Keep It Alive by jahndis

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made by jahndis for Ludum Dare 46 (COMPO)

Enjoy watching it jiggle as it sustains itself on tiny droplets.

Didn't feel up to making a full game, so made a tweetcart instead! Note, there's nothing to interact with, it's just a generated animation.

keep-it-alive.gif

280 Characters

p,v,t,m,z,f,s=0,0,0,64,128,circfill,sin::_::cls(0)c=3 for i=0,m do if(i==m)c=0 x=m+9*s(i/z+p/z)y=z+4-i+4*s(i/z+t/z)-4*s(p/32)f(x,y,18+c-i/8,c)end f(m,t%m,2,12)for i=0,m do f(x+i/4*s((i+p*5+t)/z),y+7-i/2+i/7*s(p/z),4-i/16,8)end flip()a=.1-rnd(.2)t+=2v=max(-1,min(1,v+a))p+=v goto _

Ratings

Overall 1043th 2.611⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1076th 1.808⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 822th 2.907⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 919th 3.093⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 579th 3.362⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Humor 718th 2.315⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 965th 2.407⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 35🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

Guille
18. Apr 2020 · 17:16 UTC
Interesting, but what is the creature ?
Maroon_goof
18. Apr 2020 · 17:57 UTC
not exactly a game, but very nice nontheless
Fresh Avocado
18. Apr 2020 · 19:16 UTC
How do i play it is it even a game?
ImmortalityBH
18. Apr 2020 · 19:46 UTC
cool animation i guess
CuriouslyCory
18. Apr 2020 · 21:05 UTC
Very interesting, especially for 280 characters!
scifi6546
19. Apr 2020 · 02:00 UTC
Impressive animation!
Retti01
20. Apr 2020 · 04:54 UTC
I LIKE IT:D
Jeremy Ryan
20. Apr 2020 · 04:58 UTC
Not going to lie, this is one of my favorite submissions that I've seen, despite literally not being interactive.
MartinTale
20. Apr 2020 · 04:58 UTC
It's something! :D
Nikos
20. Apr 2020 · 05:00 UTC
Cool animation, it would be cool if you could at least interact by feeding it and it would look at the cursor(tamagochi?)
Foursay
21. Apr 2020 · 04:04 UTC
This is soo cool, 10/10 for the animation code
alanxoc3
21. Apr 2020 · 16:52 UTC
Nice tweetcart! I'm impressed you were able to get the keep-it-alive URL too. I guess no one else thought about making their game the same name as the theme.
Gal Afik
22. Apr 2020 · 19:45 UTC
Cool animation!
SlimBun
28. Apr 2020 · 08:21 UTC
Very cool! Cool animations. I liked the pixel art a lot. I didn't really got how to play.