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Stuff from click

By purpoappo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10792.6022
Fun9882.6722
Innovation6933.0022
Theme5613.3022
Graphics10132.2922
Humor7012.4119
Mood10332.3620

Comments

sinathegreat 2019-10-09 01:58

I'm very confused :D

dob 2019-10-09 02:03

Not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing, but I did drop a lot of apples and then grow them into trees nad then into beige animals. I couldn't get the number keys to do anything recognizable. The art is neat, and obviously there's some kind of AI going on there.

purpoappo 2019-10-09 02:54

@dob After getting the beige animals, you wait until they age and turn grey. Clicking them will cause them to turn into either a carnivore (red) or a human (pink). Carnivores have a chance of becoming humans after eating the beige animals. Giving the humans resources by planting apples and trees will cause them to build houses. Over time, they will gather rocks so you can build a factory. Clicking on the factory creates metal for humans to collect. The rest is for you to find out.

dob 2019-10-09 04:03

Ooo, wow, lots more that I didn't comprehend at first. I'll have to give it another try.

nachtwitch 2019-10-09 12:08

Really cool game, could use a bit more of a tutorial, still very cool, loved both the concept and the game

croewens 2019-10-09 12:14

Hi buddy! Nice submission! I had to come to the comments again to check what I was supposed to do. Maybe create a video tutorial?

elinks 2019-10-09 12:19

Looks like I won by creating a rocket with my tiny humans :D

But frankly I don't really understand how. The most confusing part was the yellow smiley flying around ^^

mrerdalural 2019-10-09 12:23

Clicker game with AI! There is nothing more could I want from life! Please add more content! I loved the idea!

Thank you for making this game!

lanz611 2019-10-09 12:31

Well that was certainly an adventure! I had a good group of humans going but then a predator ate them all :(. Eventually got far enough to make a rocket and fly to a new planet? Also, what in the world is the mean emoji face that flies in attached to a string(?) and carries off one of the humans?

purpoappo 2019-10-09 12:45

@elinks @lanz611 The yellow face is supposed to be a sea monster. It is meant to stop the humans.

rainetheglutton 2019-10-09 13:39

Thanks for rating our game.

At first, I wasn't sure if the game loaded since it starts as a white screen that you have to click on. The game has an interesting premise, though I didn't get very far since I ended up spawning carnivores that would wipe everything out. As others have stated the game is extremely abstract, but I think it's intuitive enough to progress. The only thing I would recommend is maybe standardizing on the animals and randomly generating them differently as I wouldn't have known what they were if I didn't read the comments first.

captandrey 2019-10-09 14:14

Factory related twist surprised me a lot. Nice ending "gift")

ryzy27 2019-10-09 15:27

Even though I don't know how to progress I'm having fun placing creatures and seeing them eat each other. Nontheless some score or progress bar (not sure what I'm aiming for?) would be nice :)

Great game! I wish you added a couple sounds.

purpoappo 2019-10-09 23:50

You can also play this game on a mobile device. In my opinion it is more fun.

wolf4d 2019-10-10 23:10

Wow. At first, game looks unfinished and glitchy... but then... wow, it has things to explore!

nisovin 2019-10-11 02:08

The game seems pretty cool, though I wish I understood more what I'm actually doing. A bit of a tutorial would be nice. I also had trees moving around on their own, is that meant to happen?

ketura 2019-10-12 01:22

This really needs some in-game guidance. I can sort of see where things are going (now that I've read the comments), but even just putting what's in the comments in a drop-down screen would help loads.

slimabob 2019-10-12 02:55

This is a really interesting game! Took some time to figure out, but pretty entertaining watching the little creatures run around the game world and fight each other!

purpoappo 2019-10-12 03:23

@nisovin Carnivores(red) are able to push trees. I forgot to fix this but I think it is funny when it happens.

space-wumpus 2019-10-12 10:23

This game desperately needed the instructions that you gave in the comments to have been on the main page. Also, because the game starts with a white screen (starting from nothing?) it looks like the game has failed to load. Once I had some idea what was happening is was quite fun, but it does seem mostly random what happens and you don't have a lot of influence. e.g. the people kept eating the animals before they turned grey, so I had the idea of fencing of a region of the map with trees, with the animals inside to protect them. But then the people just collected the trees as fast as I could make them so this wasn't possible. An interesting idea, but needs to feel less random, and really needs instructions.