A Genetic Mess

by sprawl
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.14
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★26%
Train and breed your creature in order to escape !

Using (bad) genetic algorithms, the game make the creatures evolve and adapt to this harsh world.
Can you breed the ultimate creature?

WARNING : UNFINISHED GAME. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
MAC AND LINUX VERSIONS UNTESTED.

CREDITS :
Alexis Lessard
Antoine Brouillette

Music :
"One-eyed Maestro" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Fonts :
http://www.dafont.com/the-constellation-of-heracles.font
http://www.dafont.com/messen.font

Comments13

ashdnazg15 Dec 2015, 00:44
Cool! Fun idea, and I love the 'monster in a glass box' vibe. The slow pace of generating children was a bit of a hangup -- I wanted to keep running and clicking buttons because that gave me more feedback, faster. Was there a link between the fitness function and the number of points you get?

Also, hilarious quotes after finishing the fitness test.
Weeping Rupee
Weeping Rupee19 Dec 2015, 16:09
The good:
- although there was just music and not many other sounds, I LOVED the theme song.
- physics based breeding game!? Who could ask for more?

The bad
- long loading time to generate partners (this could be mitigated by generating fewer than 5 creatures at a time or just saving old ones and allowing the player to delete them as he/she sees fit so free up slots)
WakeOfLuna19 Dec 2015, 16:25
Very special game indeed. Unfortunately requires a lot of patience, but the concept is brilliant. Well done.
anv19 Dec 2015, 16:44
Very nice concept, would like to see it finished and properly polished. Unfortunately, my monsters when trying to escape usually just fell over and chilled until their endurance ran out - I must have failed as a trainer:< Good music selection, UI could use some improvement (font scaling in particular).
Sir Magic
Sir Magic19 Dec 2015, 17:40
I really liked this, it showed how genetic evolution worked and kept a challenge.
TiByte
TiByte19 Dec 2015, 17:46
Works fine on Ubuntu 14.04, but the Font-Size on the Text element is pretty small, so the anti-alias looks bad. (that's a Unity setting thing).
I think you should exclude the "Audio(Jam)" rating, because it's not your music.
doitle
doitle19 Dec 2015, 18:02
Very cool game. I don't understand much of what it is doing but that doesn't matter. Music was perfect for the mad science vibe. I never managed to get more than 5.0 to the right but I still like this. Generating children and random creatures does take a long time and hurts the pacing of things a bit.
Trasevol_Dog19 Dec 2015, 18:26
Very ambitious concept!! A shame you couldn't flesh it out more than that really. I did spend half an hour on it before I realize what the winning condition quote really meant... Good stuff!
Wevel
Wevel19 Dec 2015, 18:30
Interesting idea, seemed quite difficult to get the monsters to go anywhere and generating partners of children took quite a while
yumaikas19 Dec 2015, 19:23
Liked the music, but it was hard to figure out how the monsters were supposed to work.
sprawlauthor19 Dec 2015, 22:05
@TiByte : Good point about the audio, I was a bit in a hurry during the submission and forgot about it ! Thanks for the feedback on linux version.
Molpe3 Jan 2016, 16:13
This was fun! I don't know if I understood what am I suppose to do, but it was fun xD Great quotes! The generating times are very long, also I couldn't get back to any creature in the family tree, it asked me if I want to, but then nothing happened. The music is awesome, nice choice!

I've made a let's play video if you want to check it out:

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