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blob

By pknowles

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness356
Graphics2273.30
Innovation2473.15
Fun5962.26
Mood6042.14
Theme6522.05
Overall6632.35

Comments

midgard 2012-08-27 02:53

Doesn't working, there is a bug when you start the game (at least in chrome).

csanyk 2012-08-27 02:57

I also get an error when the game starts in Chrome. Couldn't play it.

chorinator 2012-08-27 02:58

Could't play. The game does nothing

sclark39 2012-08-27 03:05

Couldn't play :(
Error when it first starts, and then clouds.

geti 2012-08-27 03:07

Couldn't create GL context, must have too shitty a GPU. would've been nice to make a lofi version with simpler/no shaders for us hardware-poor folk ;)

screenshot looks A+ though.

davidwparker 2012-08-27 03:22

Couldn't play.

OSX 10.6.8: Chrome Version 21.0.1180.82: "Could not create GL context."

derosa 2012-08-27 03:23

OSX with Chrome Versión 21.0.1180.82. Intel HD3000 just in case :)

"GL Error 1286: <unknown> after draw <no stack>"

pknowles 2012-08-27 03:29

Apologies for the bugs. I plan on fixing/completing this during the week. There's some pretty weird WebGL quirks such as not being able to read a non-power of 2 floating point texture from a shader. It also seems if a shader has too many ops, it simply doesn't run without giving any error indication.

Oreganik 2012-08-27 03:32

Couldn't run in Firefox or Chrome, sorry.

mdkess 2012-08-27 04:03

On Chrome, on Ubuntu 12.04, the game just shows the black and white screen - no colored blobs as your screenshot suggests. I didn't leave a rating, but let me know if I can help you patch this.

cataclysmicknight 2012-08-27 04:04

Same thing, it said something about a stack issue... :(

robcozzens 2012-08-27 05:09

In Safari it couldn't create the GL context or something.

krides 2012-08-28 17:19

Yeah, can't play it =\

devoreuk 2012-08-28 21:45

Wouldn't work for me. Chrome, "GL Error 1286: <unknown> after draw <no stack>"

lurkingshadow 2012-08-29 04:11

same as everyone else.

tobiasnl 2012-08-29 11:55

Nope, doesn't work here as well. Bummer!

benjamin-soule 2012-08-29 12:04

I can't play either :-/

ggiraldez 2012-08-30 18:01

The game starts, but I can barely play. Depending on the starting configuration, blue reproduces too fast and eats all the food, or kills me in less than 1 second. Also, even if there's food and some of my blobs around, when blue reaches a certain level the game tells me I've lost. Alert popup for that is very annoying too btw. Anyway, the concept is interesting, but in its current state is no fun at all.

pknowles 2012-08-30 18:42

Thanks for the feedback :) I've only just updated it. I'll keep tweaking.

lesterpig 2012-08-31 13:51

Work with me ! A very nice game, but really hard ;)

echa 2012-08-31 15:32

Very intresting artstyle!

steelraven7 2012-09-01 06:53

Really cool artstyle, but it felt like every single game was decided by if you could reach the green goo without dying first.

murrayl 2012-09-01 22:46

It reminded me a great deal of the game 'liquidwar', which is no bad thing.

garethjenkins 2012-09-13 18:43

Great stuff -- love the look and feel. Could do with some audio to compliment it.

thomastc 2012-09-17 13:31

I like the graphics, in particular the levels -- are they procedural? The gameplay could do with some tweaking; if you can reach the green it's straightforward, and otherwise you die quickly, and the blue "AI" doesn't seem to do very much. The concept is great though, and it would work really well on a touch screen too.

I would really like to know more about how you did all this. Maybe you'd like to write a blog post?

pknowles 2012-09-18 07:40

Yes, I'm contemplating doing an android version, but it uses floating point textures for the particle system which makes porting it really ugly. I've only done a few tests so far.

I haven't got round to implementing AI yet. At the moment blue movement is purely random, but the data for pathfinding and unit density is available.

The first thing I want to fix is the blob interactions (so the evolution part of the game actually works). I really want min/max blending for this but like so many GL features it's missing in WebGL.

I'll definitely continue to work on the game. I'll put a link on the same page with some more in-depth tech details when I get time.

Thanks all for the feedback :)