Fan-made Amoeba

We love unofficial amoeba species! If you have an amoeba species of your own or have seen some out in the wild, post it here with a caption giving credit. Most submissions are from the Amoeba discord:



For those curious, here is what Amoeba Battle's lead dev, Boogily Woogily, has to say about amoeba design: "From a game design POV, the mechanics of the amoebas are restricted by the engine itself. For example, we could never have flying amoebas because there's just no way for our engine to do that particularly well. Other than that, we try to have certain general guidelines to allow players to make certain assumptions about certain amoebas. Herbivores generally always have a ranged attack of some sort, omnivores are generally tankier than other amoebas, and carnivores can do a lot of damage. We try to keep those associations to lessen the burden of knowledge (a game design'y term) on players, allowing them to make some assumptions and not have to memorize everything. For example, if we had an amoeba that healed other amoebas, we would probably make it an omnivore first because they are associated with health. We might also be able to make it an herbivore if that didn't work it, but we would likely never make it a carnivore, unless it was appropriately themed to be attack-oriented like life-stealing.

I have less expertise from an art perspective, but generally the artists make whatever they want and it is iterated on to match game design principles. One idea is the concept of affordance or making sure that whatever something looks like informs what it can do. If you see an amoeba that was named "jaguar", you might assume certain characteristics such as agility, hunting, swimming, deadly bite, etc. If the art for the jaguar looked like an elephant, there is a disconnect there, and if its gameplay involved being slow and healing others, that wouldn't match up with expectations." On that note, fan-made amoeba aren't held to these rules . Creativity and oddness are welcome!