Ludum Dare » viruses http://www.ludumdare.com/compo A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:14:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Destruction of the Viruses http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/28/the-destruction-of-the-viruses/ http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/28/the-destruction-of-the-viruses/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:58:43 +0000 jolle http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2007/11/28/the-destruction-of-the-viruses/ The Destruction of the Viruses was a fairly ambitious (but not very innovative) game written for the Infection theme. The player had to clean out the insides of a computer by killing all the viruses that resided there. The viruses could clone themselves, so it wasn’t always that easy.

It played like a top-down shooter, with FPS controls, and used OpenGL to draw a level that could be rotated around the player.

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There were many good intentions, and much love for the number 5 (there being 5 levels, 5 enemy types, and 5 weapon types), yet the game failed badly. The biggest mistake was a bug which made some parts of the game framerate dependent, leaving it extremely hard if you had a low framerate (it played as intended at about 180 FPS). It’s hard to say how it would have fared without the bug, but as it were, it placed about 23th.

You can get the compo version, or its source, if you want to, but I really must urge you not to! Better to get the ‘made working dist’ released a few days after the deadline. Both of them are for Windows and OpenGL.

I have an even better version around somewhere, that I haven’t packaged and released yet. I’ll do that soon, and then I’ll include it here.

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