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Playing with Fire by and

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made by and for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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This is out game Playing with Fire, and our team's second participation in a jam. You are in the role of a squad leader of the fire-water-plane-police of the future, and you have to keep an endless fire burning in order to save humanity! Red planes will cause new fires to start, blue planes will drop water and extinguish flames.

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The game has been developed using p5.js. You can control the direction and speed and direction of the planes by dragging & releasing with your mouse. The burning flames are moving in an animated Game of Life pattern as a tribute to John Conway. Thank you Sir!

The game runs on the website mentioned below, and might also somehow run on mobile (but we had some problems on ios). So, best viewed on a desktop browser.

Thank you for for the organization of the Ludum Dare events, and for providing the nice opportunity for people to collaborate together and be creative :v:

Youtube https://mitschelen.de/playingwithfire/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/playing-with-fire

Ratings

Overall 2292th 2.909⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 2380th 2.55⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1396th 3.205⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1771th 3.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1900th 3.045⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1253th 3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 2003th 1.794⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 2272th 2.526⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

khaotom
20. Apr 2020 · 09:38 UTC
I like that used game of life to run the fire. Very interesting, though it does make for some pretty random gameplay! :joy_cat:
bjornkri
20. Apr 2020 · 09:42 UTC
Found it a bit confusing to understand what's going on, in the beginning my planes just dropped straight down until I got a hang of the controls. I do appreciate the game of life in the fire, very nice.
MeHigh
21. Apr 2020 · 13:08 UTC
A bit confusing, but after i spent some time playing the game i understood how it worked. Also a nice reference to John Conway's game of life :)
joemid
21. Apr 2020 · 20:10 UTC
Wow- so cool to see that you used the Game of Life pattern. Blue planes work great, but what do I do with red planes? Send them down? Try to send them far? I was a little confused about that, but maybe I missed something. Cool concept and definitely hitting the theme! Looking forward to where this goes next. Thanks for the game!

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thesnide
02. May 2020 · 18:34 UTC
I love the Game of Life pattern, it is so appropriate for the theme!
AFlatThrasher
02. May 2020 · 18:41 UTC
Nice idea and nice implementation. My biggest complaint was the red planes. Given how easily the fire could spread on its own, I rarely wanted to use the red planes. Making them less common or giving you the ability to choose which color would come up next or something like that would have been useful. As it was, I was often just sending half my planes out as hard as I could and desperately hoping to get a blue one. Don't think I didn't have fun, though. Trying to control the game of life with semi-randomly dropping planes on it was definitely entertaining.
kjscott
12. May 2020 · 19:13 UTC
Took me a while to figure out the mechanics of the game, plus the whole keep the fire alive but not too great. it's a good interpretation of using Conway's Game of Life. It might have helped with a line showing you where you were going to throw and what the area of effect would be. All the same though, it was pretty decent game.