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A jam submission

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In Symbiosis you play a single cell that survives only by mutating.
Submitted by Jonathan Jalmain — 3 hours, 25 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#583.7444.833
Fun#803.3574.333
Overall#1273.0063.881
Controls#1283.0984.000
Graphics#1323.2274.167
Accessibility#1672.5823.333
Audio#1792.3243.000
Originality#1802.7113.500

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
4.7

Theme Interpretation
You're a single cell that survives by mutating. Each level-up grafts a new mutation onto you — extra arms, spines, venom, unstable traits, or splitting into a bonded molecule of cells — so every run evolves into a different organism. The enemies are mutant cells too.

GWJ Participation Level
1

Team Size
1

Generative AI Disclosure

I confirm that this jam entry does not contain any AI-generated content

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Comments

Submitted

Cool interpretation of the theme! Nice execution on the minimalist ambience and the enemy variety. I also like how you can see the mutations growing on the character, adds to the strange cancerous theme. 

Submitted

Really solid entry and a strong base to take it further I think. I love the use of the theme as well, fits so nicely with survivor shooters - and to visually see mutations grow on you per upgrade is a nice touch. I think to add a bit more juice to the experience, maybe the movement has a bit of deceleration (a bit of drift) while moving, since it feels like I'm in liquid or a petri dish - organic movement like what you'd see in the older game Flow (for reference).

Great entry and nice play on the theme!

Submitted(+1)

I really enjoyed this entry. Even though the graphics were simple, I thought the game looked really great because of that. I wish the health bar was connected to the cell since I fogot to pay attention to it. Nice entry!

Submitted(+1)

Like the style and colours.  It's effective.  A parallax background  background might be nice.  A little more sound and some music would set if off nicely yeah. Maybe a little too easy. There are a good lot of mutations which probably makes it difficult to balance in a short time. Nice.

Submitted(+1)

Hi, your game turned out to be quite good and interesting, I liked the fact that you managed to add so many mutation selections in just 9 days. But it seems to me that there is a little bit not enough audio in the game.