Untitled Idle Mutation Game

PICO-8 Cartridge 

This is my "untitled mutation idle game" for submission to the PIG Squad Slow Summer Jam with the theme of "Idle" and "Mutation".

With the speedups the game should be completable in about 5 minutes, obviously longer if your play on "1x"

I took this completely at face value and thought why not make a literal idle clicker game that the areas were various mutations? Why not indeed.

As I've stated in the devlog a few times. I am not a programmer. I realistically have not written anything other than some excel functions since highschool or earlier (and some c++ stuff freshman year of undergrad but honestly the only thing I remember from that was the professor's name. But I have fond memories from childhood of c64 stuff, Q-BASIC, and  GW-BASIC, as well as writing some little programs on my TI-83 and TI-89 to help with some math and science classes.

Armed with that innate knowledge and the power of the internet, I sought out to challenge myself and learn something - and both of those things I did.

I chose to do this in PICO-8 because of the ease of adoptability for me given my background, as well as the 8/16-bit nostalgia (Final Fantasy & Dragon Quest are among my favorite games, and I have core memories of both of them as well as the OG Pokemon Blue on the Gameboy.) I also liked the idea of the seemingly arbitrary limitations I was placing on myself which required me to be clever and simplistic.

Thanks for reading/listening/playing. I hope you all enjoy and have a great day.

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