A Game of Towns by homelinen

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made by homelinen for LD24 (COMPO)
HTML5 game based on Conway's Game of Life.

No gameplay as such, but the simulator works fairly well.

Villagers can be spawned. They gather food and spawn siblings when they've eaten enough.

There's also a fire, as it was a fun way to stop the bushes from taking over.

Minimal art, no music or sound.

Initial idea was to have the huts evolve into towns and then cities and up the scope of the game, but that never happened.

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Tested on Firefox and Chrome. Other browsers will most likely work.

Ratings

Coolness 37% 767
Overall 2.48 621
Fun 1.86 705
Graphics 2.00 685
Innovation 2.61 474
Mood 1.87 654
Theme 2.77 424

Feedback

Nick Knowlson
27. Aug 2012 路 05:35 UTC
> Cormack's Game of Life

You mean Conway's Game of Life?
馃帳 homelinen
27. Aug 2012 路 11:32 UTC
Thanks for that. Knew I'd get his name wrong.
josefnpat
28. Aug 2012 路 04:15 UTC
This is pretty cool.
evilseanbot
28. Aug 2012 路 05:25 UTC
A fun and satisfying simple simulation. Feels like it moves too quickly to feel like you have much impact.
ethankennerly
28. Aug 2012 路 05:55 UTC
The simulation of fire, forest, villagers, and towns fascinated me. They made such a big town after a few spontaneous clicks that I didn't know how to improve.
Raptor85
28. Aug 2012 路 07:15 UTC
Not much of a game since there's no real goal but a interesting little simulation, only part i can't tell is exactly what's making the fires, i've seen them spawn in areas with no people.
kato9
28. Aug 2012 路 19:59 UTC
Pretty interesting simulation but the game moves way to fast to actually 'play' it. Would be interesting to slow things down and add some strategy to it.
imef
28. Aug 2012 路 20:18 UTC
I could spend hours starring at that!
gnx
28. Aug 2012 路 23:30 UTC
All the forest burned and urban development got completely out of hand. A simulator indeed.
ConflictiveLabs
29. Aug 2012 路 00:42 UTC
I love this kind of stuff. What you did here is quite cool. I mean, it's not just cells replicating, but it's pretty much the evolution of a village (of sorts). It certainly lacks an objective and other "gamey" elements, but it's a nice simulation. Good work :)
AdventureIslands
29. Aug 2012 路 20:12 UTC
Interesting simulation, perhaps slightly too fast? I don't know, nice work though even if it isn't much of a game and has nothing to do with evolution.
edibletoaster
30. Aug 2012 路 13:45 UTC
Pretty cool sim. Yeah, not quite sure how fires are made, but not bad.
SecondDimension
30. Aug 2012 路 18:43 UTC
Always interesting to watch these type of simulations