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1000 Evolving Kittens

By moonmagic

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Humor1262.97
Theme3402.97
Audio3952.33
Graphics4682.64
Mood5002.39
Innovation5852.34
Fun6372.15
Overall6962.27

Comments

panzermancer 2012-08-27 05:35

This is so adorable, but I seriously have no idea what's supposed to be going on. Here's my thought process:

"WHAT DO I DO."
"D'AWWWW"
"WHY IS THAT KITTEN A RAINBOW."
"ARE BUTTERFLIES GOOD OR..."
"D'AWWWWW"
"WHAT DO I DOOOOO"
"D'AWWWWWWWWWWWW"
"WHAT DO I DOAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"

And then I spiral into unspeakable madness. Fuzzy, adorable, 8-bit, unspeakable madness.

covebit 2012-08-27 05:35

Haha.:D

drabiter 2012-08-27 05:37

I have no idea what should I do when the game begins. Any more detail?

moonmagic 2012-08-27 14:42

Hey y'all! Thanks for playing. I'm still working on this, but obviously out of time. Basically, if you let the kittens evolve on their own the game strongly favors the worm form and those will be dominant. Worm kittens are destructive and eat everything. In the finished version, you will be able to encourage kittens to evolve into their final form by steering the fat kittens into butterflies and preventing them from eating smaller kittens. The code is there for this to happen now, but without the next form, they just disappear.

porpentine 2012-08-29 10:41

WORM KITTENS ARE DESTRUCTIVE AND EAT EVERYTHING

adventureislands 2012-08-29 17:28

I am not sure what I am supposed to do here at all, clicking the kittens makes them colorful, but then what? there is no way to keep clicking all of them.

thewiseguy99 2012-08-30 01:23

Well done for getting something out there. Good start. 48 hrs isn't long...

barry-abrams 2012-08-30 12:30

The funnest game where I had no idea what i was doing.

dedhedzed 2012-08-30 16:35

Well, that was certainly a thing. I think the word 'Click' at the start was the only part I really understood.

Fun to watch, though.

aquasheep 2012-08-31 01:11

Hilarious, chaotic, and absolutely inscrutable. +1 p_o

zappi 2012-08-31 02:58

I don't get what's going on, but it's really fun fun to watch )
Please add some 8bit music!

zelen3d 2012-08-31 20:39

crazy, making kittens eat themselves and transform into worms, crazy chaos, all I could say.

capgrip 2012-08-31 22:53

Hahaha. Crazy idea! It's a shame it did not work. Try to fix and post a new version. A 8bit song would be pretty cool. Good luck man!

csanyk 2012-09-01 01:46

It didn't seem to matter much whether I provided any input to the game or not, but it was fascinating just to watch. Sound effects and motion are especially well done.

moonmagic 2012-09-01 07:13

Hey y'all! Thanks so so much for playing this kitten universe simulator. If you'd like to have an idea of the direction I'm going in, play the post-compo build. Embrace the chaos! Early on in the evolutionary process, you won't feel like you have much agency, but later you can really Feel Your Stuff!

Still working on implementing Later and Stuff Feeling.

switchbreak 2012-09-01 15:57

Oh god worm kitten apocalypse! Clicking makes rainbows! What's going on!

evilseanbot 2012-09-04 06:44

Somewhat unsettling :) I think a lot of the changes in the post-compo version were pretty spot on, I think it just needs either abit more complex interaction or more of a goal / goals .

moonmagic 2012-09-08 19:24

Hi everyone! thanks again for playing. I've updated the post-compo version again; I've put the code in for the MEGA KITTEN form and balanced the world so that the worms win and empty the universe if you do nothing. No MEGA KITTEN yet, but I desperately need to clean my house. HAPPY SATURDAY!

th3dz 2012-09-15 07:13

What was the max evolution of the kittens? I only got 3 different ones I think.

moonmagic 2012-09-16 15:29

In the post-compo form of the game, the highest kitten form is now MEGA KITTEN. Working on GIGA KITTEN now.

48hr version only has three forms, and dead-ends at WORM KITTEN.