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i think i got her to sneeze but the dialogue made it seem like maybe there was a Level 2 Sneeze if i got more cells (20?), but i couldn't manage more than i think 18.  or maybe that was the payoff and i tried to route this for no reason??  i see from other comments that there's no ending so maybe that was it then?  nice, i won

at first i thought everything reset when i ran out of life, but then i reread the instructions and it clicked and i actually really like that it was only a temporary setback with no other punishment.  feels really forgiving but also leaves a lot of room open for doing some speedrun bs to get every single cell in one pass without taking more than two hits (i did not do this though)

i take it the girl is literally dating us, but we presumably divide asexually (and in fact are doing that constantly throughout the game), so is she dating all of us, or do we decide which of us is the original, or, look i really need some lore here and i don't know why

at first i thought this might be a little too on the nose during a pandemic, but the protagonist is clearly a bacterium and not a virus, so that's fine probably.  and they're really cute anyway

She has different dialogue for 0-10, 11-20, 21-30, and 31-40 points, but the sneeze button has the same dialogue no matter what, unfortunately, as long as you have more than 10 points. I'm definitely going to make more adaptive dialogue in the future... just couldn't be bothered now sldkjfsdlf It's difficult for me to get into the later stages, too, I'm going to be a little more careful with further level design.

Speaking of things I couldn't figure out how to do, yeah I toyed with different ideas for death until I just gave up and slowed you down for I forget how long. A couple of the cells were placed specifically so you can't get them while you're dead, just to make it have more weight, but if you try hard enough, you can keep increasing your points even during that window. It might change in the future? Like, resetting your position until you 'respawn'? I would have done smth like that for this build except I didn't want to fuck with the camera too much because that's held together by duct tape bay bee. I do not know if the speedrun bs you speak of is possible since I suck at platformers, it might take too long to get to all the floors before they respawn. In addition to health powerup, I might add a speed one?

I'll add lore eventually, I promise. It's supposed to be two different points of view, although I guess I didn't - the germ is one character, and the person she's dating is another. Some mention of that is made on the jam page, but the fact that I forget where and how it's worded isn't a good sign for the overall lore stability... 'Do we decide which of us is the original' made me think of a democratic germ society though which is ridiculously adorable. Little germ politicians in teeny tiny ties.

also... listen i cannot help it. covid terrifies me but headcolds are hot- *shot*

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it is a crime that this didn't win kink tbh

;w; tysm omg... That's definitely the category I was aiming for, seeing as how I was expecting the only competition to be furries and food, but of course the super cool bug game had to show up too lol. Don't get me wrong, though, I'm very happy with my results! I should have seen high scores in this category coming, especially since it was difficult to get to the 20-40 range without being quite dedicated/having the map memorized like I do at this point. Guess this means I have to at least take a crack at improving it... tbh, I was going to anyways. I was in a really good place mentally during the jam period because I had this to work on, and I've been in kind of a slump since. Maybe this is some kind of sign that I should take making games more seriously? :thinking: who knows not me