OOZE

Not a bad game MirthCastle! If you'd like to see our reactions, and rating feel free to check out our play through video. You're game is about 0:11:34 in. https://youtu.be/pQicLfNroyI

The game is soooo slowwww

But it feels so satisfying! i love how you can grow and grow and grow and grow and... Apparently, at some point, it ends the game to grow too big :(

Really cool concept, but everything is way too sloooooooow!!

It's so slow that it actually helps the AI. At the start I didn't know they would be slowed down that much, and so I was desperately waiting for one of them to get to me so I could be a little bigger. Even worse, 2 of them got out because they had so much time and news enemies that weren't even there at the start helped them out. It's the same with the scientist (good idea for a unit btw), they can close the distance so easily with oozed units...

So the best strategy is just to wait as much as you can before oozing soldiers and that's all. Send a small one if the start shooting you, but at that point you'll get it back soon enough.

That was a very interesting entry, nice concept. The graphics were good, liked the soldiers in particular, although the background felt a little out of place with rest of the art. The sound was good but for some reason the background music seemed to stop after a while. Gameplay was a little on the simple side but what was there was enjoyable!

I liked that the other enemy type would collect samples of smaller ooze, but after the start I felt no reason not to spam the larger ooze every time, so maybe some balancing is needed there. One or two more enemy types would be great too.

Great job on the entry, its style felt unique.

Very good start! I included it in my GM48: Countdown compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/FLG_K_tPT2c

great job! ;D lost the first time cause I spread myself too thin. I didn't realize it until the second time that the background was actually moving, a little parallax scrolling does wonders to make it feel less flat. I also noticed when the character gets larger even if you're not on the same path you still collect the slime (which is still reasonable considering slime would grow in a radius and I'm not quite sure how you'd be able to see that you missed them once they've passed without altering the image_alpha or offsetting the paths and making the player move sort of diagonally). Titlescreen art is great too!
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It could also be planetary based where once you consume one world you can split and travel to others eventually making the whole universe a big glob of slime. Some explosions and more enemy types would be a plus (I saw you mentioned tank would be great to see some explosions in there), maybe blimps/planes and make a projectile slime type. You could also have it zoom out as the slime gets larger and add some big transformer/mech things. ;b

Despite the slow pacing of the gameplay itself, the concept behind this game was surprising and extremely enjoyable.

I would suggest in the future of adding a menu to this game and perhaps some additional instructions.

This game caught a great deal of my attention. Great job.

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With how you can send out Slimes of different sizes, Maybe adding it so that slimes can travel faster based on their size is something that can add some challenge to it. So the decision of sending in faster slimes to stun enemies faster or bigger slimes to send them slower but can auto-capture could be a good start.

For another difficulty perk, perhaps an enemy that could fire some long-ranged projectile at the slime could be an interesting challenge that could perplex players to either stay at a lane to get that returning slime or quickly dodge to avoid some loss.

Did I win? I became really huge, but the game just went back to the title screen. Assuming that's a win, and not a loss 😅

I wish everything didn't move so slowly. Enemy count ramps up over time of course, but I think the difficulty curve could use some work (so it at least starts a little more difficult / faster)