The overlords demand better food! Scavenge other planets for new animals to add to your genetic recipe! Then sell the product to the overlord scum! Make lots of money, scavenge more animals, make more recipes, and try to appease their everchanging demands!
A game made for Ludum Dare 30 over three days by Piano Hands (programming) and Polyducks (music and graphics).
Yes, I will agree with you that it's difficult to understand. I think if I had a rewrite I'd make the interface much simpler. In this case, where I was in art direction, I just really wanted to cram it full of neon. I my have got carried away.
I didn't quite get how to play it, I'm afraid. I couldn't really understand what it was that the overlords wanted to survive. Love the humor and the colourful minimalistic style though! The music helped create a nice atmosphere as well.
It needs more feedback for success/failure/population change. Could use a tutorial otherwise. Maybe have a pool of fish that you can drag from instead of arrows?
Manufacturing the creatures from outside the splicing window feels a little odd.
Contrarly to what other said i really catched on fast on the UI, and had some really cool plays... it feels really like an oldie game , with the right amount of difficulty , reaaaly a good game , if I could vote(alas this time i didn't have time to participate...) This game would get rally good votes , less maybe the theme that reaaaly i dint feel ^^"
Nice game, though its hard to get it into a minute. I included it in part 28 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/Hmt93jxkWGQ
Brilliant to look at, great to listen to,
but a bit difficult to understand,
Looks like a great game!