Polymerase
A game about being a worker in the tiniest factory in the world - a cell! As a DNA polymerase enzyme, your job is to complete the strand of bases on the left with their complementary. Remember, Adenine goes with Thymine, and Cytosine goes with Guanine. If any base reaches the top without its conjugate, you lose! Made with Pico-8.
Made for #trijam 57. Theme: factory. Optional challenge: educational, kinda?
Controls:
Up/Down - Move cursor
Z - Place base
X - Discard base
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Hey, wii you release a Windows Exe. File ?
No, sorry, that's not part of the plan. I don't even know if Pico-8 can export those at all.
oh...well never mind then.
Really cool game, takes me back to middle school biology days
Once you get used to the patterns, it gets easier, but the speed of which the strand moves is a bit too fast imo
And maybe instead of a base being randomly selected, you should be able to cycle through each base in a loop so you can find the base you need without relying on luck.
Tho, I do guess the randomness does keep it challenging, albeit a little frustrating when you can't get the base you need XD
I was thinking of something like Tetris, of course, as an inspiration; though the nature of the problem makes it a bit more frustrating when the 'next' base keeps coming wrong. A more sophisticated version of the game could bias the randomness a bit so that you don't get stuck in completely unwinnable loops I guess.