Microbe - Game

I always dreamed about this kind of game after playing Spore. Unfortunatelly, I have never heard of a game like first evolution phase in Spore, so I decided to make one myself.

Microbe is sandbox RPG game similar to Osmos, Spore, Flow and small indie simulator - Darwin Pond. Imagine all these games mixed into one, with all the advantages of every one of them.

Your basic goal is to find and eat food. You need energy to do almost every task, so if you don't eat in time, you'll be dead in the water. You need to avoid stronger agressive bacterias, evolve and populate the world.

What is more important, AI bacterias can do the same. Thats, why it took me three days to do all what you can see. AI decided whether should it look for food, or duplicate, or fight back while attacked.

What you can do in my game? Well, firstly you need to look for food, because without nutrition you won't be able to even move. You have to collect DNA, aminoacids and lipids from food, or enemies. Then you can spend some DNA for new abillities (new genes) that will give you eg. speed bonus, or better metabolism, that will make you heal faster.

In the first phase of the game oxygen will be your enemy. Swimming through oxygen bubble or spending lipids to make energy raises oxygen level inside your bacteria cell. This oxygen slowly leaves bacteria "body" but until it vents it will harm you in time. But some day your bacteria will learn how to use oxygen to boost all metabolics, make you move faster etc. Then, collecting oxygen bubbles will become your priority, because it will give you certain advantage.

Bacterias are able to evolve and learn new abillities, that allow them to produce new ways to fight with the enemy, for example: antibodies that will act as a homing missiles trying to hit specific bacteria species, or antibiotics, working as mines for other bacterias, new ways of deffence - cellulose cell walls, stronger proteins that make cell tougher, new enzymes, that give bacterias an advantage, or new ways to move and rotate faster.