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Symbio

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Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD46Ever
Overall25212.36240.84.1
Fun25142.12231.14.4
Innovation14393.182443.352.2
Theme21293.102315.729.0
Graphics22562.39243.29.2
Audio1.2916
Humor1.1816
Mood23712.00190.41.6

Comments

antaresvaldemar 2020-04-21 15:04 ♥ 1

Hi this seems like an interesting idea but I'm not sure it's playable? I just keep losing pretty much straight away, it says there is 1 predator and then 0 predators but I never see the predator on screen? Nothing I do seems to affect it. Let me now if I've missed something, because the game looks nice.

eyesoflamia 2020-04-21 15:09 ♥ 0

Interesting concept, I couldn't quite grasp the gameplay mechanics, no matter what I did the predators died after about a minute but it's a cool and different idea.

fpixel 2020-04-21 15:11 ♥ 0

An interesting concept, but I still do not understand how to play. What changes when the buttons are pressed? This may be my problem, but the FPS is very low.

flomino 2020-04-21 15:14 ♥ 1

i was intrigued by the title and menu, but found the game not fully playable. the game has some performance issues which (on my laptop) rendered the game unplayable at 3-5 fps on average. i could not seemingly interact with the game. its an interesting idea id like to see fixed up with improved performance optimization and clearer gameplay.

thecze 2020-04-21 15:15 ♥ 0

I'll be honest I'm not entirely sure what I did but I really enjoyed the flock movement of the swarm.

andro 2020-04-21 15:16 ♥ 0

Like the others, I couldn't really understand what is going on. However, I should also add that the game seems to lag whenever those red things appear.

jonhg 2020-04-21 15:16 ♥ 0

Im agree with guys. I cant understand how to play and what i should do in this game. But in general, main idea looks interesting.

gurglesprain 2020-04-21 15:16 ♥ 0

Yeah nice boid simulation but I'm really not sure what's going on 😅 Even some basic instructions or a description of what to do on this page would go a long way.

I was also getting odd FPS drops, it'd be perfectly smooth for a while and then tank to single digit FPS for a while

ed3187 2020-04-21 15:19 ♥ 0

Like some other I didn't quite understand how to play it, seemed like a really interesting idea though

ssh-randy 2020-04-21 15:20 ♥ 0

Oh i like the sim. Don't really get what the gameplay aspect of it is, hard to control the birds, and I don't really see how you can influence anything one way or the other, but it's always fun to watch simulations. Good work on your first try!

nanoarch 2020-04-21 15:22 ♥ 0

Interesting idea but, I don't really get what to do, the frame rate drops to unplayable rates, and again, I didn't really understand what the point of what the player is supposed to do in the game, I would like to see this refined and remade for better FPS and more elaborate game play, and more instructions.

lestat 2020-04-21 15:22 ♥ 0

Interesting to say the least. Fits the theme. Good job!

topolino 2020-04-21 15:22 ♥ 0

Hey there! I know a lot of people are having trouble understanding what's going on, so I just wanted to add my two cents here. This might be a boid simulation based off Sebastian Lague's video on YouTube? There isn't much gameplay and the FPS drops are probably a result of just how difficult it is to simulate natural boids. A cool concept, but adding to this further with some more explanation or gameplay would really create an interesting experience beyong the novelty of the simulation.

trifectuh 2020-04-21 15:41 ♥ 0

The flock movement feels really nice. I failed to figure out how to feed the predators but had fun flinging my little blue dudes around. Nice job

voidsay 2020-05-12 18:51 ♥ 0

Can't for the life of me tell if I affect anything. Performance takes a nosedive after a reload.