012, 02:01

Ooh I actually found the difficulty to be a bit on the easy side, but had fun.

DeathBySnail20 Dec 2012, 18:37

Nice. Reminded me of Galcon a bit!

barigorokarl20 Dec 2012, 18:45

Wow! Very cool game. I liked almost everything. Except the viruses. Although you showed them ("these are yours") I didn't understand that in the game so I thought the blue ones are enemies...

uwap20 Dec 2012, 20:23

Amazing game but a bit too easy

Cybootauthor20 Dec 2012, 20:29

Thanks for all your comments so far. I really appreciate it :)

A word to the level of difficulty: I think its very hard to find the right level here and as I know that most people rating the game like easier and "finishable" games more (at least I prefer them) I choose a easy difficulty.

But therefore I added the hardcore-mode version which is a REAL challenge, even for me as developer :)

DustyStylus20 Dec 2012, 20:30

Cool idea. The last level seemed quite tough (in fact, didn't beat it).

Clavus20 Dec 2012, 20:31

Nice little strategy game, although it still misses a few crucial features.

mailman10520 Dec 2012, 22:01

I enjoyed the game, but am still annoyed you didn't catch the firefly reference I had in my game. xD

haxpor22 Dec 2012, 01:18

Fun to try. Love music most.

caranha22 Dec 2012, 17:51

It was really interesting, but a bit too much on the easy side. Needs some balancing to improve :-) Is it possible to actually lose a stage?

One very big complaint though: When the virus spreads to the world, Madagascar is the first country infected! That makes no sense! Madagascar should be the last place infected! If it was infected at all :-)

Cheers, and thanks for the game!

CoffeeOnimal23 Dec 2012, 13:43

The music was perfect, set the tone right away.
Nice entry.

ENDESGA23 Dec 2012, 23:29

Nice!

Beanalby31 Dec 2012, 21:06

Interesting mechanic, could use some scaling in white cell difficulty, like have weak ones close at the start. At first I'd tried running to expand to other cells immediately and always got creamed, didn't realized I had to basically sit around and pump up rate & strength for a while first.

zenmumbler4 Jan 2013, 19:06

Didn't hear any music? Nice visual style and sounds. Died in round 3, will try again later. Not sure what the spawn option does.

fishbrain6 Jan 2013, 12:59

Well done.

Norgg7 Jan 2013, 21:41

Found this to be fun but a bit too easy myself, the immune system doesn't seem to keep up with your evolution much and I never really felt threatened.