The Search For Life

The Search For Life

This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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coolness: 0.35
fun: 2.10
graphics: 2.65
innovation: 3.74
mood: 2.73
overall: 2.67
theme: 3.60
What to do:

You start out on your home planet. Click any planet in the sky, and you will travel there and see if there is any intelligent life there (other players of the game). That's it! Can you find life in this galaxy?

Description:

This game is about the odds of intelligent life from different worlds connecting with each other.

What if all intelligent life in just our Milky Way Galaxy were given the means to travel faster than the speed of light to other planets in the galaxy? Would they be able to find each other with an estimated 300 million stars and 8.8 billion earth-like planets?

This game simulates over 8.5 billion habitable planets that are estimated to be in the Milky Way Galaxy. You represent one of the worlds with intelligent life, with other players representing others. Can you find and connect to another world with life?

This game is more of a social experiment. First I have to get people to actually play, then we'll see if people can actually fin each other in a galaxy of 8.5 billion plus planets.

I wasn't able to get as many features as I wanted in this game. I wanted to add many more features but was only able to complete the very basic idea of finding the home planet of another user.

Anyways, thanks for reading/playing/voting!

-Jared

Twitter: @MonkeyGuyGames

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Some stats so far on this game (I'll try to update this periodically during the judging period):

As of September 8 2:56 AM (MDT, UTC -6) there are 35 players searching for life in the galaxy. So far, no one has been able to find each other.
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