So the design of the game is fairly established now. It looks like the core mechanic is a food chain. There are different varieties of little creatures which occupy various niches. All would be well in the world, were it not for the sudden arrival of DOOM in the form of an explosively reproducing foreign species…

I was trying to get the first projectiles into the game, and ended up with a rather unexpected snowstorm instead:

http://i39.tinypic.com/1628ohy.png

Currently there are invaders (red-green) and one form of sessile predator (orangey) in the game. All life forms heal over time, and the invaders use this to their advantage by withdrawing outside their target’s firing range briefly if their health dips too low. There’s no player character yet.

http://i44.tinypic.com/2elfh52.png

The next thing to do is get some sort of plankton- or barnacle-esque life form into the system- something low level that doesn’t eat anything, and simply provides food for other organisms.

Tags: tigs

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