I struggled with an idea and hit on the life cycle of a Mosquito. I wanted to add a blood sucking and mating scene but ran out of time. The "fun" is kinda lost in the awkwardness of a disgusting little life cycle and it resisted gamification rather nicely... I found the result quite interesting.
On a technical side it was all written from scratch on just Javascript and Chrome. I'm rather proud of the little debugging interface and quick turn around on playing around on the systems. Though I didn't get time to use it the adult has a full 2D rig with simple constraints built in.
Overall I'm happy with the project but the resulting game is slightly creepy and not very fun but has a certain... something :P
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*Egg Laying Trouble* Don't want to alter the game post compo till the voting is done but the egg laying is meant to start at the head and to the tail. If you hesitate or go off on the gesture the egg cracks (black square)
Missing Bits: Finding a Target, Blooding Sucking, Finding a Mate, Sex. Was going through it linearly but when running out of time I jumped to egg laying o help reinforce the cycle aspect
That's weird...I tried it in Firefox and I got a tileset and some text tabs that didn't do anything, with a blank space in the middle of the page. It's like it took the resources and didn't compile them.
Nice original idea :-) took a while to figure out how to do each part but I couldn't get the egg laying to happen :-/ clicking just made a black square show, mouse waggling didn't see to do much. Enjoyed the algae eating part best I think.
I liked it! I like the children's book-style graphics and the Simple mouse-based gameplay. I would've loved to see a slightly longer game, though. And a bit of audio. You should make a full game out of this concept with these graphics!
*Egg Laying Trouble* Don't want to alter the game post compo till the voting is done but the egg laying is meant to start at the head and to the tail. If you hesitate or go off on the gesture the egg cracks (black square)
Missing Bits: Finding a Target, Blooding Sucking, Finding a Mate, Sex. Was going through it linearly but when running out of time I jumped to egg laying o help reinforce the cycle aspect
That was a pretty neat game, I liked it a lot! Didn't find it weird at all, and it could even be educative. Kinda reminds me of the interactive encyclopedias of old.
The game seriously begs for music, though. Just a simple, calm tone to complete the mood would have been perfect.
Also, in the second hatching stage, some of the rectangles can be seen.
Very original in all regards (graphics, concept, and gameplay). I especially like the movement mechanic in the "eat algae" mode. It feels very organic -- excellent job. You should finish this -- if you want to continue working on it now, you can just post a "post-jam" version for people to try after they've rated your jam-version one. That's what I did. :)
Bonus browser-nerd points for doing all of this from scratch in HTML5/JS.
This is a neat idea. The controls are pretty hard to get the hang of (I didn't know what I was controlling in the first one) though the Nom stage was very smooth and natural. I wasn't able to lay any eggs, even with your hint. Do I just keep running the mouse up and down?
Cool idea for a game, though!