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I've shown this game to my biology teacher and found him the next day playing it when I came to talk to him. The day after that he told our class about it, made us play it for homework (at least twenty minutes) and made an extra credit question about it on the quiz!
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Hoping for a free-play-mode, somewhat like level 8, only that it never ends, and continously gets more difficult to survive. Then you could have high-scores based on the number of waves you survived ;)
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Also, coolie, the point of level 8 is to build your defenses early, then deactivate one of the mitochondira, and begin to search for the sugars you need and keep them in excess, until you have a total of 5 chloroplasts which will negate the work of the one mitochondria, allowing you to get excess sugars. After getting 100 fatty acids and increasing the size of the cell membrane to resist damage, you can proceed to use atp and lysosomes to break down the chlorophyll. You then make another mitochondria so you can produce 114 atp a second, and continue searching for sugar so that you reach 5500 atp. From there you break down 2 of the mitochondria so you have 102 NA and 2700 AA, from which you can create all 100 toxins at once and get them out before the swarms of viruses kill you from all attacking at once. It is a tight run, but it works.
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I see a bunch of people saying Bio teachers should assign this for homework, MINE RECOMMENDED IT AS PART OF STUDYING AND WE PLAYED IT IN CLASS ON LONG HOUR
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Although this is a marvelous educational tool, I think you have missed some important parts in making the game itself. First of all, the game is way to easy for somebody with basic game, or basic biology knowledge. Also, although this game has great potential, it's way to short, and misses the free play part. Also, if you want to stick with biology, each virus should release at least one nucleic acid when destroyed. Anyway, I'm giving this game a rating of 4, and am looking forward to a sequel.
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What do you think about translating this great game into other languages, like Russian? of course, you'll get help. The game lacks a time-speeding button, so the things happen faster, IMHO
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I can easily see CellCraft becoming a major biological aid in the coming years had it not been for one flaw - the simplicity. ...Kidding.
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To beat the crocodile level and avoid the bug: Get to 40% toxicity, and save up 750 Amino Acids, 30 Fatty Acids, and 1500 ATP. Pump out 30 toxins at once, and watch as you narrowly escape horrible virus death as the crocodile's stomach rots away and it vomits you out.
Fantastic game, this is the kind of educational game that needs to be made for, oh, EVERYTHING in order to get kids to play it. The story is corny and silly, but it knows it is.
5/5.
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HA! "This game was made possible by a grant from the Digital Media & Learning Competition." -> "Hmm... tell you what, Supreme Planetary Overlord, we don't have any ideas right now... But if you give us a RIDICULOUS amount of grant money, we'll figure something out."
If funding is the common thread that finds solutions to a given problem (often true), then realistically tying in planetary destruction to the storyline makes me wonder how we'd fare. Science funding seems self-destructively low in the US. (We'd probably wind up sending Jeeves, or a plagiarized version of him on another adventure from area 51...)
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After biology this year, I have learned that I learned nothing in it. This game is a great game to educate, and also entertain. 5/5 SOMEONE GIVE THIS TO A TEACHER
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this game beats all ive ever played 5/5
just wondering is any of this real stuff???????????????
and press + if you want badges or a number 2??
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ideas for the sequel: online, random events, divide, you are in a body, someone could play as the person and choose the events?
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this is just brilliant ! first off, i had never liked this subject since school, this game made me love it :) . And as a gamer, i think you just introduced a whole new concept of tower defence games and its wonderful :) Thanx a lot for making this.
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How does one make Nucleic Acid, I've got to the point in the game where I divide Chloroplast and automatically make Peroxisome. I now have no NA and can no longer play or do anything and I cannot find a guide or walk-through to help... the game seems broken, can anyone help?
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so, apparently, platypuses can make their own food like plants. because they put a chloroplast in the cell, put platypus DNA in it, and sent it to earth, the cells still have the chloroplasts and grew into an animal, thus proving my statement. makes sense, right?