Daily CelLua

The Advancer is a combination of the Mover and Puller, allowing it to both push and pull cells at the same time. It is original to CelLua being added in version 1.0.0, and was suggested by @aadenboy (hey, that's me!).

Day 8: the Puller (#14). The titular cell of CelLua Machine, it moves itself forward with a pulling force every tick, dragging along the cells behind it. It can't push like the Mover.

Day 8: the Enemy (#13). These critters are what you are tasked to rid of when solving a puzzle. When a cell moves into it, it and the opposing cell are damaged 1 HP, of which Enemies and most cells only have one of.

If you could touch one without damaging either of you, I think they would actually be very soft. Sort of like a spore. It would make sense given how Enemies explode on contact.

Day 7: the Trash cell. This critter doesn't do anything on its own, but will "eat" (trash) any cell which moves into it, permanently removing it.

I think these kinds of cells would be real gluttons, partly because trashing is commonly called "eating".

XaiGamer1 sent in some art of a possible design for the Trash cell. The full message is:

man my art is kinda trash... (badum tss) anyways the triangles on the lower half are based on both tiger stripes and the divots in the original cell there are also triangle cutouts in the top half (ears, tail, hair tuft, side tufts) also it has spiky teeth and is very destructive i genuinely just made a mix of a tiger and the evil fiend also the trash icon is on the side because i forgot to make space for it on the front i wanted to draw a mover cat but i couldnt be bothered to tbh speaking of which, mover is distressed because it will be reduced to oblivion in like 2 ticks

Day 6: the 180 Rotator. It rotates the cells around it 180 degrees adjacent to it one axis every tick. Curly guy.

If you want to read about it first, there's also a wiki page for it:

The Inversion, when acted upon by a physical force, stops the original force and exerts its own with infinite bias in the opposite direction. This has some strange effects with the Broken variants of the Generator and Replicator.

Day 5: the CW (#9) and CCW (#10) Rotators. I've decided to kill two birds(?) with one stone here by taking advantage of the fact that rotation can simply be flipped by rotating 180 degrees in 3D. From one side it's clockwise, and from the other it's counterclockwise. Anyways, both Rotators rotate the cells adjacent to it 90 degrees in their indicated direction every tick.

This took a little longer because of the color swap here. At least I don't have to draw two different cats! Since the textures at the bottom left are for 2D CelLua instead of 3D, they are two different cats. The actual texture in-game has a slight gradient, but that would be a pain in the ass to try and replicate.

@gratkrzy sent me an inbox message containing the two independently and I was flattered! He beat me to the chase as well...

anyways here’s a fast nuke in cell machine

Thanks for sending this in! You can make the nuke faster by replacing the CW Rotators with CCW Rotators, as the Generators will rotate into each other rather than away. The density of Generators is much higher this way, leading to a faster expansion. You can also flip the nuke around to get the same effect.

Day 4: the Pushable (#4), Slider (#5), One-Directional (#6), Two-Directional (#7), and Three-Directional (#8). The Pushable is a basic cell—it does nothing. The rest of its siblings are variants of it which can only move in the directions indicated. The names here aren't exactly accurate because this is 3D, so these are Pushable-like siblings which have the corresponding symbol on their right side. You can interpret each face as the directions it can move on that plane specifically.

I like them being all squareish. If it isn't obvious (which it probably isn't), the cheek tufts also point in the directions they can move on the front-back above-below axis. The One-Directional at the top there is worried because it can only move one way, and that's up.

Day 3: the Generator (#3). This cell takes the cell that's behind it and creates a clone of it, pushing whatever's in front of it to make space. Unlike the Mover, it doesn't have bias, and certain cells can't be generated by it.

Day 2: the Mover (#2). This guy moves forward one cell every tick by exerting a pushing force onto itself, allowing it to push cells in front of it. It also exerts one unit of bias.

It's a little hard to be satisfied with the shading here as the Mover is very shiny. It would be easier to make smoother if the color palette was larger, but that's just something I'll need to get used to (and I don't really want to spend all of my time shading each part...). I'm not sure what the cells are made of, but I've been assuming a sort of plastic-like material. The tail's shading would suggest rubber though (as in a balloon). The engravings seen here would be on all sides of the cat, so you would see an arrow from above and below as well.

I've started a series turning CelLua Machine cells into cats. I think this will be a fun exercise and gives me an excuse to revive the blog! Those who know me as @aadenboy may be familiar with my obsession with cats, hence this.

Day 1: the Wall. This cell cannot be affected by any cells, but can still be generated. These first few cells you'll see will define the design characteristics I'm going with for all of the cells, and for immobile cells like the Wall, I imagine them having dense droopy fur with hard angles, similar to the shape (other cells tend to be rounder). I've omitted the bolts in the corners, though.