{"author_link":"\/author\/amodo\/","author_name":"amodo","author_uid":"8798","comments":[{"author_name":"Cell","author_uid":"3295","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:09pm","epoch":1346166240,"text":"Cool!"},{"author_name":"Ragzouken","author_uid":"13822","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1346172960,"text":"The music is nice indeed :)"},{"author_name":"ratking","author_uid":"3663","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 8:14am","epoch":1346227740,"text":"I couldn't find any earth-like planet in order recreate humanity! :-(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like the GUI design, reminded me of Syndicate Wars."},{"author_name":"brother.byto","author_uid":"14461","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 11:18am","epoch":1346238780,"text":"Nice graphics and sound.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Maybe a goal and somehow improved gameplay can make a really cool game out of this."},{"author_name":"Fififox","author_uid":"3098","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1346265720,"text":"Nice graphics and good background music! It's not the kind of game I have a lot of fun playing. Still, I like it thanks to its calm and relaxing mood... Good job on the GA too! :)"},{"author_name":"Porpentine","author_uid":"14425","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1346272140,"text":"interesting start, i of course maxed all replication and all mutation. am i correct though that nothing happens afterwards, or have i simply picked the wrong planets? anyways, the music is great...so spacey and evocative"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 9:25am","epoch":1346318400,"text":"Great art and music. would do well to add some challenge"},{"author_name":"nseward","author_uid":"15218","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 5:29pm","epoch":1346347440,"text":"Amazing music and the potential for game play is making me salivate.  I hope you do more with this because what you have done so far is stellar. (pun intended.)"},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 3:35pm","epoch":1346427000,"text":"I wish you had made more of it. Screw you, fever! It's really nice, just gets very boring due to the lack of game-play."},{"author_name":"Pixelgel","author_uid":"2310","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 3:45pm","epoch":1346427600,"text":"The music and the graphics set the mood very effectively. It's a very cool concept, and I was pretty excited by my first mammals. The GUI was mostly effective, but sometimes there were annoying little circumstances where closing a window would open up another star system too."},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 4:20pm","epoch":1346429700,"text":"Very good space mood, background music is awesome, and I do like the art. Add some simple game loop &amp; goals and it will become a great space exploratin game"},{"author_name":"jplur","author_uid":"1066","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1346520180,"text":"Very awesome UI, music, and little details like the planet rotation and axis are great.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>For an interactive toy, I enjoyed it a lot, great watching a planet evolve and cheering on a new phyla, great work!"},{"author_name":"thewiseguy99","author_uid":"14421","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1346622840,"text":"Really nice start and a neat idea.  Would love to see this developed into something.  I am sure you could since this is a great start."},{"author_name":"Incredible Ape","author_uid":"12165","time":"Sep 16, 2012 @ 6:17pm","epoch":1347819120,"text":"Not really a game yet, but it's a good start. The music is definitely the best thing about it at this point.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Besides needing some kind of goal or goals, the UI could be more informative too. I wish I could see how many planets I had already seeded in a system without having to click on them individually. You could change the color of the little ring around the seeded systems to indicate their &quot;advancement&quot; or something too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And I think you should have limited, or finite resources. Instead of having to carefully consider all of the variables that are unique to each world before deciding to seed or not, I just ignored them and seeded every single planet until I got bored.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This could be pretty engaging with actual strategy elements.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>PS: you wanted to look at the code for our game so I put a link to source on our page."}],"images":["ld24\/8798-01441b6ad6532e1a69fc3a095fc2bedf.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/rebeloyster.com\/games\/hortus\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/rebeloyster.com\/games\/hortus\/src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29965","g_author":"8798","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"29995","g_title":"Hortus","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"177","g_commentcount":"14","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\/\/163678\/8798-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Humanity and all life on Earth is extinct.\r\nOnly an an orbiting bio-engineering facility for exactly this case are left. You are the AI governing this facility. Find suitable worlds and send seed-ships containing replicators there to hopefully start evolution on these worlds - so that at least DNA-based life may continue to exist in the universe.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nDon't expect too much - I didn't have any brilliant ideas about the actual gameplay, so there is close to none. There are albeit some stars, planets, UI elements, etc. The best is probably the (simple) music ^^\r\n\r\nAlso all of this was done with a fever and in a very bad shape. But I had fun making it, as tiny as it is.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nI do love GA, but somehow I decided to try something different. <\/p>","title":"Hortus"}