{"author_link":"\/author\/artefon\/","author_name":"artefon","author_uid":"10965","comments":[{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 7:12am","epoch":1335164820,"text":"That is actually an interesting idea. You need to modify the bacteria color to the target. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>However the color changes seem to be so fine grained (full 8 bit RGB spectrum?) you end up with 150 bacteria all close to the target color, but not exactly matching.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I love the intro piccies ;)"},{"author_name":"artefon","author_uid":"10965","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1335189300,"text":"Yes, I am using the full 8 bit spectrum. The sensitivity for the target color is a parameter, maybe my tunning wasn't that good. Thanks for the feedback! :)"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1335219120,"text":"Seems like you started this thinking the theme was evolution or alchemy? Anyway, interesting premise, but it would have been cooler with more &quot;weapons&quot; or tools to help shape the environment."},{"author_name":"tompudding","author_uid":"12467","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:19pm","epoch":1335219240,"text":"I love the idea, really unusual. I found it extremely hard, though I am colourblind so I guess that doesn't help :)"},{"author_name":"artefon","author_uid":"10965","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:23pm","epoch":1335219480,"text":"I thought about how to make the game more colorblind friendly but couldn't manage to :( \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I really like the idea of games that teach something. In this case the objective is to teach color mix.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The original idea was not related to alchemy, but I agree it would be a better fit for the game mechanics. Although I really like the way you are forced to make indirect mixtures (you can't select what is going to mix, only what is not mixing)."},{"author_name":"piterlouis","author_uid":"10856","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:40pm","epoch":1335220500,"text":"The idea is really original. I like your game. Good work!"},{"author_name":"RiamuDiMentis","author_uid":"9968","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1335221580,"text":"Awesome idea! Not sure how fun it was, given the sensitivity... But great job!"},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:26pm","epoch":1335277260,"text":"Good idea! Found it bit too hard thanks to the full spectre of colors, but won anyway in the end.\r<br\/>Very good entry, this calls for postcompo version!"},{"author_name":"ratboy2713","author_uid":"5162","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:44pm","epoch":1335289140,"text":"I couldn't tell what color I needed exactly. I kept thinking I had one but the counter was at zero. Maybe less color options, limit to 16 maybe? Also, a way to quarantine a proper population would be helpful. Still, a great concept, I would love to see a full game made with the mechanic."},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:58am","epoch":1335333180,"text":"same as ratboy : it was hard to find out what colour we should find. I think the game itself is too hard, but it is a great concept and should be improves"},{"author_name":"Proch","author_uid":"10221","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:08pm","epoch":1335355380,"text":"nice idea... but the random movements of the cells makes the game a bit boring :("},{"author_name":"thristhart","author_uid":"3164","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1335459420,"text":"This actually seemed a little too easy. By killing all the non-target or non-similar colors, I won every time I tried for three rounds."},{"author_name":"Arkazon","author_uid":"6492","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1335462480,"text":"Interesting idea but I found it too hard to tell the difference between my bacteria and the target so I didn't do very well.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Extra points for innovation though."},{"author_name":"crazyheckman","author_uid":"7321","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:28am","epoch":1335504180,"text":"Really cool idea, audio kind of got on my nerves and it was difficult for me to get more than 5-6 target colors. I really like the concept though."},{"author_name":"TenTonToon","author_uid":"11273","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 6:57am","epoch":1335509520,"text":"Interesting concept. I guess. I didn't quite understand how to advance, as the only way I could test whether I was getting closer to the objective was by injecting &quot;color&quot; to the bacteria.\r<br\/>A couple tutorial levels should make this game one to look forward to!\r<br\/>Congratulations!"},{"author_name":"artefon","author_uid":"10965","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 2:21am","epoch":1335579360,"text":"Thanks a lot for the feedback so far. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Proch do you have any suggestions? :)"},{"author_name":"Drabiter","author_uid":"8337","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 3:58am","epoch":1335585180,"text":"Great gameplay. I'm using touchpad which make it difficult but it's fun."},{"author_name":"Spiridios","author_uid":"1158","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 4:07am","epoch":1335585720,"text":"Unlike the others, I didn't think it was too hard. I really like the game play, but it WAS hard to tell what the target color was. It didn't help that my first target color was a shade of grey, so I didn't realize the test-tube was my target color. =p I also think this makes a better natural selection game than a color theory game, but what do I know."},{"author_name":"machinas","author_uid":"2925","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 4:08am","epoch":1335585780,"text":"I couldn't seem to get the needle to do anything. Neat idea! Keep working on this and polish it up. get a lot of game play feedback and iterate!"},{"author_name":"xBlinkedx","author_uid":"8072","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 4:10am","epoch":1335585900,"text":"I like the idea. The art style is really cool too. Nothing really bad to say other than that sound is pretty damn ear piercing."},{"author_name":"dr_soda","author_uid":"8342","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 4:28am","epoch":1335586980,"text":"It's a bit difficult to discover which bacteria produce which other colors of bacteria at first and it isn't quite clear just what the goal is at first either.  That said, once I got the idea I got more into the game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I found the bomb of little to no use.  The needle and the medicine were all I needed.  Perhaps though it would be better to call the &quot;medicine&quot; tool something else as I felt it was a little confusing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Otherwise, not bad!"},{"author_name":"cantorfew","author_uid":"12835","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 11:21am","epoch":1335611760,"text":"I really like this idea. I was also confused at first (I used to think you have to make them ALL the same). I had to replay before understanding how I can influence the outcome.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Sometimes tool changes didn't work (not sure why)."},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1335702900,"text":"I won at least 3 times, but still don't know how to play.  I just leave the bacteria at their own devices, and usually they breed the correct color.  Anyway, I liked the idea, but fail to see the connection to the theme here."},{"author_name":"noddy2006","author_uid":"9896","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 8:33am","epoch":1336379280,"text":"As mentioned before, very difficult to judge differences in colour. Also, definitely needs some sort of help\/tutorial beyond just &quot;steer the evolution of the bacteria towards the target color&quot;. Promising though, for sure!"},{"author_name":"MinerCraftGuy","author_uid":"7648","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 1:26am","epoch":1336785660,"text":"The game itself is really good"}],"images":["ld23\/10965-87466193bf44bf76aba1a486d745d902.jpg","ld23\/10965-e564f1b64f815eb40186376cb3f28922.jpg","ld23\/10965-ba94ba3b04f6f1ebd9e950f68f310525.jpg","ld23\/10965-f1770144e060d0cedcafe59583749f39.jpg","ld23\/10965-d94900622fe2c3f70bdf10b4d986d44b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/artefondump\/chromatic_breeding.zip?attredirects=0&amp;d=1","text":"Java"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/s\/g1i9psxywfmycdm\/index.htm","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/artefondump\/chromatic_breeding_source.zip?attredirects=0&amp;d=1","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-QW46vqrQqg","text":"Video"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30115","g_author":"10965","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30145","g_title":"Chromatic Breeding","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"580","g_commentcount":"25","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\/\/123793\/10965-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/10965-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/10965-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/10965-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/10965-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In Chromatic Breeding your objective is to steer the evolution of the bacteria towards the target color.\r\n\r\nYou have 3 tools and 2 minutes to achieve a colony of 20 specimes.\r\n\r\nI created an applet for the web version but I didn't find anywhere to host it :(\r\n\r\nps. This is my first entry in Ludum Dare. I wanted to create a very different game mechanics, but half way through I thought it didn't work as expected. Given my time limitations I had to finish without big modifications in the original project.\r\n\r\nEdits:\r\n23\/04 - Added Web version<\/p>","title":"Chromatic Breeding"}