bvanschooten 2013-09-24 17:36
Interesting to look at the world evolve, but can't figure out what the rules are. What do the different patches represent? When do the patches grow and when are they eaten?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → MiniLD → MiniLD 45 → You Are Disease
By tomassino
Interesting to look at the world evolve, but can't figure out what the rules are. What do the different patches represent? When do the patches grow and when are they eaten?
Thanks for the questions. I should have elaborated more:
There's nothing special about the different types of field, but they belong to a farm and each turn the farms grow by 1 field. Farms periodically spawn chickens, which will hunt around and eat worms. If they don't eat worms for a long while, they will destroy the crops as they are scratching around hungry... Worms arn't very smart, but when they find crops they will eat them up.
By balancing enough chickens to eat the worms, and enough worms to keep the chickens fed, the farms will grow to fill the screen. It's quite hard, we've only achieved it twice!
Interesting idea. Weird but also nice to have to look at the console and see the results on a screen.
The console messages are funny. I wish looking at the console at work would be thet much fun.
As a game it felt hard to get right. The random events would make the game also swing wildy form chickenfree to chickenpocalyse.
But I can imagine that if I had something like this running on my smartphone I would watch it a lot.