Given the theme "Minimalism", I decided to create a minimalistic strategy game where the rules of Conway's Game of Life determine the lifetime of units. The twist here is that YOU get to control your own colony of life forms and beat the other three.
If you feel like you have no idea what you're doing (which is understandable), have a look at these patterns:
Try to get a feel for how patterns act and you will be able to create patterns that "walk" to the enemies to finish them off and take over enemy units!
I really enjoyed this! It was a little hard to predict what would happen based on my actions so I didn't feel I was 100% in control, but once you get aggressive and start attacking other colonies its a lot of fun
It was neat to have a competitive game of life thing, although I felt like I knew too much about how it worked for it to be much of a challenge. You can just stick one of the stable configurations in the corner and let the other ones die off
Really interesting, but hard to grasp with so many units on the screen. It might have been more interesting if each of the colonies started with a small stable collection of units, rather than a large random mix.
Were the sounds an indication of whether you lost or gained units in that generation? I really couldn't tell.
Haha, man we both used Conway's Game of Life as basis for your games. Though your is more of a game then mine.
Its fun, but something is lacking... Firstly beauty of Convay's Game of Life is not seen. Secondly game lacks depth somehow... Some score and ending resources should be added I guess.
Anyways, fun to see someone trying in same direction as I did! Good work!
Nice idea. It is a bit difficult to track the interactions of your colony (even more taking into account neighbours), but that makes it more interesting to me. Great job!
Interesting concept, good execution. I could see this being very tricky in multiplayer, although that may be because I have trouble predicting the results sometimes.
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SuperlevelSebastian6 May 2013, 22:24
Sadly it doesn't seem to be a Win32-bit version. :(
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is here AI contorling other colors?
I'll update it with a restart button right now.
Were the sounds an indication of whether you lost or gained units in that generation? I really couldn't tell.
Its fun, but something is lacking...
Firstly beauty of Convay's Game of Life is not seen.
Secondly game lacks depth somehow... Some score and ending resources should be added I guess.
Anyways, fun to see someone trying in same direction as I did! Good work!