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Haha! A wonderful game.

Let me go ahead and state that I did not play this game knowing it would be educational, nor did that appeal to me at all. Not that I don't enjoy learning, but most educational games are inferior to standard ones in terms of fun.

I enjoyed this game very much! There are plenty of levels, and each level feels pretty different from the last, since there's something new added so often. The game is a bit complicated at first, but I welcomed the challenge and was rewarded with a similar feeling I had when I finally got the hang of Dwarf Fortress.

Actually, the game being more complex than most games was probably an unintentional side effect of making it educational. Like, would a game developer normally put in so many different kinds of resources, and would they make how each one works differently, rather than, say, Gold - mined from mines, Wood - cut from trees, Food - Grown from farms?

The game trusts the player to pay attention to how each organelle works, what functions they provide, and even to know how the enemy viruses work. With the dumbening down of games to cater to the mainstream (*cough, WoW and EA games, cough*, I found the small bit of complexity very pleasant.

The game itself is wonderful. The idea is great, the storyline is quirky and works well. It's just a pleasure to play.

Now, even if this game wasn't educational, I would probably still give it a ten, since it's the best game on NG I've played in a while. However, this game reminded me that I had a terrible biology teacher and helped what remnants I remembered of biology come together. That class was a little confusing, and it's been a few years! When I finally finish this game (don't get me wrong, I played a large ways through so I could give an accurate review, but the game is (pleasantly!) lengthy.), I'll be able to take with me a better reinforced grasp of biology. That's a good feeling to have. While every game certainly shouldn't be made educational (although I'd love to see more similar in scale), what I would like to see many more game developers do is treat the player like a person.

Overall, I found the game very enjoyable. The fact it was educational was mostly just a nice extra feature to me, as I have no interests working in biology. However, there is certainly an audience who would merit the educational value of Cellcraft much higher than me. More than anything, I enjoyed the game because of the small amount of complexity that is present here that is depressingly absent out of the huge majority of games, even similar strategy games. I only hope this game gets some of the attention it deseves.

Hats off for the effort..

Hats off for the effort..

Just wonderful!

This game is just wonderful, everything is just awesome!
The concept, the gameplay, the artwork, the music, anda truly educational and entertaining game.
Very interesting too!

I volunteer myself to translate it to portuguese.
My girlfriend studies pedagogy and she would absolutely love the game!
If i could translate the game to portuguese i would make sure to send it to some schools i have contact and my girlfriend, who actually works at 2 schools, would use it too.

My e-mail is victor.haratani@gmail.com

Intriguing and fun!

I was very pleasantly surprised with this game. A huge amount of effort was clearly put into it being biologically accurate, yet not flood those of us that are not biologists by profession with excess scientific information. I was always fascinted by how our bodies and, indeed cells, work on a microscopic level, so this was a great educational platform you've chosen to create the game on.

I haven't encountered any bugs within the game and have to admit, it got pretty challenging with the larger virus waves. It was great to see just how many different viruses there are and how (our) cells have to fight them off with different, ingenious, fantastic means.

I usually dislike educational games, since they prefer to overcomplicate things and not put in much effort in the 'game' department. However, in this game, I feel the balance is just perfect.

Great job! There should be more games around like this to educate children and adults alike through fun means. I can certainly say I've learned quite a bit about cells within the hour of playing this.

Keep it up!

Great

This is a wonderful game and i can tell lars has been working in it cause of his resource and junk and build system.I would like to see a another on of these games.