tannernetwork 2014-08-25 07:39
Good idle game but does exist other things except ants and grass?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD30 → The Garden
By bendmorris
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 51 | ||
| Innovation | 394 | 3.37 | ||
| Theme | 600 | 3.20 | ||
| Humor | 611 | 2.24 | ||
| Overall | 638 | 3.13 | ||
| Fun | 717 | 2.87 | ||
| Mood | 721 | 2.80 | ||
| Graphics | 1052 | 2.26 |
Good idle game but does exist other things except ants and grass?
Yes - once you have enough ants, the next one will appear. It doesn't take long.
I really enjoyed this - I've played a lot of incremental games, but I loved how this required careful tending to get it to grow. I spent way too long playing it (wish there was a pause!) - I looked away and came back to find my ecosystem collapsing under the weight of deer and wolves :) Very nicely done.
Nice job! A pause button would be great -- I didn't want to stop playing but needed to step away for a while. Once the cats went extinct I just gave up.
a wild ant appears :D
I keep trying to quit, then I decide to let it go a little longer haha. You did something right!
Nice game!
I played this game for about 15 minutes, went to coyote, hawks and corn then I couldn't understand how to fight the extinction.
Everything finally died and I didn't understand how I could fix the entropy.
I seemed that everything I could click made the things worse.
It's a very good entry but some kind of explanations of how the things interact with each others (other than just percent) would be great.
I like the idea, but it took a long time for more than three items to appear for me.
Wonderful! Very relaxing and fun to play. Would've been awesome to have indicators next to each number showing whether they were currently increasing or decreasing.
Just in case it's not clear, the colors indicate whether something is increasing or decreasing - green is increasing and red is decreasing, and the brighter the color the faster they're changing.
Just love it! But the hint is quiet unclear, my cats all died and I forgot how to make them again! Nice game!
Hi there. Interesting simulation, but I think it needed a bit more content sooner - or maybe just a few more things to keep player occupied. Got as far as 4 things (Bush). Good job!
Cool game! Its addicting :)
Thanks for opening my eyes to a new game genre! When I think about it some more: most games I've played seem to have a core of "incrementation": levelling up, reaching the next world, getting achievements, improving your (motor) skills, earning more, getting more XXX ... Really basic human stuff, man.
Funny that when my kid brother showed my cookie clicker I thought it to be the most silly and pointless thing ever ... but it's really an archetypal game mechanic, we just dress it up in lots of logic and gfx, like this silly action rpg I've been playing for 100+ hours just to get all the last level 9 items ... Well, anyway, nice game and thanks for making it! (...and sorry for the philosophy :))
nice, interesting take on the theme
It was relaxing to play this game.
I went until cows, but they were dying. I guess I had to take care of them. All of a sudden all the insects started to die, but my actions against their predator were useless.
Hopefully a small colony of ants came back in my garden after a short period and the ecosystem had reborn.
I will be more careful this time.
I like the take on the theme. I was toying with that type of interpretation myself before opting for a different path. The ecosystem was really robust, which made the game play itself for a great while. I got to 11 species and had very little trouble keeping them in line. Then I decided that grass would rule it all, trying to get it to overshoot. But I never managed how much I tried. After that I got rid of all animals, which was a challenge. And they kept popping back. So I decided to KILL ALL LIFE. Which was really the most challenging and game-wise interesting way of playing it. Doesn't work too well as a moral in the story though, but clicking to keep ants at max, spiders at minimum and cutting down all plants was really fun. (And I succeeded, totally destroying the ecosystem.)
Very interesting game. I think it would have been more intriguing with an animation of your garden going on as you played.