At Least You're Not Extinct Yet by shizuka

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made by shizuka for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

At Least You're Not Extinct Yet is a game about breeding creatures to delay the inevitable extinction of all life

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Ratings

Overall 535th 3.635⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 284th 3.75⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 517th 3.481⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 580th 3.75⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 798th 3.5⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 444th 3.538⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 221th 3.833⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 563th 3.596⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 36🗨️

Feedback

alpqty
05. Apr 2022 · 00:11 UTC
10/10 loved it. I hope you modify this game and deploy to the mobile devices.
🎤 shizuka
05. Apr 2022 · 00:29 UTC
@alpqty hey thanks, i will take some days to rest, but i will look to deploy to mobile
TERNOX
05. Apr 2022 · 09:11 UTC
Nice idea!
lantto
05. Apr 2022 · 09:13 UTC
This is great! I love how you intuitively start sorting them out by gender and size, making it a pretty creative challenge. Very satisfying to try to breed a creature as big as possible. Good job!
Zef1r
05. Apr 2022 · 09:14 UTC
total creatures born 89.
creating highest generation 4.
This is a very fun game. it's cool when a wolf is born from a snake and a bull. But a meteorite. It was a surprise for me. at first I started to panic, I thought I had caught a bug. But then I realized that you originally made the end of the game.
LDJam user 234120
05. Apr 2022 · 13:28 UTC
Laughed so hard at the premise. Then laughed again when the 'end game state' started. This was a riot, and you should be proud of how fun it plays. Was pretty easy to figure out how to play. Really no complaints at all about this.
Holy
05. Apr 2022 · 19:07 UTC
A chicken was born from two crocodiles? >.< Are we sure about that? xD Definitely I will go to a zoo, I will speak with the director and I will wait until the creature is born. If it is a chicken I will come back here and pay for this game. :) Really fun! xD
njs
05. Apr 2022 · 19:08 UTC
So it was good, and a nice bit of silly fun. I can definitely see it working as a premise for a full release. If I were to suggest an improvement, the algorithm could be improved to increase the probability of potential matches based on what's already on the board - I seemed to struggle to get matches after 2nd generation, don't know if that was intentional or if it was just 50/50 and bad luck.

It was a good bit of fun though, nicely polished, and a nice ending, so thanks for the submission!
Diccuric_Sigeon
05. Apr 2022 · 19:11 UTC
![Screenshot from 2022-04-05 22-09-23.png](///raw/5d3/3/z/4cc82.png)

:shrug: unluck
Guy Girmonsky
05. Apr 2022 · 19:22 UTC
That's a nice take on the theme! Was more fun than I expected, and the sex-size-transparency option adds more depth than expected from the first look.
I'd cut the meteor animation a few seconds before the game ends, since I sat there for a bit just waiting for the restart button to appear to retry and reach a higher score! Overall a nice submission, well done!
SofiGnedova
06. Apr 2022 · 11:10 UTC
Very cute game! I think I would love to play the full version on my phone!
Turquoise Moon
06. Apr 2022 · 22:46 UTC
Very cool game! It is fun and the art looks very nice. I found a bug where if I touched two creatures with one at the same time, it would count for both. I was only able to do it twice though.
Kronox
07. Apr 2022 · 09:32 UTC
Really nice game, humorous ending xD
Allthough I´m interested in one thing: Is the resulting sex randomized or determined by the parents?
🎤 shizuka
07. Apr 2022 · 14:18 UTC
hey @kronox, the resulting sex is randomized, on the early stages i considered to make a more complex breeding system, but i choose to go with a more simple aproach in the end
PickyBurrito49
08. Apr 2022 · 19:23 UTC
Super unique concept! I have seen several tower defense games, a bunch of shooters, survive the zombies, and such not, but this is the only breeding game I have seen yet! Took me a moment ot figure out I just needed opposite sex of the same generation. I kept waiting for 2 of the same creature type to appear! Bravo
Fromage
12. Apr 2022 · 04:24 UTC
Nice! I would definitely love to see this expanded, maybe abilities for the different animals, regular results for combining them, that sort of thing.
LDJQ
19. Apr 2022 · 04:07 UTC
That ending.

The game fits the theme perfectly, the music is relaxing, and the art appealing.
I would like to see an expanded version of this game.