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Hortus

By amodo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme163.89
Audio193.89
Mood793.11
Innovation1122.94
Graphics1123.35
Overall1772.79
Fun2481.95
Coolness71940

Comments

covebit 2012-08-28 15:09

Cool!

ragzouken 2012-08-28 17:01

The music is nice indeed :)

ratking 2012-08-29 08:14

I couldn't find any earth-like planet in order recreate humanity! :-(

I like the GUI design, reminded me of Syndicate Wars.

brother-byto 2012-08-29 11:18

Nice graphics and sound.

Maybe a goal and somehow improved gameplay can make a really cool game out of this.

fififox 2012-08-29 18:47

Nice graphics and good background music! It's not the kind of game I have a lot of fun playing. Still, I like it thanks to its calm and relaxing mood... Good job on the GA too! :)

porpentine 2012-08-29 20:34

interesting start, i of course maxed all replication and all mutation. am i correct though that nothing happens afterwards, or have i simply picked the wrong planets? anyways, the music is great...so spacey and evocative

m-gryko85 2012-08-30 09:25

Great art and music. would do well to add some challenge

nseward 2012-08-30 17:29

Amazing music and the potential for game play is making me salivate. I hope you do more with this because what you have done so far is stellar. (pun intended.)

timtipgames 2012-08-31 15:35

I wish you had made more of it. Screw you, fever! It's really nice, just gets very boring due to the lack of game-play.

pixelgel 2012-08-31 15:45

The music and the graphics set the mood very effectively. It's a very cool concept, and I was pretty excited by my first mammals. The GUI was mostly effective, but sometimes there were annoying little circumstances where closing a window would open up another star system too.

dekart 2012-08-31 16:20

Very good space mood, background music is awesome, and I do like the art. Add some simple game loop & goals and it will become a great space exploratin game

jplur 2012-09-01 17:28

Very awesome UI, music, and little details like the planet rotation and axis are great.

For an interactive toy, I enjoyed it a lot, great watching a planet evolve and cheering on a new phyla, great work!

thewiseguy99 2012-09-02 21:59

Really nice start and a neat idea. Would love to see this developed into something. I am sure you could since this is a great start.

incredible-ape 2012-09-16 18:17

Not really a game yet, but it's a good start. The music is definitely the best thing about it at this point.

Besides needing some kind of goal or goals, the UI could be more informative too. I wish I could see how many planets I had already seeded in a system without having to click on them individually. You could change the color of the little ring around the seeded systems to indicate their "advancement" or something too.

And I think you should have limited, or finite resources. Instead of having to carefully consider all of the variables that are unique to each world before deciding to seed or not, I just ignored them and seeded every single planet until I got bored.

This could be pretty engaging with actual strategy elements.

PS: you wanted to look at the code for our game so I put a link to source on our page.