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# About
It's a connection between the player, the cellular automaton Conway's Game of Life and a world of a simple bacteria.
Don't know what the Game of Life is?
Read about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
== This is a zero-player game. This is not a causal game for kids, it's casual game for geeks :) ==
# Rules:
* Each bacterium has it's own "brain".
* The brain is a simple simulation of Conway's Game of Life
* Player can modify it by adding active cells. Player can add 10 cells at the beginning. Each 10 game cycles is given another cell.
* In the brain if active cells extends 45% the bacterium will multiply - new bacterium will show.
* If the brain has no active cells bacterium dies.
* The "movement" of cells in brain cause movement of the bacterium. So if there is no movement the bacterium will stand still.
Have fun :)
# Tools used:
- Pyxel Edit
- SublimeText
- GitHub (more like service not tool)
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 52% |
| #133 | Innovation | 3.80 |
| #251 | Graphics | 3.62 |
| #596 | Mood | 2.94 |
| #618 | Overall | 3.15 |
| #630 | Humor | 2.22 |
| #720 | Audio | 2.39 |
| #966 | Fun | 2.55 |
| #1009 | Theme | 2.46 |
Comments
Little but hard to understand and i am not sure how this connects with the theme
Game of life within game of life... Life-ception. I Like it :)
Great concept! Love the use of a game within a game. Well polished, nice sounds interesting idea. I'm betting this will easily make it into the top 100 ;)
Not too sure how to win, if there is a way but the idea and the idea behind the AI is great and so original. Love it.
Cool little game. Playing is a bit strange, even if you know the ruleset of conways game of life. But it was a nice and novel way of approaching the theme. Well done!
Pretty cool. I feel like there could be quite a deep level of depth here to play if I put more time into it. Very nice :D
Nice graphics - I was missing a gameplay element a bit, but I like simulations and this one was nice to look at :).
This was surprisingly fun!
The graphics suit the gameplay very well.
An intriguing little simulation. Not sure what aim it has, if any (does that make it a toy rather than a game?), but still fun to play around with.
One thing worth saying, though, since it was annoying me - "bacterium" is the singular of "bacteria". One bacterium, two bacteria. Not "a bacteria", not "bacterias". (Sorry for being a pedant!)
kinda hard to understand to play even if you understand the rules.
This is really cool.
Quick to pick up and play.
The sounds are simple but fit perfectly.
And the graphics, same there.
Some notes: When placing cells in a brain, I wish the spot I'm pointing at would be highlighted, because sometimes I was sure I'd place a cell in one spot only to have the cell end up next to it instead.
And maybe newly placed cells should be allowed to be removed (consider them 'committed' after one turn/only while paused) in case you misclick or change your mind.
Overall though, 4/5.
Nice idea, I like it. Could be more interesting though - I think it could use to have some obstacles? Enemies? Because losing all bacteria is kind of impossible.
PTSnoop: thanks for clarification. English is not my main language. I will hotfix the translation.
Steve: you're right! I will add this feature for misclick (after the compo)
Thanks You all for the kind words. I was afraid that no one will understand how this game works :)
All the people who don know how to play: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
You MUST known what the Conway's Game of Life is. This is not a causal game for kids, it's casual game for geeks :D
Nice little "life" simulation. Description fits this game perfectly (casual game for geeks :D
Liked it great idea. Do the bacteria next to each other join up in the game of life so the meta picture of bacteria is simply a zoomed out view of the game of life?
Didn't quite get what I was controlling, and not being able to take away brain points (at least I don't think?) made it hard for me to make desired shapes, but otherwise pretty darn interesting!
Cool concept with programmable game of life, but I'm sorry, to complicated mechanics for me to enjoy it. Graphics and sound effects are nice though! Also the theme relation seems a bit far-fetched
Arowx: I was thinking of that but don't have enough time. And It would not work because the "brain" part is what moves/kills/borns new bacterias.
But You can think of it as You are the next layer. It all the bacterias dies You will loose. You must take care of them to maintain alive.
You already won me when I saw that this game was about Conway's Game of Life. I love watching stuff evolve, and this is quite fun. However, I have some points of criticism:
-The tutorial is good but too long and extensive.
-The play/pause button is inverted, which is mildly irritating.
-Sometimes, it gets stuck or repetitive quite fast.
-The font is not pixelated.
-Reading the title I assume you chose the plural form of "bacterium" on purpose to tell me that I'm not alone, now I'm slightly creeped out.
It is good idea, not very well connected to the theme though. Good job anyway
phi: Yes the tutorial part was done in the last hours and it's lacking the "skip" button. Well can't change that now.
With the font it's the same story: to little time, I don't have the engine for pixel art text - this is in my to do list for this game engine (it will be used in some other hackathon games)
Overall thanks for criticism. I would like to change all of this after the judging is done.
p.s. Yes, the bacteria is the third layer ( game of life -> bactrium -> player ) as we all have in our bodies thousands of (good nad bad) bacteria. We will die shortly withou them (the good ones for sure).
renatopp: I think it is but that's the "problem" with interpreting art - anyone have their own version.
I was trying to thing out side the box: connecting "worlds" as computer science (cellular automation), biology (bacteria) and the player (play/live as long as he take care of the bacteria).
Really awesome idea, I love conway's game of life. I didn't really managed to do anything, but with some work it could make a really interesting game. Amazing job !
a realy nice game based on Conway's Game of Life, I Love Math in games
It's like Game of Life Inception here :p Tricky but interesting idea. Utterly forgot the rules of Game of Life but still managed to produce a good chunk of Bacteria before they all died :p
Concept is looking interesting but kinda strange and something weird.
Really good game. Nice graphics. Nice music. Your pixelart is awesome.
Great idea. Graphics are really good. A little too little interaction, but great concept.
Brilliant game! Really enjoyed watching the evolution of bacteria!
interesting idea- did not understand how the two scales of action are related. If the goal is infinite survival, one should be able to input a simple methuselah pattern and do well. maybe you could provide stamps for glider shapes and have a demolition derby?
Hi there, nice idea to create a second order game of life! Some background music would have been nice as well as a "one step" function.
Very neat that you turned the game of life into more of a real game. :P Nice entry. :)
Mesmerizing. Not entirely sure what is happening but enjoyed it anyway.
Very innovative game. For geeks indeed.
I found a gamebreaker:
http://i.imgur.com/xYwcrSm.png
Interesting game that could do with a slightly deeper tutorial to tell you how to get the bacteria to move without needing to read up on a subject on Wikipedia. Seems like it could be a fun little casual game for mobiles.
Great great great idea! I love all things with a life of their own, great how you took the game of life and made it work like this!
nice game within a game theme. could have done with more gamey mechanics like rival bacteria or target to reach like some animal's throat cells, maybe enemy white blood cells. Maybe some evolution upgrades like bigger game of life play area.
Cool implementation of the theme, makes for a nice toy to pass the time with! The game froze for me after playing for a while though, don't know what caused it as I wasn't doing anything special.
Anssi@MooseflyGames
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I could not play the game, it did not loaded to me, but the graphics by the pictures got my attention.