{"author_link":"\/author\/homelinen\/","author_name":"homelinen","author_uid":"11591","comments":[{"author_name":"Nick Knowlson","author_uid":"15084","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:40am","epoch":1346045700,"text":"&gt; Cormack's Game of Life\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You mean Conway's Game of Life?"},{"author_name":"homelinen","author_uid":"11591","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:37am","epoch":1346067120,"text":"Thanks for that. Knew I'd get his name wrong."},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 4:20am","epoch":1346127300,"text":"This is pretty cool."},{"author_name":"evilseanbot","author_uid":"7902","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:30am","epoch":1346131500,"text":"A fun and satisfying simple simulation. Feels like it moves too quickly to feel like you have much impact."},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:00am","epoch":1346133300,"text":"The simulation of fire, forest, villagers, and towns fascinated me.  They made such a big town after a few spontaneous clicks that I didn't know how to improve."},{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:20am","epoch":1346138100,"text":"Not much of a game since there's no real goal but a interesting little simulation, only part i can't tell is exactly what's making the fires, i've seen them spawn in areas with no people."},{"author_name":"kato9","author_uid":"5821","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1346183940,"text":"Pretty interesting simulation but the game moves way to fast to actually 'play' it. Would be interesting to slow things down and add some strategy to it."},{"author_name":"imef","author_uid":"9591","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1346185080,"text":"I could spend hours starring at that!"},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:35pm","epoch":1346196600,"text":"All the forest burned and urban development got completely out of hand. A simulator indeed."},{"author_name":"ConflictiveLabs","author_uid":"15810","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:47am","epoch":1346200920,"text":"I love this kind of stuff. What you did here is quite cool. I mean, it's not just cells replicating, but it's pretty much the evolution of a village (of sorts). It certainly lacks an objective and other &quot;gamey&quot; elements, but it's a nice simulation. Good work :)"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 8:17pm","epoch":1346271120,"text":"Interesting simulation, perhaps slightly too fast? I don't know, nice work though even if it isn't much of a game and has nothing to do with evolution."},{"author_name":"edibletoaster","author_uid":"5756","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 1:50pm","epoch":1346334300,"text":"Pretty cool sim. Yeah, not quite sure how fires are made, but not bad."},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1346352180,"text":"Always interesting to watch these type of simulations"}],"images":["ld24\/11591-dc963a1b196c80a4f9f85453b97ce5d2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/calumgilchrist.co.uk\/ld\/24\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/homelinen\/ld24-A-Game-Of-Towns","text":"Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/homelinen\/ld24-A-Game-Of-Towns\/tarball\/v0.1","text":"LDSource"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28802","g_author":"11591","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28832","g_title":"A Game of Towns","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"621","g_commentcount":"13","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\/\/163678\/11591-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"HTML5 game based on Conway's Game of Life.\r\n\r\nNo gameplay as such, but the simulator works fairly well.\r\n\r\nVillagers can be spawned. They gather food and spawn siblings when they've eaten enough.\r\n\r\nThere's also a fire, as it was a fun way to stop the bushes from taking over.\r\n\r\nMinimal art, no music or sound.\r\n\r\nInitial idea was to have the huts evolve into towns and then cities and up the scope of the game, but that never happened.\r\n\r\nIf the page freezes on 100%, just refresh.\r\n\r\nTested on Firefox and Chrome. Other browsers will most likely work.<\/p>","title":"A Game of Towns"}