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Biome

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Innovation434.00
Theme5663.62
Overall6603.17
Fun8542.71

Comments

csanyk 2015-12-17 05:36

Really cool way to adapt Life to a playable game. This feels like it could be as deep as Go, but way harder due to the difficulty of humans predicting Life patterns without a tremendous amount of thought and planning.

si1ver 2015-12-17 07:59

I liked it but it's too hard to create sellf-moving pattern that targets enemy geomancers (or probably boimancers).

kaiseangames 2015-12-17 20:55

I really like Conway's Life, but I find the inherent behaviour too difficult to hold in our brains. I've experimented with CGoL but never created something playable that is not difficult.

xanjos 2016-01-02 21:38

Definitely needs some sort of indicator to let you know whose turn it is but I absolutely loved the use of Conway's Game of Life as part of the game's rules and mechanics.

brightstar 2016-01-03 00:25

I like the idea of strategically occupying the spawn points to spawn more pieces.

aflatminerstudios 2016-01-03 03:24

Neat idea! Was hard to keep my own geomancers from inadvertent backgrowth... Wanted to create some ships, but didn't last long enough!

smirnov48 2016-01-03 09:05

Nice game! You need AI player.

snowshovelboy 2016-01-04 05:15

Shooting gliders is pretty cool.

rockhoppergames 2016-01-04 16:27

Definitely takes quite some figuring out. I managed to destroy all of red before I got there, and there didn't seem to be any ending or way to restart that game at that point. I found it very interesting conceptually, though!