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Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization

92 points by frozenseven 2mo ago

FrustratedMonky 2mo ago
Is there a bug with adding workers? Added a Cottage, and unemployed number toggled between 1 and 0, and total count didn't change. Like the workers disappeared.
frozenseven 2mo ago
Code: https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve
Narciss 2mo ago
I’d recommend making it responsive, the bottom bar for example has a lot of overlapping elements on my phone
Groxx 2mo ago
To anyone visiting on mobile: if you don't see any buttons, switch to the desktop version in your browser. Evolve is one of a relative few that have been around and growing for a long time, and easily have months of (gradual) content. Worth a try if these appeal to you and you haven't tried it yet.
- wild_egg 2mo ago
  Relative few that have been around a long time? There is a plethora of 10+ year old incrementals with virtually endless content at this point.
fhn 2mo ago
I have no clue what this is. So far, it's just click click click with 0 though.
- nemomarx 2mo ago
  This is one of the incrementals where you mostly start getting choices after you reset. Then you can be mushroom people or other types and start trying unique traits in different runs
- lbrito 2mo ago
  its like the paperclip game
ngrilly 2mo ago
Very cool.
artemonster 2mo ago
Its like Kittens game, but broader. I think kittens are deeperer but narrower, but idk maybe im wrong havent played both in years
FrustratedMonky 2mo ago
Is this a clicker game?
- BanazirGalbasi 2mo ago
  It's an idle/incremental game, which includes a lot of clicker games. It stops being clicky very early on though, it's only in the beginning 5-10 minutes that you have to click for resources.
  - lelanthran 2mo ago
    > It's an idle/incremental game, which includes a lot of clicker games. It stops being clicky very early on though, it's only in the beginning 5-10 minutes that you have to click for resources. I am still having to click for wood and stone (went down the fungus path). There is no autoclicker for wood or stone. EDIT: n/mind. Worked it out.
jmartrican 2mo ago
I guess all hope of being productive this afternoon went to shit. Cool game.
utopcell 2mo ago
Oh no!, another paperclips game. There goes my day.
- idle_zealot 2mo ago
  If you're the type to get absorbed by these consider staying away. I've been playing this one for years and am not at the end of its content.
  - utopcell 2mo ago
    Too late, already trapped.
lagrange77 2mo ago
Very cool idea and my evolution to a scorpio was fun and educational.
tmgldn 2mo ago
love this
flir 2mo ago
If this doesn't turn into universal paperclips about 150 years after an industrial revolution, I'm going to be severely disappointed.
arcboii92 2mo ago
Shit. Found this at 8:30am, happy to click a few times before starting work... Suddenly its 10am? Huh? Also, minor spoilers, but it looks like making a crazy OP cell form does nothing once you evolve. I had some crazy RNA/DNA numbers, then as soon as I evolved its like haha none of that matters. Reminds me of evolving out of cell form in SPORE
- siimmannik 2mo ago
  Yep, it really is damn addictive, but hey, it's educational so who's counting the hours :)
jermaustin1 2mo ago
Love this so much. I always get in my own way with making a game like this. I keep trying to add too much instead of it just being an incremental clicker game.
arceister 2mo ago
Hey, it's a rare moment to see the "legend" of incremental games (shoutout to r/incrementalgames for introducing me to one of the genre I liked —because actually it can be played while working)!
King-Aaron 2mo ago
So it's the paperclip game, except meat
rogermungo 2mo ago
Hey, this is pretty cool
voakbasda 2mo ago
Works for a bit in iOS Orion but buttons now stop the counters. Reload rewinds progress. Saw another comment had the link to the GitHub project, so went to file a bug. Stopped in my tracks when I saw over 200 open issues.
lbrito 2mo ago
Very cool, enjoying it so far. Did you use LLMs for coding?
julez_ 2mo ago
If you like Paperclips / Kittens / A Dark Room, I also built a game in that niche. A dark incremental settlement builder with a story and decisions with impact on the game. It is playable in the browser at https://a-dark-cave.com https://a-dark-cave.com, desktop and mobile. There is a Steam demo too.
gepeake 2mo ago
Very similar to trimps

92 points by frozenseven 2mo ago

Is there a bug with adding workers? Added a Cottage, and unemployed number toggled between 1 and 0, and total count didn't change. Like the workers disappeared.

frozenseven 2mo ago

Code: https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve

Narciss 2mo ago

I’d recommend making it responsive, the bottom bar for example has a lot of overlapping elements on my phone

Groxx 2mo ago

To anyone visiting on mobile: if you don't see any buttons, switch to the desktop version in your browser. Evolve is one of a relative few that have been around and growing for a long time, and easily have months of (gradual) content. Worth a try if these appeal to you and you haven't tried it yet.

wild_egg 2mo ago
Relative few that have been around a long time? There is a plethora of 10+ year old incrementals with virtually endless content at this point.

fhn 2mo ago

I have no clue what this is. So far, it's just click click click with 0 though.

nemomarx 2mo ago
This is one of the incrementals where you mostly start getting choices after you reset. Then you can be mushroom people or other types and start trying unique traits in different runs
lbrito 2mo ago
its like the paperclip game

ngrilly 2mo ago

Very cool.

artemonster 2mo ago

Its like Kittens game, but broader. I think kittens are deeperer but narrower, but idk maybe im wrong havent played both in years

FrustratedMonky 2mo ago

Is this a clicker game?

BanazirGalbasi 2mo ago
It's an idle/incremental game, which includes a lot of clicker games. It stops being clicky very early on though, it's only in the beginning 5-10 minutes that you have to click for resources.
- lelanthran 2mo ago
  > It's an idle/incremental game, which includes a lot of clicker games. It stops being clicky very early on though, it's only in the beginning 5-10 minutes that you have to click for resources. I am still having to click for wood and stone (went down the fungus path). There is no autoclicker for wood or stone. EDIT: n/mind. Worked it out.

jmartrican 2mo ago

I guess all hope of being productive this afternoon went to shit. Cool game.

utopcell 2mo ago

Oh no!, another paperclips game. There goes my day.

idle_zealot 2mo ago
If you're the type to get absorbed by these consider staying away. I've been playing this one for years and am not at the end of its content.
- utopcell 2mo ago
  Too late, already trapped.

lagrange77 2mo ago

Very cool idea and my evolution to a scorpio was fun and educational.

tmgldn 2mo ago

love this

flir 2mo ago

If this doesn't turn into universal paperclips about 150 years after an industrial revolution, I'm going to be severely disappointed.

arcboii92 2mo ago

Shit. Found this at 8:30am, happy to click a few times before starting work... Suddenly its 10am? Huh? Also, minor spoilers, but it looks like making a crazy OP cell form does nothing once you evolve. I had some crazy RNA/DNA numbers, then as soon as I evolved its like haha none of that matters. Reminds me of evolving out of cell form in SPORE

siimmannik 2mo ago
Yep, it really is damn addictive, but hey, it's educational so who's counting the hours :)

jermaustin1 2mo ago

Love this so much. I always get in my own way with making a game like this. I keep trying to add too much instead of it just being an incremental clicker game.

arceister 2mo ago

Hey, it's a rare moment to see the "legend" of incremental games (shoutout to r/incrementalgames for introducing me to one of the genre I liked —because actually it can be played while working)!

King-Aaron 2mo ago

So it's the paperclip game, except meat

rogermungo 2mo ago

Hey, this is pretty cool

voakbasda 2mo ago

Works for a bit in iOS Orion but buttons now stop the counters. Reload rewinds progress. Saw another comment had the link to the GitHub project, so went to file a bug. Stopped in my tracks when I saw over 200 open issues.

lbrito 2mo ago

Very cool, enjoying it so far. Did you use LLMs for coding?

julez_ 2mo ago

If you like Paperclips / Kittens / A Dark Room, I also built a game in that niche. A dark incremental settlement builder with a story and decisions with impact on the game. It is playable in the browser at https://a-dark-cave.com https://a-dark-cave.com, desktop and mobile. There is a Steam demo too.

gepeake 2mo ago

Very similar to trimps