Tiny Garden of Eden by JackLeHamster

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made by JackLeHamster for Ludum Dare 56 (COMPO)

Grow your tardigrades population and keep them from dying of boredom.

  • You can build walls and create holes.
  • That's pretty much all you can do.
  • Try to put tardigrades together to help them reproduce.
  • Create high structures for them to jump from, keeping them entertained.
  • You get points from entertained tardigrades.
  • You lose when tardigrades reaches max boredom level and stays there for too long.
  • The more tardigrades, the harder to please!

tardigrades3.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DzHYwaCkdE

Ratings

Given 5🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

Yoav Kagan
07. Oct 2024 · 11:17 UTC
Hilarious! really enjoyed having fun with them, great job!
Arscene
07. Oct 2024 · 11:17 UTC
I love how messy it gets, congrats on your entry. I wish there was a sound each time a tardigrade jumps x)
ROBOWARRIOR1982
08. Oct 2024 · 05:42 UTC
Very fun and innovative ! The combinaison of ddrawing freely, and cultivate creature is really funny !My only complain is about the interface (very rustic), maybe add keyborad shortcut to change the draw mode, use the right mouse or keyboard key to move the camera maybe better (because actually i need to change with draw to select on the ui to move cam).
![tardiss_e.jpg](///raw/bc3/41/z/67bed.jpg)
1finiteloop
08. Oct 2024 · 05:45 UTC
Really interesting game! I love the animation of the little creature’s movements—it looks so bouncy. Also, when they climb up, they leave behind little yellow pixel trails, which kind of reminds me of worms, and it also makes me think of my hamster digging, which is really cute. By the way, it seems like the BGM stops after playing once—it would be great if it could loop automatically, because I really like the music! Adding some sound effects when falling from a height could make the game feel even more lively.
breadstick
08. Oct 2024 · 05:50 UTC
the only game where getting your children to jump off a ledge means you're winning :')
poboy
08. Oct 2024 · 05:51 UTC
I like playing the Github version, setting num=100000, and creating a seabear tunnel straight to hell
🎤 JackLeHamster
08. Oct 2024 · 15:31 UTC
num=100000?! You must have a good machine, mine already hangs at 10000
LDJam user 352490
08. Oct 2024 · 20:36 UTC
This was a neat! The music was kind of a bop, and it was fun how it sometimes played at double speed when you enabled it. I enjoyed drawing the stage as I played, although I never figured out how the boredom meter worked.

My solution to expanding the tardigrade population:

![Screenshot_20241008_153000.png](///raw/ae0/65/z/68112.png)