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GMTK Game Jam 2020

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Viral Rivals (GMTK Jam 2020)View game page

A game about balancing out two competing viruses
Submitted by Demeno (@GGDemeno) — 19 hours, 41 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#13513.3913.391
Fun#16372.9572.957
Overall#17203.0433.043
Presentation#20413.0223.022

Ranked from 46 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Two viruses get out of control and your goal is to keep them in balance

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

Yes

We created all art during the game jam

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

Yes

We created all audio during the game jam

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Comments

matimenteSubmitted4 years ago

Interesting concept!

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Tornado Madness
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atreyoauronSubmitted4 years ago

The sound effects alone are worth gold lol.

The game itself is also a interesting and different idea, kinda of original.

Very good..."BOOP!"

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Control Freak
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everdiceSubmitted4 years ago

Those sounds effect though, they deserve a game of their own just revolving around them!

Cool, original idea, I'd have loved to have a score of sorts to tell me if I'm winning or losing!

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Dubgeon
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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks :)

The circle in the middle grows when you're winning and shrinks when you're losing, if it fills the pie you've won.

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GreduSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

GG for the game ! Ultra GG for the sounds effects haha :')

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Too Many Bullets
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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago

TY Gredu :)

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WarkusSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Sound effects really made it :D Great entry!

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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks Warkus, we had fun making these sounds :)

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Nick SperanzaSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

This is great!  I love the simplicity and intuitiveness.  The only criticism I can think of is that it's a little boring visually, but that's not a big deal, and it works with the simplicity of the game.

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Infestation
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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks Nick,

I was trying to avoid adding extra visual noise to an already visually-noisy game so I kept the graphics abstract, but yeah there's definitely room to make it more visually appealing.

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SirlegnaSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I love the game, it brought back childhood memories of playing silly flash games in school. It would be cool to add few more levels with maybe more various virus each having different properties such as the R0 property (Infection rate) and such. And perfect time to theme a game around virus too!

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Bruises and Battles
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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks Sirlegna :)

Yeah, playing with the R0 & healing rate could be interesting if I decide to develop this further.

About the theme, when I was first brainstorming ideas I was actually trying to avoid the virus direction, because I figured a lot of people would take "out of control" that way and it wouldn't be very original, but it ended up working out I guess.

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SirlegnaSubmitted4 years ago

I think you hit a sweet original idea!

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Bruno Gat CarSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

The sound effects are amazing hahahaha Really funny game. I liked the use of the simple art style, it matched the game's theme very well. 

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Plague Overflow
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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

ty ty, we enjoyed making those sound effects :)

Yeah, I went for the simple / abstract art style mostly to avoid encumbering the player's concentration by adding even more visual noise.

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Ansem911Submitted4 years ago

Relatively straightforward and fits the theme well. Tried to reset it a couple of times to see if I could get it to win without any intervention.

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Miss Module
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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks Ansem,

Did you manage to get it to win without intervention? I tried to balance the game in a way that it'll be very unlikely to happen, because one of the viruses will eventually get out of control. :)

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Ansem911Submitted4 years ago(+1)

Nope, it never did finish itself, never even got close ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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AntonSubmitted4 years ago

Very original and quite hard.
Also, not very color blind friendly ;)
Mouth sounds are a nice touch

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Chaos Solitaire
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DemenoDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks Anton :)

If you think that's not color blind friendly, check out my main project Clority, it's even less color blind friendly :P

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