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1000 Evolving Kittens by moonmagic

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made by moonmagic for LD24 (COMPO)
There are 1000 kittens! And they are evolving. You have ideas about what a Kitten Should Be! Use a mouse to exercise your agency, for Ultimate Kitten!!

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The game as it stands is without a win state, except, I suppose, for lovers of chaos and worms. Without player input, the kittens will evolve into worm kittens and devour all other unevolved kittens. With player input, this will still happen, since the next evolutionary jump up from "Fat Kitten" is not in place yet. But it will be! I'm working on it for a post-compo version.

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Post compo version is now available! It has music, some more sounds, another (2) possible kitten forms, a glowing eye, multi-kitten select, some small bugfixes.

Still to do:

- More kitten forms, including Ultimate Form
- Ending
- Better kitten sounds maybe

I have some great forms planned that should help make the shape of the final game more plain.

Post-compo http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71932918/1000kittens_post_compo.swf
Web http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71932918/1000kittens.swf
Source http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71932918/src.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=4706

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 2.27 696
Audio 2.33 395
Fun 2.15 637
Graphics 2.64 468
Humor 2.97 126
Innovation 2.34 585
Mood 2.39 500
Theme 2.97 340

Feedback

panzermancer
27. Aug 2012 路 05:30 UTC
This is so adorable, but I seriously have no idea what's supposed to be going on. Here's my thought process:

"WHAT DO I DO."
"D'AWWWW"
"WHY IS THAT KITTEN A RAINBOW."
"ARE BUTTERFLIES GOOD OR..."
"D'AWWWWW"
"WHAT DO I DOOOOO"
"D'AWWWWWWWWWWWW"
"WHAT DO I DOAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"

And then I spiral into unspeakable madness. Fuzzy, adorable, 8-bit, unspeakable madness.
Cell
27. Aug 2012 路 05:30 UTC
Haha.:D
Drabiter
27. Aug 2012 路 05:32 UTC
I have no idea what should I do when the game begins. Any more detail?
馃帳 moonmagic
27. Aug 2012 路 14:37 UTC
Hey y'all! Thanks for playing. I'm still working on this, but obviously out of time. Basically, if you let the kittens evolve on their own the game strongly favors the worm form and those will be dominant. Worm kittens are destructive and eat everything. In the finished version, you will be able to encourage kittens to evolve into their final form by steering the fat kittens into butterflies and preventing them from eating smaller kittens. The code is there for this to happen now, but without the next form, they just disappear.
Porpentine
29. Aug 2012 路 10:36 UTC
WORM KITTENS ARE DESTRUCTIVE AND EAT EVERYTHING
AdventureIslands
29. Aug 2012 路 17:23 UTC
I am not sure what I am supposed to do here at all, clicking the kittens makes them colorful, but then what? there is no way to keep clicking all of them.
thewiseguy99
30. Aug 2012 路 01:18 UTC
Well done for getting something out there. Good start. 48 hrs isn't long...
Barry Abrams
30. Aug 2012 路 12:25 UTC
The funnest game where I had no idea what i was doing.
Zed
30. Aug 2012 路 16:30 UTC
Well, that was certainly a thing. I think the word 'Click' at the start was the only part I really understood.

Fun to watch, though.
aquasheep
31. Aug 2012 路 01:06 UTC
Hilarious, chaotic, and absolutely inscrutable. +1 p_o
Alex Shestakov
31. Aug 2012 路 02:53 UTC
I don't get what's going on, but it's really fun fun to watch )
Please add some 8bit music!
Zelen3d
31. Aug 2012 路 20:34 UTC
crazy, making kittens eat themselves and transform into worms, crazy chaos, all I could say.
CapGrip
31. Aug 2012 路 22:48 UTC
Hahaha. Crazy idea! It's a shame it did not work. Try to fix and post a new version. A 8bit song would be pretty cool. Good luck man!
csanyk
01. Sep 2012 路 01:41 UTC
It didn't seem to matter much whether I provided any input to the game or not, but it was fascinating just to watch. Sound effects and motion are especially well done.
馃帳 moonmagic
01. Sep 2012 路 07:08 UTC
Hey y'all! Thanks so so much for playing this kitten universe simulator. If you'd like to have an idea of the direction I'm going in, play the post-compo build. Embrace the chaos! Early on in the evolutionary process, you won't feel like you have much agency, but later you can really Feel Your Stuff!

Still working on implementing Later and Stuff Feeling.
Switchbreak
01. Sep 2012 路 15:52 UTC
Oh god worm kitten apocalypse! Clicking makes rainbows! What's going on!
evilseanbot
04. Sep 2012 路 06:39 UTC
Somewhat unsettling :) I think a lot of the changes in the post-compo version were pretty spot on, I think it just needs either abit more complex interaction or more of a goal / goals .
馃帳 moonmagic
08. Sep 2012 路 19:19 UTC
Hi everyone! thanks again for playing. I've updated the post-compo version again; I've put the code in for the MEGA KITTEN form and balanced the world so that the worms win and empty the universe if you do nothing. No MEGA KITTEN yet, but I desperately need to clean my house. HAPPY SATURDAY!
Th3dz
15. Sep 2012 路 07:08 UTC
What was the max evolution of the kittens? I only got 3 different ones I think.
馃帳 moonmagic
16. Sep 2012 路 15:24 UTC
In the post-compo form of the game, the highest kitten form is now MEGA KITTEN. Working on GIGA KITTEN now.

48hr version only has three forms, and dead-ends at WORM KITTEN.