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Bioternity by Maskrosen

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made by Maskrosen for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Ecosystems can be sensitive and all species must be in balance. Flowers need sun and water to grow, but too much or too little and they might go extinct. No flowers means no food for the bees and the caterpillars, which then leads to not enough food for the birds. You know the drill.

Keep the ecosystem alive by adjusting the number of species in the world.

Controls

Mouse

Click on buttons in the menu at the top of the screen

Goal

Keep the ecosystem alive for 3 minutes by controlling the rain and capturing or releasing flowers and animals

Download https://www.lingonstudios.com/Bioternity.zip

Created by

Jakob Svensson

Programming, Gameplay

Matilda Ericsson

Graphics, Programming

https://twitter.com/lingonstudios

ldjam46Final.gif printscreen1.png printscreen2.png

Youtube https://www.lingonstudios.com/Bioternity.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/bioternity

Ratings

Overall 1304th 3.472⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1534th 3.167⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1016th 3.389⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1150th 3.694⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 613th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1185th 3.083⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 982th 3.5⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 33🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

SophieMae0
22. Apr 2020 · 17:54 UTC
The art is beautiful but there was so much to pay attention to I found it hard to play
Darkmax14
22. Apr 2020 · 17:56 UTC
I really like the way you executed the cool concept, also the graphics are HOT!!
marcusnystrand
22. Apr 2020 · 17:59 UTC
nice to se this kind of art style in a game!!
Toffanim
22. Apr 2020 · 18:01 UTC
Idea is cool, art is neat! it was a bit hard to play with so much going on but still fun!
sadsmile
22. Apr 2020 · 18:02 UTC
Nice graphics :D
LucasP8
22. Apr 2020 · 18:06 UTC
I absolutely love the graphics, the audio is also good. I loved kind of everything in the game, though I did not manage to win. I did not understand clearly how the species die and born, but that was fun. Also, I think the world varies to quickly and I just focused on the numbers instead of the neat graphics. I loved the game overall, good job!
JoelLoki
22. Apr 2020 · 18:09 UTC
I love the game concept! It's so amazing. The art just takes my breath away. Simply awesome!
JavaSaurus
22. Apr 2020 · 18:09 UTC
An ecosystem simulation game is quite challenging to get just right. This is a very fair attempt to do so, but it might need a little extra work (for example a tutorial, other ecosystems etc). I loved the background music, but there are some game design issues that were "annoying" . For example, there is no way to cleanly exit the game and it is forced full screen. Also some buttons have unclear reprocussions, the "rain" button has no "off" switch, which could be confusing. Overall very interesting ! AND beautiful !
Mickxe
22. Apr 2020 · 18:10 UTC
Very refreshing art style.
Game_Coder28
22. Apr 2020 · 18:11 UTC
Nice art style, i really like this game! great work!
Doot
22. Apr 2020 · 18:12 UTC
Hey @lilachoklad and @maskrosen!

I really would love to play your game, but when I try to open it on Windows 10, nothing happens! I also tried to run it as administrator but no luck either. Is there something I can do?
🎤 Maskrosen
22. Apr 2020 · 18:18 UTC
@doot I'm sorry the game did not start for you. What you could try is to have a look in the properties of the file and see if there is an unblock option at the bottom. Sometimes when extracting downloaded files windows decides to block them for security reasons. Another option could be to try to extract it using something like 7-zip since the built in windows unzip tool might do this kind of blocking.
Doot
22. Apr 2020 · 18:29 UTC
no luck with either options... I tried all the compatibility settings I could, all the options, and also unzipping it with 7zip. I don't even get an error message so I cannot really help you more than that, sorry...
🎤 Maskrosen
22. Apr 2020 · 18:45 UTC
@doot Unfortunately I'm not sure what could be causing the issue then. What you could try is to run the jar (inside the app folder) directly through the command line if you have java installed and that might give you an error message telling what is going wrong. What kind of graphics card do you have?
Doot
22. Apr 2020 · 21:12 UTC
Hey @maskrosen!
Launching the desktop-1.0 file directly with java launched the game. Thank you, the game is beautiful and I had to restart a few times before getting the equilibrium right.
Good job and thanks for the game! :bird:
interpixel
28. Apr 2020 · 04:00 UTC
got it running by opening the desktop-1.0.jar. Lost the first 2 tries until i started to think about what needed what to survive then it was pretty easy you just have to pyramid up the chain. i liked the simplicity of focusing on just a small micro-climate. I think this also lends itself to later introducing some human characters in the form of gardeners who have little romantic story beats and such over time to motivate further play.
Red Ash
29. Apr 2020 · 16:38 UTC
The art is beautiful. I liked to trying to balance the ecosystem :)
Hexa3
30. Apr 2020 · 20:17 UTC
Nice game, tried to keep the balance. But, how do you stop the rain?
WhatNameGames
01. May 2020 · 06:19 UTC
Beautiful, but the gameplay was a little overwhelming.
jk5000
01. May 2020 · 07:37 UTC
I like the idea of a game about the ecosystem and i like games visual style. I really don't understand the gameplay, but I liked adding bees, flowers and birds to the world.