Ludum Dare #29compo

Vinnie the Virus

by vanzeben

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★53%

Welcome to Vinne the Virus! You play as vinnie, the virus who has gone *beneath the surface* of the skin to invade the blood stream.

-- Controls --
To move simply click where you want to move to and vinnie will do the rest.

-- Objectives --
- Stay away from the White blood cells as they will attempt to hunt and destroy you.

- Capture red blood cells to turn them into your allies. Allies will take hits from a white blood cell for you, if one get's too close...

- Take your infected army to attack the brain hidden in the arteries!

I had planned to do a lot more with this game but time constraints played a factor, including no music/sounds :( Hopefully I get some post-LD work done on this and polish it up, because I really like the concept

The whole 48 hours was streamed & recorded on my twitch page if you want to check it out: (http://live.vanZeben.ca)

Comments10

malmazuke28 Apr 2014, 06:25

Some sweet music would've made this game great!

mess11028 Apr 2014, 09:41

before I knew it I was chasing all the little blobs and having a fun time.. until the white blood cells. those basterds

eldog28 Apr 2014, 09:41

That was fun :-)

I like the idea of being cute and murder of a human at the cellular level.

I like to imagine we were inside the colon, is that disgusting?

hexagore28 Apr 2014, 10:08

Fun, building up a big chain of cells and infecting a brain? Sorted.

rincewind_cz28 Apr 2014, 10:38

Most innovative game I've played this LD so far. It's like take on snake with moving food and ghosts from Pacman! :-D Nice graphics and really good job!

Sam Oates Games28 Apr 2014, 10:40

Cute and gross at the same time. Would have preferred the controls to be WASD/Arrow keys but mouse did the job :)

buhb1128 Apr 2014, 16:53

This game rocks!Thx for the live stream!

sugarbyte29 Apr 2014, 01:36

Really great! So elegant and fun :)

TheGamingProject29 Apr 2014, 19:07

Pretty fun little game! I found the clicking controls to be a bit odd though.

loxo30 Apr 2014, 20:04

Great game. I like the idea and the graphics very much. While playing the first time a got confused, because I instinctively always thought the red blood cells are the enemies. It took a while to accept that red is good :)