This is a submission for the Jingle Game Jam 2025.
Highly evolved (and unsettlingly weird) micro-organisms are proliferating in your beard hair and feasting on the food scraps littered in there. The only way to rid this microbial infestation is to design the ultimate micro-organism and send it out to raid their resources and fight back against these germs!

Join parts together to build the ULTIMATE organism

Utilize a grid-based building system to construct your organism from modular building blocks. Customize your structural health, movement, weaponry, and modifiers while balancing the Mass, Coordination, and Synthesis limits of your creature.

Join with your enemies after defeat

Survive a 2 minute round out in the wilds as your forage for food or hunt down prey, while keeping your brain safe from the deadlier hunters around you. If another organism does manage to pierce your cranium, don't worry! Complete a rapid-fire minigame to parasitically take control of your host and continue the run using their body!

Join me in asking whether this game has too many parts and upgrades

Use the resources collected from your runs to buy upgrades and body parts to further expand the capabilities of your organism. Every step you unlock provides you with more and more opportunities to build the organism of your dreams (maybe).

[How To Play]

This game can be played in-browser, or as a downloadable Windows executable. The game consists of two phases; Your Build Phase, and your Run Phase.

During Build Phase, you can click on available body parts in the bottom window of your Hud, and then click on an attachment point on your organism to place them. You can rotate parts using the [R] key, and remove placed parts by clicking the [Destroy Mode] button and then clicking on the respective parts. Some parts must be purchased by spending resources, while others are only unlocked by parasiting other organisms. You can also unlock permanent upgrades on the left of your screen by spending resources as well.

During Run Phase, you take control of your organism and swim around an open arena. Food and other organisms will slowly spawn over time, aggressively competing with each other. Your organism has a limited lifetime of 120s, at the end of which it'll die. Your organism will also die if any of it's brains are destroyed. If your organism is killed by a foe, you'll have one last chance to try and seize control of that foe's body and continue your run (at the cost of half of what you've collected so far) - Simply enter the sequence of keys displayed onscreen. At the end of a run, all your collated resources are added to your total.

You move your organism by using the [W][A][S][D] or [Arrow] keys. If you have ranged weapons mounted on your organism, you can fire them by pressing the [1...9] keys.