swarm VS Evolve

I once got quite into https://www.swarmsim.com/#/

It's about as barebones as you can get - it's literally just "numbers go up" with a few simple names attached to them. It turns out that even that is enough to get me addicted for a bit.

Also, my latest update to www.swarmsim.com (v1.1.16) removes all links to this subreddit. Swarmsim: Evolution is unchanged.

One of the best incremental games I played and have very good memories of it is: Swarm Simulator https://www.swarmsim.com/ Highly recommend!

They probably won't mind much as original code is licensed freely - https://github.com/swarmsim/swarm/blob/master/LICENSE ... Though with that said, there are so many clones of it already it is good to pick something else just for freshness and trying new ideas out ;-)

If you have time, go take a look at this game, swarm simulator: https://www.swarmsim.com . This is an incremental game, part of a game genre defined by watching numbers rise. In these kinds of games, you(generally) start with a low rate at which the number amount of whatever you're trying to obtain(meat or larvae in swarm simulator) increase. You can then use some of that thing to buy upgrades to get more of that thing faster, which increases the rate at which you can buy upgrades, which increases the rate at which that thing increases, and so on. This doesn't teach any skill. It doesn't require any effort. It doesn't give any benefit. The enjoyment of it comes solely from watching your numbers get bigger, from watching the amount of things you own and perceived control you have increase; this is the same source of enjoyment in every game in which players progress through levels, raise their statistics, improve/unlock items, rank up in modes, increase a game completion percentage, unlock achievements, etc.

Swarm Simulator takes the "starcraft as derivatives" idea and runs with it, out to 30+ levels. https://www.swarmsim.com/#/

The one game from the top of my head is SwarmSim, but it's a bit old and looks intimidating. I haven't tried cloning it yet.

It seems I somehow fucked up the possibility to choose Isolation in Truepath (I filed a bug report here: https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve/issues/928).

Evolve has open source code, and it's somewhat readable. It uses Vue.

Download the game files from https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve (you can do this with git, or clicking on "code" near the top right and then downloading the zip, then unzipping that file)

I had that happen too, then after a while it was corrected: https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve/issues/664

that covers most things, not sure what else you are looking for. Just look at the strings.json

And many(most?) don't. In fact, many, games, even have, their repos available under permissive license that you can use for your own work.

While I was searching, though, I realized that one of the files (space.js line 5768 at the time of writing) contains the data for a "zombie" species: A tooltip, a description, planet names, etc etc... Seemingly everything needed for a playable race. They don't appear to have any traits, and they seem to be related to the custom race mechanic in some way, but since I haven't reached that point yet I can't really make sense of the code. Are they a placeholder in case something goes wrong? Or maybe is it just the set of default options that first come up when creating a custom race?