Ld26 by wonderwhy-ER

So yeah, participated in LudumDare 26, theme was Minimalistic.
Here is my entry
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And here are my blog posts during compo
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sierra42098 Featured By Owner May 19, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

yay!!! i defeated the random level!!!

wonderwhy-ER Featured By Owner May 20, 2013

And here is a badge for you, "killer of randomness"! Sorry its virtual

You liked it? Did not got to it but I plan to clean it up and make a closer to something[link] like this game later:

sierra42098 Featured By Owner May 20, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

yay!!! lol

Yeah i really did like this game... it required alot of strategy.

wonderwhy-ER Featured By Owner May 21, 2013

Heh, sadly not yet

Need to add resources and think of ways to limit some crazy "end of the world" combos

sierra42098 Featured By Owner May 21, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

lol yeah... i guess that makes since ^^

guzu Featured By Owner May 2, 2013 Hobbyist Filmographer

Now that's fun!

wonderwhy-ER Featured By Owner May 2, 2013

Thanks

What you especially liked?
It just that I will be making new version soon

Collecting feedback's

guzu Featured By Owner May 2, 2013 Hobbyist Filmographer

I really liked trying out patterns to see which could get me a stronger next generation. I think it would be a good idea to give players some hints of strong patterns.

Also, it would be easier if I could simply click to add a pixel instead of dragging it.
Maybe you should also add walls where patterns just die if they reach it.

Hope you make this into a complete game

wonderwhy-ER Featured By Owner May 2, 2013

Yeah, I already thought of ideas on predicting patters. I can go with ToriBash way, showing animation of next 3 steps all the time while its paused.

On pixel dragging. Well there are issues as I am planing it mostly for mobile, but browser is second choice too for few reasons.
There was other reason for dragging too, I had various predefined patterns that you could drag/rotate and drop, it just did not got to making levels that are complex where I would start allowing using patterns instead of pixels.

On walls, I already thought of that for a reason. It just that there are patterns that are pretty crazy and can fill whole level as some kind of end of world

So I need ways to make them less efficient, and walls is one of the solutions.

Really thanks for your big answer

YoungLink19 Featured By Owner Apr 30, 2013

Great concept, although the control is obviously improvable. Would be good if it's possible to put in groups of pixels (for example, a group of self-propagating pixels) in one click.

Zooming is horrible, although I think that's because of how dA treats SWF files. They don't simply use an object tag or swfobject, and I think as a result any attempt to lock the mouse's scroll wheel will be made invalid.

wonderwhy-ER Featured By Owner Apr 30, 2013

I had it in development, just did not got to making levels where it was used.
Also had resources that run out so using bigger structures is less efficient then modifying ones already on the field.

On zoom yeah, It was bit made for DA you can play here instead [link]

Sushimitzu Featured By Owner Apr 29, 2013

Would be good to know where the borders of the map are. Also, besides the typos, I think it's too fast, so making up a strategy is hard as you do not see what setup causes which reaction. Neat idea though.

wonderwhy-ER Featured By Owner Apr 30, 2013

Yeah, well I had 48 hours from start till end so it came out somewhat messy on game side.
I am thinking in making it in to strategy/puzzler/turn based right now. Seems best options to try from the start, but there are many curious ideas

As for borders, I had them, it just that they messed some other things up on UX side and I did not had much time so just turned them off. Here older screenshot [link]