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Bacteraemia

By ttftcuts

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics1204.11
Innovation1223.61
Theme1233.67
Overall3633.22
Fun4382.89
Coolness202220

Comments

deathbread 2014-04-29 01:24

Hey :) This game looks very promising, but I am not able to actually play it, because nothing happens when I press the begin button.

ttftcuts 2014-04-29 01:50

What browser are you using? It works fine for me in Chrome.

marjie62 2014-04-29 02:07

Got more laggy as I played

geckoo1337 2014-04-29 02:07

It didn't works with FireFox. I have a problem with the sprites and textures. I have only black cubes. So sad! This game looks promising ++

ttftcuts 2014-04-29 02:16

Yeah, it was slower than I hoped when transitioning from Dart to Javascript :(

The black boxes are, I think, the images failing to load in time for the start of the scripts. I've been trying to work out how to make sure it happens at the end, but dart isn't as helpful with that as JS.

alexdantas 2014-04-29 03:24

Worked fine on Firefox, it was very smooth.
I think the gameplay is too slow, but it works for simulating the blood fluids.
It'd be helpful to now which direction the bacteria is facing right now, with maybe a mark or something.

My mother loved this game - to her it was educative and she said you seem to know a lot about this subject.

phocker 2014-04-29 05:13

this really looked fun. I was only able to play a few minutes and then it got very slow. too bad. top marks for graphics and innovation

capnramses 2014-04-29 09:09

really nice concept! the graphics look really good. im firefox+xubuntu. it was definitely too slow like there was too much going on in the update loop or something. bring on the edutainment!

bombjack 2014-04-29 10:57

very fun game. would have been even better with more fluid control and sound.

strykerkkd 2014-04-29 11:25

Nice Dart game :D
It's a shame that the compiler made it less playable.

theengineers 2014-04-29 12:56

The graphics, mood, and theme are all incredibly promising, but the control of it, and the objectives could be greatly improved. Overall, good work :D

randoman 2014-04-29 13:47

Very interesting concept. The controls were beating me at first but I think is a question of time to get used to it

Kastuk 2014-04-29 16:29

Uh, sciencific! What about offline version?

ttftcuts 2014-04-29 16:50

It's written in HTML and Dart - due to that and the DOM security policies of most browsers, offline would be impossible without wrapping it with server software of some kind.

skywilly 2014-04-29 23:37

Fantastic visuals & good idea. Congratulations !

baldwinthree 2014-04-30 01:17

Very cool. I liked the SCIENCE FACTS that popped up on the pause / upgrade screen. Glad to see Dart's making its way around the gamejam - did you use Box2D for physics, or implement your own collision handling?

hbocao 2014-04-30 01:40

The game looks so fun to spend time with, but it's to slow to move :( It looks so pretty too! Remind me of Fl0w from That Game Company, but with more stuff to do. Awesome idea!

ttftcuts 2014-04-30 02:39

baldwinthree, the physics were my own, but there's significant problems with it, carefully masked by using the best cases - at one point the vesicles could collide with each other, but they ended up flying off at lightspeed!
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To everyone else, sorry for the slowness... the dart VM really is so much faster than JS that though I was expecting some slowdown, I wasn't expecting it to be *THIS* bad. I'll be making a couple of tweaks tomorrow to fix the nasty difficulty curve and try to speed it up.

joe40001 2014-04-30 08:20

While I appreciate the effort that clearly went into it, the game needed some playtesting, to win would take a crazy amount of time (I really try to beat every game I review, but this game took me like 40 minutes to get to level 4) and it was very laggy.

I'm not putting down your game, because you did the hard part really well, unfortunately the little things like lag and balance hurt the gameplay experience too much. Keep at it though, you clearly have talent.

kayz 2014-05-01 15:43

Nice idea and game, but even in Dartium it started lagging after a while (got to level 4). Would have been nice if it was a bit more fast paced.