Gene Pool is one of the two games we submitted for the UA 2009 contest. The other one is Streets of Gotham : Full Throttle. (Hope to post some screenshots of that game too)
Your goal is to keep your organism healthy by merging genes of the same color. Merged genes grow in size and will eventually disappear. Only energized cells can merge with other cells. How? By bouncing them up against walls ofcourse!
I bought it.
Very good!
It’s perfect gameplay for the device.
The only thing missing is the save feature. The game can take a while depending on how long players take to decide. It would be nice to exit and pick it up later.
The graphics on the title screen are pleasing. Are the growing vines at the bottom animated particles?
They are a simple frame based texture animation, with alpha blending between the frames to improve smoothness. Similar to the background of the main game, really.