Rules

You are born as a tiny cell. You have to absorb smaller cells to grow, but be careful. The red cells want to absorb you, and size doesn't matter.  Remember that every movement costs energy and leads to shrinkage ... even for the red cells. Just try to survive as long as possible.

Controls

Use wasd or the arrows to move the cell. If you completly absorbed by another cell restart the game with the x key.

Background story

Absorb is developed for the Pico1k game jam in september 2022 for the virtual console pico-8 . It has to be used a limited code size of 1024 compressed bytes and doesn't not use prepared sprites and sounds.

Links and Code

More information
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Release date Sep 11, 2022
AuthorMilchreis
GenreSurvival
Made withPICO-8
Tags2D, Arcade, pico1k, PICO-8, Retro, Simple
Code licenseGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL)

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absorb_linux.zip 733 kB
absorb_osx.zip 3.2 MB
absorb_raspi.zip 2.1 MB
absorb_windows.zip 974 kB

Development log

Comments

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Trapez2 years ago(+1)

The age seems to not reinit at each game (still increasing).
You can go far away on the left side of the screen.
Because our cell bounce a lot, it's difficult to know the size of it.
It could be useful to change color of a cell you can absorb.
The art is nice :)

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Milchreis2 years ago

hi trapez,

thank you for playing and reviewing the game, that make me happy😊 The increasing age is bug and I think fixing this could maybe free some compressed bytes. The bounds are just for the camera and not for the player. it is to save bytes.

You are right in smaller sizes it is very hard to eyeball which cell is absorbable. I have an idea for that issue, but I am not sure if it's fits in the 1k.

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