Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD20 → Nano Seed

Nano Seed

By machinas

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD20Ever
Innovation1552.883245.432.4
Fun2422.133114.14.5
Theme1212.873157.319.4
Graphics2432.223214.75.8
Audio2751.25160.31.7
Humor2631.65236.43.0
Overall2252.393120.74.5
Community2202.061623.031.2
Coolness177216.10.7

Ratings received

OverallAudioCommunityFunGraphicsHumorInnovationTheme
21122322
3123244
22443
242
21111132
32225
232113
322135
112223
22131
55555555
1112121
1121112
222122
31233243
2112123
3433344
32333
21212132
22143
31132232
3223134
31321233
2121223
31133143
21322143
31232144
224122
21131
2112132
21232223
32233

Comments

milo 2011-05-03 01:08

Pretty nifty. It'd be nice if it had some sort of goal, or something like that.

machinas 2011-05-03 05:06

yeah, next on the todo list was 'enemies' :P regrettably unfinished.

fifth 2011-05-03 15:45

Yeah, a goal would have been nice. Got my little nano seeds all powered up, but had nothing to do with them...
After I harvested all the asteroids, I shot aimlessly into the void of space... it's lonely out there.

jarnik 2011-05-03 17:05

I like the idea of simultenous control over two different units (even one of them being a swarm)! Further development might be quite interesting.

mwest 2011-05-03 22:02

Nice attempt - pretty good for 8 hours!

the-jack 2011-05-04 00:09

Asteroids with a twist.

With a bit of tuning could be better, but yeah for only 8 hours it's a great effort.

winterblood 2011-05-05 21:15

Like the nano swarm, just needs some enemies or hazards to use the nanites on. Also a larger window on the world would have been nice.

machinas 2011-05-06 05:54

funny thing is that the size of the screen is just a tuning value. I could have made it any size. I really don't know why I made it small like that.

Yeah. Plan was to have little box enemies that inchworm towards you and collide. You have to protect yourself with the nano swarm. Enemies become more numerous as time passes.

Also, was going to have different asteroid chunks that gave the nano swarm special powers. Just needed that second day ;)

jonbro 2011-05-06 09:40

like some other commenters, I was confused by what happens after you collect the seeds. But yeah your explanation makes sense. Would like to see this with more development.

endurion 2011-05-07 09:33

Very nice intro and looks quite interesting. A shame there's not much to do. It wouldn't be fair to vote for overall as there's not much to play.

natpat 2011-05-07 09:39

It looks and feels as though it good be fun - if just there was something to do!

cirrial 2011-05-08 15:30

I have no idea what I'm doing here. It looks like there's no apparent goal here, but good work for eight hours.

hamster_mk_4 2011-05-10 04:51

I like the flocking behavior of the nanos. It took me a while to figure out how to shoot.

lingmops 2011-05-21 12:57

I like the flocking around the mouse pointer, it felt like I should be able to do more with the little mites though, like a large swarm should be able to devour larger brown thing.