Amoeba

by mikem
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.03
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.53
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.60
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★49%
Amoeba!

You are a lone amorphous entity in a world of crushing crystalline conformity. It's friday at 4pm and you want to skip work early, but you'll have to evade the hall monitors and the tattle tales, and prevent your close minded fellows from discovering your true nature, lest you incur the wrath of The Boss [no boss character has been implemented].

HOW TO PLAY: Move around using WASD. Click on the portals to move up and down through the levels (you'll have to remember which portals send you where). To win, you need to reach the bottom level and exit through the green doors. Guards that suspect you of being an amoeba will drain your health. When in your crystal disguise (press M), your are immune to this.

Created by Michael Matan, Dan Hambleton, Nikin Nagewadia and Brian Ansems

EDIT: We totally ran out of time on this one, so please consider playing the post compo version. We added a win condition, fixed a few bugs, and set up the music.

Comments13

MintArcade
MintArcade9 Dec 2014, 17:30
Very nice visuals and story - really enjoy playing.
Drtizzle
Drtizzle10 Dec 2014, 15:52
I looks really nice, but I have no idea what to do
Pestel Crew10 Dec 2014, 20:12
Didn't understand how to play, but the whole concept is great
OrangeeZ10 Dec 2014, 20:13
Wow, the post-compo version is noticeably different from the original, though both are equally puzzling :D
I like the style (and you refined it nicely in the post-compo version), but the game is really difficult to understand.
floorman
floorman10 Dec 2014, 20:15
The game looked amazing and was a really nice idea. I was unsure of what to do and pressing space repeatedly made you bigger than the screen(bug!). Was a good game though.
kipelovets10 Dec 2014, 20:18
The idea of white-collar amoeba is nice and semi-transparent floors rendering looks good, but the gameplay is not very fun — it's hard to figure out what to do and enemies give you more pain than challenge.

The post-compo version still has a bug that makes you fly through the levels to below-zero floors.
goodbadokay10 Dec 2014, 20:24
Graphics are awesome and it performs well
But I just fell off the bottom side of the screen
DiegoHenriquez
DiegoHenriquez10 Dec 2014, 20:25
nice visuals. I didn't really under stand how to play it but i sure had fun. and the audio is pretty good. Also fits pretty well with the theme. You did a good job :D.
semdog
semdog13 Dec 2014, 23:19
Finally, a game about amoebas!
Really nice graphics, interesting idea. I did however fall off the side and reach level -416 :)
Riocide17 Dec 2014, 15:14
could have done with some more ambience and the portals were very confusing at the beginning!
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