Awwwliens

Entry for Autumn Lisp Game Jam Oct 2019
https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2019

Source: https://github.com/fpischedda/minasss-games/tree/lisp-gamejam-oct-2019

Status: WIP

The concept of the game is a super simplified tamagotchi kind of game where the main point is to keep a cow alive as long as possible.

Run from my website

Go to https://francesco.pischedda.info/awwwliens/

It takes a bit to load, still building non-optimized version

Run from zip

Download entry

Unzip it in a directory (NOTE! the archive does not create its directory)

Run a local web server, if you have python installed in your system run from the game directory:

• Python 2: python -m SimpleHTTPServer
• Python 3: python -m http.server

Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser

Run from cloned sources

You need https://leiningen.org/ and Clojure dev tools; clone the repository and follow Setup instructions at repo's README

Controls

- Arrows, WASD, HJKL : move the cow around

- Escape to go back to menu screen

I hope you will enjoy this little game!

Story

This game tells a story about an extraterrestrial race which goes crazy for Earth's cows, like humans with cats, dogs, guinea pigs and...ok you get the  point.

So from time to time one cow, probably the cutest one, gets kidnapped and moved to an artificial land where she lives more or less happily.
Turns out that kinapped cows loose their mind!
First of all it seems they are too scared to move and without external intervention they will stay in the same place until death. Fortunately alien technology can help in the form of a remote cow controller but there is a side effect, every time a cow moves she loses a bit of energy so it is better to move her to a place with some food unless you want it to die. After she eats she poops where she is; this will help to grow her food a bit faster.

How long will you be able to keep the cow alive?