Collect various pellets or human-controlled blobs to increase your mass
Press space to eject and propel half your mass in the direction you’re facing
Avoid the viruses (spiky green blobs) as they will split you into small bits if you’re big enough. If you’re small you can hide behind them (a mass of 130 or so is the limit)
Press w to spit out a small chunk of your mass (This is useful for for growing and spreading the virus to attack other players, and it can help your team if you’re in team mode)
I can’t say I didn’t find the game fun, because I played it for like 7 hours straight last night lol. It was a lot easier once I made an ally with some random guy. Then if I died it took a lot less time to get back up to useable mass. I definitely enjoy messing around with the first place guy and bursting his bubble.
If you’re having trouble with the game, urr, just hide behind the viruses, and when you’re big enough, you can shoot the viruses with w to make them grow and spread which will deflate bigger one if it hits. I don’t think it’s luck aside from maybe encountering a really dumb or new player.
The game is a gem. It needs chat and more maps / bigger maps / a line on the map boundary / etc. WASD is a must for anyone above a casual farmville gamer. Also I want a way to pause to answer skype messages or go to the bathroom. The developer should add a way to save your progress and come back later (even leaving and coming back later) if you wait like 10 seconds without anyone interacting with you. Also, an actual server list so you can coordinate joining with friends would be nice. I hope he adds more gamemodes too. Something like territory control or ctf could be fun. A class system would be fun too. You could have a “gunner” class which lets you shoot blobs at enemies (using up your mass) and lowers theirs (would be useful in teams so you could help out a friend under attack without giving him a bunch of your mass). A runner class where you could dash twice per life or something without splitting. Another warrior class where you can’t get mass from the dots around the map, but instead you start off at like a mass of 50. A passive class where you can only get mass from the dots on the map but they are twice as effective or something. Would be helpful to have one of those on your team to get ridiculously big and then shoot their mass into warrior class allies. Etc… etc… basically I hope this game gets a lot more depth even though the simplicity is tons of fun as it is.
I was hoping someone else would post, so I wouldn't double post, because I'm too lazy to do a second edit, but oh well.
Some more screenshots.
The first screenshot is the most dominating I've ever had on a team. It was cyclic though. I think a couple newbies got "rich quick" and then ended up losing most of it to blue/green and we ended up going to third.
The second screenshot shows my personal highest score of 4097 8). Someone should see if they can beat it. The problem is when you get that high of a score your mass drains ridiculously fast, so you'll go from 4000 to 3000 within a minute if you don't get a ton of kills.
