{"author_link":"\/users\/johanhelsing","author_name":"johanhelsing","author_uid":"1140305","comments":[{"author_name":"theforceluke","author_uid":"1075584","time":"2020-10-06T09:34:40Z","epoch":1601976880,"modified":1601976880,"text":"Great little game! Nice dynamics and the little eyes made it seem very organic and lively.  ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"superpatch","author_uid":"1011006","time":"2020-10-06T10:49:09Z","epoch":1601981349,"modified":1601981349,"text":"love the concept! I think there's a lot of potential there for a very cute game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Wevel","author_uid":"1000309","time":"2020-10-06T10:54:13Z","epoch":1601981653,"modified":1601981653,"text":"Cool little game. I think it might be interesting if there was a way to break the circles. Also, I'm not quite sure what causes the game over, it sometimes just happens out of nowhere. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"johanhelsing","author_uid":"1140305","time":"2020-10-06T11:02:52Z","epoch":1601982172,"modified":1601982172,"text":"Thanks for the kind words everyone! Will play your games later today :)\n\n@wevel: Actually, you can break the circles if you drag very fast. I guess it would have been good with a bit more of a tutorial\/intro, though.\n\nThe game over appears when you have a monoculture (only one species left), or if the dish gets overpopulated... I put the limit at 300 which is where my machine started to kneel for performance reasons, but I guess I should have set it a bit higher.\n\nThe original idea was to make the dish break when overpopulated and have the creatures explode all over the black area of the screen, but I ran out of time.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hank Ather","author_uid":"1214354","time":"2020-10-06T19:11:00Z","epoch":1602011460,"modified":1602011460,"text":"Interesting idea. I have no idea really how to influence the 'battles' to maintain populations, it seems almost random but there has to be some strategy to it... I would have really liked an 'eraser' function!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Noah Kuhn","author_uid":"1213798","time":"2020-10-06T19:13:01Z","epoch":1602011581,"modified":1602011581,"text":"This was a fun and very cute game! The audio fit the concept perfectly. I also had trouble figuring out when the game would end but your explanation helps. Good job! :smile:","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jamie simpson","author_uid":1158495,"time":"2020-10-06T19:28:40Z","epoch":1602012520,"modified":1602012520,"text":"very original game, I loved the idea and it was executed well, the petri dish felt a bit small but I assume it was intentional. also the sounds where a bit horror game like but it wasn't too bad. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"amarillion","author_uid":"1057668","time":"2020-10-06T19:32:08Z","epoch":1602012728,"modified":1602012766,"text":"It's a cute little sandbox simulation. By strategically holding reserves of the different species, occasionally staging wars to cull the population, I managed to hold on until 13 generations and 700+ deaths.\n\nYou could probably give the game more of a concrete goal by keeping track of a high score, in terms of deaths \/ generation. But I feel that the score would also be very dependent on the starting position.\n\nI like the creepy background noises, it makes the whole thing very atmospheric.\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"johanhelsing","author_uid":"1140305","time":"2020-10-06T19:42:19Z","epoch":1602013339,"modified":1602013339,"text":"@hank-ather yeah, it's quite hard, and I wish I'd found some better way of balancing it. Basically you have to make sure that one species never exceeds 50% and regularly battle the two strongest factions against each other.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Sengi","author_uid":"1056305","time":"2020-10-07T17:03:59Z","epoch":1602090239,"modified":1602090239,"text":"Great job on catching the right atmosphere! I think half of the deal for me was the audio, this style forever stucked with me from Amanita Design games and this brings me warmth wherever I hear it. Pretty awasemo job on the physics is another half of the deal, I don't think I could make such think in this period of time, respect! ;)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DevParty","author_uid":"1191567","time":"2020-10-08T00:56:53Z","epoch":1602118613,"modified":1602118613,"text":"Cool Game!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"printablealice","author_uid":"1101235","time":"2020-10-08T01:11:17Z","epoch":1602119477,"modified":1602119477,"text":"Pretty fun (and a good lesson on exponential growth)! I found myself playing multiple times. But it's so hard to keep the populations balanced D:\n\nIt's a little frustrating that the barrier material never goes away \u2013 it takes up space and blocks strategic moves later in the game. Maybe it could degrade after a set amount of time. I agree with @amarillion that high score tracking would let people compete more, even with themselves.\n\nI would've liked the munching\/dividing action sounds to be a little more cute and\/or squishy to match the aesthetic of the game. The bacteria are so cute with their one little eye!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Wassim","author_uid":"1082924","time":"2020-10-08T16:11:25Z","epoch":1602173485,"modified":1602173485,"text":"Very Cool game, I love the physics force impact and it's in the right fun zone, sound effects are funny which is nice :smile: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Toulou","author_uid":"1009576","time":"2020-10-08T16:46:38Z","epoch":1602175598,"modified":1602175598,"text":"What a weird game, definitely noteworthy. I love the presentation, the physic works really great. The gameplay is great, I'd love to see a full game with it. You could explore the concept more with more type of cells that have different characteristics. \n\nOverall, good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Tomate_Salat","author_uid":"1224053","time":"2020-10-08T19:49:34Z","epoch":1602186574,"modified":1602186574,"text":"I really not sure what to tell. Because it is really interessting but also really weired. The audio was nothing I'd enjoy. I was too lazy to mute so I thought I would close the game very early. To my suprise I didn't do it and tried it with \"ignoring\" the audio. Because you did a really good job on the simulation part and I really wanted to try out different things. Actually I wanted to create an epic battle :D. \n\nIt would've been nice if I could set the limit for the creatures. Because I've the feeling that it stopped to early (and I really wanted to have my epic battle). On the other hand that kept me really busy with your game ^^. \n\nI wonder what that game would have looked like if you'd about one week time for it =). ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mmiyano","author_uid":"1184251","time":"2020-10-10T23:33:47Z","epoch":1602372827,"modified":1602372827,"text":"I liked the physics and concept, but felt it's a bit shallow gameplay wise","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PashaLoban","author_uid":"1213588","time":"2020-10-11T16:14:16Z","epoch":1602432856,"modified":1602432856,"text":"9 generations and 53 dead Nice","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JRevel","author_uid":"1212509","time":"2020-10-24T00:37:19Z","epoch":1603499839,"modified":1603499839,"text":"That's a very fun toy to play with ! The game stopped by itself at a moment, I did not understand why, I still had a lot of entities (maybe too much ?)\nOverall, great job, the simulation works pretty well !","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld47\/227292-35b7339a8ff90775ea499c656ee0ed9c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"57409","g_author":"1140305","g_event":"LD47","g_eventkey":"76","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"266644","g_title":"Petri Dish","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"911","g_commentcount":"18","g_site2_node_id":"227292","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"227292","n_urlkey":"266644","n_parent":"212256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/petri-dish","n_slug":"petri-dish","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"140305","n_created":"1601931329","n_modified":"1602008933","n_version":"695832","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":227292,"parent":212256,"superparent":9,"author":140305,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-10-05T21:32:11Z","created":"2020-10-05T20:55:29Z","modified":"2020-10-06T18:28:53Z","version":695832,"slug":"petri-dish","name":"Petri Dish","body":"![Screenshot 2020-10-05 233351.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/114\/22\/z\/37bb9.jpg)\n\nPlay around in a petri dish with some tiny creatures.\n\nControls: Left mouse button to drag things, right mouse button to draw loops.\n\nI had a lot of fun making it, hope you have fun playing it :)\n\nIt's made according to compo rules... almost. 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I made everything myself in 48 hours except the font, which is \"Quicksand\".\n\nI fixed one bug after the deadline where the game would end prematurely.","meta":{"author":[140305],"allow-anonymous-comments":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/114\/22\/z\/37695.jpg","link-01":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-02":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","link-02-tag":[42341],"link-03":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","link-03-tag":[42337],"link-04":"https:\/\/jhelsing.itch.io\/petridish","link-04-tag":[42339]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/petri-dish","parents":[1,5,9,212256],"love":0,"notes":18,"notes-timestamp":"2020-10-24T00:37:19Z","grade":{"grade-01":28,"grade-02":28,"grade-03":27,"grade-04":28,"grade-05":28,"grade-06":27,"grade-07":24,"grade-08":27},"magic":{"cool":87.221875136873,"feedback":24,"given":19.875,"grade":27.125,"grade-01-average":3.423,"grade-01-result":911,"grade-02-average":3.154,"grade-02-result":1024,"grade-03-average":3.74,"grade-03-result":348,"grade-04-average":3.404,"grade-04-result":1017,"grade-05-average":3.577,"grade-05-result":780,"grade-06-average":3.14,"grade-06-result":795,"grade-07-average":2.977,"grade-07-result":585,"grade-08-average":3.5,"grade-08-result":668,"smart":-0.23068081473522}},"text":"![Screenshot 2020-10-05 233351.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/114\/22\/z\/37bb9.jpg)\n\nPlay around in a petri dish with some tiny creatures.\n\nControls: Left mouse button to drag things, right mouse button to draw loops.\n\nI had a lot of fun making it, hope you have fun playing it :)\n\nIt's made according to compo rules... almost. 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