Primordia

From a single Amino Acid in a lonely pool of primordial soup, nurture life until it can gaze back at the stars. Primordia is an atmospheric idle game about creation, evolution, and the miracle of being Born.

[COOL GIF OF ORBS COMBINING HERE]

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A Solo Creation

This game was created in less than 72 hours by rihnile, aka Silentify, for the Solo Game Jam, with the theme: Born.

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Your Journey

Your journey begins with a single click, introducing the first spark of life into a barren world.

-   CREATE: Spend Energy to create the basic building blocks of life.

-   COMBINE: Drag and drop identical lifeforms to witness them merge, giving birth to a new, more complex creation.

-   EVOLVE: Each new organism generates more Energy, allowing you to accelerate the process. Guide life from simple cells to complex animals, and eventually, to the dawn of Sapience itself.

-   STRATEGIZE: Will you fill your world with countless low-tier creatures, or save up your Energy to upgrade your creation power and spawn more advanced life from the start?

[SCREENSHOT OF A LATE-GAME WORLD FILLED WITH VARIOUS ORBS HERE]

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Features

-   A Massive Evolutionary Tree: Progress through 15+ distinct stages of life, from the first Protein to a thinking mind.

-   Atmospheric Evolving Soundtrack: A completely original, AI-generated score that transforms with your world. Experience three distinct musical eras that mirror your progress from a mysterious soup to a triumphant civilization.

-   Strategic Upgrade System: Your clicks are precious. Invest your energy to permanently upgrade the type of life you can create, making your journey from nothing to everything a rewarding strategic choice.

-   A Persistent World: Your universe saves automatically. Close the tab and return later; your grand experiment will be waiting for you exactly as you left it.

-   Polished and Juicy Feel: Every interaction is designed to be satisfying, from the combining of two organisms to the smooth, floaty physics of dragging an orb through your world.

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Controls

-   Create: Left-Click the Create button to spawn life.

-   Combine: Drag & Drop one orb onto another identical one.

-   Learn: Hold Right-Click on an orb to learn its name, energy output, and a short description of its place in the history of life.

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A Note from the Creator

Thank you for playing Primordia. As a solo developer, creating a complete game from scratch in less than 72 hours was an incredible challenge and a journey of its own.

In the spirit of the jam's rules, this project was made possible with the help of AI tools. Goole Gemini 2.5 Pro was an invaluable coding partner for debugging and logic (used over 350K tokens just for this), and the entire soundtrack was generated using Suno AI to create a score that truly feels alive. The core concept, design, and final implementation are the product of one person's passion for creation.

I hope you enjoy watching your world be Born. ✨

Development log

Comments

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Hi! Just a heads up ☺️, I tried this game with Firefox and it got stuck on "loading music 1/3." I switched to google chrome and it worked. I like it! Reminds me of cookie clicker!

Ah, maybe theres something with the JavaScript logic that I missed. I only tested it in Chromium based browsers, so there might be some miscommunication. Anyways, I hope you had fun! New version coming out just before the jam ends ;)

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i love it sooo much <3 <3 <3

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I playtested this and it's fire :heart:

❤️

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это прекрасно! =)

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Thank you!