Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → LUCA
By kaiwang, GodBo, ceasiumzmj, Mostimer and WDNMDLD
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 820 | 3.26 | 38 | |
| Fun | 643 | 3.27 | 38 | |
| Innovation | 121 | 3.88 | 38 | |
| Theme | 165 | 4.13 | 38 | |
| Graphics | 3.42 | 15 | ||
| Humor | 652 | 2.83 | 35 | |
| Mood | 887 | 3.05 | 38 |
I think something is wrong. I just die after 1.5 seconds with the message "You Fail. You survived for 3 years".
The window here on ldjam seems to be cutting things off, perphaps I'm missing something? I'd recommend getting the game on itch.
It looks really cool though!
Yea same sudden "You fail"
A fun little game! For anyone who, like me, was dying repeatedly in the first few seconds, you have to press space and start spamming down energy-generating chloroplasts to survive the passive energy drain. A bit of tutorial might go a long way to help new players figure out their footing!
That being said, once I understood the game, the construction of my tiny organism and battling against the others in the world was a fun little gameplay loop--and the music is really fun, too!
I do wish a few organelles had numbers associated with them (so that I could see how much energy was generated, how much energy a given part might need, etc). Still, a fun time trying crazy designs and battling against other creatures!
This was neat! It took me a few very short runs of failing immediately before I realized what was going on and how to get some starting Chloroplasts to not be immediately at a net loss of energy.
Once I did get established it was hard to tell when I was taking damage, so I could go negative and die without noticing what was going on. It would've helped to have some audio or visual feedback that something bad is happening.
That may because the game is too laggy on the website， we are trying to fix that， And you can Download the zip and enjoy our games first
Very cool, reminds me of hexcelle, but with more scientific knowledge as a bonus. I too had to pretty much immediately slam down some chloroplasts in the first second or two to get going, but it was fun! Great work
Great game! Although I kept failing at the 3-year mark in the beginning, once I figured things out, I was able to equip myself with various cells and survived for 89 years! I think it's really cool that you can freely shape your body, and the design of each cell is interesting. The music in the game is also really good! I feel like the first three years might be a bit too short—I ended up with a game over before I even understood what was going on.
友组是真的牛逼，创意满满，最开始我反复死在第三年到后来才发现我超原来一开始得添一堆叶绿体！！！简单又好玩的机制，可重复游玩性很高的街机经营！！还有严谨科学要素，太有tiny creature了！！最好刚开始给多点hint以防很多玩家三年暴死！
玩法和世界观非常切题，简单的像素风和轻快的音乐很有氛围，非常吸引人去游玩。目前我认为比较严重的问题解释“交互问题”，游戏本身机会没有任何引导，所有详细的玩法都写着这个网页，直接进入游戏的人基本上都是在没有任何提示的情况下马上死亡，即便看了网页的解释，我依然搞不懂我的能量花在哪里，organics有什么用，每种细胞提供的数值是多少，经常明明一模一样的操作有的时候能活三十多秒有的开局就死。后来我才发现被被别的生物撞击可能损失能量，但是敌人完完全全是随机刷新的，可能开局就突然出现在你面前（还是带囊泡的大块头）。最后玩家在镜头里太靠右有了，同时也没有和npc有明显区分，很容易发生撞击 The gameplay and world view are very relevant to the theme. The simple pixel art style and cheerful music create a great atmosphere, making it very appealing to play. Currently, I believe the most serious issue is the "interaction problem." The game itself lacks any guidance; all detailed gameplay instructions are written on this webpage. Players who directly enter the game usually die immediately without any prompts. Even after reading the explanations on the webpage, I still couldn't figure out where my energy goes, what use organics have, or what the numerical values provided by each type of cell are. Often, the exact same actions can result in survival for over thirty seconds in one game and immediate death in another. Later, I realized that being hit by other organisms might deplete energy, but enemies spawn completely randomly, sometimes appearing suddenly right in front of you (even the large ones with vesicles). Additionally, the player character is positioned too far to the right in the camera view, and there's no clear distinction between the player and NPCs, making collisions very likely to occur.
Very fun!!!I really enjoy it. But a detailed instruction is needed.
The idea of spawning cells with serious biology settings is quite cool and accurately followed the theme. It could help if there is a tutorial at start though, great job!
@radjax Thank u for your playing and comment! We had not played hexcelle before we design this game, and I tried it just now.It looks really like ours. But actually different at all, you can build your cells for free at all time in our game instead of being limited by the designer when playing hexcelle. All in all, just enjoy yourself playing LUCA!
游戏很好玩，创意很棒，但是我不知道怎么死的啊啊啊啊啊，看起来是能量耗尽会死，但是每个新细胞的花销和转换数值完全不知道啊，很快就死了呜呜
游戏很好玩，创意很棒，但是我不知道怎么死的啊啊啊啊啊，看起来是能量耗尽会死，但是每个新细胞的花销和转换数值完全不知道啊，很快就死了呜呜
@cindysheep feel free to build more chloroplasts and vacuoles to generate and store your energy! Try again!
暂停可以看介绍，亲；Pause to check out the guide
This game is very addictive! Well ok, I didn't shine :sweat_smile: , I think I didn't exceed 30 years in game length, but I loved the gameplay concept. I was reminded of the early days of Spore in a more tactical mode ahah :smiley: I really like the idea behind it (the micro-organism you want to grow and develop). Very effective and quick to grasp, but also very challenging. Didn't see any bug! If I could offer one piece of advice, I'd add a tutorial stage at the start of the game. Well done!
This is really interesting, though I kept dying very early on. I love the lively music!
@weirdbitgames Try to build more Chloroplasts and Vacuoles. I'm sure you well get a big surprise!
I love the concept, but god damn its hard hahaha took me a while to figure out what to do! Music is awesome, love me some good funk!
Dying super quickly and not sure what the goal is of the game.
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I like this game, very interesting game play rule and I enjoy to design my creatures. One problem is that I did not figure out how to live longer and how much energy and organic they can produce to reach a balance. Hope it can be more clear:D
Thank you very much for all the comments!Maybe you can try to produce sufficient energy in the early stage in case dying suddenly.Have a good gamde!
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Interesting idea !!!
A creative and engaging game where you evolve from a simple creature to a land-dweller. The freedom to experiment with different organs makes each playthrough unique. Simple controls, but the challenge of competing with other evolving cells keeps it exciting
Really cool and unique game :) Once you got the hang of it it really took of :)
Game had interesting idea and was quite well executed. It was fun to play. Perhaps a bit difficult to get started, maybe the start of the game could have been a bit slower for the player to get familiar with what is happening. It did get much easier after understanding the energy system. Also the cell selection screen felt a bit unclear, perhaps having some different font or outline on the cell description texts might help. Good job on the game!
非常好的创意！我也想到了类似的组合各种生物的特长的玩法，但是碍于经验较少和进度不得不转换方向，很开心看到你们完成这个游戏，加油！ Amazing idea! The same way I thought is some kind of Lego tiny creatures, but I have to change my game because of experience, Happy to see you finish this, well done!
I had so much fun with this game.)
A difficult start but a fun experience when playing this game. A constructive survival gameplaying makes it a brilliant and surprising design. With gorgeous background music and graphic, this game deserves a high score.
Nice concept, just needs more polished guidance in game.
缺乏游戏内指引，玩法很有意思 an interesting game but I need more guidence!
Omg!!!It is S-o beautiful!!!Nice job 10/10!!!
Screenshot 2024-10-17 203956.pngScreenshot 2024-10-17 204906.pngScreenshot 2024-10-17 204937.png Feel free to share your creatures! Who's creature is cooler than mine?
Very cool concept, even though it's quite complicated to understand at first. Once you get into it, it's fun to build your cells and experiment with it. It reminded me of some space shooter I've made during college.
Aside from a tutorial a dedicated build menu would also help. Having a dialog for each cell in contrast to a menu, where you select your cells and then paint them onto the hex grid, would reduce the effort of expansion a lot and might also be easier to understand.