Rules by Dew

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made by Dew for LD31 (COMPO)
I didn't thought I will be participating this time, but after viewing the theme I thought I could make the game I had in my mind for the past weeks.

The game is based on "Conway's Game of life" principles, cells die/survive/revive according to conditions, for the normal game of life the rules are:
-If a cell is alive and has 2 or 3 alive neighbors it stays alive
-If a cell is dead and has 3 alive neighbors it revives
-Otherwise the cell dies

In this game you set the rules! The game gives you an objective and you must complete it, adding and removing rules.

If you win the game gets harder, if you lose it gets easier.

Tested in: Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. (Won't work in Internet Explorer)

Features:
-Variable difficulty
-TOP10 highscores
-Incomprehensible logic

I hope you enjoy it!

Ratings

Coolness 33% 1896
Overall 3.29 445
Fun 2.88 752
Graphics 2.67 831
Innovation 3.63 221
Mood 2.40 970
Theme 3.30 909

Feedback

hazzahazzam
07. Dec 2014 · 09:23 UTC
Nice game! Being able to code a leaderboard in 48hrs is no easy task!
Insality
07. Dec 2014 · 15:57 UTC
I dont understand the rules, but my random clicking get to me 64 points :D
Absor
08. Dec 2014 · 03:28 UTC
Incomprehensible logic indeed. :D
Jupitron
08. Dec 2014 · 03:30 UTC
Hi!
I didnt understand but i won! Nice!
mrexcessive
08. Dec 2014 · 15:39 UTC
Hi there. Interesting game of game surface design... would be nice to be able to see the rule explanations mid-game.
raincole
08. Dec 2014 · 18:57 UTC
It's very geeky! I just won and I didn't even know what I were doing!
pjimmy
08. Dec 2014 · 19:01 UTC
interesting puzzle game, but took a while to understand
scriptorum
08. Dec 2014 · 19:26 UTC
Very nice.

The rule "less than X" seems to be easily cheesed by picking the two highest tiles, and then repeatedly removing your lowest and picking the highest replacement. Often that's enough to make everything go dead 0. Similarly, for the "more than X" you can do the dead 0 cheese and then on the last round pick dead 0 as your tile.
🎤 Dew
08. Dec 2014 · 19:41 UTC
Don't spoil the easy tactic, the game is easy until difficulty 90, after that it's a nightmare i made it that way so people can understand how the rules work but i guess it's still too hard to understand if you're not familiar with game of life. if u make 100-difficulty you get the chances to win.
peterthehe
10. Dec 2014 · 17:08 UTC
Congrats on the leaderboard - IT ACTUALLY WORKS. Loved the game :)
Recon
10. Dec 2014 · 17:11 UTC
Little bit too complicated but very good for the theme
Maurogik
10. Dec 2014 · 19:04 UTC
Smart game ! The leaderboard is a nice touch, nicely done !
Timm638
11. Dec 2014 · 18:11 UTC
Instead of following the rules, you define the rules!
Great!
01rafael
29. Dec 2014 · 05:48 UTC
need to be familiar with math xD