Darwin's Demons
Polymorphic Games · 2017 · Action, Indie, Simulation, Casual, Science
PC
Positive93% · 28
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About Darwin's Demons
EVOLUTION ALWAYS WINS
Defend the galaxy against an encroaching horde of evolving enemies! In this arcade style space shooter, only the fittest enemies reproduce to create the next generation, causing the population to adapt to your play style. How long will you be able to survive against the Protean Swarm?
Darwin’s Demons models biological evolution using enemies with digital genomes. Enemies acquire fitness by being the most aggressive, accurate, and longest lived, and only the most fit enemies reproduce to pass their genomes on to the next generation. The result? The creatures you found hardest to kill have all the babies, making each generation more challenging than the last!
In ARCADE MODE, take command of 22 different ships, 18 defensive systems, and 11 secondary weapons to battle the Protean Swarm.
In LOCAL MULTIPLAYER MODE, up to four players can fight the swarm side by side.
In EXPERIMENT MODE, get your nerd on and take control of the evolutionary model. Change parameters such as mutation rate, population size, and the fitness function, to test your own evolutionary hypotheses.
Be warned: No matter your play style, your enemies WILL adapt to your selection of ship, weapons, and defenses.
Climb the leaderboards as high as you can, but in the end....
EVOLUTION ALWAYS WINS
Defend the galaxy against an encroaching horde of evolving enemies! In this arcade style space shooter, only the fittest enemies reproduce to create the next generation, causing the population to adapt to your play style. How long will you be able to survive against the Protean Swarm?
Darwin’s Demons models biological evolution using enemies with digital genomes. Enemies acquire fitness by being the most aggressive, accurate, and longest lived, and only the most fit enemies reproduce to pass their genomes on to the next generation. The result? The creatures you found hardest to kill have all the babies, making each generation more challenging than the last!
In ARCADE MODE, take command of 22 different ships, 18 defensive systems, and 11 secondary weapons to battle the Protean Swarm.
In LOCAL MULTIPLAYER MODE, up to four players can fight the swarm side by side.
In EXPERIMENT MODE, get your nerd on and take control of the evolutionary model. Change parameters such as mutation rate, population size, and the fitness function, to test your own evolutionary hypotheses.
Be warned: No matter your play style, your enemies WILL adapt to your selection of ship, weapons, and defenses.
Climb the leaderboards as high as you can, but in the end....
EVOLUTION ALWAYS WINS
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Darwin's Demons is a student project from University of Idaho. One of the first things students should be taught in game development is that 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the ATI Rage. But the students were deliberately mistaught that's it's okay to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era of gaming... certainly any professional developer seeing a prospective new hire who doesn't even know about 3D gaming probably isn't going to give them a job. Needless to say if an educational institution taught me incorrectly on purpose, I'd ask for my money back. This is a frankly awful ripoff of Space Invaders, and it's not remarkable that awful ripoffs of Space Invaders exist. What is awful is that educational facilities both think it's okay to teach students who pay a lot of money to learn about game development that all they need to know is how to make 1980's arcade games. I could insert an Idaho joke here but I won't. Secondly, and perhaps more alarmingly, the facility didn't teach the students (as Tetris Company LLC vs Xio Holdings shows us) that game designs, concepts and other elements are copyright protected. You ca…2 found this helpful
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Игра "Darwin's Demons" – интересная и необычная смесь стратегии и симулятора эволюции. Ты, как некое божество, управляешь маленьким миром, населенным забавными существами. Цель – направлять их развитие, используя различные катастрофы и мутации. Понравилось, что от твоих решений действительно зависит, как изменится мир. Можно вырастить летающих киборгов, а можно столкнуть всех в каменный век. Игровой процесс достаточно увлекательный, хотя и может показаться немного однообразным после нескольких часов. Хотелось бы больше разнообразия в событиях и, возможно, более углубленную систему мутаций. Графика приятная, в мультяшном стиле, что хорошо подходит к общему тону игры. Музыка и звуковые эффекты добавляют атмосферы. В целом, "Darwin's Demons" – это неплохая игра, которая может затянуть на несколько вечеров. Она предлагает свежий взгляд на жанр стратегии и дает возможность почувствовать себя творцом эволюции. Рекомендую тем, кто ищет что-то новое и любит экспериментировать.
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