Ludum Dare #48compo

DeepVirus

by lesaintbiscuit

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.19

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Introduction

Hello this is my first JAM ever! I hope you'll like this game and its twist.

In DeepVirus, you control a Mouse, your goal is to progress "deeper and deeper" into the computer to find the source of a virus. You will have to find files to examine while avoiding the virus.

The Twist!

The game has a kind of unique mechanic using windows!
It supports 1080p and 1440p monitors. If you have a bigger resolution, I would recommend lowering it, though I understand the trouble.

There are 1 tutorial and 9 levels in total, introducing some new mechanics here and there.

How to play

Everything is explained in a tutorial at the beginning.
You will be using the SPACE and ARROW keys.

Some Info

- You can move while holding Space, some people miss that
- The game should totally work on Linux (tested with Wine)
- Do not play in fullscreen mode
- If a level is too hard, you can skip it with F1

Final Notes

I did everything by myself (hence the graphics) using GameMaker Studio 1.4.
I used https://sfxr.me/ for the sound effects.

Genres: action

Tools: GameMaker, sfxr

Comments17

adam077x26 Apr 2021, 08:50

Good work.

Taximan98126 Apr 2021, 09:04

Cool game, not much more to say, just fun to play. Kept me hooked the whole way through!

rhys_vdw26 Apr 2021, 09:36

Hey, super novel concept and pretty well executed. I was intrigued, but tbh I didn't really understand what the goal was (despite it being explained at the start). Still gotta commend you for execution of a very abstract idea. Great mechanic exploration for a jam game.

(Oh also you should disallow fullscreen with alt+enter, I did that at first and then went back to windowed when I saw the message about window position.)

Chensu26 Apr 2021, 21:38

Cool graphic :). Love the UI, but I did not really understand the goal.

HyperTheory28 Apr 2021, 12:50

The gameplay is fun, but's a bit hard for me and I got stuck in the 4th level.

LeSaintBiscuitauthor28 Apr 2021, 13:06

@hypertheory Now that I think about it, I may have forgotten to remove my debug commands, if a level is too hard but you want to see the rest of the game, press F1, that should skip it!

Pink Spaceman28 Apr 2021, 20:53

OMG YOUR GAME IS AMAZING, (my widows defender blocked it but we don't talk about this part lol), the art is funny and the sounds are realy loud, but i love the gameplay, it was super fun, great game

xmatos29 Apr 2021, 18:15

Couldn't play because the window gets to the left of my monitor, in the tutorial.

Niklas Zhaga29 Apr 2021, 18:44

NAILD IT! haha it's so original, and hard game too, anyway, great idea, cool puzzle game, thank's for game man :D

Linky4391 May 2021, 18:35

Nice idea! Definitively didn't expect this one for sure.
I did encountered an issue though, as when I loop, the final screen on the right is located too much on the right-hand side:

This caused me many many death as I was chased down from one side, and couldn't see the obstacles on the other.

Other than this, this is a very interesting puzzle game (maybe a bit too hard at times?). Congrats!

LeSaintBiscuitauthor3 May 2021, 10:08

@linky439 Isn't it because you use a lower resolution than 1080p? If so, that's my bad but expected, I didn't scale the game for every screen resolution

TheGamerASD9 May 2021, 09:35

Fun game, I like the artstyle as well!

pnkvrt14 May 2021, 11:26

Very cool concept! Gameplay is fun, I like the sounds and visuals. Well done!

YouK14 May 2021, 13:32

Very fun to play. Concept is very origin and the sound effect is simple but enough to work(at first I think the game was no sound and was scared a little when the first sound effect was played).

gord10ahmet14 May 2021, 13:55

I liked the idea!

Prof.Suarez14 May 2021, 19:00

-_- it won't let me load it, my firewall said virus detected lol.

GaryS14 May 2021, 19:08

I couldn't download this - Windows Defender keeps deleting it.