Lintw - The Simulated Märchen
A downloadable game for Windows and Android
Lintw - The Simulated Märchen is a simple simulator in which you can build a town on a distant planet and fill it with cute aliens named Lintwians.
Lintwians are animal-like creatures from the distant planet of Lintw.
They love to have fun - in fact their entire society is built around it!
It's up to you to build a happy little town from the ground up and fill it with Lintwians.
You'll be in charge of not only constructing houses, planting trees and creating toys but genetically engineering the Lintwians themselves!
Fill your town with any of eight subspecies and customise their colours and appearance to your liking, or leave it all to chance!
Watch them prance around, play with toys, interact with each other and live out their little lives on your screen.
Each Lintwian is blessed with a unique appearance, name and personality.
Some may require more care than others, but if you do your best they will provide you with the Joy Power you need to expand your town!
Inspired by Sonic Adventure's Chao Garden and the Creatures A-Life series, Lintw - The Simulated Märchen aims to be a relaxing, casual and passive experience that can be enjoyed slowly and long-term.
Explore Lintw and try to unlock all 21 of the game's hidden achievements!
The game has undergone limited testing through a small group so if you happen to experience any major bugs or issues, please report them!
Do note that the Android version does not currently feature a tutorial, and is missing some graphical effects. Performance may also be lower in this version, be aware!
If you enjoy the game and would like to see the game expand with new subspecies and features, please consider donating and commenting!
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Development log
- Version 2.0 Released!Jul 09, 2020
- V1.1 has been released!Nov 30, 2018
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Nice! That's cute!
The website, Lintw.net, appears to be down. Is that because the site no longer exists, or some sort of error?
The website is sadly defunct, however it is available via Wayback Machine.
Oh. What happened? Are you no longer interested in this project/setting? I'm sad I didn't discover this sooner.
I am still very interested in the project and setting, however the creator of the concept has since put it on hiatus for other projects.
Unfortunately this means they also let the webspace lapse...
I offered to host it in their stead but they wished to retain the option of relaunching it themself in future.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
If you are enthusiastic about the setting and project I encourage you to view it via the Wayback machine, share your creations within the game as well as create your own works around the project to keep the spirit of Lintw alive during the hiatus.
The concept of this game is really cool, and it's also awesome that you were able to fit it into an incredibly small file size!
So, I actually wanted to ask, is there any particular way that you generate the names? Is it just a random assortment of letters with varying name sizes, or do you actually have a list of names?
Thanks! I often put a little too much effort into being efficient with file size and processing load, though I will admit this little project isn't super well optimised really.
The names are actually not completely random, and are generated using three strings and a randomised integer, plus a character-specific integer denoting the length of the name that needs to be generated and a starting point for the RNG'd integer.
The code is something like
If current_name_length < goal_name_length, generate random number for starting position
It then uses the random number to do a lookup on a string that looks like this:
1211221121122122121211221122122122112112122112211212121212112212212211211221221122122112121121122112112122112
This is essentially the syntax for names, which gives everything a random-but-consistent appearance, where 1 is a vowel and 2 is a consonant.
So if a character has a name that's 5 characters long and starts at position 10, it pulls a string that looks like this: 11221
It then replaces each 1 with a random vowel from a string of vowels, and each 2 with a random consonant from a string of consonants, so you might end up with something like Aewlo or Iupno or something, which aren't real names but feel appropriately alien.
Hopefully that's a little enlightening! :D
I love this game you made however it actually surpised me when the one that the game generated for me passed away a few minutes ago. I knew that bar meant something but I didn't expect it to be a health bar. Either away, if you ever update this game think you can make the achievements give a description after unlocking it?