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Viral Attack

by mikegbrown
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.34
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.94
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%
You play as a Virus, your goal is to attack and kill the Host Cell. You must attack the host cell for a total of 10 seconds to subdue it, but watch out white blood cells swarm during an attack. Use you repel ability to create space and make another attack.

Update: Re-uploaded web version as it was missing results screen.

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Comments26

bvanschooten26 Aug 2013, 21:12
Atmospheric and good-looking game, only the controls are frustrating. Sometimes nothing happens when I attack the red cell.
gravyhands27 Aug 2013, 00:51
Personally, I thought the controls were pretty cool. Although I had the difficulty on 1 and still got killed a fair amount. But maybe I'm just terrible.
oxysoft
oxysoft27 Aug 2013, 00:53
I like the graphics but the controls are very hard to get used to and the game is a little boring overall
keyboardmonkey
keyboardmonkey27 Aug 2013, 05:05
Viral Attack captures the mood and is fun to play. I enjoy this dark theme, and nice representation of your health & mana. Being able to use tactics with the stun ability is a plus! Good work :)
xrm0
xrm027 Aug 2013, 12:30
Good game, controls are a bit hard though
RobotParking
RobotParking27 Aug 2013, 12:44
Really enjoyed the mood of this one.
dkilford27 Aug 2013, 12:45
Cool idea, but weighed down by clunky controls. I wouldn't recommend playing this in the web version because it's easy to click outside of the window.
Beavl
Beavl27 Aug 2013, 13:00
It shares some elements with Osmos. Nice use of the repelling system. We like it!
Zerot27 Aug 2013, 14:10
Nice game. Had to play around with the controls a bit to get used to them, but after that it was quite a nice game to play.
xk
xk27 Aug 2013, 15:51
Took some time to take a grip on controls, but after that game is quite fun! Loved the mood and sound effects, graphics is good too.
Genista27 Aug 2013, 16:35
it Doesn't work in my browsers mozilla or chrome I have an:
Linux 3.5.0-28-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP
i686 GNU/Linux.
TeamFlare
TeamFlare27 Aug 2013, 16:39
Cool concept, takes a while to find out whats going on, but then it's fun and challenging :)
ArcturusDeluxe27 Aug 2013, 17:26
Yeah I got a bit of an Osmos vibe from this as well. Took me a sec to figure it out, but cool game.
mutuware27 Aug 2013, 18:00
That 'clink' sounds metallic.
But quite moody atmosphere.
TomCooper3D27 Aug 2013, 18:01
graphics are really nice cool mood and i liked the controls
JimmyDelaney1927 Aug 2013, 23:09
Took me a bit to figure out. I had fun.
Acr1m27 Aug 2013, 23:28
First of all, thanks for checking out my game earlier :)

Nicely done. I actually like the menu. Work on menus sadly is under-rated.

I would like to see a higher res version of the menu to match the level of resolution in the actual game.

Cheers
zillix
zillix28 Aug 2013, 04:34
great presentation and concept!
Diogo Muller28 Aug 2013, 11:12
Very fun game. The controls are pretty good, after you get used to it.

Had to download the executable file, the game got so intense after some time that I always accidentally clicked on other tabs, or the Unity dropdown menu showed up :)
nathanhoffer
nathanhoffer29 Aug 2013, 03:51
I liked the controls actually. It just took me a second to learn them.

I enjoyed this entry thoroughly. It was pretty good.
Zathalos30 Aug 2013, 07:23
Interesting gameplay. It was kind of cool to stun the white blood cells and then ram into them to kill them. If you add some more abilities, it would be even better. Good job.
XaiZil30 Aug 2013, 22:58
Often couldn't attack the red cell, controls seemed unresponsive. I like the movement though
whiteravens4 Sep 2013, 04:50
Could have been a great game if the controls weren't clunky. I don't know if I'm attacking or not as well. Still, one of the most innovative I played so far though.
Per12 Sep 2013, 09:45
Very nice game!
I like the game mechanics, graphics, music and sound.
Well done!
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