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Pioneer Seed Protocol v0.99.0's itch.io pageArtistic Statement / Use of Theme
its about a seed
Development Summary
First day, start of the jam: Concept
4 weeks: Nothing
2 last weeks: Everything
Topic Tags
Selective Breeding and Genome Modification via CRISPS processes to create/discover a plant/seed type that is capable of withstanding the environmental changes caused by climate changle - literal science.
Sprint Participation
no
Game Engine, Platform, Format
Stencyl, HTML5
Generative AI Disclosure
no
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Comments
I feel this game is really solid on use of theme - I especially like that you focus on the conditions a seed faces in order to gain a certain resilience. Very polished, I wish I had more onboarding to know exactly what I was doing, mechanics-wise. Thanks for making!
Yeah to be honest, I was occupied for most of the jam time with another project for this jam as Visual Artist/UI Designer (The Last Seed) so there was not enough time to add onboarding. After all, you are a scientist in this scene ;) You know what you do, right? RIGHT?! :D
The art is super clean and the theme is engaging! It didnt really feel like a puzzle, I kind of felt like I was just trying a bunch of combinations until one eventually works, but if more mechanics were introduced i could see it being super fun!
Thank you for your comment pufferfish! The whole idea was heavily inspired by science and how most of our nowadays plants happened to exist: By random selective breeding. The plant that survives persist. Until we humans found out we can combine bacteria and genes from different plants and crossbreed those to be even stronger and more resilient. It was enjoyable working on this!
Really smooth experience and really stunning visuals. I am a huge fan of games like "please dont touch anything" and this reminded me so much of that. I love the concept of being a scientist trying to unlock the best genetic code in order to plant a seed to save humanity. I had fun trying out what would happen if I released different types of seeds and starting over from the beginning. Overall it was a great experience and I would absolutely love to see this taken further.
Realising the Winning Loop is not defined in-game I added pretty much on one of the last steps a skip-intro functionality realising some people might replay. Glad you enjoyed, I expected this a bit too "hard" to actually play and enjoy - might have been a wrong assumption.
Didn't know they required so many answers and had so many question, just answered all "no" due to submitting 50 Seconds before deadline.
System Design: spatialwarp
Voice Actress: Annabel
Anything else: Soultrailstudio
Enjoy.