Critters Pen

Simulation/idle game, breeding and mutating critters to survive against human heros

You are the hive mind behind a population of Critters. Humans realized that your numbers are too big and begun to fight you, but it's already too late.

You can add new Critters by hand, but they have very low stats. The key to success is to get Critters to breed, because their offspring has a chance to be stronger. 

To the side you can always see the stats of the oldest Critter (you earn points equal to its age). It is also marked on the map by the yellow circle. 

Buy the upgrades to make even better Critters and reach the age of 100 with one of them! Then you will be victorious. 

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Fun facts for those interested:

• Every  30 seconds a new human hero spawns, to make the game more and more difficult, even though they are somewhat neccessary to kill all the weaker Critters and make space for more (because 100 is the limit).
• Every second  or so you earn points equal to the age of your oldest Critter. 
• When 2 Critters meet, they have a baby, which takes one of the parents stats and adds to them by positive mutations. 
• I  had to limit Critters to have max 3 children, because the clumping of them in one place was even worse than it is now.  :D
• Critters also have a cooldown for having children and they have to be mature to have them (5 seconds).
• If you are struggling:  just make Critters yourself (by clicking the big button), and keep them around 60-70 (so they still have space to breed themselves), wait for points to build up, buy the upgrades. Then stop adding new Critters at all, because the offspring of previous ones is much stronger. 
• Human heros are always doing just 1 damage to all  Critters in range.
• Look at your    oldest Critter stats. When its age is equal to 100 - you win! 
• When new Critters are born (by breeding, not your clicking)      they have 10% chance to pick one of the random mutations (which you have to unlock first). If they succeed  and mutate, they have 10% chance of mutating again, and so on, until they fail. That's why upgrading this chance is very powerful.  New Critters, on top of inheriting all the stats of one parent, can add multiple upgrades to their own stats.

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This is my first ever coded and Godot game,  I'm so excited and grateful for this game jam! Thank you to all!  I  really needed this push to finnaly learn all about the signals  in Godot.  :D

PS. By "game jam"  I   mean   Godot Wild Jam #84.

Asset pack used:    https://danieldiggle.itch.io/sunnyside.