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everest

My newest game IS OUT.

The Barnacle Goose Experiment
is an abiogensis body horror idle clicker where you play as a researcher in a biodome tasked with generating a world out of their own body.

Music from Ben Babbitt, halina heron, Geotic, Adobo, Jún, Smokey Emery, Sadurn, Zac Traeger, SamanthaZero, and Eli Rainsbury and supported in part by Arts Council England.

Play it free in the browser now -
everest-pipkin.com/barnacle-go

A screenshot of the title screen of The Barnacle Goose Experiment, with an image of geese being born of a tree
26 comments
DistractedMOSFET

@abundance That's an insane pitch and I'll have to check this out!

Congrats on the release.

Sony Bravia, I'm coming 4 you

@abundance This is *extremely* interesting and I'm having a great time so far.

Humanity continues to advance lmfao:

spit and tear made marble in 8 hous, 19 minutes, 40 seconds.

dust and tear made pebble in 3 hours, 34 minutes, 33 seconds.

piss and tear made rain in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 39 seconds.
Jake Eakle

@abundance hi! this is weird and great! but why does my 1608kHz say I can listen to or destroy it, but I see no options to do either thing? Similarly with drinking rain, do I have to unlock something else to do these actions?

everest

@jseakle radio, hammer, and cup respectively - you can generate them out of the same system

Jake Eakle

@abundance gotcha, thanks! would be great if when you haven't seen a thing that enables an action, it said like "you can eventually.." or "you may be able to..." instead of just "you can", which makes me feel like i just haven't found the button in the UI.

similarly, would be awesome if the UI made it clear (e.g. via progress in the experiment pane?) that generator items don't function when held, that felt bad to discover.

everest

@jseakle good notes! generator items do function when held

Jake Eakle

@abundance oh whoa ok i guess i was just thinking about the times wrong. thanks!!

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

@abundance This is trippy as all get-out, but also mesmerizing... 😄

everest

@lorenschmidt thank you!!! so happy to finally see some permutation of this idea realized

guiltyparties
@abundance this is a good game. It's been years since I enjoyed a game and I am frankly enjoying this one.
Matt Keeter

@abundance This is *fascinating*

Are recipe times randomized? This mushroom + salt seems to be taking much longer than expected.

(Also, a minor bug: repeating a known recipe seems to forget it in the log, i.e. the ??? in the second log)

Screenshot of the game, indicating that I'm trying to combine [mushroom] and [salt] to make "drug".
everest

@mjk two bugs for me to investigate, thank you!

Matt Keeter

@abundance This was after closing + reopening the page, so I wonder if the progress times for recipes-in-progress got reset to zero?

everest

@mjk possible? or possible if you happened to reload right during an autosave that it somehow logged the div but didn't log the recipes and they aren't checking against anything anymore? i will try to replicate it!

everest

@mjk if they do ever resolve, let me know! if not, that's useful info! thank you!

siobhán o'flynn

@abundance super super super cool... sharing with students & games loving folkx

Casey Kolderup

@abundance wait I haven't had time to play yet but you got SADURN??? What an iconic team up 😭

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