Spoooooooky times ahead!
You're a vampire and you've just come to this village, looking to feed off the local populace and survive as long as you can. Avoid the police's bullets and create a vampire army to help distract the authorities, but make sure you leave yourself enough to eat!
RULES:
Scoring:
- For each living person (cop or citizen) you eat, you get 100 points, plus a 50% health regeneration
- For each second you stay alive, you get 10 points
- You do not get points or health for eating vampires
Interactions:
- Press X to eat (drain the blood of) a living person or a vampire
- Press C to convert citizens or cops into vampires
- If a citizens are close to the site of a vampire (you or your another vampire) execution, one will be stirred to justice and become a cop
- Cops will chase and shoot at other vampires if they're close
- If vampires are hungry, they will eat cops or citizens when they meet them
- Every 15 seconds you stay alive, a new citizen will move into town
- Sometimes when a male and female citizen meet, they will have a new citizen! It's important to leave some citizens alive so they'll create new citizens and leave you with a supply of food
UPDATE 10/24:
- Revamped map, including new lake and graveyard areas
- New icon, title screen, and sound effects
- Converted vampires are now more effective as distractions
- Cops no longer crowd into the same space, making it more possible to pick them off in groups
- Introduced visible genders
- Various invisible tweaks that make the game more interesting and fun to play!
Ghosts2.mid from Curlys Spooky Halloween Midi Music
Comments
Very fun game. Played it for
Very fun game. Played it for a while trying to find a good strategy. It's great when converted vampires attack the cops, and when people start multiplying in the center -- emergent behavior ftw!
Thanks very much! I do wish
Thanks very much! I do wish a sensible strategy was more apparent, and I think good playing might largely come from trying to isolate and execute the cops, which is difficult to do as is.
I spent a good extra two hours working on balancing and making the game feel more interesting once the core game was established. I'm personally a big fan of when you're happy with your vampire converts have helped you eliminate the cops, but then they start turning citizens into cops by killing wantonly and it's a bigger problem than before. I'm thinking about how I might be able to expand or improve on this game's ideas. Less randomness and more visibility is perhaps the key (each of the citizens has a secret randomly assigned gender and a reproductive timer, and maybe at least making the gender visible would help). A better level design with more nooks and crannies might also be good. I started this as a dumb lark, but I'm pretty happy with how it's come together.
Again, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I just uploaded a big update
I just uploaded a big update that alters and improves the game quite a bit. This may be the final release, but I'm really happy with how this has come together so far, and I'm thinking about how to improve it (including a possible competitive two-player mode/version). If anyone has any feedback, please let me know!
Also, curious to see if anyone can beat my high score of 6070! If they wanna try!