Metabolize!

Metabolize! let's you fight for survival as a cell.

You are a cell. You need energy. For that you need to create proteins. But these cost energy. Will you be able to keep the balance?

In Metabolize! you start each level with a random generated DNA strand. You may make changes to this to optimise the amino acids harvested. With these you can buy enzymes that will metabolize their substrate.

Install instructions: the game is provided as source code. You need GNU guile installed as well as the chickadee guile game engine library. With both of these installed, unpack the tarball and run the following command inside:

chickadee play -w 1600 -h 800 -t "Metabolize!" main.scm

This will start the game. You can find the instructions in the bottom right and a list of all available commands in the bottom left.

Game is release under GPL-3 license. It also distributes the DejaVuSansMono font which has the license found here: https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/License.html

This game was created for the  Autums Lisp Game Jam 2022. I wanted to do this to test out the (harebrained scheme) libraries that I developed. (harebrained scheme) is a scheme for scientifice computing with a focus on computational biology. While this was worked on before the game jam, the game logic itself was developed during the period of the jam. Written in Guile using the chickadee engine.