Pandemia - virus containment

Welcome to Pandemia!

Pandemia is a short game where you control the sole doctor in a community of very happy, jolly-balls, but also very susceptible to a deadly, unknown disease. Move around and touch your fellow balls to "treat" them and gain research points for more effective treatment methods.

Pandemia (0.1) was created in about a day for the GMTK Game Jam 2020  and as a somewhat proof-of-concept(ish) for a systematic game where a virus spread organically from a couple simple directives.

Gameplay:

Use your WASD, arrow keys, or joystick to move about and save your fellow balls from this deadly disease.

Touching the other balls will "treat" them, the method depend on your treatment research level. Each treatment will further your research progress to discover a more effective treatment. You can fully eradicate the disease, but at what cost?

Game system:

Every time you start the game, 100 fellow balls will be generated at random locations in your play space.

The fellow balls start out uninfected (green), but will have a very small chance (5%) to be infected every few seconds. They also move about randomly every few seconds, and will continue this routine even when infected.

The infected, when "touching" other uninfected balls, will infect them unless you do something about it. If left untreated, they will "die" after some time.

Simple! The rest is yours to save.