Life Cycle
Welcome to Life Cycle! This is a game (sprites, code, logic, music, ALL of it) made ENTIRELY in the Desmos Graphing Calculator. It took a lot of hard work and wacky math workarounds to get this to work, so we're really proud of the final product!
This game was made for the 2025 GMTK Game Jam, with the theme of "Loop". We decided to explore this through the looping behavior of the life cycles of plants with a twist using bullet hell gameplay, thus blending two of our personal favorite genres.
Note that you might experience considerable lag due to the fact that calculators aren't "prime game development software", yet nonetheless we hope you enjoy!!
The graph link is below if you want to check out the math behind this! Sprite sheets included.
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/i9ekmifhov
Development Documentary on Youtube coming soon! ish!
Developers:
-Shrocat @shrocat on Discord
-Arglin Arglin Kampling on Youtube
-Jake Jake Walker on Youtube
Special thanks!
@ronwnor and @sea_saw on Discord for help with Desmos to itch.io embedding!
@foop204 on tumblr for character concept!
Comments
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pom bom is not worth it, time is money, money that you could choose not to spend healing
I really like the concept, the game being only as hard as you allow it to be. But the fact that even the music was made on a calculator is very upsetting, it feels unholy. Great job all around.
Neat :3
Very cool, love that it was made with Desmos!