More of an artificial life simulator than a game. Zenful.

*** My original Ludum Dare entry has been replaced by this bugfix 1.1 update. There was a bug in the respawn routine that prevented proper rebirth of the player. While I was fixing the respawn routine, I noticed how I could add a gun to the ship with only two lines of code. The original did NOT have guns, so please only rate the game play before you fire the guns. Then enjoy the guns afterwards as my treat.

The original 1.0 Ludum Dare 24 entry can still be played as a java jar file. Or just play 1.1 without firing the gun.

*** Version 1.2 now here with better graphics and sound,and wrap around walls.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19401902/LD24.0.2/index.html
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19401902/LD24.0.2/ProtoZoo.apk
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19401902/LD24.0.2/ProtoZoo.jar

You are on team red, eat the green plants to stay alive and blue is your enemy. Numbers in the bottom left represent the number of creatures alive, and the highest number of creatures ever. You only have limited health and it constantly drains if you don't eat the green food circles, avoid the blue, and make contact with the other red circles, your buddies. Press "R" to respawn a new ship to control, but keep it alive!

When you turn orange, you are about to die! Get close enough to teammates to harness their life forces. Use the nose of your ship to feed on red or green cells.

When you grow a connection to another cell, and then break that connection, you cannot grow another connection with that cell again. It will ignore you. Watch out for that!

You can manipulate the ship with:
WASD - Thrusters
ARROW KEYS - move laterally
1,2,3 - change teams
R or Menu - new ship
Touch and Drag - flick organisms around

Standalone Jar, Applet, or Android