Cure4Life

by gipzo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.22

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.29

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.28

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.95

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.05

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★66%

Story
You're trapped in an abandoned room with some biological and medical equipment and workbench.

Strange zombie-like creatures are attacking this one room and your goal is not to die by upgrading yourself and your weapons.

Genre
Survival action game

Controls
WASD - move
Mouse - aim
LMB - shoot
E - Use/Craft
1,2,3,4 - Switch weapon

Team
Artem Shambalev aka Gipzo - Programming, Game Design, Sound
Vitali Poliakou aka Chimera - Art, Game Design

Music by
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Mac OS and Windows versions can be downloaded from itch.io.

Update 13 Dec 2016:
Fixed sound bugs and some minor balance.
Nothing new, just tweaking game to be more accessible.
Jam builds can still be found on itch.io

Update 14 Dec 2016:
Finally fixed axe bug!
Jam builds can still be found on itch.io

Genres: action

Tools: Unity

Comments44

velvetlobster13 Dec 2016, 14:09

The battle system is interesting, combining mouse hits, upgrades that require time like in gods will be watching and weapons system. I had a really good time, this game is kinda addicting. Having different kinds of zoombies with time would make this a great and fun mobile game.

Thijs Tak13 Dec 2016, 14:12

Its a fun quick game, however the best weapon is the starting axe due to the knockback and you can keep playing the game after you lose.

Also, in every attempt the axe stopped working after a while. One time even after the first wave.

SimonHutchinson13 Dec 2016, 15:42

Wow. Super-fun game. I love the "Hold E" mechanic for upgrades, etc. I will say I couldn't find a chance to get the rifle. Once I had enough scraps the zombies were too thick for me to hold E long enough.

Also, my axe stopped working halfway through. Is that supposed to happen?

Asghardian13 Dec 2016, 20:11

The game is sick (in a good way) one of the bests I`ve played so far in this LD.

The visuals are beautiful. Congrats to Chimera for the amazing pixel art.
The mechanics, as well, works very good. Good work Gipzo.

The only problem was that the game tends to get repetitive (besides the axe stop working issue).

But I guess this game is worth the 5 stars. Great job, guys! =D

bigbuggames14 Dec 2016, 21:35

Really fun game! The music and the graphics were awesome. You could improve the zombie animations. Keep up the good work.

JayProg14 Dec 2016, 23:17

Loved the power progression with crafted weapons and research upgrades!

aemiliu515 Dec 2016, 01:15

One of my favourites so far. Overall it's great, unfortunately I couldn't get to the end because it was too difficult for me :P

The only things I didn't like very much were the shooting mechanics, particularly the sounds and the lack of a crosshair. Good knockback, though. Nice work, keep it up! :)

Uliana Galich16 Dec 2016, 09:33

I love your style! You've done good sprites man, it's awesome!

MrErdalUral16 Dec 2016, 10:28

I loved the way how you did the attack animation. I will have to look at it and study :)

rayriver16 Dec 2016, 10:29

Good game!

NoobDude2916 Dec 2016, 10:40

The game is fun, the audio is amazing, i love the soundtrack and the sound fx for the axe, not so much the rifle, it could be a bit balanced since the shotgun is pretty useless, and i love the little comments after you reach 100%

jsmars16 Dec 2016, 11:32

Really nice game! Feels really complete. Only thing I'd change is a a bit of balance, early on it feels way to easy, but later on it feels almost impossible to kill them even with the last upgrade since I felt the shotgun wasn't very strong. Sadly I died at about 50%.
It was really nice music, too bad the sound effects took over a bit much.

Dev Dennis16 Dec 2016, 12:58

I liked it, really cool art, great gameplay.

I think it got a bit too easy after you craft the pistol, but amazing you made this in such a short time frame. Cheers.

seizeTheDia16 Dec 2016, 13:33

That was FUN! I was about to comment that it was too easy until a horde that would just NOT GO DOWN murdered me while trying to heal. Fun stuff. Obviously needs some balancing with gun dmg and mob HP but I had a great time losing so, thumbs up!
The placement of the worktables was excellent, since it forces you to stand in a place where you are easily surrounded. Some suggestions:
- Faster / Stronger leader mobs that spawn at certain intervals to ramp up the tension
- A chance of being injured when hit, which could affect your move speed until you "fix" yourself at the heal station
- I would love to get some UI telling me what the result of achieving more research will be ( might be a meta thing but it could help the player create a strategy )

Good work!

Infin816 Dec 2016, 14:04

I had fun playing this, managed to get rifle and was impossible(for my case) to get the shotgun. Was scary to see the mob piling up, felt the sense of dread like in The Walking Dead.

PolygonTeam16 Dec 2016, 14:05

Fun gameplay. So soft. Interesting character. yes, i like it!

JoeProgram16 Dec 2016, 15:31

Nicely done! Having the axe bring you closer to your enemies is a really nice touch, and the decaying-hold-to-upgrade is very fun. I'd love it if the pacing were a bit faster - I didn't have to plan the use of my time until about 5 minutes into the game.

Asghardian16 Dec 2016, 17:23

Really nice gameplay and graphic, good SFX also, just didn't found the shotgun very useful, good work (:

WarmLemon16 Dec 2016, 18:06

cool! awesomely done. bullet doesn't come out if you stand on the top left corner though... 5/5

Hempuli16 Dec 2016, 20:44

Very polished! I liked the upgrade system and the look of the game. The combat system was also in-depth enough to keep the game interesting, although it would've been neat to have the game ramp up difficulty a bit faster. Ended up getting 110% research before quitting.

Spag Head Games17 Dec 2016, 02:31

Really great work. Highest I have is 45%, damn it gets brutal. So much fun to play.

ethankennerly17 Dec 2016, 16:26

I was blown away by the mood crafted from the music, color palette, pace and density of the zombies! On my laptop's trackpad, I felt awkward moving the mouse and clicking while using keyboard arrow keys. I banged on my keyboard hoping that there would be a keyboard way to attack and aim, such as WASD and SPACE to aim and attack.

NickZangus19 Dec 2016, 13:15

Wow! This is absolutely one of my favourite entries. Great atmosphere, is like a fusion between Resident Evil and Risk Of Rain... I see a lot of potential. Keep up the good work!

Otso Turpeinen19 Dec 2016, 14:06

Great Start! I hope to see rogue-like version of this in future. The damage feedback sounds were painful for the ears.

bes_kurales19 Dec 2016, 16:52

Good job :) nice balance.

dusho19 Dec 2016, 18:08

wow.. amazing game with really nice feel.. and cool music

sP0CkEr219 Dec 2016, 19:50

good use of theme, and the mood you set with the music was great. loved the mechanic and the graphics were great. great game.

PowerSpark19 Dec 2016, 22:26

Addictive game, multiple enemy types would definitely help.

DevForPizza20 Dec 2016, 11:53

Best game I've test for this Ludum dare, Good Job !

DeathBySnail20 Dec 2016, 13:19

Nice, bit too clicky for me (RSI) but I still played for a good while.

rilifon20 Dec 2016, 13:41

WOW! Awesome game! Really well done, it's fun.

Is it just me or is the shotgun worse than the rifle?

Gipzoauthor20 Dec 2016, 13:44

@rilifon, yeah, shotgun is pretty bad.
We are trying to make proper post-jam version with many balance changes :)

pyokoanarogue20 Dec 2016, 19:41

Great entry. very polished. played the web version on itch.io but took too long to craft the shotgun .then it became unattainable. balance? or not the best player ? you decide !

limmmmm20 Dec 2016, 19:46

Really fun!

This feels complete and very well-made. I'll probably have to try it again later, i died a little after getting the shotgun.. bearded-cardigan-guy is pretty cool, too.

Recursiveanomaly20 Dec 2016, 19:58

Awesome game! I love the animations, art, and gameplay. The time pressure when upgrading/ect while zombies are slowly approaching works really well. My only complaint is the pacing is really slow, and it is really slow with no real pressure for a long time.

Khaoz_Fang21 Dec 2016, 01:44

Excellent game. The blood effect was great. It was a bit too slow at the beginning though.

Aaranos22 Dec 2016, 19:44

Game is a bit grindy but it is still fun. Great entry.

Karai1722 Dec 2016, 23:19

I got the rifle but the waves were too much for the last weapon. I gotta say, this seems like the most fun I've had with any game on LD. I will totally keep playing this a few more rounds.

Hamsternator23 Dec 2016, 19:07

Very nice zombie wave slasher thingie =)
I don't have anything big to add that hasn't been said but I did find the camera to be a bit uncooperative when you wanted it to scroll down. The camera worked perfect when scrolling upwards though ^^

Very nice job =)

DDRKirby(ISQ)27 Dec 2016, 02:45

Got to 121% research before quitting =P Pretty fun nice little game, glad someone picked up this approach to the theme. As you already know, the shotgun is a bit shoddy and the trusty rifle was the one that went the distance. Might want to turn down the volume on the rifle firing sound though, it gets grating after a long while.

As mentioned, the game does get a little bit repetitive, but you guys have got a nice start to something cool here!

mirta00027 Dec 2016, 05:58

was far more fun than I thought it would be. Could not understand the purpose of a pistol as it felt worse than the axe. I'm not one for zombie games, but this one was fantastic!

JackTheOgre27 Dec 2016, 19:53

Really good game, comrads. Enjoyed it. Though almost impossible to craft a shotgun. It would've been better if damage by the axe was not fixed (like CONST + TIME*KOEF). Or an opportunity to upgrade it. So the player can choose a strategy - gather them together and kill with an axe or slay em one by one.
Mechanics remind Bastion a little(and I love that game).
P.S. Yeah, once you killed a thousand of them - пол действительно мокрый ;в

Almax2728 Dec 2016, 00:06

Loved it! One of my favorite entries so far! Well designed, executed and polished.

Pros
* Gameplay goals are intuitive
* Tight movement, aiming and weapon mechanics make combat very satisfying
* Graphics are good and UI is clear
* Hold 'e' mechanic adds an extra element of danger as you can't attack or move away without canceling (being able to move was a good choice as it allows a small amount of zombie avoidance and doesn't feel too restrictive

Cons (mostly nitpicking)
* Research takes too long - drags game out
* Tables can block gun shots unfairly (collider too big?)
* Without an ammo system previous weapons become redundant
* Shotgun doesn't do damage per 'shot' hit, meaning point blank does the same damage as 1% of the spread, making the shotgun a more effective long range weapon...
* More enemy types would be nice :P

Jupiter_Hadley10 Jan 2017, 18:31

Love the fact that we were researching the zombie skin! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 37 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/xG2aiO_VsBw