Description: As my first ever submission to Ludum Dare, here is Cocci. In this game you guide a colony of bacteria (initially red [and created as a Brownian tree]) down a tunnel, trying to minimize collisions with the walls (blue) and obstacles (yellow). As you progress, you will unavoidably run into something. When a collision happens, the section of your colony that collided dies, while surviving bacterium mutate and replicate, creating new members. As you continue, the shape of your colony evolves, sometimes helping you avoid obstacles (an advantageous mutation), sometimes making them unavoidable (deleterious mutation).
The title of the window tells you how many collisions you've had. The right most number in for the current session. The previous numbers are for previous sessions. A "*" denotes that the session wasn't finished.
Controls: Arrow keys move Space starts and resets Escape exits
Instructions: Download/unzip/run Cocci.jar in the folder it's in
Notes: I ran the gamut of emotions while making this, from caffeine induced glee to frustration and anxiety that the whole thing would end up terrible. Overall, although it's a bit janky, I'm really happy with how it ended up. Also, save yourself the headache and me the embarrassment and don't look at the source code, it's a tangled horrible mess. Thanks a lot for hosting Ludum Dare!
Interesting..... thing. I'm not quite sure what the point was, what I was supposed to do. Still looks nice. If this is part of the compo, you are supposed to include the source, not just the class files.
I like the concept, would be nice if it displayed the number of collisions in a corner or had a scoring system.