There was originally going to be eating and death involved, but instead I wound up just writing a genome simulator and building a (rather bare) world to walk, swim, and fall around in.
(Tarball that actually includes DejaVuSans and worldmap.py now up on the website.)
Well I did play it. Every programmer should have python installed anyway and pygame is just another lib. There's no need for compiling anyway. :3
But while I believe there's no harm done here, you could try and package this into a nice exe (unless you're on linux-only environment, but then - some virtual machine would do), or at the very least, write what are the keys to use in your game. I had to dig in your source to check what I can do. Some hints: p: load slot s: save slot b: doesn't work :P m: mutate current organism 1-9: select mutated organism space: start playing (arrows: movement, pgup/pgdown: dive up/down, +/-: zoom in/out)
I like where this was going, although it's definitely not finished. But it's not unplayable. You did implement a lot of features - shame you didn't manage to finish, but the idea was pretty cool. Mutation stuff seems to work quite well, as well as moving/swimming in the world. This might have been a little too much for LD, but I believe you were onto something really interesting. Maybe try to finish it as a post-compo? I would gladly try this one out again.
I'm sorry. Just installed Python, think I installed pygame corectly, but the games's not running. Maybe I'll try again after the compo, but with just a few hours 'till the deadline, I'll pass.
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Good luck getting people to play it.
But while I believe there's no harm done here, you could try and package this into a nice exe (unless you're on linux-only environment, but then - some virtual machine would do), or at the very least, write what are the keys to use in your game. I had to dig in your source to check what I can do. Some hints:
p: load slot
s: save slot
b: doesn't work :P
m: mutate current organism
1-9: select mutated organism
space: start playing (arrows: movement, pgup/pgdown: dive up/down, +/-: zoom in/out)
I like where this was going, although it's definitely not finished. But it's not unplayable. You did implement a lot of features - shame you didn't manage to finish, but the idea was pretty cool. Mutation stuff seems to work quite well, as well as moving/swimming in the world. This might have been a little too much for LD, but I believe you were onto something really interesting. Maybe try to finish it as a post-compo? I would gladly try this one out again.