Viral Nexus

📖 Introduction

Viral Nexus is a strategy game where players take control of a computer virus as it spreads through a digital system. Starting from an infected node, your mission is to grow in power by drawing paths and sending out Nanites to gather resources from various Processor Nodes. As your network expands, the challenge intensifies: enemy firewalls appear to halt your progress and destroy your Nanites.

With a limited number of resources and increasing threats, you must carefully navigate the system, managing your viral spread to dominate the grid. Can you infect the system and outsmart its defenses, or will your viral nexus be contained?

🎓 How To Play

🎯 The Objective

The aim of the game, is to use your Nanites to collect enough Processing Power from the target system, to gain access to the mainframe - to do this you'll need to gather 2000 power.

The host system will be trying to quarantine you however, avoid the spawning Firewalls as they will destroy your Nanites. If you are left with no Nanites and not enough power to spawn anymore, you will be kicked out of the host and will have to find a new target.

👣 Paths

To create paths, left click on any existing node or path and draw in the direction you want.

To remove paths, right click and drag over the paths you want to delete.

🪲 Nanites

Your Nanites are how you take over the system. At a cost of 3 Processing Power, they are automatically created and sent on any available path. The Nanites are simple in design and will randomly take any path available to them, even if it means certain destruction. A Nanite can be killed either by Firewalls or walking off a empty path.

Nodes

🦠 Virus Base

The Virus Base is the center of the world, this is where your Nanites initially spawn from. Draw paths from here to Processor Nodes to collect Processing Power.

⚡ Processor Nodes

Directing your Nanites to Processor Nodes will award you with Processing Power which is used to spawn more Nanites. Processor Nodes spawn randomly in the world as the game progresses.

📂 File Bases

File Bases will also spawn randomly in the world. They have a counter next to them that represents how many Nanites are needed in order to capture the base.

Once a File Base has been captured, Nanites will spawn from there.

🔥 Firewalls

Firewalls are deployed by the system to stop your Nanites. They are only placed on path tiles and if your Nanites run into they, they will be destroyed.

🕹️ Basic Controls

- Left Mouse Button to draw paths.
- Right Mouse Button to remove paths.
- Middle Mouse Button to pan the camera.
- Scroll Wheel to zoom in and out.