The Bacterium

The Bacterium is an Real-time strategy game created for the GMTK  2024  Game Jam. The theme :  Built to SCALE.

This game uses scales in 2 distinct ways, first is the setting, since you are playing as the immune system, the scale is microscopic. there is also a gameplay element to scale, the bacteria will increase in size the longer its alive. size is proportional to the bacterium's health. 

BUGS:

1. White blood cells loses target and does not fire, 
2. WHITE BLOOD CELLS DON'T ATTACK, create immune cells instead
3. Selection could become bugged and not show ui, just keep clicking 
4. Losing red blood cells all oxygen restarts game 
5. No win/lose screen game just restarts

TUTORIAL 

White blood - only attack when in defend mode, (kind of bugged in release)
also white blood  cells turn into immune system weapon factory - to summon more powerful cell types



Red blood Cells - collect oxygen

Macrophages - eat bacteria, but have a cooldown after eating 3 things

Neutrophils - shoot at enemies and will destroy anything it runs into

B-cell - send out antibody homing missiles 

Controls:
Left click to select unit/buildings, and activate abilities
Right click with a selected unit to move
WASD to move the camera, you can also pan by hover over the viewport edge
Mouse wheel will zoom the battlefield.


Most art was created by me, using aseprite, the tilemap that was used came from Alien pixel-art tileset and character | OpenGameArt.org
Music came from -  Mega Game Music Collection | Audio Music | Unity Asset Store , Space Adventure Music Pack by MuzStation Game Music (soundcloud.com)
Various sound affect came for humble bundles packs and https://www.soundsnap.com/

The game was developed using construct 3 (Game Making Software - Construct 3).