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CritterLab

By berkano

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme124.29
Coolness359
Innovation1153.52
Audio1992.90
Overall3493.03
Mood3992.58
Humor4141.95
Fun4762.60
Graphics5702.37

Comments

mappum 2012-08-27 01:20

This is close to what mine was going to be, but with you in the same world as a controllable character shooting them :P

crushenator 2012-08-27 03:47

I couldn't get this running on OSX. Error from my Java Console is:
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not get the JAWT interface
It's a well documented error so hopefully it's a quick fix and I can try this later.

berkano 2012-08-27 11:14

Oh no! I had a google, and tried one of the suggested fixes. I also noticed an error in the Mac startup script. New build uploaded, please can you try again and let me know how you get on? (same link as above). If you still see the problem, would be great to get a full copy of the error you're seeing.

cheers!

berkano 2012-08-27 11:21

@Crushenator, also, if you have any kind of customised Java setup, would be great to find out the details (e.g. which JDK). thanks!

ncannasse 2012-08-27 13:57

Quite interesting, but maybe too many options doesn't make the gameplay really understandable :)

dustystylus 2012-08-27 14:33

Really ambitious, and really faithful to the competition theme. I love dynamic sandbox games like this where you just watch to see what happens to the world. Nice one!

1176studios 2012-08-27 16:59

Always love a good simulator

datw 2012-08-27 17:23

Nice concept, but I think that I ran out of things to do rather fast. Nice music, btw.

entity2d 2012-08-27 17:34

Cool little thing to play with. I'd have loved to have seen random terrain generation, though.

ponte 2012-08-27 17:35

Cool simulator. Everybody loves simulators.

jplur 2012-08-27 17:51

I managed to generate a guy that thrived in the water, didn't move but reproduced enough ;)

I think you managed to do what a lot of people tried to this competition, good stuff!

thomastc 2012-08-27 21:48

I don't see any creatures. Might be a bug...

berkano 2012-08-27 22:10

@FrozenFractal they might have gone extinct very quickly :-) Try clicking the map to re-spawn a few times!!

axcho 2012-08-28 07:41

@mappum that sounds just like the game I made, Ninjural Selection. :P

chronodk 2012-08-28 07:51

Quite an impressive god simulator system considering it was made in 48 hours! Matches the theme very well, and the NUKE option is good fun when you are done playing :)

geekygenius 2012-08-28 09:44

:D Another slick game! That's 3 (including me) so far! Pretty fun to mess around with. Not sure what I was doing, but it still was pretty cool. Great work!

thewiseguy99 2012-08-30 04:38

Great simulator! Relates well to the theme. Well done! PS Appreciate your comments

whilefun 2012-08-31 12:56

Pretty cool game! I really like how the idea fits the theme. It was fun to fiddle with different settings and see what happened. It had a good "sim" feel to it and I liked the music. I max'd out around 1350 population and 50 or so species! :)

jacic 2012-08-31 20:31

Very nice sandbox game. It took me a bit to familiarize myself with the controls, but then it was pretty fun. :)

goerp 2012-08-31 20:43

I like that you did a sandbox game. haven't seen much up until now. I do find it a bit hard to keep on caring about the creatures in the long run and an itch to nuke starts to creep in much to quickly. Maybe if you had more time they could have had more visual personalities.
Oh by the way: I liked the music. It a bit of an X-COM 2 atmosphere.
Great.

Syarahsy 2012-09-01 09:32

Fun little sandbox! It certainly brought out my evil side.

jaj 2012-09-01 13:07

It can get out of hand rather quickly! By the time I had read the in-game help my screen was already covered with creatures! The simulation goes a bit fast for me to follow properly, but I did love to try to kill all other lifeforms with my army of pink monsters. I never succeded though.

dector 2012-09-01 21:35

Don't get in it, but it's nice.

evilseanbot 2012-09-04 06:58

Couldn't figure out how to keep the little buggers alive.

kobel 2012-09-04 08:35

Interesting- it's fun to spawn a population and watch them drift into a few different species. I enjoyed reading the description of the stats in particular, though, since our projects were so similar it was super interesting reading how you approached it.