Get a taste of the "massively reactive" gameplay in indie game Cell: emergence, a journey inside the human body based on "dynamic voxels."

In the demo, players must spread "antibodies" (translucent white voxels) throughout a tube-shaped membrane. Once the membrane is teeming with "antibodies," it can withstand the eruption of purple Growth a minute later.

Inspired by tense '80s arcade games like Defender, Centipede, and Missile Command, Cell offers 17 punishing levels that require players to decipher a level's "cellular automata" simulation and then battle living processes with speed and dexterity.

The game's story, written by Deus Ex writer Sheldon Pacotti, is a first glimpse at a near-future fictional world where war is fought in code and chemistry and the inner workings of Nature.

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• Life, in every cell of the game world
• Tactics, as you choose between construction and direct attacks
• Drama, as you learn why your meager life as unit KRV-2134-C is of such interest to the human beings above
• Nirvana, as you are slowly mesmerized by a fully synced soundtrack, in which every song and body pulse line up to a constant tempo
• 17 levels of punishment. You deserve every one of them.
• Writing by Sheldon Pacotti, veteran scriptwriter for games like Deus Ex and America’s Army
• Sound, passed through the human body and transmuted by Robin Arnott, designer and soundscape artist (Deep Sea, Antechamber, The Spire).
• Music you’ve never heard before by Logan Middleton of The Laughing
• Cut scenes illustrated by Lindsay Rigling Smith of LR Studios and cast and directed by Adam Hilton of Shine Studios