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Procedural Creatures


Spiders, lizards, fish, snakes and chickens animated entirely from math on a 2D canvas.

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A test of whether small creatures can be fully procedurally animated in plain Canvas 2D, cheap enough for a phone, with the verbs an idle game needs: idle, wander, poke, feed.

Controls

  • ‹ Fish › pill or ← / → switches creature
  • Tap a creature to poke it
  • Tap empty space to drop food
  • Hold with Follow on and creatures chase the pointer
  • Bones or b shows the joints
  • Set count and hit Reset to spawn a crowd for a stress test