Don't Open. COVID Outside.
A game about a lot of viruses and a medic that has to defeat them all. Made for the Quarantine Jam 2020.
About the game
This is a 2D pixel art top-down bullet hell arcade videogame in which you play as a medic who has found the cure for the COVID-19 and has to give it to the infected people without getting infected himself.
Currently supported platforms
- Browser (currently tested on Firefox and Google Chrome)
- Linux 32 bit
- Linux 64 bit
- Mac OS
- Windows 32 bit
- Windows 64 bit
How to play
#Don'tStayAtHome!
While everyone is locked on quarantine, a rogue medical researcher has found the cure to the fiendish virus. But there's no healthy human left to give the cure. No military, no politician, no one. Only him with the cure. He has no other choice than to go outside and face the virus by himself. But he's not immune and he's no hero, so he has to be careful. The virus can spread in two ways: by proximity and by coughing. He can't go near the infected, so how will he spread the cure?
Take your weapon, face your fear
As the only scientist left, of course he has to be a genius. He managed to take a rifle and adapt it so that it can shoot syringes filled with the cure for the disease. This way, he just have to literally shoot the medicine to the infected to heal them, without any need of going near them. But he still has to be carefull: their breath is infected too. Avoid the infected coughs, don't come near them and kill the virus for good, once and for all, a syringe at a time.
Instructions
Move the character using the WASD Keys on your Keyboard or the LEft Stick on your Controller, aim with the mouse or the Right Stick and shoot with the left mouse button or the Right Trigger. Use the right button on your mouse or the Left Trigger to drop a granade. You can also pause the game with the Escape button on your Keyboard or the Start button on your Controller. Pay attention at your syringes: you can't carry too much of them. Don't worry, though, for some reason the infected people appear to leave behind useful stuff once you heal them.
Mask filter
Of course, as a medic you have access to a professional filtered mask. It can actually prevent you from getting infected. But there's a catch: the filters don't last forever. Every hit you get will damage the used filter until it will become useless. The filter can take up to two hits, the third and last one will infect you. But don't worry! Of course you can still find new filters around! I'm pretty sure that some of those infected actually got them before getting ill, so maybe if you heal them they will leave them behind for you. Keep an eye on your mask filter condition and be sure to take a new one if it's too damaged.
Syringes pack
This is exactly what it seems: a pack of syringes. They're basically your ammunition, so be sure to get them whenever you see them in the field to reload your rifle. Be careful not to finish them: without your shots you're helpless against the virus.
Cure granades
I understand why you decided that a rifle was better than... this. I mean, maybe it's still a bit too much, but I think that you're some kind of The Walking Dead fanboy, are you? In any case, the rifle wasn't exactly your first choice. The cure grenade was. Grenades filled with the cure for the virus. And you wanted to bomb the entire world with them. Do you also like Michael Bay, besides The Walking Dead? In any case, you actually crafted them in the end, and though they're not exactly... conventional, they can reaaally come in handy when you're surrounded. If you see one of these grenades somehow laying around the battlefield, take them. You can then throw them with the right button on your Mouse or the Left Trigger on your Controller. They should deal one... heal damage to "every infected on the screen". That's what the instructions say anyway. Whatever it means. You can carry up to 2 grenades at a time.
Don't take this mission too seriously
This game is made by an italian developer as a parody to try and lower the tension made by the COVID-19 pandemic and the following quarantine. It's not meant to be taken seriously. The events depicted in this game are entirely a work of fiction and aren't in any way related to real facts.
How to install
You can just play it on the itch.io page. If you want to install it locally, anyway, follow these instructions. Download the right version from the itch.io page according to your operating system and/or your system architecture. Export the compressed archive in a directory of your choice, making sure that the .pkg and the executable are on the same folder. Just double click on the executable and enjoy the game!
Source code
You can find the source code for this game on GitLab!
Comments and feedback
If you have issues, comments, questions about this code, you can contact me by writing a comment on the itch.io page opening an issue ticket on the GitLab page, via Twitter (find my profile link on the blog footer, and follow me while you're there!) or by sending me an email (you can find my contact info on the footer on this page).
Screenshots
There are currently no screenshots available for this game.
Copyright
Don't Open. COVID Outside. Copyright © 2020 Celeste Privitera This game is released under the GNU GPL3 (General Public License 3) license. For more information, please read the README file on the GitLab repository under the License paragraph.
