Ludum Dare #56compo

Help From Within

by pincushion

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.95

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Tumors have infected your patient's body. Luckily, you have nanobots capable of curing this ailment. Move the nanobots to the tumors, and they'll do the rest.

How to play
-----------

If you get stuck, you can restart the level by pressing 'p' or space to see the pause menu, which has a restart level button in it.

These instructions are also in game.

- Select a nanobot by clicking on it.
- Click a second time to select a collection of bots, if they're connected.
- W/S/A/D or Arrows to move
- Enter or E to connect adjacent bots

Screenshot
----------

Known issues
------------
- The movement is sometimes (often) buggy. If you get stuck, you can restart the level by pressing 'p' or space to see the pause menu, which has a restart level button in it.
- There's no win screen. You'll be shown the start screen.

Genres: puzzle

Tools: Unity

Comments12

SatLess7 Oct 2024, 02:00

the idea is so creative, I like the concept of connecting the nanobots to reach certain tumors, the puzzles are very well made , makes you think for a bit, sometimes a whole lot if you're like me :laughing: Solid entry!

frostblooded8 Oct 2024, 20:52

The puzzles are designed very well. Good job! I really liked the mechanics.

candlesan9 Oct 2024, 05:27

Some original mechanics in here! You really took the time to design a lot of puzzles that make different use of the configurations and the way the geometry has to be used in creative ways to solve the levels.

AverySimmons9 Oct 2024, 05:28

really good puzzle design and theming! I really liked how open ended the puzzles are especially once you are essentially building structures out of the bots towards the end. my only gripe would be that a big stack of bots fell through the floor halfway through the game making it impossible to progress. Amazing stuff!

Nazariglez9 Oct 2024, 10:37

Great concept and clever puzzles! The nanobot connection mechanic is really fun, though moving them can be tricky at times. Gj!

manabreak9 Oct 2024, 14:30

I like the way you interpreted the theme! The game got a bit buggy at times, though... Some levels completed with the nanobots far away from the goals, I don't know what happened there.

Cobear259 Oct 2024, 17:38

I really like the concept. Good level design too. The movement feels a little weird though, so if you were to work on this in the future I'd vote for that. Overall it's a great submission!

LDJam user 2806249 Oct 2024, 17:51

A very interesting puzzle! Congratulations on a great submission

SdCorpse9 Oct 2024, 18:41

My nanobot ran out off screen(( But the puzzle is interesting!

crcdng11 Oct 2024, 14:35

Like the idea of controlling multiple units and combining their efforts to solve problems (long time ago there was a game called 'Goonies' that did that): Keep iterating and improving!

Master-YEET12 Oct 2024, 14:08

The nanobot connection mechanic is a really cool idea and it worked well with the level design, I enjoyed playing it a lot! The movement is a bit buggy, but still very playable. The levels could use a bit more decorative details and lightning. Still very solid entry, congrats!

Ronn Fever14 Oct 2024, 06:51

Wow - what a tough and creative puzzle game! Great use of theme, as well, hard to be much smaller than microscopic! The linking system seems like there would be a ton of design space here, and you've seemed to have started off very well. I think you've got a pretty good proof of concept to take it a lot further. Either way, great game jam submission!

Other games by @pincushion

★3.17

★3.18

★3.50