{"author_link":"\/author\/egos\/","author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","comments":[{"author_name":"NnelGdaBandit","author_uid":"39408","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:34am","epoch":1409012940,"text":"Took me a minute to realize what was going on, but it was pretty cool."},{"author_name":"mechabit","author_uid":"34391","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:59am","epoch":1409014440,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"graebor","author_uid":"11713","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:02am","epoch":1409014620,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:04am","epoch":1409014740,"text":"@mechabit in some configuration you can have a lot of mana rapidly \rThe goal is to spend mana for increase generation possibility"},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:05am","epoch":1409014800,"text":"@graebor i hope you will not the only one thanks :)"},{"author_name":"blurryroots","author_uid":"15819","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:42am","epoch":1409024220,"text":"I could play this for hours. It's hypnotizing =P"},{"author_name":"thomz12","author_uid":"35164","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1409055840,"text":"took a while to figure out what to do, I liked it though!"},{"author_name":"x1212","author_uid":"25277","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:41pm","epoch":1409056560,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1409060040,"text":"@x1212 effectivelly its badly optimised sorry for this"},{"author_name":"stasss","author_uid":"31999","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:05pm","epoch":1409068800,"text":"interesting idea, really hypnotizing, but not trivial to understand whats going on."},{"author_name":"Lokiman","author_uid":"16285","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:51pm","epoch":1409078760,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1409083560,"text":"@lokiman \rits very importante to maintain biotope power \rTheir are no end if you have no mana and no BT power AND no gem\/pattern you cant do anythings\r\rThnaks all for feed back"},{"author_name":"capsizedmoose","author_uid":"30615","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1409087940,"text":"a little time consuming, but it's okay :)"},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1409092680,"text":"I appreciate you pass time to watching ... its the goal if you considere the gamplay a this time\rthanks"},{"author_name":"jjhaggar","author_uid":"38790","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:04am","epoch":1409129940,"text":"Really original! I liked it! ^^"},{"author_name":"Rocketship","author_uid":"39351","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1409158320,"text":"A bit confusing at first, everything seems to happen so quickly. The idea is nice and has potential for expanding."},{"author_name":"CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD","author_uid":"27523","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 5:18pm","epoch":1409159580,"text":"Take a minute to understand main idea and realize how to produce gems. Cool game."},{"author_name":"sneeuwpopsneeuw","author_uid":"38913","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1409161380,"text":"This is one of the best games of ludum dare."},{"author_name":"ponk","author_uid":"11872","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1409174040,"text":"I love it so much ! Amazing job !!"},{"author_name":"suve","author_uid":"18843","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 10:20am","epoch":1409220900,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 10:37am","epoch":1409221920,"text":"thanks all for your return.\rThe game play is very crapy at this time but the new one incoming is so much differnet thx LD :)"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1409254440,"text":"Hi there. Love the procedural lava flows and island growth. Nice to see Construct2 being used. Shame no sound. Good job!"},{"author_name":"borgi","author_uid":"39688","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 1:35pm","epoch":1409491800,"text":"Cool idea, nice implementation. Some music would have benn cool :D"},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 1:38pm","epoch":1409491980,"text":"As other said, it took a while to understand what i should do (especially the "pattern thing").\r\rIt gets a bit repetitive after a while : \r- boost everything up to 100\r- hit the play button\r- when everything is back to 0, pause and start again...\r\rNot much to do really, yet I spent way too much time playing this. Good job"},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 4:13pm","epoch":1409501280,"text":"thanks for you feed back \rI realize i pass so many time on the algo that the gameplay havent a lot of challenge. I work on it"},{"author_name":"jukimv1986","author_uid":"5402","time":"Sep 15, 2014 @ 8:39am","epoch":1410770040,"text":"I couldn't connect to your site :("},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Sep 16, 2014 @ 11:13pm","epoch":1410908880,"text":"sorry normaly its ok ;)"},{"author_name":"Rustam","author_uid":"139067","time":"Apr 24, 2017 @ 10:25am","epoch":1493029200,"text":"Great Article it its really informative and innovative keep us posted with new updates. its was really valuable. thanks a lot.\rhttp:\/\/torrentsherearefree.com"}],"images":["ld30\/20701-825a9ad7e1520aa5592aec8f5cf9ed37.jpg","ld30\/20701-74a4a4cb4fff1d612241f6f48ba1d44e.jpg","ld30\/20701-f728697ca3e66c6e48335f552f6d8baa.jpg","ld30\/20701-15fbc01e993058851268fe2ea4b0624a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.egosgame.net\/BIOTOPE\/","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17920","g_author":"20701","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"17949","g_title":"Biotope","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"294","g_commentcount":"28","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\/20701-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/20701-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/20701-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/20701-shot3.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Biotope are the force who connecte the world \r\nTry to keep equilibrium between forest, rock, lac powers inside a volcano island.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe goal: \r\n1.keep biotope alive \r\n2.Use pattern to harvest resource\r\n3.Increase biotope power by using mana resource\r\n\r\n\r\nControl:\r\nLeft click : interact with button and harvest gem\r\n\r\nMouse well : zoom\r\nMiddle clik : scroll map\r\nRight clik : moove map\r\nSpace bar : next turn\r\n\"U\": hide UI\r\n\r\nTips :\r\n-Biotopes interaction between generate Gem (rock->lac->forest->rock).\r\n-Gem combination increase mana.\r\n-Pattern regenerate slowly.\r\n-Auto pass turn with play\/pause option isn't a bad choice.\r\n-Volcano just destroy other biotopes\r\n-If you have 0 mana and 0 resources maybe its time to reset.\r\n-Keep a eye on the fps\/cpu.\r\n\r\n\r\nBugs :\r\n-Depend of the browser clear your cache and reload.....\r\n-Bad optimization sorry for the cpu.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOriginaly for the compo (Tools Used: construct2 and gimp).\r\nHave fun \r\n","title":"Biotope"}