Familinks (GMTKjam2021)
Made for the GMTK game jam 2021 in 16 hours.
Controls
- Click & drag to move left right
- Click on a family dude & drag to join a non-family dude and make babies
The goal is to make your family lineage last as many generations as possible (shown with the white counter at the top, on the right).
Each line is a generation. First (bottom) red line is for babies. Last (top) line is for old dudes (who cannot make babies anymore).
Your family dudes 
(fancy frame)
Other dudes
(simple frame)
There are 3 stats passed through your family
Number of babies : how many babies this dude will make [1-3]
Luck : Fitness to survive famine (inversely proportional to other stats for non-family dudes) [0-3]
Friendliness : how many other dudes will generate with this dude [0-3]
Stats are passed through genetics. So each dude has two sets of stats from both parents : one expressed and another hidden. So hidden stats may be passed on to next generations and expressed later on.
Disasters : Every X step (shown with the red counter on top) something bad happens. There are 3 disaster types :
Famine : Kill all unlucky dudes (unlucky is 0 or 1 for luck stat)
Plague : Randomly kills 3 dudes on the board
War : Kills half the babies (yours and friends)
Enjoy and post your high scores in the comments :D
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Post-Jam Version :
- Fixed a bug where the plague disaster didn't kill randomly but first ones only
- Stats can go to 3
- Friendliness can be 0
- Fixed a bug where plague and famine pictures were not showing in web version
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Comments
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I lived for 20 gens
I replayed it and I lasted for 53 gens………..
I can not click these icons only i cal scroll the viewport left or right is this bug?
Mmh maybe? Which version are you using (web or dowload)? And if web, what browser?
You can only click on the ones that are from your family - the ones with the large borders. So at the very beginning, you can only click on the first one on the left.
Sorry about that^^;
chrome & web version. don’t worry, I got some informaiton from other comments It sounds awesome
I test it again just now, It worked! at last time, there was no black line from avatar
Nice! Thanks for trying again and the comments :)
Have a good one!
I don't understand why it says the stats go up to three. I've Never seen a character with more than two in any stat.
Yes, sorry about that! Sadly it’s a bug I only realised after submitting the game… :( It will be fixed in the postjam version when uploads are reactivated!
Cool Concept, it would be cool to see this idea turns in to a full game
That was fun! I made it 44 generations. :)
Things that are fixed in post-jam version :
other things to fix (depending on interest by people)
Sadly this gives an error for me on Mac in Firefox. :(
Oh no! Sorry about that :( Sadly I don’t have a mac to test it out…
Have you tried with another browser? Or maybe without adblock? (I saw on discord people were having trouble because of it with other games)