Interesting web finds

[PvK]

I figured out I needed to clear the rbc tally before the time ran out on my third game, where I got to level 16 and scored 40685, almost enough for a site high score.

The game ended the same way though, running out of time, even though I killed practically every RBC that arrived, and got the only time-add powerup that arrived. I even most of the invisible RBC's that were inside the anitbody clouds too.

I have suspicions that:

* The game is easier on a slow machine. I've been playing on a slow machine choking on XP , and with a moderate amount of stuff on-screen, it slows way down. I almost never felt at risk of actually losing all my virus spores, or of missing more than a very few RBCs, mostly the invisible ones.

* Some levels may become impossible by chance.

The two combined make it sort of a tedious endurance/stubbornness test. I don't think there was much if anything I could do better, unless there is some trick to get more RBC's or time extension powerups to show up before the time runs out. Maybe on a faster computer, there are always enough RBC's and/or it gets more challenging to keep the spores alive and catch all the RBC's.

PvK

[geoschmo]

This virus game must have been bankrolled by some doctor who makes his living treating carpal tunnel patients. Ouch.

[Fyron]

Yeah, I noticed that the levels become unbeatable unless you either get a time extension or have had a lot of free latency upgrades (more than you could possibly afford)...

[Suicide Junkie]

Even so, latency dosen't help you get more cells onto the screen. Even if you don't miss any, you can still lose.

[Fyron]

You need the latency so that your viruses expand immediately and it takes less time to clear the RBCs, especially when the clock in getting close to the end. I always lose with just 2-4 RBCs left to infect, where one more level of latency would have let me get those infections a few seconds earlier. For this situation, reproduction is only helpful to a point, since there can end up being way more viruses on the screen than you can possibly use.

[Arkcon]

Yeah, but more viruses, with more damage ability, all clumped together and ignored by you, can kill the white blood cells sooner, before they become a problem. If they also survive the antibiotic cloud, and you get the biohazard powerup, you can get more of those invisible rbc's. Those guys with the high score (and all the high scores are by the same few guys) have probably latched onto some pretty good formula. And of course, luck figures into it as well.

[Fyron]

The biohazard is entirely luck dependent as well, which is what I was getting at.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

A fun platoform mini game: http://game.demiononline.nl/robobug.php?domain_id=11

A list of free multiplayer games: http://play-free-online-games.com/games/games_all.html

This is one reason why I visit Nodwick.