Astrobotany

by ndry

co-authored: @gaya-trzn

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.12

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Play Astrobotany!

Intro EN

We are the team of astrobotanics inving you to participate in the space goat adventures!

Imagine yourself a goat on an alien planet... Alien starlight, you know, alien chemicals and so alien evolution paths. You have to eat flowers to stay alive and your vital skill would be to discriminate what's nutritious and what's poisonous by single glance! But, hey! You are good at physics and bioengeneering too (this what it takes be an astrobotanic this days, yeah, such a full stack scientist).

First you select cone cells for your eyes retina using chemicals and cones spectra information. Then you descend on an alien meadow and try to stay alive.

Intro UA

Ми -- команда астроботаніків, і ми запрошуємо тебе приєднатися до пригод космічної кози!

Уяви себе козою на чужій планеті... Чуже денне світло, знаєш, чужі хімічні елементи і тому чужі шляхи еволюції. Тобі доводиться їсти квітки, аби вижити, і твоїм життєвоважливим вмінням буде відрізнити поживне від отруйного єдиним лише поглядом! Але, га! Ти також розбираєшся у фізиці та біоінженерії (в наш час астроботаніку доводитьсяз все це знати, та, такий собі науковець на всі руки).

Спершу ти обираєш колбочки для сітківки своїх очей, користуючися спектральною інформацією хімічних елементів та колбочок. А потім ти приземляєшся на чужий луг і намагаєшся вижити.

Kyiv Indies Game Jam / Ludum Dare 41

This is a Playable Proof of Concept created while *Kyiv Indies Game Jam* / *Ludum Dare 41*
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41

The theme was *Combine 2 Incompatible Genres* and our genres are *Hidden object* and *Sandbox (some colorful one)*. We did not urge to fit in this theme thougth. In fact, another one from final theme voting round, *Color changes everything*, inspired us.

Credits

Code: ndry

Art: Gaya Trzn

Thanks to *Kyiv Indies Game Jam* team for great organisation

Play Astrobotany!

Source code on GitHub

Play Astrobotany!

Comments10

CapnAT23 Apr 2018, 14:44

Something about the UI resonated with me haha, good job folks

Jani Nykanen23 Apr 2018, 15:26

It has an original concept, but it took a while to realize what I'm supposed to do.

Sholf23 Apr 2018, 15:39

Really interesting game. Had a lot of fun trying out the different combinations. Would be nice if the plants doesn't stack too much since it makes it harder to click on a certain plant. The game isn't very self-explanatory but it's really fun once you know what to do. Well done!

Petro Shoferystov24 Apr 2018, 13:31

Awesome idea, pretty good for this theme. I've lost a few times figuring out the rules.. but the goat was keeping me playing on and on :) And once you figure them out (rules), it gets very funny and addicting to play the game by exploring new a new planets. Nicely done!

Sintel25 Apr 2018, 11:15

Most unique mechanic! As someone interested in bioengeneering this was a fun one. Wish there was more of a challenge/game to it.

n.feofentov25 Apr 2018, 20:28

Really unique idea. Requires some time to figure out how it works and still I don't think I got it right) Is there any way to not die and win somehow? My best score was something like 38 seconds. As said before plants spawning one over another makes you eat wrong ones. Maybe that's how goats eat weeds) Good job!

ndryauthor26 Apr 2018, 07:43

@n-feofentov Thanks ^_^ No, there is no way to win, only to die in a cold infinity of the universe... 38 is a great result, but some people do get more, there is some kind of manual scoreboard under my fb post https://www.facebook.com/andriy.kashchynets/posts/1745751542154007
And yes, stacked flowers are annoying

gogu27 Apr 2018, 09:15

We would like to study something deeply with the nice and original mechainic. Maybe not fun for some people, but also good game. I remembered the SpaceChem.

fashionbatman27 Apr 2018, 22:14

Really neat concept! It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but once I got it it was really cool. Great job!

Beebo Studios7 May 2018, 10:53

As someone who knows a bit about the function of cone cells, I absolutely love this title! Changing your perception is ingenious and feels sooooo well implemented. Thank you for making this game!