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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Technical Execution | #32 | 2.211 | 2.444 |
| Gameplay & Core Idea | #38 | 2.161 | 2.389 |
| Overall | #41 | 2.090 | 2.311 |
| Polish & Presentation | #42 | 2.161 | 2.389 |
| Creativity & Theme Interpretation | #55 | 2.010 | 2.222 |
| Scope & Completion | #73 | 1.910 | 2.111 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members and roles
IGOR YAKUNIN
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SUBJECT_03 is a genre collision on purpose. For 13 chambers it plays as a machine-learning evolution simulator: you build a creature from nodes and bones on a blueprint, and a real population search - genuinely simulated, generation by generation, at 1× speed - teaches your exact structure to walk, climb, jump and crawl. Then TEST 14 flips genres: the evolution is certified and locked, the lab starts demolishing the ceiling, and the game becomes an arcade dodge-em-up where you steer your own evolved creature through falling debris with a Balance Override. The simulation genre and the action genre collide inside one corrupted research terminal - which is itself the third collision: a 1994 lab-document aesthetic wrapped around a 2026 WebGL physics sim.
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Engine and tools used?
TypeScript, Three.js (WebGL2, custom ordered-dither / scanline / glitch post-processing), cannon-es (2D-locked rigid-body physics), Vite. All sound effects and music are synthesized at runtime with the Web Audio API - no audio files.
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Dont know how you guys managed to make a neural networkable thingamajig, but i love this work and its really simple to understand what to do
Watching a real evolution search figure out how my janky four-node creature should move is incredibly satisfying — my first fully-braced design failed with "STRUCTURE INADEQUATE", and pulling out one diagonal suddenly gave me a lateral-drag walker. Building the body and letting the sim teach it to walk is a brilliant pairing, and I love that the last chamber supposedly flips the whole thing on its head.
This one has me hooked. I'm definately gonna keep this one open in a browser, and revisit it over the next couple days. Hoping to be able to write a much more extensive impression/review then.
But bravo!