{"author_link":"\/author\/feizenbara\/","author_name":"feizenbara","author_uid":"15006","comments":[{"author_name":"TheThirdOne","author_uid":"21287","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:04am","epoch":1387151940,"text":"very well made, but too easy. On auto I haven't had it kill me and I have 3000 points."},{"author_name":"vinull","author_uid":"19362","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:42am","epoch":1387172220,"text":"Really nice graphics and I love the use of Conway's Game of Life."},{"author_name":"feizenbara","author_uid":"15006","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:53am","epoch":1387183680,"text":"Thanks for the feedbacks\r@vinull: I'm happy that you life the simple look.\r@TheThirdOne: you are right, I put mostly stable designs at start, and virus do not spread that much, so it's quite easy. I might add a customization tool to set the level of virality of the viruses."},{"author_name":"ThatGuy","author_uid":"17563","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:37am","epoch":1387186320,"text":"The Game of Life has been my 'Hello World' when learning a new language for years. It's cool seeing a unique take on the game that's pretty fun, even if it is a little too easy. I think you should explore this idea a bit more and try and expand on it. Great work!"},{"author_name":"alcorrius","author_uid":"24694","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:44am","epoch":1387186740,"text":"I liked how it is made but I didn't find it fun or interesting like a game. It's a good demonstration of Conway's Game of Life. But maybe I'm just not interested in Games of Life.\rAnyway, nice game!"},{"author_name":"BraindeadGeo","author_uid":"29444","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:26am","epoch":1387189260,"text":"Nice idea! A bit too easy though but a good concept!"},{"author_name":"maxim","author_uid":"15422","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:43am","epoch":1387190280,"text":"Bit confusing but a nice concept"},{"author_name":"ParaPup","author_uid":"18322","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:08am","epoch":1387191780,"text":"Nice Graphics and good concept to the game it felt weird but good."},{"author_name":"crockid5","author_uid":"12651","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:08am","epoch":1387191780,"text":"Somebody elses game, remade, doesn't match the theme, did you even make this for LD? or was it just lieing around you thought you'd submit it?"},{"author_name":"feizenbara","author_uid":"15006","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:15am","epoch":1387192200,"text":"Well crockid5, it's not somebody elses game, go look on wikipedia, game of life is not even a game at first... I used the basic mecanism, but everything else that makes a game (you know, player inputs, win\/lose conditions, feedbacks, audio, graphs...) comes from me, and was started from scratch on saturday.\rThe theme interpretation is "You only get 1 cell to save them all", and I agree it's not very straightforward... like almost every other entry here, because this theme sucked big time (well, it's not even a theme, it's just a random sentence that gives no restriction on the game).\r\rBut I think you should warn now Richard Garriot that Blizzard just stole and remade Ultima with WoW."},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:55am","epoch":1387194600,"text":"Really nice use of conways game of life, well implemented and nice looking, good job! :)"},{"author_name":"Dry Tree","author_uid":"5357","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1387195860,"text":"nice job, good graphics too :)"},{"author_name":"ponk","author_uid":"11872","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1387201920,"text":"Very cool game !\rGood application of conway's game of life\rIt give me ideas for my own entry (based also on automata cellular)"},{"author_name":"Coblynau","author_uid":"29114","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:41pm","epoch":1387204560,"text":"I thought I had found a way to beat the viruses but they came back; just like life. ;) Good job!"},{"author_name":"dqmhose","author_uid":"11488","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1387211940,"text":"I didn't really get it. Couldn't figure out how and why cells appeared and disappeared, still fun to mess around with, though. Really nice graphics!"},{"author_name":"zorfmorf","author_uid":"28506","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1387212480,"text":"Nice take on the game of life although I think in its current form its a little bit broken. The virae seem to have basically no influence on the game itself, for me it runs in auto mode up to several thousand points.\r\rIdea:\rMake the virae a lot more deadly, give the player the ability to set more than one cell per turn and disable hints."},{"author_name":"Udell Games","author_uid":"30630","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1387212960,"text":"Clever idea, I really like the execution and the graphics. Didn't get any sound even though I turned audio on though."},{"author_name":"feizenbara","author_uid":"15006","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1387212960,"text":"Right zorfmorf, I should have put a setting for making viruses more lethal.\rI can't really allow player to put more than one cell, it's the theme of the LD.\rAnd you can disable hints with the "Tips" auto button. I should have labelled it "hints" instead, but the wrong word came to my mind :-(\r\r@others: thank you for the feedbacks, I'm really happy to see so many enjoying graphics, it was supposed to be my worst speciality but simple is neat :-)"},{"author_name":"feizenbara","author_uid":"15006","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1387213020,"text":"@Udell: what browser are you using? It works for me on Chrome, but maybe not elsewhere."},{"author_name":"ricklesauceur","author_uid":"31016","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:01pm","epoch":1387223760,"text":"A classic !"},{"author_name":"soy_yuma","author_uid":"7620","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:52pm","epoch":1387237620,"text":"Nice version of the classic :)"},{"author_name":"CaptainKraft","author_uid":"7617","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:33am","epoch":1387240080,"text":"Look great and enjoyed experimenting with it."},{"author_name":"Enneract","author_uid":"11083","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:12am","epoch":1387361220,"text":"The visuals were great."},{"author_name":"jacklehamster","author_uid":"20841","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1387460340,"text":"I feel it would be visually more appealing if the cells didn't animate."},{"author_name":"Xavier","author_uid":"15692","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1387477620,"text":"Nice idea. Only I would change the typography: it's annoying me! :)"},{"author_name":"theholychicken","author_uid":"25095","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1387484880,"text":"Very interesting puzzle game! \rI did get a bit confused why cells appear and disappear between turns, perhaps the cells are moving around? \rAs it is right now it's very difficult to lose, but many people already mentioned that. The concept is very interesting though, and once it's balanced I'd love to try it again!"},{"author_name":"dylanwolf","author_uid":"20078","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 12:45am","epoch":1387500000,"text":"Interesting take on a classic concept.\r\rTrying to add cells to starve off viruses was tough to wrap my head around (since there are a lot of rules in play), yet I scored over 1500 points. I felt like I should have died far earlier than I did."},{"author_name":"Giovanni Cappellotto","author_uid":"20065","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 4:06pm","epoch":1387555260,"text":"Nice application of the "game of life" concept."},{"author_name":"Mlle Eole","author_uid":"8751","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1387573020,"text":"Nice and interesting. :)"},{"author_name":"iiechapman","author_uid":"14399","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 1:12am","epoch":1388192820,"text":"I really like the look, color pallet is great. Don't see the theme but good job on making a complete game."}],"images":["ld28\/15006-4f8f7d69ec91d988b1fcf4c52ca6b4f9.jpg","ld28\/15006-3f62f238c3bb0d2b07d5ade643775c86.jpg","ld28\/15006-2d2755ca8866e427d9c8ea6bd65281ed.jpg","ld28\/15006-8172a89de307143f754ce61ca4b93333.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/143872777\/LudumDare1\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/143872777\/LudumDare1\/LD1%2C1.gmx.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21161","g_author":"15006","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21190","g_title":"Game Of Life","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"616","g_commentcount":"30","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/15006-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/15006-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/15006-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/15006-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A relaxing logical game based on the Conway's Game of Life (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway's_Game_of_Life).\r\n\r\nYou must keep alive some cells in a cell culture where viruses appear from time to time. But you can only add 1 cell at a time to save them all.\r\n\r\nThe game features several customisation tools, allowing you to play in a very easy environment or even only watch your cells develop by themselves.\r\n\r\nNote: some cell patterns can survive indefinitely, meaning sometimes the game has no end.\r\n\r\nDetailed rules (you should try the game without reading this :-)):\r\n - a cell stays alive if it has 2 or 3 neighbours. Otherwise, it dies.\r\n - a cell appears in an empty spot if it has 3 neighbours.\r\n - a virus spawns on the oldest cell after 5 turns where no virus was in the whole cell culture.\r\n - a virus dies if it has no healthy neighbours.\r\n - a virus spreads to its oldest neighbours if it has 3 or more healthy neighbours.\r\n - you can only add 1 cell per turn.\r\n - game ends if no more healthy cells are in the culture.","title":"Game Of Life"}