Role:

Game concept and mechanics,
worm and upgrade systems,
enemy and antivirus systems,
level design and balancing,
UI/UX and gameplay programming.

Overview:

Viral Survival is a rogue-lite reverse bullet hell game where you play as a modular computer worm trying to infect computer chips while surviving an increasingly aggressive antivirus system.

You start with a small worm made up of connected pieces that automatically attacks enemies around you. As you infect chips, you gain upgrades that can make your worm larger, faster, or stronger. The bigger your worm becomes, the more firepower you have, but its size also makes movement more difficult.

The game is built around making decisions about how you grow and when you should sacrifice parts of your worm. Losing pieces can make you smaller and faster, while also changing how much of the screen you can cover with attacks. At the same time, antivirus agents and firewalls continue to appear and make the map more dangerous as the run progresses.

The idea was to combine the familiar feel of a snake-like game with rogue-lite progression and reverse bullet hell gameplay, while putting the player inside a computer system. Each run is about balancing size, speed, attacks, and survival while trying to infect every chip on the map.