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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creative use of theme | #35 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Art | #69 | 3.261 | 3.261 |
| Sound | #77 | 2.522 | 2.522 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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A really adorable game! The royalty free music felt a bit too frantic for what feels like it should have been a more relaxed gameplay experience (I never played the inspiration for the jam entry) but overall I thought it was cute and a very creative choice for the jam!
The game was really chill, and pretty original too! From what I saw it was well executed and didnt have a lot of flaws in it. Well done for 48 hours, hope to see you in other jams too!
Thank you I am glad you liked it, was quite a bit of work as a solo projekt :D but I will make sure to join the other jams too, they are always pretty fun and you learn a lot by doing them :)
Original choice of mechanics recreation and it works well in 2D :) it's very satisfying to build your own ecosystem. Good job!
Thank you for trying it out, yeah i also thought that it actually can work in 2D :) I am glad you liked it :)
Charming concept and gameplay, really liked the art and music the most (Even with the little "royalty free music" voice every now and then)
Thanks for the feedback, and I am happy that you liked it :)
Yeah sadly this was a solo project and I didn't have enought time for a selfmade soundtrack and i only noticed to voice over after the deadline :D
Wow nice game really. Good evolution concept :D
Thanks for trying it out, I am glad you liked it :)
Very interesting concept and I was really impressed with the AI and art. My only critiques would be that the sound was a bit annoying after a while and the gameplay was mostly just waiting for things to happen. I think there should be more for the player to do. However, this was a very wholesome, happy game and it was entertaining watching all the creatures move around and do their own thing to grow the world! Nice job!
Thanks for the feedback, yeah the AI part was the most interesting part about the game, credit for the art goes to kenney.nl :)
Yeah sadly I didn't have enough time for a better soundtrack, that's why I used an AI to generate one (with the annoying sideeffect of this voiceover which I didn't notice until after the time of the deadline^^)
Glad you like it :)
It's a interesting game, and mostly a Cute Game ! It's a very happy experience, good job ! :)
Thank you for the feedback :)
You game is so enjoyable. Watching those adorable animals moving around is very cured. You said that the soil would dry out, but the grasses in my world have go over 20k. I noticed that the worms reproduce but I have no idea how to make them do that.
Thanks for the feedback :)
Yeah the soil would dry out if it isn't grown enough but it seems as if you managed to get into the positive feedback loop of growth (which wasn't 100% intended :D)
If worms are on a good soil and the come close to each other they have a chance to reproduce, the game would have needed a bit more infos for all the systems, sadly i ran a bit out of time :)
I can only reproduce 1 or 2 worms even when I knew how to reproduce the worms LOL How many is that chance...?
Actually the chance if they come close to each other on good soil is 1:20 and if they come close to each other on bad soil it is 1:40 also if they reproduce your placement counter goes up, also if you just placed them then they cannot reproduce instantly all of the animals have a lifetime and after an certain "age" the can reproduce, maybe i shouldn't have added this many systems without more informations to explain them better :D
But it is good to know that this is not that easy to do i guess i gotta try to make this a bit more controllable or predictable, at the moment the movement of the worms is also a bit random if it is not raining so it could also be a bit of bad luck^^
Interesting game, it was enjoyable to mostly sit back and let things play out. However whatever that voice over the music was it is super annoying to the point I muted the game tab
Thanks for the review :)
Yeah your right sadly i didn't have too much time left to make a better soundtrack myself and the tool i used adds this watermark voice which i overheard when i first implemented the sounds and then it was a bit too late to remove them once i noticed that :D
Pretty interesting concept, never got to grow any trees tho and everything started dying because i didn't really know how to play. Maybe i'm just stupid tho, anyway good job c:
Thanks for the feedback :)
It probably isn't you that is the problem and more that it currently is a bit hard to get trees going, given more time i would have liked to add more ways for players to influence the environment, if you want to see the trees i would recommend clustering the worms at the beginning this leads to better soil there and a higher chance for trees to spawn :)