Fungi Forever

Made in 3 days for Mini Jam 156. Audio by Walker Williams - https://itch.io/profile/multiphonix

Fungi forever is a puzzle game/toy based on cellular automata. Arrange mushrooms (and rocks) on a grid and sit back to watch as them dance as they grown, reproduce and die according to a set of rules.

In the levels the aim is to find a configuration that forms a repeating loop within 100 steps of the simulation ('stuck in a loop' is the jam limitation). In free play the objective is to have a nice time watching pretty patterns!

All input is done with the mouse, click an item (mushroom, rock or empty space) to select it then click a tile on the grid to place it.

 

The Adult shroom will generate a spore on any empty adjacent tiles (horizontal and vertical, not diagonal), and will die off if it has no empty neighbouring cells.

The Child shroom grows to be an Adult if it has at least 2 empty neighbouring cells, and dies if it has no empty neighbours.

The Spore will grow to a Child it there are Adults in at least 2 neighbouring cells.

Nothing grows on Rocks, this isn't Lichen Forever!