Cell Craft is an old flash Edutainment Game made in 2009 where you play as an amoeba made by platypi on the planet Monotremus. In about 100 years, a giant ball of trash will collide with the planet and render it uninhabitable, so they send a robot to Earth.
Contains Examples of:
- Apocalypse How: at least A class 3a, once the trash ball hits the planet.
- Artistic License – Biology: The game mentions that it's a simplification of what goes on in the cell. They still take liberty by adding a chloroplast from a plant and placing it in a mammal's cell.
- Colony Drop: A planet-sized ball of trash is implied to crash into the planet on the microbe's journey to Earth.
- Damage Over Time: The cell generates free radicals that damage the mitochondria and chloroplasts. This requires the cell to create Peroxisomes to intercept them, because those cell features can't be healed otherwise.
- Fling a Light into the Future: A race of advanced platypus-like people discover that an inescapable cataclysm will wipe out all life on their planet. With no means to escape their eventual destruction, they breed microbes (the premise of the game) tough enough to survive even the most hostile conditions that are still capable of supporting life and send them to another planet — that planet being Earth. This is apparently the origin of platypi on Earth and handily explains why they are so strange — they are aliens.
- Gameplay Grading: Individual waves are rated based on how well the player defended against them. A+ means the viruses did no noticable damage beyond needing to recreate slicer enzymes.
- Self-Duplication: Enemy viruses will try getting into the cell, and drop some RNA in order to create duplicates of itself. New copies of the virus damage the membrane as they leave the cell.
- Regenerating Health: Only the membrane slowly recovers health over time.
- Zerg Rush: Viruses will attack the cell in large waves, and they become even larger if they are never stopped by the cell's defenses.
