Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.
FOR A FAST,FAST PLAY:
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1. Forget everything explained in the tutorial.
2. Use ARROW keys to move and A key to shoot.
3. Don't press space bar and don't touch the mouse.
4. Follow the BIG BLUE ARROWS that appear on the screen an you will find mother virus.
Games' goal:
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You will have to destroy mother virus and protect your mother cell in order to keep the health of the human body.
Two modes of control the white cell army:
- Heroe Mode:
You control one white cell unit with ARROW keys,A button to shoot and space bar to zoom in and out.
- Commander Mode:
Take the brain control and give the proper orders selecting by area the cells you want to give orders and selecting in another area the goal of the cells.
You can select these kind of orders depending the destination area you choose:
* Attack Mother Virus: You select an area where is the virus mother.
* Protect Mother Cell: You tell to keep near your cell mother and protect it.
* Attack virus unit: You select an individual virus unit to attack.
* Follow cell unit: You select an individual cell to follow.
* Go to position: You have selected an empty area where the unit will stay.
WEIRD CONTROL:
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It may seems and strange control, but It's easy to get used. Remember if you touch the keyboard you control one cell unit(Heroe Mode), if you move the mouse you switch to Commander Mode.
DIFFICULTY:
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In settings you can set up the game's difficulty (EASY,NORMAL, HARD, CRAZY), by default is set up to NORMAL.
TRICKS:
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-If you are killed in "Heroe Mode" you can turn off the transition to the nearest cell pressing space bar or "A" key.
-Try experiments like:
* Follow the leader: Make that all the white cells follow your controlled unit. Feel that the army is following you into the battle.
* OverProtect your cell mother: Make that all the unit to protect the cell make while you alone can handle to destroy alone the virus.
* Kamikaze attack: Send all the white cell units to attack,... leaving your cell mother alone :(
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Finally, I want to thank the great art done by Helder Rodrigues.
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(UPDATE) Thanks for the feedback. I didn't feel that the pause in zoom in and out was so annoying. Now there is no pause and you were right, the game is more fluent.
(UPDATE 2) Really thanks for the front page and thanks for the feedback.
About the commented lag it was deliberate, because the frame rate must be slow down in order to have a chance to avoid the enemy shoots in Heroe Mode.
About the zoom in and out, I spent a lot of time trying different approaches, and I thought that it fitted well, but I recognize that will be good to give a chance to the player to enable/disable it.
About the shoot, the unit shoots go in the direction of the nearest enemy unit, it will be really difficult for the player to enable 4 extra keys to control the directions of the shoots (up,down,left,right). But, It would have been good to configure the shoots for the players had a chance to configure the controls in the way they like.
Hell I'd give this an 100!
This game in my opinion is the best game on newgrounds yet! It's almost perfect in every way. The only thing I'd like to see if you make a sequal
is maybe the ability to buy upgrades. Everything else was awsome. Its addicting,fun and keeps me entertained. Easily a 5 plus im adding this to my favorites! Keep up the good work! ^^
Meh...
its great and all but its really lagging in some major characteristics. I mean for one, whats MY health? I'm running around getting killed with 2-5 shots, and its really annoying to get that surprise. Also I fail to see the threat in dying, once I'm gone a little spark will take me to another guy, and there no worry about losing to many guys, cuz that fat blob of a cell will crap more out.
And what is REALLY annoying is the constant movement thats going on. I mean at lease give me a second to stop. once my hands go off the keyboard your annoying little auto movement thing kicks in. I mean if you want to have the little cell think constantly moving why make a game? Just make a flash. There have been times where i just got up and left the game and won. It is an ok feature and there could be other people who love it, just make it an option. And might I add the auto-A.I. (whatever its called) is profoundly retarded.
Oh and holy crap, I want to shoot where I want to shoot. I could be a lot better if you just made the shooting with the W,A,S, and D keys instead of the player holding A and running around like an idiot, hoping for the hearts to hit the baddie.
I will give you credit for trying new things, but the game seemed like all you did was make the idea and thats it. Rushed.
You are right. I did the game idea and thats it. Since I earn no money for these projects I like to do the work I really like, that is to work in new game ideas. Sorry, I don't have the time of a student and I have work in other things to pay the bills.
Great Idea, needs more reforming
I loved the idea behind the game, but it didn't quite feel right. I think the artwork wasn't right for this type of game, and neither was the music.The last thing I didn't like was the control scheme, it was hard to control the other cells, and the zoom in and out thing was kind of annoying, and you should have added in some physics. considering there were that many bad thing about it, the idea was fantastic and if you spent a bit more time with it it would be great.
cool
that was a very imaginative game and i couldn't stop playing until i had finished. the controls were a bit sluggish though. and thats why i think you deserve a 9.
Awsomo
When ever i tried to command my *army* it would lag. And I thought it was annoying how u could only shoot up,down,left, or right. But it was a pretty good game. Make another