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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Accessibility | #2 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Theme | #31 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Controls | #50 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Fun | #97 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Overall | #103 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Originality | #117 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Graphics | #148 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
| Audio | #239 | 1.278 | 1.278 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.6+4.7
Theme Interpretation
your organism has to obtain mutation points to evolve and survive in the gene pool
Wildcards Used
I like Turtles
Include a turtle
Source
way too messy this time! :O
Discord Username(s)
philou2555
GWJ Participation Level
many! (but many years ago!)
Team Size
1
Generative AI Disclosure
I confirm that this jam entry does not contain any AI-generated content
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Comments
I ended up just kiting around enemies into each other and then vulturing the experience when one of them died hahaha I had a lot of fun :) and I loved the character creator. Nice work!
sweet! thank you for playing and for the feedback! :)
Great game with just simple fun! This sort of hole.io /slither.io but with genes. My son loves game like this and I think im going to show him later.
Multi-player incoming? :)
thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it and curious to hear what your son thinks if he ever looks at it!
i hadn't thought of making this multiplayer, but.. who knows!
battle royale for genes!
I'm such a sucker for character customization. Behold, my first organism!
I thought the game was really fun, but I missed having sound effects and music. I really liked how varied the organisms looked just by changing the color & size. Nice job!
nice little organism, and good stats! :)
and yeah, i did the jam thing of prioritizing the wrong things for a little too long and ended up not being able to play the music loops i composed on sunday morning, hah.
thanks for playing!
Good execution of the famous .io browser games, it brought back memories. I am not sure if I liek the close combat or not as it makes the game harder and a little bit random since miss attack is a thing. Its a very well made idea that fits the theme nicely. Good job!
After I found out the other creatures were way better at killing than I, I invested all the points into speed and basically zoomed around the map for exp (got to 7 I think?) Fun game!
I really liked the concept of this game - and like others, I think at first I was just going in and trying to attack everything I saw, but then realizing NOPE... let the others kill and I can swim in and get the goods so I can power up first, very cool approach! I also loved that I could zoom out and get a better picture of whats out there, nice touch.
Fits the theme very well, awesome job!
Today I learned something, The secret of evolution is to always third party others 🤣 Like this was the only way I was able to survive otherwise my every attack just misses T_T. Nonetheless Really good game. It was a lot of fun ✨
i did hesitate on the concept, because in real life mutual aid and sociability are much bigger factors in how evolution works. but.. that's harder to pack and digest in a silly little jam game! :P
thanks for playing!
Good to see you jamming again, Philou! This reminded me of the first phase of Spore in a really good way - I ended up playing for a good few rounds, because it was fun to try experimenting with different stat distributions. The randomly generated map is cool to see, too!
the initial plan was to eventually unlock a giant turtle, and expand the gameplay on land, but, well, you know how these things go. :)
The game is really fun and interesting ! I just don't really like the miss system; it tends to get on my nerves.
small mechanic spoiler: in the current state of the game, increasing your AGI to 4 should make your organism hit fairly consistently. :P
Nice !
Very good entry! There is clearly a ton of work that went into this and it leaves me wanting more! Well done!
Very cool concept, reminded me of game Spore I played long time ago. Good potential for multiplayer kind of like agar io
Realy cool! Cool concept and really good accesibility and controls tbh.