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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Mechanics | #232 | 3.325 | 3.325 |
| Story | #343 | 2.325 | 2.325 |
| Music | #388 | 2.825 | 2.825 |
| Aesthetics | #393 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| Theme | #428 | 2.925 | 2.925 |
| Sound | #458 | 2.375 | 2.375 |
| Fun | #487 | 2.675 | 2.675 |
Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Nice relaxing game. Great job!
Hey! Thanks for the last minute review! I appreciate it!
LOL I love your intro logo and sound effect!
Interesting, I've never seen Conway's Game of Life done like this. Once I switched perspective, it very much reminded me of Minecraft.
Nice to see another simulation - that's what I ended up doing too, of sorts, though it was originally meant to be a game!
Well done! Really nice graphics, by the way! Lovely relaxing atmosphere.
Relaxing game! If you want to test our there it is:
https://itch.io/jam/gamedevtv-jam-2023/rate/2077485
Thanks so much! I already reviewed your game and enjoyed!
A very relaxing game simulator.Loved it.i give it a rate.
So glad you liked it! Thank you for playing it.
Interesting to use Game of Life like that. The animations are nice. Relaxing simulation.
Thanks! I really appreciate that you gave it a look.
Liked the idea. Couldn't really figure out how my world pieces were able to be placed but liked the simulation.
Thanks for trying it out!
Nice simulator. It is interesting. I think maybe some rules as to how the pieces interact with each other would be nice. That way we could have some agency in setting it up. Right now all I did is pick randomly and place randomly and see what the outcome is.
Thanks! You're right. I'll get some explaination up there later and dial in the interactions a little more. I'm hoping I can add a piece so, the player can click and monitor an animal or a plant.
Interesting take on Conway's Game of Life. I've seen it before, but never done like this. It didn't run well on my browser, but running on Windows 11 Pro, it ran fine in full screen.
Thanks! Yeah, I think the speed gets bogged when there's a lot of animals going all at once and it's rendering the visual. Glad you got it working on a platform.
Peaceful game, interesting premise. I'd have to spend more time to try and figure out how things interact with each other, because I honestly just placed things randomly. At least they lived till 96. Good job on the game
Thanks. I'll have some work to do explaining the interactions - and fine tuning them, too. It gets to be mostly chance, though I'm pretty sure, your best bet is placing plants and animals together.
Peaceful games, relaxing. The fullscreen doesn't work correctly though.
Nice done!
Thanks for checking it out. Do you mind letting me know - is it that it doesn't expand fully for full screen, or is it that the UI isn't working in fullscreen, or both?
It doesn't expand, and it shows only a portion of the game
Liked the peaceful vibe of the game :D
Thanks a lot!
It turned out to be a nice simulator. It was interesting to study game mechanics.
Thank you!
Hey! I appreciate that you checked it out. Thank you!
Cool Idea nice and peaceful. Other than the full screen not working I had fun.
Glad you liked it. Thanks!
The game is nice and cozy and has a really cool concept. The game's cover image was also really cute. I did encounter a few bugs though. The x button in the settings only worked in fullscreen. The size of the game screen doesn’t change when put into fullscreen. Otherwise a really nice game.
Good catch on the button. I'll have to look at it more. It still works, but it doesn't quite cover the whole x for some reason. Love when things don't work as they should!
Really great idea on a life sim, could be fun game expanded out.
Thank you! Great to know you enjoyed it! Thanks for the time!
Good art
Thanks for playing!
Very cool! I'm gonna be honest; from reading the description, I anticipated wanting something a bit more "gamified" going into it because I'm an impatient baby who wants to watch things explode and stop bad guys and get high scores, but I was quickly proven wrong. I feel like the music, graphics, and just general feel of everything made me chill out and enjoy this almost in a sandbox-y exploration-y kind of way that I was not expecting.
I am back and forth on whether it would be nice to be able to understand the interactions a bit more, or if that would take away from the joy of just placing things all willy nilly and seeing what happens. I don't know. It would probably be nice to have available, and then folks could just ignore if they wanted to maybe?
Ultimately, it's a fascinating experiment regardless of anything else. Perfect for a game jam project. Could see this both being expanded on, or serving as a springboard for future projects if you feel like it. I can tell you with certainty that I would be interested to see where it went.
Thank you for the time and consideration. I really appreciate the encouraging words.
Simple and cool game. Good idea to implement different camera systems, so that players can see the world grow from different angles.
Well done! :)
Thanks... I had never done a camera set up like that before... what a time suck! I hope I can remember I how I did it for next time.
Nice game. I ran it a couple times in world 1 and 2. Quite enjoyable to see how the world evolves. But for some reason the "rabbits" remind me of the lizard/slug creatures Janeway and Paris turned into from Star Trek Voyager.
Ha! Fair enough. With little time, I wasn't able to be super picky about what my 3D models looked like.
Are you a friend of DeSoto?
Nope, not sure who or what you are referring to here.
I love the idea, when I saw it I immediately though of Conway's Game of Life. Though I wish it was more game than simulation. Maybe you could add some kind of progression? For example when you reach Time 50 you can put new things on the map or unlock a new animal. Something like that. Can't wait to see what you will add in the future.
Thanks for taking a look. That's a great idea. I am hoping to gamify it a little more.