mrho 2012-04-23 06:19
Pretty good life simulation :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD23 → Teeming
By davedobson
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Theme | 71 | 3.82 | ||
| Innovation | 220 | 3.38 | ||
| Overall | 265 | 3.25 | ||
| Fun | 325 | 3.00 | ||
| Graphics | 394 | 2.95 | ||
| Mood | 410 | 2.71 | ||
| Humor | 453 | 2.18 | ||
| Audio | 455 | 2.43 |
Pretty good life simulation :)
Neat idea/simulation. Gameplay was rather one-tone. Liked the sfx!
Didn't know such things were possible with javascript - very cool. Like Jonathan said the gameplay could have used a bit more strategy / variety, although things got more interesting once the attack-sym's arrived.
I've always wanted to play a game like this! :D So it gets points for wish-fufillment. Unfortunately it became unplayabley laggy on my laptop.
I only tested it extensively in Chrome under Windows - what are you using?
The later levels were really fun, very great game overall! The controls and physics are super clean.
Great job, especially for your first competition!
Thanks, Rex - I'm not new to game programming, but very new to doing it this fast.
i liked it ;) maybe with a bettere AI it would become more challenging and interesting ;)
Fun game idea with a lot of variety packed in. Great job splitting things into bite size chunks and slowly introducing the player to the game. Awesome to see another entry built using Crafty. I also had a bit of slowdown while playing, but once I loaded it up in Safari everything ran great. (Matching what I experienced with my own entry built w/ Crafty)
Great!
Simple and fun! And it isn't simple to make a game simple and fun, the mastery is to make difficult things as it seems that is easy to make them (sorry for my english, in spanish I express this idea perfectly :D).
An awesome and well-balanced game. I really enjoyed.
Congratulations for a great work!
Pretty cool.
Very nice! Good tutorial system, and I found the movement very satisfying.
Excellent piece!
Simple and fun. I don't like how you are completely stopped while eating and then resume at full momentum afterwards, very disorienting.
[Comments and ratings from this account come from various team members]
Great concept! Gameplay wasn't quite there for me, especially the fact you get stunned every time you eat. Later levels were pretty cool when the syms arrived. Pretty good for 48 hours.
Thanks for the very kind comments, feedback, and suggestions - I appreciate them very much. Once the judging is done I'll make an updated version that incorporates these suggestions.
Aiming was a little difficult at times but apart from that I really enjoyed it. I also liked the aesthetic. The noise when you press m but don't split got kind of annoying as I tended to spam it as I was eating stuff
Interesting idea, but became tedious after level 3. 15 is too high a number when the gameplay is that systematic. Myabe the later levels get better... I'll have to test if further, later.
Overall, though, the game feels solid and well thought-out.
Thanks for the feedback. There are new features (syms) added starting at level 5, and new level goals at level 7. I agree that 15 is probably too many - didn't have a lot of time for testing. If you noticed, the text mentions 20 (the original number) - I had already reduced it to 15 but forgot to change that. 15 is still high.
Interesting idea.
The game was fun in the beginning, but became a bit tedious after a while, mostly because of the long animations. (This might be a bug, i used Firefox when playing it.) I also encountered a bug where i had 25/15 cells and lost because the time ran out.
Overall, good work!
Brilliant concept and the controls feel really awesome! I even enjoyed just speeding around the screen!
olav - was the 25/15 on one of the later levels? On the last couple, you have to shoot all the competitor cells before winning.
tripleVisionGames - thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed it! I ran into performance problems on level 4+. Disturbing sound effect for multiplying lol.
This was great. I think I'd have enjoyed it more if it was a bit more fast paced. My microbe also had a tendency to get stuk eating when I didn't want to.
good work, I love your game, 5/5 to all!
Played this to completion, really enjoyed it!
I must admit, when I first saw the theme one of my earliest thoughts was "petri dish" but couldn't figure out a workable game mechanic, so I enjoyed seeing your take on it!
This would make a great touchscreen game for phones or tablets, I think. Great work.
Thanks for the kind words. I think from the comments here I need to make the eating animation shorter; I kind of liked the feel of not being totally in control of yourself with dividing and eating and swimming, but it's obviously annoying people.
Really nice, polished gameplay. Honestly, there should be more stuff like this that could raise interested in science and biology!
Interesting game.
Sometimes it can be hard to aim...
Couldve used some more gameplay elements, maybe it had but I didn't play that far. I liked the idea and good job using html5.
I also imagined it being fun having the dry meter slowly drying up your screen. Like in bomberman when the timer starts to run out :).
I liked the way you introduced an additional game mechanic with each level & the dividing sound effect was great. Really good use of the theme too. The gameplay just didn't feel that compelling though, unfortunately.
Very good game. Great use of progression. Kept the game very interesting and fun.
Having different type of clones or jobs for clones would be cool. But not needed, it's a great game as is.
Nice graphics and mechanics, I enjoyed it.
Maybe lower levels requierements or faster actions will make it even funniest.
good job!
Nice entry. On the 3rd and 4th levels, I ran into a bug where the bacteria were spawning outside the petri dish, and I had to stop because there was nothing for me to eat.. Also, I wasn't sure how to quit. Other than that, fun game
Thanks for the comments. Sorry about the bug, Coffee - if you read this, can you let me know what browser you were using? I can see that I need to make the gameplay a little more exciting for it to be a keeper, but I'm glad people enjoyed it.
Very fitting for the theme! I think eating two pieces of bacteria at the same time only counted as a single piece? It would be nice to have a little faster paced action, but I can see how these levels get out of control really fast. :)
Thanks, angelk - yeah there is a small bug where if you start eating a second bacteria while the animation for the first is operating, you only get credit for one. Didn't spot it in time to fix. The pace does need to be a bit more brisk, I think.