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Cellception

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness284
Audio2152.86
Fun2223.08
Mood2802.80
Overall2923.12
Humor3182.22
Theme3263.01
Innovation4302.71
Graphics5302.48

Comments

Gabboreplau 2012-08-26 20:53

WOW! The best game I've ever played! Good Work DiG!

bladerstars 2012-08-26 20:54

this game it's so beatiful!

thefaccio 2012-08-26 20:57

Just amazing *___*

XenoPixel 2012-08-26 20:59

Is Fantastic Dig! °^°

Gallux93 2012-08-26 21:03

Amazing game! :D

kuroakuma146 2012-08-26 21:38

what a beatiful game!

Xero182 2012-08-26 22:58

Haha, this is beautiful! :)

RobyIndie 2012-08-27 08:03

This game is so awesome and proudly made *.*

karel 2012-08-27 08:07

Reminds me a LOT of osmos, but quite fun!

dadeyemi 2012-08-27 08:11

I like it :)

bemmu 2012-08-27 08:17

Getting about 2fps on 2.4GHz 4GB macbook pro, so couldn't play.

nickknw 2012-08-27 08:19

One of the most fun I've played in the compo so far!

pjchardt 2012-08-27 08:20

Really like the presentation and art style. Nice mechanic, although I had a hard time catching enemies as I got bigger. Overall well done.

ALEXKILLER96xu 2012-08-27 08:30

It's really good! I play this for hours!

cespu 2012-08-27 08:42

the best game! amazing....

andreibarsan 2012-08-27 08:42

I liked the feel! Could go with a menu or something at the beginning. It showed me as dead when the game was finished loading.

Also, at the very beginning it can be somewhat laggy, maybe some optimizations could be done? Dunno. Core i5 4gb ram windows 7 x64 user with Chrome here.

littleball 2012-08-27 08:42

Can't run this game on my iMac 2.4 Ghz width 2GB ram. As the frame rate is very low.
It looked good to play too!

manzoman 2012-08-27 08:45

Awesome game i really liked it

lucas-tiridath 2012-08-27 08:52

Great little game! Really fun and the effort you made with the graphics and the soundtrack really added to it. Good work.

khaotom 2012-08-27 09:03

Hey nice! Sadly my game was not winnable since one of the red cells disappeared into the darkness.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-08-27 09:37

Nice idea!

But in dire need of polishing. Framerate is horrible, it's basically a slideshow. After 3 plays I still didn't figure out the rules. Sometimes I absorb cells, sometimes I pass trhough them. And then sometimes I die. But why? :P

Still, nice work!

dig 2012-08-27 09:41

@matthias You die if you get in touch with any red cell bigger than you (even white cells belonging to that red cell count as an "extension" of the enemy). At the beginning you start and you're only able to get the smallest white cells, after the first 3/4 you can get the bigger ones.

tsj666 2012-08-27 09:43

Sometimes simple(won in 45 secs), sometimes not(lost in 3 secs), anyways I like it so much!

dig 2012-08-27 09:43

@Those who havea MAC: did you play the Web Player version or the downloadable one?

pintoo 2012-08-27 09:50

The Best Game EVER :D
Nice Work DiG ;)

brother-byto 2012-08-27 09:51

Really nice.

A little short, but hey, that's always the problem when you have to make your game in such a short amount of time.

juaxix 2012-08-27 10:00

I have the biggest balls XDD lol

Nicely done, i guess that you have got your inspiration from Osmos, no?

a little bit more speed would be ok, and when yo absorb balls, it would be great that the areas were added correctly

birchmountain 2012-08-27 10:09

a fun and intresting concept, i get some lag spikes at the beginning though. But overall, a good game!

ragzouken 2012-08-27 10:11

Pretty cool :) I find it hard to tell if I'm big enough to take on another cell - and sometimes hard to tell if cells are connected to a red one.

The game started REALLY slow for me, but was fine after some white cells disappeared.

krobill 2012-08-27 10:32

Nice variation on the Osmos gameplay.

thurig 2012-08-27 11:00

Just a small fun game. Loving it.

4lxp 2012-08-27 11:21

Fantastic game

dedhedzed 2012-08-27 11:28

Collecting the last few things was PAAAAAAAAAAAAINFULLY slow (I guess that's the point, though), but that ending screen was totally worth it. Now I feel good about myself. Good job!

jijaweb 2012-08-27 11:35

Nicely done

gbear605 2012-08-27 11:57

The mac version is far too laggy (I have a great computer, and I mean GREAT), at the lowest possible settings it was far far far too laggy to play.

pardue 2012-08-27 12:26

I laughed at the end... :)

benw 2012-08-27 12:42

Very nice game. It wasn't clear to me when the smaller balls were supposed to be absorbed instead of just sticking to you. It seems like it was based on size but I wasn't sure. Also it would be nice if the up arrow key moved you forward.

spotlightor 2012-08-27 13:10

Simple and addictive game.

nidjo123 2012-08-27 15:06

Great mechanics, I could play this for hours.

foxor 2012-08-27 15:06

Pretty fun! Although the game decides whether you will win or die in the first 10 seconds, it's still fun to play it out.

mattrix 2012-08-27 15:29

Kinda fun but seems a little too osmos-y. Also I think you might have a memory leak because every time I restart the game runs slower and slower.

luizhgmonclar 2012-08-27 16:08

I felt it was cool. A bit of "Spore meets Katamari" feel to me, had fun! :)

Too bad it lagged REALLY BAD on the webplayer, and I couldn't run the application on Mac.

Gj!

Ligh7zIncrement 2012-08-27 16:16

Very fun up until the point when you are massive and move too slowly, but still very nice game :)

Lucariatias 2012-08-27 16:20

So much lag! On OS X 10.7.4, with 2.0 GHz i7 quad core processor and 4GB RAM... There has to be a memory leak somewhere, it's unplayable :(

ahnimal 2012-08-27 17:26

Great game, but there's not much to it really. You either die horribly by chance or breeze over everything and win the game.

maxium 2012-08-27 17:57

Chrome has security issues with the web player link, try changing it from https to http. Fun Game,wish the ball would move slightly fast as it got bigger.

captainicy 2012-08-27 18:26

Awesome awesome! This is such an awesome concept and the gameplay is perfect. So simple and short but so addicting and fun. Very nice. :D

Also: http://i.imgur.com/r03OK.png < I think I win. Take that, evil red ball!!

cryptoporticus 2012-08-27 18:31

This is really nice.

covebit 2012-08-27 18:35

this is awesome.

chronodk 2012-08-27 18:48

Very nice idea, and who would have thought simple spheres for graphics could make for such a beautiful game? Nice music too.

jomomomo 2012-08-27 19:53

On a Mac using unity web player, was pretty much unplayable. Will give the download a shot.

the-vaber 2012-08-27 20:11

First few seconds of the game are quite frustrating, I'm often getting killed before i can even move.. love the idea and music :) (you should use http instead of https for web version, otherwise it doesn't run in chrome)

johnfn 2012-08-27 20:50

That was fun! But I kept on dying because the red cells were too powerful. In the first few seconds it kinda lagged and during that time it was like they got ALL of the white balls. Arg! Anyway, it was fun enough to get me to play it many times over - good work.

gfm 2012-08-27 22:07

Well done!

Though the game is simple, it's quite fun. And the sounds really add to the atmosphere.

The game ran really laggy on my computer (stand-alone version, on windows) on the early stages... but as I grow bigger it began to run more smoothly. (also, my computer isn't really powerfull... so that was probably the cause).

jomomomo 2012-08-27 22:12

Unplayable on my Mac, but was worth firing up a Windows VM for!

vordux 2012-08-27 22:20

I always wondered what Beutiful Katamari would look like in 2D and if it would work, well it seems like you nailed that mechanic really well. The game was fun and you captured the theme well as well.

My only critique is the music, there was an element of repetitiveness I found.

mortehu 2012-08-27 23:14

It doesn't seem like the Kongregate version is Flash? http://m.bitraf.no/~mortehu/skrot/cellception-kongregate.png

amoaeba-junior 2012-08-27 23:31

Great

materie 2012-08-28 01:37

That was fun :)

aaronflippo 2012-08-28 01:40

Tip: change the unity link to http:// instead of https:// (otherwise it continually asks to install the web player)

Tried the unity link and the Kongregate unity link. Seems like an interesting concept, however the framerate makes it pretty rough to play.

turkwise 2012-08-28 05:02

There is something surprisingly satisfying about this haha.

mamick 2012-08-28 05:03

It was really laggy for me, but nice mechanic. A bit to hard at the beginning and easy/slow at the end, but great idea and very medetative.

flyingbear 2012-08-28 07:03

This was extremely neat! I love the way everything stuck together. I wish my poor computer could handle it better, the game would chug at the beginning of the level.

Muradin001 2012-08-28 12:18

awesome

kumquat 2012-08-28 21:33

Very nice idea!

I think there are some issues with physics/lags even with Unity/Windows.

zkenshin 2012-08-29 02:11

Simple concept but done very well, was quite enjoyable :)

thewiseguy99 2012-08-29 03:53

Great job, it is really good. FYI - it does lag some on Kongregate.

buttercupsaiyan 2012-08-29 10:04

I can't seem to get far and I just die in seconds...

barry-abrams 2012-08-29 12:48

The web version runs too slow to play on my machine, and unfortunately, the mac version doesn't open.

accidentalrebel 2012-08-30 05:37

I feel that it is a good improvement on the Osmos gameplay mechanic. I like how they stack up ala-KatamariDamacy. Although sometimes it is hard to determine if an enemy is approaching because of the too many things crowding the screen. And yes, Kongregate lags a lot. Still nice work.

gryxitl 2012-08-31 05:28

Nice take on the genre.

yosh 2012-09-03 00:30

Unfortunately my framerate is damn too low to play : (
(Maybe a post-compo no high-config version?)

axcho 2012-09-13 05:34

I couldn't find any red cells smaller than me. :(

tomhunt 2012-09-16 19:04

The gameplay is simple enough, but I have get past the first few seconds, which seem to be the hardest of all, in order to get to the more interesting parts. Then it gets really slow and empty at the end. Also it needs an instructions dialog. The music is cute, though, and the visual design is nice and clean.