Bacterial

co-authored: @watamoto, @pakeika
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.01
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.86
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.95
​Devour and evolve in our Roguelike bacteria simulator! Made for Ludum Dare - 56.

Explore the 3 locations that we have prepared for you, which differ in their inhabitants and the food they offer you.

Dozens of upgrades will be available to you, and your bacteria will grow with each level.

There are two characters to choose from.

CONTROLS:
Movement - arrows.
Virus attacks automatically. Gemini attacks on button - X
Gemini dodge - Z
To travel between locations press - E

Virus: Sucks the life out of other bacteria.

Gemini(NOW FIXED!): You play as eye and are practically a support for the mouth, which will attack for you. Instead of attacking, you can heal your mouth. It also has the ability to briefly avoid any attacks.​​​

Game Designer and Artist - Webberiel - you can write your suggestions by e-mail​: [email protected]

Programmer - Watamoto

​Musician and Sound Designer - Pakeika

Comments27

MrMaico7 Oct 2024, 23:33
Could you upload a web version to Itch.io or to Ludum Dare directly? Would love to play it but am not able to download ZIPs on this PC.
Webberiel
Webberielauthor8 Oct 2024, 01:00
@mrmaico We have made a web version! You can play it on itch.io now!
Facundo Santos
Facundo Santos8 Oct 2024, 01:01
Good game. The difficulty escalates very quickly but after that very good
turtlebedlam8 Oct 2024, 01:01
Cool concept, I love the artwork
Reiale8 Oct 2024, 01:05
Thank you for sharing your game! I played both the virus and gemini modes and got to level 5 in each. Playing as the Virus felt a bit more intuitive and I enjoyed chomping on my rivals. While playing in Gemini mode, I someone ended up inside the bottom wall, and then moved through to the other side and into a seemingly endless zone of background and no other mobs. My favorite thing was probably the music which gave the perfect vibe!
JulesLeech8 Oct 2024, 01:07
Nice game! I liked the music!
Webberiel
Webberielauthor8 Oct 2024, 01:12
@reiale Sorry for gemini :( He's not feeling well yet. We will try to fix it soon, if possible. We know that it has a lot of bugs.
MrMaico8 Oct 2024, 04:52
You added the itch.io link under "Windows", you might want to update that. The Parallax background loads slower than the player moves. (We had the same issue and finding the background sprite and unchecking "centered" fixed that for us in Godot).

The Sound was cool and the character movement was really smooth. Attacking didn't seem to work for neither Gemini nor the Virus so I can't say too much about the game. I think it's ambitious to do two characters but I can see where you were going with this.

Overall not a bad entry, just some small tweaks needed I think.
osh.studio
osh.studio8 Oct 2024, 05:48
Hello, I played your game! It worked well on web, I found using the gemini to be much stronger because I couldn't help but get hit when I tried attacking as virus. Good submission!
cherwood8 Oct 2024, 16:40
Very cool to be able to play 2 different characters, my favorite is the Gemini.
Nikolas van Rus
Nikolas van Rus8 Oct 2024, 18:39
Good game, could use some work on balance, but otherwise it's cool!
Webberiel
Webberielauthor8 Oct 2024, 19:21
I am glad to inform you that we have fixed bugs related to gemini and some other stupid errors in the code (there is a list of changes on itch io).
Phing9 Oct 2024, 04:29
really cool ideas here, challenging but easy to pick up. great job!
sf29 Oct 2024, 15:09
although there are problems with the mechanics, I really like the music
Mirtol9 Oct 2024, 15:11
Nice game! Vwrey satisfying eating germs having been ill last weekend!!
FrozenDude9 Oct 2024, 17:56
Really nice. I love that the music ramps up that much.
andymetoo
andymetoo9 Oct 2024, 17:56
Nice little idea. Once I figured out what I was doing I started cruising on it. I liked the music a lot, as well.
Andriy-Symon9 Oct 2024, 17:57
Loved the game! Audio is amazing
Andriy-Symon9 Oct 2024, 17:57
Loved the game! Audio is amazing
LDJam user 43129 Oct 2024, 20:34
Nice ideas, getting Gemini to was quite challenging but overall very fun game. But I had some issues with enemies and food turning invisible sometimes.
TheSmellofOxygen10 Oct 2024, 01:02
This is a delightful entry. Has the addictive nature of a good rogue-like. I died a few times before I learned that the virus needs to be very opportunistic in the beginning! then I had a great run. Things got a little stale when I could just mindlessly ram into everything and regen past it. The perk scaling was very interesting, with a balance between flat changes that are more valuable very early, then shifting hard to "bonus/level" perks to get crazy values. I wish the level-up progress had a visible meter to watch go up as I gobble everything in sight!

I have to shout out Pakeika's sound track with this. It's amazing. A real hype-up vibe that kept my energy and anticipation high even when the action was slow. I kept exploring levels just to listen to all the tracks. Excellent work.
Maïssa10 Oct 2024, 12:35
Nice game I liked the gemini challenge
Pachino5511 Oct 2024, 01:00
Very cool, would recommend
LDJam user 31916612 Oct 2024, 13:50
Nice game! really enjoy it. would be better if there is attribute panel to show player's status in game and after game!
Rewzu
Rewzu20 Oct 2024, 13:11
The audio and graphics are great. The movement feels a bit too floaty but other than that it is a nice game. Good job! :D
Brainloaf Studio
Brainloaf Studio23 Oct 2024, 00:36
First of all, that music is such a jam. Second of all - woah! I love that you included multiple characters and bacteria types, and it's fun to progress and collect upgrades. I did run into an issue where the upgrade selection was halfway off-screen, but I was still able to figure out what they said. Really fun stuff!
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