About Microbattle

Bacteria! Microbattle is a fast-moving arcade game set deep within the human body. You control a white blood cell and fight infection. If you succeed, your patient will be cured. But be careful! Bacteria, viruses, and even the patient's own tissues will pose grave dangers to your efforts...

Your white blood cell has the ability to eat viruses - but only those of the correct color. Use the left and right mouse buttons to change to the correct color. Eating the right color refills your energy, but touch the wrong color and you'll take damage!

Virii!
Evil walls!

During the game you'll explore the body, gathering ATP to improve your energy and proteases to improve attack power. You'll need all the power-ups you can get to deal with the waves and waves of enemies! There are time attack rooms, where you must defeat all enemies before time runs out, and other hazards like deadly walls.

Microbattle was built for the Ludum Dare 48-hour game programming competition in April 2004. Design, code, graphics, music, sound and level design are by swt. The post-competition version has been modified to fix bugs and improve the gameplay. Microbattle is written in the Python programming language, using the Pygame modules.

Evil boss!

Downloading Microbattle

Latest version: 20040925

This version fixes a bug where dying would jump you to the victory screen.

The Microbattle installer (for computers running Windows) is available by clicking here.

A zipped version for Linux and Macintosh is available by clicking here. Note! Linux and Mac users will need to first install Python and Pygame. (Installing Psyco is optional, but recommended for higher frame-rates)

The source code is all included in the Windows installer, and in the zipfile. So if you want to hack Microbattle into a better/weirder state, or just figure out how "bullet time" is implemented, then hey, knock yourselves out.

Awards!

Microbattle got 1st place in the Fun category and placed 2nd overall in the 4th Ludum Dare 48-hour competition. Hooray! Behold my Pelly awards:
The Gold Pelly (ooo, aah) The Silver Pelly (+1 to Spiffiness)

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