A battle in the micro-world - bacteria vs virus! The one that grows faster wins. Play vs AI or go multiplayer on one keyboard. Press and hold Z to spawn resource gatherers and press X to recall them, claim resources, and GROW! Hold Z a little longer to spawn a soldier that will protect you from rogue cells and attack the opponent's core.
Select mode from menu screen. In 2-players mode, use Z, X for player 1 and O, P for player 2.
Have fun!
Credits:
the game is made with LibGDX
Programming: Evgeniy Tsvigun Art: Yakov Nechushkin, Pavel Buzdin Music and sound: Nikita Vasilyev, Dmitry Miroshkin
Update: v0.1.1 * due to a typo, all the purplish enemies floated to the right side, making it real hard for the blue player, fixed. * Balance fixed: purple enemies could grow big enough to kill a base in one touch, which made the gameplay too randome
Very polished and nice game! I imagine it would be plenty of fun with 2 players, unfortunately I don't have anyone to play with right now :) Sounds, graphics, gameplay, everything was great.
@timeshapers yeah, the balance needs tweaking. Still, even now you can prevent your death by recalling gatherers in time or trying to emit soldiers when purples are close :)
I've always liked cell-agent simulations and the idea of indirect control. The main challenge when developing games based on these attributes is creating interesting and compelling gameplay.
The main problem here is the "neutral" purple cells. No matter how actively I keeps spawning fighter cells, sooner or later, one of the big ones is going to appear off screen and hit my base or the enemy base.
Losing like that is infuriatingly random and winning like that isn't an achievement in the slightest.
I feel relaxing the two button limitation and allowing the player to choose the cell spawning direction would go a long way in alleviating this issue.
You could also try to redesign the purple cell to act in a different role, for instance not as a menace but rather a small hindrance in the beginning or as a tactical obstacle between your base and enemy cells.
HuvaaKoodia, yes, you're totally right about that, we see that clearly for quite a while now. We're about to provide more stats - that mediates the issue with most stuff happening off-screen, making more units and, I guess now your detailed and fair criticism just made firm my intention to change purple cells behaviour. The easiest would be limiting their growth capacity, should improve the gameplay a lot.
Great production values! The only downside is that gameplay seems a bit random, at least I won against the AI more than once without following a solid strategy
Love the concept. I had a lot of fun. However, I don't like how a lot of the action is happening off screen. I don't have much of an idea how my collectors are doing until I recall them.
OX/X and Linux links are actually .jar files, so use them if you have Java installed