Petri Wars

Hello! 

This is my entry for LD JAM 56: Tiny Creatures

I made this game for compo, in 48hours.

This is a tower defense/builder game where you play as a bacteria colony. Protect yourself against hordes of organisms by growing your colony in the right way and harvesting enough resources.

CONTROLS:

• Mouse

HOW TO PLAY:

• Grow your bacteria colony and raise your defenses for the upcoming waves.
• Grow bacteria by clicking on a valid empty space and clicking on the command buttons.
• Cyanobacteria generates resources, Bacillus is a defense mechanism and Pseudo is an offensive force.
• You have to protect your Coccus at all costs.
• Some structures have restrictions on how you must build then. Some of them have to be built right next to others.
• Arrows indicate the direction from which the hordes of enemies will come on the next wave.

This game was incredibly tough to make in this time frame, but somehow I managed to do it by cutting a lot of planned content off. The songs, SFX, graphics, and the game were all made by me using the following tools:

• Aseprite
• Spritemancer
• FL Studio
• Godot
• Sticker Notes

I originally planned to have bacteria upgrades, more bacteria variety, special abilities, etc, but I think the current setup works very well for a jam game, and I’m more than happy to present it as is.

Thank you all for playing, keep making games!