

Green planktonic algae makes it an herbivore, strange floating red blood-cells (or perhaps some creature I don't recognize?) makes it a carnivore, and blue jellyfish make it an omnivore. The basic game play principle is that you can alter the development path of your Copepod by eating different kinds of food. The numbers count down, so x/70 means there are x jellyfish remaining. I deleted my old save so here I'm on level three, which only toke about ten minutes to reach but with later levels it can take hours to complete each one as they simply become so large and more of the goals become actual enemies as opposed to hapless jellyfish. The HUD Menu's look really nice but all the sparkly bits that look like watery lighting make for bad screenshots. Even the effects for the animals fighting are very synthesized and fit in well with the music. Speaking of sound this game has a really good OST, very calming. When you launch the game the settings open in a pop-up which has detail and resolution and such, so the in-game menu only has a toggle for competitive mode and sound options. This game has no Kanji support so for anyone who was still curious how to romanize my name there it is. The game has essentially no lore beyond that you play as a fictional Copepod like animal that eats other abyssal animals most (if not all) of which are real animals. It's basically Feeding Frenzy meets Star Trek chess. I bought this game a few years ago, binged it for about a week, and then forgot it existed until today.

There is however a Sparkle 3 which was released fairly recently, and it seems to follow much the same style with a new OST and different animals and multiple environments (something this game lacks). Now I have no idea whether a Sparkle (1) exists or not, but if so I couldn't find it on Steam and I'm lazy like that.

The evil forces are now back, and they’ve become stronger and more desperate. The art of soulful music is threatened to the point of extinction. The world of music is once more in danger. Frederic: Evil Strikes Back (Indie / Casual / Action / Music / Comedy) The collection includes everything from monster-led fiendish puzzles games to cats on diets. The Dollar Forever Bundle consists of 26 Steam games for only US$1.00 (AU$1.34). Here’s another one dollar treat not only for PC gamers, but Mac and Linux users as well.
