Ooooh! I'm also working on a creature/construction AI game, and was delighted to come across this. Here’s some unsolicited feedback. (I hope that’s OK!)
Things I particularly liked:
- Your UI is beautiful! Very clean, simple, and cohesive with your aesthetic. Also, I think your logo is super cute.
- Comprehensive help file. It is a lot of text, but easy to find what you’re looking for. A+ note at the end about setting expectations.
- Super simple to pick up, play with, see immediate effects. That’s something I’m still struggling with, so it’s good to see it done well.
- It’s fun to let run in the background and then check up on how it’s doing every now and again. That’s not a gameplay loop I see often.
- Watching a creature slowly develop a rhythm of walking is magical! Definitely an “it’s.... ALIIIIVE” sort of feeling.
Feedback:
- Some camera control during the evolve phase would be nice! I'd like to be able to zoom out/pan instead of it just snapping to random (?) creatures.
- Would it be possible to only show a subset of the creatures during the evolve phase? They're mostly a tangle of limbs, would be nice to only see 3-5 while it still calculates the generation using more.
- I would love to be able to see a visualization of the creature’s networks (maybe only the best one from the previous generation?) as they evolve. If only boxes and lines for weights.
- Sound effects?
- Ability to move joints after placing them?
- Bit of a tangent/stretch: I saw a museum exhibit where people constructed mars rovers on a number of tablets in front of a big screen, and then could “send them to mars” where they’d show up on that screen and be continuously racing against each other. Could be cool to see different creatures racing against each other, or something else to "do" with a creature after you think you've made a good one. (I know, that's likely out of scope...)