life
get ready to embark on an amazing journey through the beginnings of life.
start as a small cell and evolve...
relaxing short game (~10 minutes of playtime), spore-meets-agario, with a "our planet" documentary vibe.
made for gmtk jam 2024, planning to update and polish this more eventually.
no graphical assets were used in this project, everything is procedurally generated.
CONTROLS:
A-D or moving mouse: rotate left/right
L: toggle camera zoom
on mobile: tap somewhere to change direction.
reload to play again :P
Credits:
flo-bit - concept and code
unbedenklich - concept and narration
nicholas palmer - music
(see start screen of game for links)
not optimized for mobile, but should work.
inspired and code partly adapted from this repository: https://github.com/argonautcode/animal-proc-anim
Comments
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Lovely
Wow - way cooler than I anticipated. Interesting and fun, well balanced, and with fantastic audio.
Really cool experience! Loved the visuals and the relaxed atmosphere :)
Awesome experience!
Great game.
sick!
Nice one! I like how everything is so relaxing.
It feels clean and good to play, the music is very fitting and the voice over made it perfect :)
Thank you :)
Very forgiving with the collisions :) relaxing and beautiful game.
thank you, yeah the collisions are very handwaivy, close-enough-ish :)
pleasantly surprised by the voiceover. feels like the spore cell stage x nature documentary, really nice vibe!
thank you :)
wowie broken end screen wowie :o
but ye, very epic Spore cell stage, honestly even more fun :D Very good job <3
do you mean broken, because you can't play again or is something else not working?
The end life over screen moves whenever you resize the window. Was mostly a joke, good game :D
this game is great! The voice acting is amazing, the whole atmosphere fits so well. The minimalistic artstyle is so pretty, it's such a relaxing experience and fits the theme perfectly. The only feedback I could give is that it would be nice to have subtitles to the voice :D great work!
thanks for your feedback, subtitles have been added, they just lag slightly behind the voiceover ^^
great game. Reminded me of my childhood when I play spore and thought it was the best game ever. I think the game will be better if you change the hit box of the mouth to be bigger and the movement speed of latter generation to be faster. Other than that, this is (again) a great game.
thank you for your feedback, we made the hitboxes bigger, should be a bit easier now :)
making latter generations faster is a bit more difficult, as otherwise you can't escape from the bigger ones anymore, still have to figure out a way for that to work (maybe have a short rechargeable speed boost?)
Seriously impressive use of minimalism to generate a serene and enjoyable environment. I played to the end because I wanted to, and I enjoyed the whole experience. Great job. The blurs of the larger fish were a really good creative choice.
thank you! awesome that you enjoyed it and played it till the end!
I like the game! I like the narration element and the calm gameplay! I was surprised that the narrator didn't get annoyed at some point!
thank you!
Really well made, especially with no assets being used. I do think it would be better if the organisms you were trying to eat tries to move away a little bit. Maybe also have some narrator dialogue in between scaling up.
thanks for playing!
yeah, making the AI a tiny bit smarter than just "floating around until i see some food nearby" is on our list of improvements.
what kind of narrator dialogue would you want between levels?
Thanks for playing :)