Phantom planet by Killerbug

made by Killerbug for LD24 (JAM)

We barely made something working. Basically, there's 4 types of living beings on the planet, one of them is planet itself. They all interact with eachother, and have a chance of triggering an evolution. There are two possible evolutions for each (and each can devolve back with right influence), and the chance is affected by the domination factor of that specific being.

This is a very unfinished version, so bear with me! Though it doesn't have a defined end, you can still try and get all the evolutions- it functions as a sandbox game (it probably has quite a few bugs as well)

CONTROLS:
Arrows: move
Z: enter meditation
X: remove being

REQUIREMENTS:
XNA redist: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914

Windows (XNA)	https://www.dropbox.com/s/sijajxkldytwoer/PhantomPlanet.rar
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=14487

Ratings

Coolness	46%	618
Overall(Jam)	3.45	54

Fun(Jam)	2.23	221
Graphics(Jam)	4.41	17
Humor(Jam)	2.08	149
Innovation(Jam)	3.62	30
Mood(Jam)	3.32	48
Theme(Jam)	3.36	50

Feedback

braingale

28. Aug 2012 · 01:56 UTC

Very, very pretty! I didn't quite grasp the full concept of the game (as you said, it's in a fairly unfinished state), but keep at it!

Uberi

28. Aug 2012 · 01:57 UTC

Unfortunately did not do anything when I tried to run it. Process stayed open for a little while and then closed.

Ran it from the command line too, just to see if there was any output (there wasn't).

Zoomyzoom

28. Aug 2012 · 17:57 UTC

Cant run xna :(

thewiseguy99

28. Aug 2012 · 18:41 UTC

I played a game sort of like this before where you jumped between planets and walked around them. It was fun so this appealed to me a lot. It was good too, nice job.

D3zmodos

28. Aug 2012 · 18:43 UTC

Looks really cool, I love the clouds! >_< Hope you manage to finish it sometime...

🎤 Killerbug

28. Aug 2012 · 18:56 UTC

@D3zmodos we sure will! All it needs is balancing evolution trees and ending scenes/triggers.

juaxix

28. Aug 2012 · 19:04 UTC

Let me put words to this game... are you telling me that we can model our universe and choose if we want dogs/wolves in our planet or cloudy-sheeps?
why if years pass like eons and eons, the black Little white Riding Hood remains with the same appeareance? and is he or she ...even it? a god? XD
love this game, ha the potencial to be so many things, it depends on the sound, music, and other features you may add ;)
check out my game, is about planets too, and some dark also :)
Would love to see this in XBox360

VAMflax

28. Aug 2012 · 21:32 UTC

I'm new to LD, but this is the kind of thing I like. I can't really explain it, but while I meditated it looked like sheep were mating with wolves, and when I went over to a wolf it was having a pee...

Would have liked some sound, but, nice effort, and proper bonkers... :)

Kumquat

29. Aug 2012 · 17:45 UTC

I like the graphics and the concept, but I cannot quite grasp the mechanics. I can only meditate and kill things?

🎤 Killerbug

29. Aug 2012 · 17:56 UTC

@Kumquat That's right. Our initial design was a comet coming for the planet, which would put a time limit on the game. During that time, player would have to meet certain conditions (evolution combinations, population), which would help protect the planet.

AMSmirnov

29. Aug 2012 · 18:20 UTC

Nice game. Just one point - returning from meditation in initial point, may better return in place where you start meditate.

BNeutral

31. Aug 2012 · 23:18 UTC

Uh, it's interesting and looks nice, but it isn't much of a game really from what I gather.
Also some music may have made a huge difference.

MattHartley

04. Sep 2012 · 01:44 UTC

Love the graphics