INFECTIOUS - Viral Pursuit

You are a mutated cell in the blood stream of patient zero. You carry the DNA that can help other cells adapt to resist the virus, but you must be careful to sequence the transfers correctly...

NOTE: You can also use WASD to move although it's not mentioned in-game. 

(Please spend a moment in the provided tutorial area before playing the main game)

Headphones Recommended

CONTROLS:

ARROWS/WASD: Move

LCTRL: Help

SPACE: Return to Menu (Ends current game)

RULES

• At the start of the game, you can contact any cell type.
• Both you, and the virus, will speed up over time... but the virus adapts faster.
• Contact with the virus will end the game.
• Contact with the bounderies will end the game. 

CELL TYPES

There are three cell types in the game (excluding the genesis cell, and the virus). These are indicated by their colours, red, white and blue.

When controlling a cell, you should only contact the compatible type in the sequence (LCTRL to show).

• Contact with a compatible cell type will cause you to take control of it and the virus to slow down.
• Contact with a cell type the same as you will cause the virus to speed up.
• Contact with a incompatible cell type will cause the virus to speed up significantly. 

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-watts-257667959 

WARNING: Unfortunately, I did not get time to optimize this game fully. It is quite resource intensive, and therefore requires a dedicated graphics card to run effectively.  Code will be optimized in future iterations. 

This game (version 1.0), including all assets and music were made in 48 hours for the JimJam#2 (GameDevUnderground). Thank you for playing my first release.

I will be continuing to update this game. Patch notes below:

Version 1.1.0

Patch Notes:

• Game now runs in full screen (only)
• Performance increase (Game now runs at ten times performance however FPS is currently locked to 60)
• Some sound triggers fixed
• Visual updates
• Screen shake added
• Menu music fixed

Known Bugs:

• Failure screen off-centre
• Pixelated buttons
• UI out of place
• No sound on initial cell transfer
• Glitchy screen-shake when mid-transfer
• Game sometimes runs at high-speed on start-up on G-Sync/FreeSync displays. Alt-tab out and back into the game to solve this for now. 

Next Updates:

• Sound trigger fixes
• UI positioning fixes
• Full screen/window toggle
• HD buttons
• Death animations
• Uncapped FPS
• Immersive environments
• Extra Abilities...

Many more features and fixes are in development.

Tools used:
Game Maker Studio 2
Blender
Illustrator
Photoshop
Ableton Live + VSTs