{"author_link":"\/author\/zapaman\/","author_name":"zapaman","author_uid":"7159","comments":[{"author_name":"datacr4sh","author_uid":"40158","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:11am","epoch":1408925160,"text":"fun game, great art!"},{"author_name":"Kedume Bits","author_uid":"24253","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:47am","epoch":1408952520,"text":"I like the graphic stuff."},{"author_name":"gwa","author_uid":"34038","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:21am","epoch":1408958160,"text":"i like it but i am a bad god :)"},{"author_name":"Kuupu","author_uid":"22691","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:29am","epoch":1408962240,"text":"Nice concept!\rI couldn't manage to win yet :(\rWhat kind of algorithm did you use to generate the world?"},{"author_name":"zapaman","author_uid":"7159","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:45am","epoch":1408963200,"text":"@Kuupu: it's a simple 'algorithm'. Create a map that's all water. Then, take 3 passes over it.\r\rFirst Pass: \r- select a random tile on the map\r- move around the tile in a clock wise rotation (spiral) and mark random tiles in your path as grass tiles\r- the more grass neighbors a tile has, the more chances to become a grass tile\r- repeat this process <mapWidth\/2> times \r\rSecond Pass:\r- loop through the entire map again and check for single grass tiles (separated from the land-mass)\r- remove all (or mostly all) stray grass tiles \r\rThird Pass:\r- loop through the map and place trees and mountains on grass regions that have grass neighbors. Bonus points if you can center the trees\/bushes around the center of an island\r- finally, check to see if a grass tile has a water tile beneath it. If so, replace the water tile with a transition tile between grass and water.\r\rThere are a few more in-depth articles that cover a similar usage if you search for island procedural generation on google."},{"author_name":"LostTrainDude","author_uid":"39571","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:02pm","epoch":1408967820,"text":"Being a fan of the genre, I really loved to see a game like this between the entries.\r\rYou did a great job in the short span we had to develop. It's maybe still unbalanced (or maybe I just suck at it :P) but I hope to see an enhanced version sooner or later!\r\rCongratulations!"},{"author_name":"Flyinpig5","author_uid":"15263","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:10pm","epoch":1408968300,"text":"Fun little game! Really liked the art style of it! Not too sure how it is linked in with the theme, though..."},{"author_name":"tigerbyte","author_uid":"39187","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1408970580,"text":"Fun little game. I managed to kill all my guys in record time!"},{"author_name":"Jesper Oskarsson","author_uid":"1737","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1408971240,"text":"The idle mode was sort of uninteresting for me, it just seemed like a lot of waiting and my population seemed to increase anyway although maybe not quickly? At least I think it would help being able to see some progress in the idle state?\r\rI found a bug where a member would get stuck in hunt mode and not being able to attack. Might happen just on the portals?\r\rAlso when a new member was born they would always be too weak and get eaten as soon as I hunt. No matter how much I trained.\r\rOtherwise, was fun to play! :D"},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1408979460,"text":"I didn't get past 6, died of hunger hunting for food each time. Other than that, the game is really charming."},{"author_name":"capsizedmoose","author_uid":"30615","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:18pm","epoch":1408986780,"text":"it's a little buggy but it's pretty fun :D i like the easy controlls :)"},{"author_name":"From Smiling","author_uid":"41662","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:46pm","epoch":1408988460,"text":"Enjoyable! I like the idea, and the graphics suit it well! I feel like the game is sort of arbitrary \/ random though, sometimes they would just never mate, and some ai would just run away and starve"},{"author_name":"royvanrijn","author_uid":"12129","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:56am","epoch":1409046660,"text":"Loved it!"},{"author_name":"robbiehunt","author_uid":"10796","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1409058000,"text":"This seemed like the sort of game I wouldn't enjoy.\r\rBut it totally changed my mind, I played more than twice. Nice job, now I'm curious about more games like this. I hope you develop this further!"},{"author_name":"DrPrettyPatty","author_uid":"30068","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:59am","epoch":1409115240,"text":"That was unbelievably hard! I did better when I started off training them half to death then hunting, but I never managed to beat it. Great job though, I'm really impressed that you managed this in 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"bogdanmaier49","author_uid":"38969","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:55pm","epoch":1409147400,"text":"Interesant :)"},{"author_name":"KevinZuhn","author_uid":"8695","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1409169720,"text":"Boy, I cannot get these goblins to live, even when it spawns a bunch of them for me. I can't seem to see any health indicators on wolves, so I can't tell whether my people are hitting them or not, and sometimes I get goblins that just don't fight or wander off into the corner of the map and starve. It makes me wish I had some kind of rally point to send them all to, and\/or gather and share food so that one strong goblin doesn't keep killing and eating all the wolves before the others can get there."},{"author_name":"Noah Ratcliff","author_uid":"18011","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 12:19am","epoch":1409530440,"text":"Interesting concept. It seemed like at times my subjects would not feed, and that resulted in them inevitably dying off :("},{"author_name":"damrem","author_uid":"28466","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 12:20pm","epoch":1409573700,"text":"Couldn't get more than 6 warriors at once, but loved the concept."},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Sep 10, 2014 @ 6:41pm","epoch":1410374160,"text":"Nice Idea, though i did not really manage to create a tribe with enough people. I think this could work great as a tamagotchi for grown ups.\rSound would have been nice."}],"images":["ld30\/7159-066900db364945dc71aa8a8ddb760b1d.jpg","ld30\/7159-dbd4a822854d9045416dfde92ce17be0.jpg","ld30\/7159-09b5ec3fb5a2b555f5365aa66fc0e4e5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/23337718\/copulus_win.zip","text":"Windows + Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/bacioiucipriangmailcom.itch.io\/copulus","text":"Android - itch.io"},{"url":"http:\/\/bacioiucipriangmailcom.itch.io\/copulus","text":"Itch.io"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15951","g_author":"7159","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"15981","g_title":"Copulus ","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"555","g_commentcount":"20","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/7159-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/7159-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/7159-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Copulus - the love making and weight lifting simulator \/ god game is a 2D tile-based game, designed around the limitations of a NDS screen, in which the player assumes the role of a God. He must train and provide food for his warriors, in order to make them stronger, and more attractive. The goal of the game is to raise the tribe's population to the maximum (50), in order to send them to connect and populate other worlds. \r\n\r\nMini Tutorial:\r\nHunt: You summon a pack of wolves (4 + nrOfSummons) that can be devoured by your followers. Note that wolves will attack and engage them. Killing a wolf fills the individual's hunger bar and awards XP.\r\nTrain: Your followers begin lifting weights to gain XP and increase their level (and damage \/ defense). While training the hunger bar depletes faster.\r\nIdle: Your followers roam around the island and engage in social activity, in search of a mate. If a mate has been found visual indication (in the form of a heart) will appear above their heads. While in the idle mode, hunger depletes slowly and Health is regenerated.\r\n\r\nGoal: reach 50 individuals in your tribe.\r\nLoose: if you have less then 2 individuals (since you know, 0 or 1 cannot pro-create).\r\n\r\nThe hunger bar is the yellow one on the left side of a follower. Health bar is the red one over their head. The number to the right represents the level.\r\n\r\nThe game requires you to manage and switch between summoning wolves, training (to defeat stronger wolves) and \"copulating\" to increase your tribe's population.\r\n\r\nCurrently (24-08-2014) only the windows build is available (it includes the source code). I will submit a Linux and Mac OSX (and maybe android) tomorrow (been up for 43h, and I gotta go to work in the morning). The source code and assets are made available under the MIT license. Feel free to use them how ever you see fit. \r\n\r\nThe game features \"random generated islands\", asexual weight lifters, wolves, portals, hearts and gore. \r\n\r\nI will write a post-mortem on my experience with building a bare-minimum god-game tomorrow evening, including how helpful it was to have a WIKI as a notebook. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment or poke me on twitter (@Zapakitul)\r\n\r\n--------------------\r\nIf you are wondering why the game has that art style or (upscaled) low resolution graphics, here are the limitations I set for myself at the beginning of this challenge:\r\nSelf-Imposed Limitations:\r\n\r\n Must involve some kind of an AI\r\n 256 \/ 384 resolution (Nintendo DS style)\r\n 32 color palette \r\n Mouse only (touch applies)\r\n 32x32 sprites ( 8 \/ 6 tiles) or 16x16 (16 \/ 12 tiles) \r\n\r\n\r\nEdit: Copulus comes from: Populous (a great god game) and Copulation :)\r\n\r\nEdit2: Android version up. I only tested it on a Nexus 4 and a High-end 'droid tablet. No idea how it runs on less-powerful devices. ","title":"Copulus "}