Aquarius update

Published October 28, 2009
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Lately, I've been working on my top-down, sea-creature game. The basic idea is that you explore, find prey to eat, and avoid predators. Its really a labor of love. I've made a lot of progress since the last update but I'll post smaller updates instead of one giant entry.

A typical play-through is planned to go like this:
You are born.
You use your senses to avoid predators.
You're not fast enough to catch prey, so you eat plants.
As you eat, you grow and become faster.
You hunt down prey and keep growing.
...And that's all I'm realistically planning for now.


The actual experience so far:
You spawn at the origin.
You see rocks, plants growing on them, and prey going by.
You also see my test creature, the "Freakshow".
You can't actually eat things yet, but you can bite off pieces. (its far from finished)
There are no predators yet.

I'll go into more detail later about everything.
Also, know that if you hit 'R' to grow, the creature may suffer from what looks like Bonitis. Just quit and restart if any weirdness occurs.

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Programmer16
"My only regret is that...I have...bonitis..."
My guy keeps getting bonitis :(

Well done; ran very smoothly. I loved ripping the big guy into pieces lol.
October 29, 2009 01:12 AM
Slather
Thank you:) I didn't want to delay this post anymore, so I decided to fix the bonitis bug afterward. Haven't figured out how to fix it yet... I'll head back to HQ, and revolutionize that side of the paradigm.
October 29, 2009 10:53 AM
Aardvajk
Brilliant. Weird and wonderful control system - thought I was the white blob for a long time [smile].

Just to note that I had to run it as administrator (Vista Home Premium here) or it crashed at start up.

This has real potential.
November 03, 2009 04:23 PM
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