Made in 48 hours for the GAME BANG Jam

The Amoeba Effect is a 2D Top-Down exploration game. 

In 20XX, Beautiful Planet. Inc invented the magical "Ocean Cleaning Pill," which would dissolve all the trash in the ocean. Citizens are encouraged to throw all their garbage into the ocean to vacate space on the land. 

Somewhere deep in the ocean, you are an unknown sea creature. By killing other ocean creatures, you can attach their body parts to yourself. 

But is this all normal...? 


"One day, we saw a report about a huge garbage dump in the ocean. Among them was a photo of a dying seal with rusty mechanical parts on the body due to eating garbage, and a picture of a sea turtle that had been deformed due to the symbiosis with garbage since its childhood. We're wondering, in the seemingly distant ocean, whether the organism diversity has evolved due to human activities, or has it been stifled by such changes... I think this kind of "evolution" is definitely not what we expected. So what should we do? Based on this thinking, we designed this game..."

- Eizi Yu (unSAME Studio)


[ Controls ]

WASD or Arrow Keys to move the character

Space or Right-Click to attack with parts.

Use Left-Click to drag parts on and off the body


[ Creators ]

Sam Feng - Programming - @samfenggames

Eizi Yu - Level Design - https://eizimailcom.itch.io/

Jose Salas - Story & Designs - @salas_games

Franco Toledo - Music & Sounds - @shawntrrttll

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorsunSAME Studio, trrttll513, EiZi, salas_games, Sam Feng
GenreAdventure
Tags2D, 8-Bit, Atmospheric, Horror, Pixel Art, Singleplayer

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The Amoeba Effect v1.5.zip 30 MB
The Amoeba Effect v1.2 [Jam Version].zip 26 MB

Comments

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A very interesting game, I appreciate how there are slightly more pills than required to beat the game!

Having multiple attack parts seems to not work super well, two bubble shooters means that one tends to be bounced away, but I guess there's always the next game!


I do wonder if the pill was actually for 'trash cleanup', or if it were to just cause mass-mutation in the hopes that something would evolve that would break down trash, though :thinking:

Yo this game is awesome

Thanks for playing!