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A jam submission

BacteriumView game page

Adjust the population of bacterias in this AWESOME game
Submitted by Topeni, matuush — 1 hour, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#9393.7863.786
Creativity#23823.7143.714
Audio#24123.2143.214
Narrative#38892.5712.571
Artwork#51472.9292.929

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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You have to make sure the count of the bacterias is down

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Comments

Submitted

Cool game, although maybe a bit difficult at the start. The animations for the bacteria are very fun. And I like how all the different abilities work together.

Submitted

Fun game !

Submitted

Very challenging but well made game.

Submitted

This game is fun! I do not know if there is a way to maintain a stable amount bacterias, but I was pretty happy when I was able to kill them all

very enjoyable, nice ideia, very hard to control the exponential grouth so its chalanging to make the gameplay work, but still a nice game

Submitted

Fun little idea! I aswell got some lags when too many were present, but it's definitely addicting and took me quite some time to be able to paly for longer than 10 seconds lol

Submitted

Very fun game with great mechanics!

Submitted(+1)

It's a shame because I have some lag when there are too many bacteria on screen, which makes it hard to play near the limit how I'd like it. I enjoyed the concept and really wanted to play it more deeply. Regardless, it's a fun game! If you had a little more time to playtest and balance/optimize it further, it would have been really great!

Submitted(+1)

F*cking Among Us, despite this the game is actually sick as hell. It's very overwhelming starting because the bacteria reproduce faster than you can really understand, but once you're able to get past the brief harsh learning curve it's actually really fun trying to manage the colony without it going dry or rampant. I love how every item gets a use, sprays for on point crowd control, turrets to keep the swarm stable, lures to make sprays more effective and walls to keep a portion of bacteria safe. The music is also pretty banging. To be critical I think the upgrades are way too cheap, at least have the later upgrades be more expensive and once the mechanics click in your head you can get a setup that can last you forever. Otherwise I really loved this game, very creative!

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot! Yeah, a lot of the critique (badly priced upgrades and bad early game pacing) stems from us not doing basically any playtesting prior to the deadline, so that was a fault on out part. But either way thanks for playing and having fun with our game! :)