RedditLudum Dare 21
August 19th-22nd 2011 :: Theme: Escape
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Viral - torokokill - 48 Hour Competition Entry
Viral is a 2D top-down escape game. You are a Virus. The objective of the game is to escape the anti-viruses who are trying to catch you, to delete you, for as long as possible. There is no win condition.
There are three viruses with different behaviors:
Scanner(Purple Magnifying Glass): Slow, but will always follow you
Integrity Checker(Blue Alarm): Will only give chase if you get too close
Emulator(Yellow E): Fast and will hone in on you. Only lasts for 30 seconds at a time.
To aid in your evasion you are given two traps to use:
[/0] - Logic Bomb - Roots the first anti-virus who runs into it in place for 5 seconds
[?] - EPO - After a 2 second activation period, the EPO will become part of the map for 13 seconds and block anything around it
Known Bugs:
Anti-virus pathing is still a little iffy at times. I ran out of time to polish it. I'm sorry!
You will experience some slowdowns if a lot of anti-viruses need to generate paths all at the same time. As above, I wasn't able to fix it in time!
No music disable feature - Ran out of time!
I hope you enjoy my first Ludum Dare entry and endure the programmer tier art and last second music. Thank-you!
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Ratings
| #122 | Community | 3.00 |
| #158 | Fun | 2.95 |
| #172 | Audio | 2.56 |
| #198 | Theme | 3.15 |
| #251 | Humor | 1.85 |
| #263 | Overall | 2.84 |
| #263 | Innovation | 2.70 |
| #357 | Graphics | 2.30 |
| #418 | Coolness | 0% |
Comments
Simple and fun. The programming-specific powers are great. If you keep working on it, a portal that opened up after X seconds to take you to another level would give a nice change of scenery.
cool game. i like the 1/2 abilities. agreed with mr forkbomb that an objective like that would help.
Nifty! I did find it a bit difficult and it was hard to use my "powers" effectively.
Good work on a complete entry.
That's an interesting game which I enjoyed playing and which reminded me of pacman: you did a good job for your first LD ! :) As you said, the graphics aren't really the best, but the sound/music does its job. Maybe multiple levels would have been appreciable. It's great that you took time to write progress reports and also a postmortem (try to make a timelapse next time too) !
This is an awesome start and I'd like to see what you do with it next! I'd love to see this as a multiplayer with more powers and enemies.
Cool game, clear instructions and fun to play. The powers are interesting and work well with the maze.
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Nice and fun! Congrats!