Child of Entropy

by hanarioi

co-authored: @geekazodium, @pearstar37, @rotaaaaaaaaaaaa, @skysakura2005, @skyletune

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.60

The world tends toward chaos, but consciousness tends toward stability. You, as the consciousness of a tiny planet born out of chaos, evolves by selection, stabilizes by evolution. Your consciousness is made up of every single tiny creature in the system, and you, coming out of the Dirac Sea, are a child of entropy.

(controls: when in the drawing phase, left click to use the current selected brush on the currently selected blueprint, when defending, left click to place down the selected blueprint, everything else should be self-explanitory) (if you get confused at any point, let us know, we are happy to get some feedback on this project!)

Tags: #2d, #cute, #fantasy, #singleplayer, #tower defense

Genres: strategy

Comments22

LDJam user 3960858 Oct 2024, 10:20

that greet but maybe when you edit some patern use a click to erase and just switch with a button

CrozzY8 Oct 2024, 10:25

An interesting idea of the game, it was quite interesting to play

Yufan Lu8 Oct 2024, 22:42

The art work is very trippy but not too distracting. Love your mood overall!

Yufan Lu8 Oct 2024, 22:42

I accidentally posted twice and don't know how to delete my comment. So I will also add that the music was wonderful.

wzjo9 Oct 2024, 07:08

the game experience is good!

RuiqianZhang9 Oct 2024, 13:53

Excellent art, interesting settings and gameplay, I don't know how different blueprints affect different levels, so it's difficult for me

BogdanB9 Oct 2024, 14:25

Awesome idea, good visual and nice sounds, like it

ShallowKong9 Oct 2024, 14:35

An interesting idea! However, at the beginning, I am a little bit confused about to use the previous blueprint in the next stage and how would a different blueprint work, so I always died quickly :smile: . If we can have an easier level at the beginning, it will help a lot ~ :heartbeat: (BTW, I also have a jam work. If you can have a try and leave some suggestions, we will be very grateful! THX! :smiley: )

yvpian9 Oct 2024, 15:25

Very good idea !!! Ilove the disign

CathelAleph9 Oct 2024, 19:19

What a beautiful visual! The mechanics are also interesting, everything is just sooo cute!

Mathkarma10 Oct 2024, 12:56

Great idea ! Actually my favourite so far !

WeiYixiao10 Oct 2024, 15:28

I LOVE THE GAME! Beautiful Art!!!!!!

DJTequila11 Oct 2024, 15:58

Lovely art and music, really sets a nice mood. I was able to beat a level, but I still don't really understand how the grid behaves. Is it like Conway's Game of Life + tower defense? It was still fun to play, and a unique take on the theme. Well done!

Shirac11 Oct 2024, 17:02

I really like the idea of hijacking the "game of life", but I find that it doesn't work very well. Finally there is no possibility of creating a strategy because the results of the combinations are very random. I also find that there is not enough contrast between the background and the "game of life" grid and therefore it is difficult to distinguish the evolving shapes.
Otherwise I found the atmosphere of the game very nice and relaxing with different music for the levels and a nice palette of colors.

Jahwffrey12 Oct 2024, 04:49

Wow, didn't expect conway's game of life the tower defense. Really interesting concept and really obtuse to take it to your advantage but definitely engaging for a while there although making a fairly small pattern and spamming it maybe works a bit too well. Pretty cool!

Pimping12 Oct 2024, 08:56

Great concept and idea, good game anyways, 10/10

Léo Léo13 Oct 2024, 02:49

Super original game. Really loved it! I feel you could expend on the idea for a full fledged tower defence game based on this. I would have liked a way to tests out blueprints when in the drawing phase. Also a little explanation on how the "bubble" interact would have been great at the start as I was a bit lost a first. Also once I found a blueprint I liked, I kept using the same one, I would be cool to find a way to encourage player to switch/try different blueprints.
Super submission, good job!

CGraen14 Oct 2024, 12:13

Very Innovative gameplay. I did not quite understand how the patterns work though, like the rules behind which it changes and stops at some point. Also the highlight when placing stuff is a little subtle and hard to see. I would guess its inspired by the game of life? :thinking:

Exa15 Oct 2024, 07:22

Nice game,very interesting plot!!!!Nice job!!!!