Cows VS Wolves
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COWS VS WOLVES
Darwin said the fittest survives, show those wolves that the strongest doesn't mean the fittest !
Lead your army of smart and beautiful cows and vanquish those silly wolves !
The goal is, at each level, to gather every part of DNA on the map. Each part of DNA allow you to improve your species and to make your cows stronger and gorgeous !
You first chose where to use your first 10 points of dna to start your species, then the game begin. There's also bonus stars that you can collect. When you've gathered 10 of them, you gain a bonus DNA point !
You can't attack wolves but you can defend yourselves. Put some DNA points in defenses to grow powerful horns and outnumber them by breeding new cows.
Each turn (press ENTER to end the turn) all your cows regain there Action Points and can move again, and they produce food, in proportion of their remaining action points. Staying in grass allow them to build strong food ressources and to go on expedition in the dirt, when there's no food and where they can starve and die quickly ! Also a well fed cow is a more resillient cow against wolves.
- Put points in Speed to have move Action Point per turn.
- Put points in Food Production to eat the grass faster and make more personnal food supply quickly.
- Put points in Food Consomation to have more starving resistant cows, that consume less food per turn.
- Put points in Defense to get bigger and bigger horn that retaliate damages to wolves when they attack your cows.
- Put points in Evade to lower the distances where wolves can see your cows.
Important - the remaining stats are not currently implemented and therefore are useless : Food cap, Temperature tolerance (also IMPORTANT : this one gives your cows a santa hat when 10 points are reached :-), Breed time, Starting specimens (I fixed it to 2 for this "release".
HOW TO PLAY
At the begining of the level you've 2 cows to place on the map. Press space then click. The rest of the manipulation is pretty intuitive. Still :
Cows produce food each turn, in function of the soil and in function of their own eating skill.
They store this food in their stomach but meanwhile they consume a part of it each turn. The more they are evolved in food consomation, the less they consume. A starving cow that has no remaining food ressource dies sadly.
A male and a female can breed a calf when they're both full of food. It consumes half of their ressources and put them out of action point until the end of the turn. Calf are cute and also defensless, wolves eat them instantly. Calves grow after 10 turns.
You can't attack wolves but you can eventually defeat them with a high defense skill. You can also blowk them with braves cow that will sacrifice to help the other ones to continue further on the map.
Notes : All made in XNA C# with visual studio 10. All sprites made by me with paint.net. The whole stuff is terribly incomplete, still I'm a bit proud of it : some parts are finished and there's 'something playable'. I hope I'm going to continue this : real levels, more ressources, more rules, component (temperature etc.), more enemies, a MENU and a decent interface, etc.
I started with a WAY wider idea about stuff evolving in environement, I quicky had to reduce the stuff to 1/2 main actors and I think I lost a lot about "Evolution", but there's still some part of it.
Darwin said the fittest survives, show those wolves that the strongest doesn't mean the fittest !
Lead your army of smart and beautiful cows and vanquish those silly wolves !
The goal is, at each level, to gather every part of DNA on the map. Each part of DNA allow you to improve your species and to make your cows stronger and gorgeous !
You first chose where to use your first 10 points of dna to start your species, then the game begin. There's also bonus stars that you can collect. When you've gathered 10 of them, you gain a bonus DNA point !
You can't attack wolves but you can defend yourselves. Put some DNA points in defenses to grow powerful horns and outnumber them by breeding new cows.
Each turn (press ENTER to end the turn) all your cows regain there Action Points and can move again, and they produce food, in proportion of their remaining action points. Staying in grass allow them to build strong food ressources and to go on expedition in the dirt, when there's no food and where they can starve and die quickly ! Also a well fed cow is a more resillient cow against wolves.
- Put points in Speed to have move Action Point per turn.
- Put points in Food Production to eat the grass faster and make more personnal food supply quickly.
- Put points in Food Consomation to have more starving resistant cows, that consume less food per turn.
- Put points in Defense to get bigger and bigger horn that retaliate damages to wolves when they attack your cows.
- Put points in Evade to lower the distances where wolves can see your cows.
Important - the remaining stats are not currently implemented and therefore are useless : Food cap, Temperature tolerance (also IMPORTANT : this one gives your cows a santa hat when 10 points are reached :-), Breed time, Starting specimens (I fixed it to 2 for this "release".
HOW TO PLAY
At the begining of the level you've 2 cows to place on the map. Press space then click. The rest of the manipulation is pretty intuitive. Still :
Cows produce food each turn, in function of the soil and in function of their own eating skill.
They store this food in their stomach but meanwhile they consume a part of it each turn. The more they are evolved in food consomation, the less they consume. A starving cow that has no remaining food ressource dies sadly.
A male and a female can breed a calf when they're both full of food. It consumes half of their ressources and put them out of action point until the end of the turn. Calf are cute and also defensless, wolves eat them instantly. Calves grow after 10 turns.
You can't attack wolves but you can eventually defeat them with a high defense skill. You can also blowk them with braves cow that will sacrifice to help the other ones to continue further on the map.
Notes : All made in XNA C# with visual studio 10. All sprites made by me with paint.net. The whole stuff is terribly incomplete, still I'm a bit proud of it : some parts are finished and there's 'something playable'. I hope I'm going to continue this : real levels, more ressources, more rules, component (temperature etc.), more enemies, a MENU and a decent interface, etc.
I started with a WAY wider idea about stuff evolving in environement, I quicky had to reduce the stuff to 1/2 main actors and I think I lost a lot about "Evolution", but there's still some part of it.