Biotope by egos

made by egos for LD30 (JAM)

Biotope are the force who connecte the world
Try to keep equilibrium between forest, rock, lac powers inside a volcano island.

The goal:
1.keep biotope alive
2.Use pattern to harvest resource
3.Increase biotope power by using mana resource

Control:
Left click : interact with button and harvest gem

Mouse well : zoom
Middle clik : scroll map
Right clik : moove map
Space bar : next turn
"U": hide UI

Tips :
-Biotopes interaction between generate Gem (rock->lac->forest->rock).
-Gem combination increase mana.
-Pattern regenerate slowly.
-Auto pass turn with play/pause option isn't a bad choice.
-Volcano just destroy other biotopes
-If you have 0 mana and 0 resources maybe its time to reset.
-Keep a eye on the fps/cpu.

Bugs :
-Depend of the browser clear your cache and reload.....
-Bad optimization sorry for the cpu.

Originaly for the compo (Tools Used: construct2 and gimp).
Have fun

Web	http://www.egosgame.net/BIOTOPE/
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=20701

Ratings

Coolness	74%	3
Overall(Jam)	3.35	294

Audio(Jam)	1.44	659
Fun(Jam)	3.28	242
Graphics(Jam)	2.95	546
Humor(Jam)	2.31	434
Innovation(Jam)	3.85	53
Mood(Jam)	2.97	445
Theme(Jam)	2.97	472

Feedback

NnelGdaBandit

26. Aug 2014 · 00:29 UTC

Took me a minute to realize what was going on, but it was pretty cool.

mechabit

26. Aug 2014 · 00:54 UTC

Looks very pretty watching an island form from the ocean. Once you get the hang of collecting mana there isn't much else to do but watch the simulation.

graebor

26. Aug 2014 · 00:57 UTC

Watching the island grow and the lava flow is really neat. It's quite confusing as to what you're supposed to do, but after a few minutes I got the hang of balancing the different resources.

🎤 egos

26. Aug 2014 · 00:59 UTC

@mechabit in some configuration you can have a lot of mana rapidly
The goal is to spend mana for increase generation possibility

🎤 egos

26. Aug 2014 · 01:00 UTC

@graebor i hope you will not the only one thanks :)

blurryroots

26. Aug 2014 · 03:37 UTC

I could play this for hours. It's hypnotizing =P

thomz12

26. Aug 2014 · 12:24 UTC

took a while to figure out what to do, I liked it though!

x1212

26. Aug 2014 · 12:36 UTC

great idea, too bad my PC seems to be unable to keep up with this, but until the framerate goes down it's lots of fun

🎤 egos

26. Aug 2014 · 13:34 UTC

@x1212 effectivelly its badly optimised sorry for this

stasss

26. Aug 2014 · 16:00 UTC

interesting idea, really hypnotizing, but not trivial to understand whats going on.

Lokiman

26. Aug 2014 · 18:46 UTC

Hmmm, maybe I am missing something but somewhere in the miidle of level 2 I unable to generate mana and I nned to restart :( .. but I will try again and find the right strategy :D

🎤 egos

26. Aug 2014 · 20:06 UTC

@lokiman
its very importante to maintain biotope power
Their are no end if you have no mana and no BT power AND no gem/pattern you cant do anythings

Thnaks all for feed back

capsizedmoose

26. Aug 2014 · 21:19 UTC

a little time consuming, but it's okay :)

🎤 egos

26. Aug 2014 · 22:38 UTC

I appreciate you pass time to watching ... its the goal if you considere the gamplay a this time
thanks

jjhaggar

27. Aug 2014 · 08:59 UTC

Really original! I liked it! ^^

Rocketship

27. Aug 2014 · 16:52 UTC

A bit confusing at first, everything seems to happen so quickly. The idea is nice and has potential for expanding.

CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD

27. Aug 2014 · 17:13 UTC

Take a minute to understand main idea and realize how to produce gems. Cool game.

sneeuwpopsneeuw

27. Aug 2014 · 17:43 UTC

This is one of the best games of ludum dare.

ponk

27. Aug 2014 · 21:14 UTC

I love it so much ! Amazing job !!

suve

28. Aug 2014 · 10:15 UTC

The mechanics are really hard to grasp at first, but once you get an idea of what's going on, it gets real fun and hard to stop. The game is very random, which can be both annoying, and fun, as you can play many times and have much different results.

🎤 egos

28. Aug 2014 · 10:32 UTC

thanks all for your return.
The game play is very crapy at this time but the new one incoming is so much differnet thx LD :)

mrexcessive

28. Aug 2014 · 19:34 UTC

Hi there. Love the procedural lava flows and island growth. Nice to see Construct2 being used. Shame no sound. Good job!

borgi

31. Aug 2014 · 13:30 UTC

Cool idea, nice implementation. Some music would have benn cool :D

PapyGaragos

31. Aug 2014 · 13:33 UTC

As other said, it took a while to understand what i should do (especially the "pattern thing").

It gets a bit repetitive after a while :
- boost everything up to 100
- hit the play button
- when everything is back to 0, pause and start again...

Not much to do really, yet I spent way too much time playing this. Good job

🎤 egos

31. Aug 2014 · 16:08 UTC

thanks for you feed back
I realize i pass so many time on the algo that the gameplay havent a lot of challenge. I work on it

jukimv1986

15. Sep 2014 · 08:34 UTC

I couldn't connect to your site :(

🎤 egos

16. Sep 2014 · 23:08 UTC

sorry normaly its ok ;)

Rustam

24. Apr 2017 · 10:20 UTC

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