Ludum Dare #24compo

A Game of Towns

by homelinen

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.86

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.87

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★37%

HTML5 game based on Conway's Game of Life.

No gameplay as such, but the simulator works fairly well.

Villagers can be spawned. They gather food and spawn siblings when they've eaten enough.

There's also a fire, as it was a fun way to stop the bushes from taking over.

Minimal art, no music or sound.

Initial idea was to have the huts evolve into towns and then cities and up the scope of the game, but that never happened.

If the page freezes on 100%, just refresh.

Tested on Firefox and Chrome. Other browsers will most likely work.

Comments13

Nick Knowlson27 Aug 2012, 05:40

> Cormack's Game of Life

You mean Conway's Game of Life?

homelinenauthor27 Aug 2012, 11:37

Thanks for that. Knew I'd get his name wrong.

josefnpat28 Aug 2012, 04:20

This is pretty cool.

evilseanbot28 Aug 2012, 05:30

A fun and satisfying simple simulation. Feels like it moves too quickly to feel like you have much impact.

ethankennerly28 Aug 2012, 06:00

The simulation of fire, forest, villagers, and towns fascinated me. They made such a big town after a few spontaneous clicks that I didn't know how to improve.

Raptor8528 Aug 2012, 07:20

Not much of a game since there's no real goal but a interesting little simulation, only part i can't tell is exactly what's making the fires, i've seen them spawn in areas with no people.

kato928 Aug 2012, 20:04

Pretty interesting simulation but the game moves way to fast to actually 'play' it. Would be interesting to slow things down and add some strategy to it.

imef28 Aug 2012, 20:23

I could spend hours starring at that!

gnx28 Aug 2012, 23:35

All the forest burned and urban development got completely out of hand. A simulator indeed.

ConflictiveLabs29 Aug 2012, 00:47

I love this kind of stuff. What you did here is quite cool. I mean, it's not just cells replicating, but it's pretty much the evolution of a village (of sorts). It certainly lacks an objective and other "gamey" elements, but it's a nice simulation. Good work :)

AdventureIslands29 Aug 2012, 20:17

Interesting simulation, perhaps slightly too fast? I don't know, nice work though even if it isn't much of a game and has nothing to do with evolution.