Bacteria Attack

co-authored: @bearding8
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.95
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.04
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81
You start as an unprotected cell and evil bacteria try to infect you. Luckily you can create proteins by mixing the right nucleo acids in your DNA! Each bacteria though has a different DNA sequence, so you need to be fast!

BacteriaAttackGameplay.png

CREDITS:

Artwork & Programming:
Baris Dincer,
Nikolaos Niopas

Original Music:
Can Azbazdar

screenshot
Tools: Unity

Comments24

Sushiy21 Apr 2020, 18:08
At first it was a bit unclear, what I had to do. Maybe give the player a tutorial or indicate where to click! :) Great Idea though!
isayneigh
isayneigh21 Apr 2020, 18:10
Fun! I probably could've done better if I wasn't playing on a track pad :joy:. It definitely fits the theme and I enjoyed how the gameplay wasn't clear at first but I was able to learn as it went on.
jrf21 Apr 2020, 18:10
Very nice game! It got pretty hard pretty fast, I ain't that fast! I think it would be better if the proteins could be constructed with the keyboard. This way you could achieve much longer games.
Adinimys
Adinimys21 Apr 2020, 18:12
I kept dying. I couldn't understand what I'm supposed to do.
I tried but putting the colors of the first bacterias coming, putting just one, putting all... Nothing worked.
The theme is adapted in an original way though, it's a shame I couldn't play it.
But I'm obviously willing to try again if you were to tell me what I'm supposed to do :smile:
NicoNeko21 Apr 2020, 18:13
At first I didn't quite know what to do, but I figured it out eventually! I like the concept!
The Turtle21 Apr 2020, 18:13
It seems like a fun idea, but I can't figure out what to do to not die.
Spice Cabinet
Spice Cabinet21 Apr 2020, 18:14
Its a fun idea but I also agree that it was hard to figure out what to do at first. After figuring out how to play even then, it quickly became unmanagable. Its fun, but the difficulty picks up too fast.
Romaric21 Apr 2020, 18:18
I don't know if it's a bug or if I don't understand the game, when "YOUR" is showed on the top the game become slow and I can't find what I need to do, I tried many combination without success (having the same color sequence of one side, or using the both colors first in the two chains). I think I need more details :)
Tbrax21 Apr 2020, 18:21
Neat idea, but I feel that if you could use keys to add colors, the player could keep up better
polarfuchs21 Apr 2020, 18:21
I didnt know what to do at first. It´s a great idea. I like the music. The music got a bit boring after a while. But this is not a game I´d play for hours. Overall a nice game.
Hermitao
Hermitao21 Apr 2020, 18:23
Hi friends! The game seems nice, but as Romaric said I'm stuck in this "YOUR" screen. The game gets really slow and I'm not sure what to do.
blobo
blobo21 Apr 2020, 18:23
As mentioned, it's tough to figure out how to survive. A tutorial is essential.
Mallard
Mallard21 Apr 2020, 18:24
I like the concept.
I'd like to be able to build the DNA with keyboard keys (QWER?) and "send" the built DNA left or right with keys. That would allow people to go further and get into a cool rhythm.
brzyrt21 Apr 2020, 18:25
The game is fun but the controls are not intuitive. like one commenter said, it could use keys to select color. The music is good
MCjammydodger
MCjammydodger21 Apr 2020, 18:28
Took me a while to understand what I had to do. Maybe add a description to the game page? Once I had worked out what to do I had some fun and I liked the concept but unfortunately it's very repetitive.
codekiw21 Apr 2020, 18:37
pretty hard game and I needed some time to understand that I can click on the incoming flying things :D
OndraSej21 Apr 2020, 18:45
Nice puzzle game. I like the idea and the concept, but I'd prefer to play this on a phone or on a tablet, I'm not fast enough with the mouse. Graphics and music are a good fit for the genre, nothing to flashy, and it's easy to see what's going on.

One thing that's not clear is what happens with the slowdown when the bacteria get too close - it seems that I've already lost, but it just slows down for a while, and then kicks me out to the start screen. I'd hope for some kind of endgame screen with a score or something similar.
Scoobyben121 Apr 2020, 18:53
I really like the concept - I found the controls a little fiddly, I think a click & drag would have been a little easier for dispatching the dna.

Also, there seem to be some performance issues on the html version - when I'm about to fail, the game grinds down to a halt, and due to that I keep accidentally pressing buttons on the menu that pops up without realising it's there.
Adam Clayden
Adam Clayden21 Apr 2020, 19:21
Nice unique game. It took me a while to figure out what to do but I got there in the end. Originally I thought it was mainly colour based and had to wait for them to collide, but I realised that I should have paid attention to the combinations and then mouse click the enemies. It's quite a cool game once you get into it! If you could make a short tutorial then it would be even better
Nikos1304author21 Apr 2020, 19:30
Thanks for the feedback guys. At first, the game was intended to be an android tapping game, but in the end we built it for WebGL in order to share it with more players. That is the reason the game works with clicking rather than keyboard inputs. We didn't have time to create a manual, but in the end we think it would be interesting trying to understand how to play it. There was a minor bug preventing the player to see their score when the bacteria touch the outside of the cell, but now it's fixed.

Thanks for playing our game
raytheonly22 Apr 2020, 18:36
Playable and was fun after figuring out what to do. Besides a little tutorial or description, other things to improve:
making the attacking cells a bit bigger. (colors and lines were sometimes hard to see)
having hitpoints. (if you get hit once, some cells are removed but the next hit will end the game)

I almost survived a minute! So yeah at the end good job to you!
Kazz9622 Apr 2020, 20:20
It was a little bit hard for me because i'm daltonian, but i'm not deaf and what a music ! The little ring is very satisfying too haha
Keep it up !
nikor24 Apr 2020, 18:36
Really nice concept and music!
yy404
yy4049 May 2020, 11:15
Neat game and great music!

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