DNADream by Zener
A game about growing a plant until it gets to the Sun. To make it grow and turn as you wish you must select the gens you want the plant to have.
The controls are mouse based, just click on a DNA ball to add or change a gen.
I hope you enjoy it, all feedback is welcomed and enjoy the compo!
The controls are mouse based, just click on a DNA ball to add or change a gen.
I hope you enjoy it, all feedback is welcomed and enjoy the compo!
Ratings
| Coolness | 33% | 832 |
| Overall | 3.06 | 324 |
| Fun | 2.82 | 359 |
| Graphics | 3.06 | 323 |
| Innovation | 3.72 | 60 |
| Mood | 2.77 | 296 |
| Theme | 3.53 | 132 |
Just a minor issue...despite the difference in transparency, it is not obvious at first sight that you must click on the opaque nucleotides, some mouse over effect might have been the icing on the cake.
Congrats!
With certain goals or enemies and adding complexity, I think that the core mechanic to this is fun. It might need a little tutorial stage though. I had no trouble figuring out that clicking on the DNA balls reveals a left, middle and right option and it regrows each time, but it's not immediately obvious.
The graphics are bright and easily understood. The whole package comes off very nice. Just wish it had some audio of some kind.
If you decided to take it further you could make it more difficult by asking the player to touch multiple things as the plant grows making the DNA order more important. Even have some points that are bad to go through that would kill the plant.
Overall good job. Congrats.
It also took me a while to figure out what to do with the "DNA" on the right side of the screen, so if you want to continue this that's the first thing I'd correct (maybe have some introductory text that goes away after a few seconds). It doesn't even need to be all that explanatory: just put a "Click here!" text with an arrow and by experimentation people should figure it out. :)