Submitted and Done! Check out Panspermia

You can play it here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/601796

Ludum Dare page: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=10725

Panspermia, the theory that initially spurred this games inception, is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids and planetoids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia. Its intended for bacteria and other simple organic material but i extended it to trees, mushrooms and sheep (and nothing else). Initially i was making a 1-1 realistic simulation of this, but i got bored of it, and started just making cool explosions and messing around with bacteria designs (which eventually became sheep). In the end, its a basic solar system simulator with a bunch of realism-breaking elements. I.e sheep can fall from space and not die, planets are waay to small in comparison to the sheep/plants, and this isn’t even close to a proper simulation in terms of physics and math.

Got most of the stuff i wanted to implement, got all my barebones features done, but started running out of time to add ‘all’ my stretch goal features. Right now its more sandbox than game, but its got the whole angry birds/ios charm to it, simplistic n stuff. Stuff like deathstars, ufos, nebula clouds, etc.

 

I must say it feels great to have actually finished one of these, I’ve attempted a few before but couldn’t think of anything/get something decent before running out of time. Now that i know i ‘can’ do it, I cant wait to see the next one.