collapsing ecosystem survival

by wordbug

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00

An unstable game about surviving an unstable ecosystem.

Navigate the heavily obstructed environment to look for food and run away from it!

Every game is different: the map, most of the palette, most of the graphics and some parameters for creature behavior are randomly generated with every refresh and with every death. Some games are automatically made impossible because of this, but i vehemently refuse to make this game any less random. So what if you can't see half of the creatures, or the wall. So what if you're born trapped in a walled off tile and can do nothing at all. No, don't refresh the page you coward! ~~I'm kidding, do refresh the page if you want.~~

Comments3

NuggetMcHotdog4 Oct 2021, 06:25

Overall this was a really solid entry! The concept of an entirely different ecosystem and map is a super cool idea, and I think you executed it quite well.

I have a few suggestions:
Firstly, I think that the scale of the map is large enough that the details are quite hard to see, because of how tiny everything is. I think a smaller map would solve this.
Another small thing is that it took me a while to find the player when the game starts, as they are very small and start at a random position. Starting at the same place every time would prevent this from happening.

wordbugauthor4 Oct 2021, 16:16

thanks for the feedback, @nuggetmchotdog! there is supposed to be a fixed starting position (top left), but apparently it doesn't render when it resets until the first action is taken, and the map loops around which means there are three different corners in which you might find yourself. oops!

gdman5 Oct 2021, 13:41

Interesting concept and simple nice graphics.