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A jam submission

Nolan Filter's Conway's Game of Life GameView game page

Submitted by calamitynolan (@NolanFilter) — 23 minutes, 54 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#3493.7523.752
Fun#3673.6703.670
Originality#3933.8903.890
Presentation#6063.8173.817

Ranked from 109 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
As you progress in the puzzles, you lose control over your ability to directly affect the outcome. You can only set up an initial state and watch as a rules based algorithm transforms your input. Puzzles are solved using indirect control.

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

Yes

We created all art during the game jam

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Submitted

Neat puzzle game! Challenging puzzles. I like the clean aesthetic and the music was also nice.

Submitted

Very interesting puzzles that made me actually think about the mechanics of the game. Had a great time with it!

Submitted

Interesting approach of a puzzle game! I think it was a solid entry.

Submitted

it's interesting and it did make me think, yet most of my solutions where kinda random clicking, this might not be the game for me :/

Submitted

I played through most of this game after the stream last night. I did wind up skipping levels 21 and 25, but really enjoyed it. This was the first I've heard of Conway's Game of Life, but from what I can tell, you've done a great job at gamifying the concept.  Like all great puzzle games, it made me feel like both a genius and an idiot at times and I loved it. I could easily see this benefiting from the mobility of phones and tablets as well. It would be a great on-the-go game.

Submitted

Hey, thanks for stopping by the stream last night, I rated just now and the VOD is posted here if you're interested: 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/681415674

Submitted

I liked the puzzle approach instead of the (purely) simulation approach normally associated with this concept. Well done!

Submitted

fun and challenging puzzle.

wish there are more multi generation level. (1 generation puzzle feel like it not fit the theme).

I really like when I play 4 generation level and get the solution on the  2nd/3rd generation and have to figure out how to shift it to 4th.

The last level is too hard I give up. ( a little ramp up on difficulty on asymmetric puzzle might help?  most of the game is symmetric and suddenly 4 generation asymmetric puzzle appear.)

Submitted

I love the SFX at work here, y'all did a great job! I wonder if the background music might not be a little bit bombastic for a puzzle game, but that's just my own aesthetic preference.

I think you could have unpacked Rule 3 a little bit to explain just exactly how cells die -- that took me a little bit of time and some careful reading between the lines to grasp.

That, plus I think just a little bit of visual polish on the step-results at the bottom -- make it a little bit larger maybe, and tweak the Question Mark UI elements to make them look a bit cleaner -- you'll basically have this game in the bag. Great work!

Submitted

Really clever idea on the theme, very well made and the puzzles are well designed as well.

Submitted

The ruleset for this puzzle game make it really difficult since there's a lot of factors to consider such as generations and the amount of resulting neighbors! Probably too difficult for someone like me because I couldn't get further than several puzzles before I felt unbelievably stuck.

That's not a bad thing though! This game definitely has a lot of appeal to people who would love to really think all the way about how a certain combination can lead them to the answer.

Submitted

This is a simple idea executed really well. I like how you used Conway's game of life to fit the out of control theme. The visuals are minimalistic and really nice. The audio is really great --- nice sound effects and the music is a lot of fun. The puzzles themselves are really well designed. they're tricky but fun! Once there were two steps of the game of life I realised I'd need some coffee to make it much further. I look forward to tackling it again in the morning.

Thanks for the game!

Submitted

Well polished. Simple but tough!

Submitted

Loved the funky music, I really dig puzzle games, and this one has an interesting concept. I could see myself playing this on my phone.

Submitted

Holy moley, level 22 was brutal for me. Must have spent 15 minutes on it. Overall, I thought it was very fun, but to better fit the them maybe the set of rules could have changed too.

Submitted

Aaaah my brain hurts! Well done tho! That's a really good idea :D 

Submitted

Nice job! Really great graphics and I loved the gameplay with the puzzles! Well done. :D

Submitted

Cool concept, really good prototype ! Maybe some feedback and user experience problems  but i think this has great potential !

Submitted

I might have not been smart enough to figure most of them out but this is a cool idea:

Submitted

That was neat! It kinda plays like a mobile game (not sure if that was intentional)

Developer(+1)

I usually make games for mobile! I guess that sensibility came through here

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