Treevolver by qrunchmonkey

made by qrunchmonkey for LD24 (COMPO)

Treevolver - A genetic Engineering Puzzle game.
The rules are simple, but the game is not. You need to guide the evolution of trees until you breed a tree identical to the target tree. Have fun!

A couple notes:
I'm having some issues with my DNS, so if the web link doesn't work, try the Alternate URL.

This is my first HTML5 game, so if things break (and I'm sure they will) please let me know so I can try to fix them. I've tested it under current versions of Safari and Chrome, so if all else fails try one of them.

It's also hideously unoptomized: The game should work on android/iOS, but loading levels will take 30+ seconds, and everything will be generally laggy.

Libraries used: jQuery 1.8.0, Processing.js 1.4.1, messi. I'm also using the fonts ChunkFive and Orbitron by The League of Movable Type. All licences are included in the source .zip

Web	http://www.treevolver.com
Alternate URL	http://treevolver.nfshost.com
Source	http://treevolver.nfshost.com/treevolver_compo.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=3947

Feedback

Senekis

27. Aug 2012 · 08:01 UTC

A bit slow, but that's fine; who has time to optimise when you have 48 hours to make a game?

I liked the concept, although the size of the tree pictures at the top was annoying while trying to figuro out which one to use. Thumbnails which expand on mouse over would be great.

I think it's a really nice implementation of the theme, and a really nice job, being your first HTML5 game.
Well done! (:

lesterpig

29. Aug 2012 · 12:45 UTC

A really beautiful game, but quickly boring... We need some music and Sfx ;) But it's hard to implement this on a website using js and html5... Good job !

Raptor85

30. Aug 2012 · 10:02 UTC

well made, but as the others said gets boring pretty quickly, the randomness doesn't really help either as you often have to click the button a few times even with the right combo.

ned366

31. Aug 2012 · 03:35 UTC

Interesting concept. I liked the "TreeNA" sequences on the bottom of the selected trees and target tree. Great use of the Theme, and cool graphics.

csanyk

01. Sep 2012 · 16:01 UTC

Really like the concept. It's tough to correlate the tree's appearance to its genetic fingerprint, though. It would be a little easier if you could see the genes in the seed bank view, instead of having to swap them in and out all the time.

evilseanbot

04. Sep 2012 · 07:23 UTC

I thought the presentation was super slick, but I felt the gameplay to be a bit hard to grasp.

cobrajs

17. Sep 2012 · 23:54 UTC

Very slick design, looks really nice. Gameplay is a bit hard to figure out... I basically just tried combining all the trees until I got the target. Pretty cool, though.