Games Thursday : Cytoplasm - A Game of Cellular Domination
Been seeing quite a few biology inspired strategy games of late at the Indie Games blog from the addictive Nano War to the beautiful procedurally-generated world of Dyson (don’t know what it really means but hey it sounds cool :p ).
While such games inspired by biology aren’t exactly new, y Jenova Chen and Nicholas Clark’s flash version of flOw notably comes to mind, it’s interesting how games on the actual evolution of digital lifeforms are so strangely addictive.
Today I present Shalin Shodhan’s Cytoplasm, a game of intracellular domination where two different types of creatures duke it out in a violent struggle for supremacy inside the confines of a single cell. This game was previously featured by 1UP.com as one of the best 101 freeware games of 2007.
A mother cell on each side continually generates a stream of vicious little critters which gobble up food and smaller enemy creatures alike. These little creatures grow in both size and number and before long, this swarm of simple organisms morphs into a irresistance force that wipes out all opposition in front of it. The appalling savagery displayed by the victorious creatures as they mercilessly and relentlessly smother a defenseless mother cell to death really brings the chills when you think of a similiar scenarios happening right inside us whenever we fall sick 
The player acts as a general of this swarm of belligerent lifeforms and dictates the direction of the campaign to completely destroy the enemy cells. Marshalling the creatures to form a solid defensive line to contain an incoming enemy assault while consolidating a massive reserve forces to deliver the ultimate counterblow, offers you the best chance of terminating all resistance in one fell swoop. It’s amazing to think that the main tenets of strategy apply even to the tiniest of creatures 
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Download Cytoplasm from Shalin Shodhan’s official site. A post-mortem of the project which delves into the game mechanics and possible improvements to the current game can also be downloaded at Shalin’s site.
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