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The Genetic Playground

By kyliroth

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor373.00
Coolness4313
Audio433.23
Innovation543.31
Community913.00
Theme1023.15
Overall1532.62
Fun1742.31
Graphics1932.31

Comments

kyliroth 2010-12-20 02:16

Dropbox is running really slowly... the upload is running over the time. Is this ok? Didn't expect it to take so long.

kyliroth 2010-12-20 02:27

Ignore that last comment haha. It's sorted. Tiredness is getting the better of me.

hsmith 2010-12-20 03:37

It seems like you might be having problems with dropbox? The link isn't working, if you need a place to upload I might be able to help you. just send me an e-mail [email protected]

hsmith 2010-12-20 03:37

It seems like you might be having problems with dropbox? The link isn't working, if you need a place to upload I might be able to help you. just send me an e-mail howard@blacktriangles.com

kyliroth 2010-12-20 03:45

Ahh cheers! It's got a few mintues left of uploading to dropbox. I'll let you know when. Thanks again though!

hsmith 2010-12-20 04:11

very cool, love the voice acting =]

karsithe 2010-12-20 18:08

This is a really cool idea.

The intro text changed faster than I can read, but the voice acting more than made up for it.

deathbysnail 2010-12-20 21:38

Nice work dude

plams 2010-12-20 22:57

Nice idea :) Now if only they attempted moving with arms for legs,...

grimfang4 2010-12-21 00:18

This had better be good for the download size!!!

kyliroth 2010-12-21 01:00

Thanks very much! Yeah i wish i was more prepared to add animations and such in the time given. And yeah sorry the game is only 20mb really. There is just an uncompressed wav on there which i'm compressing now. So it should shrink soon.

kyliroth 2010-12-21 01:35

Done, it's now 20Mb instead of 150Mb that audio wave was unecessary. compressed to ogg instead.

arielsan 2010-12-21 03:30

It was funny to see all the creatures being created, but I felt like following no objective. Indeed, it seems more like a toy than a game itself.

You should make a way to skip dialogs, I had to restart the game and have to hear again everithing :(

ranklar 2010-12-21 04:25

The voice over was a good attempt, but you should record it while the text is being displayed so you can get the speed right. You were going a lot slower than the words, and it was on the 2nd part of the speech while you were still on the first part. The game got cluttered REALLY fast, it would be nice if you were able to delete or remove some of the spliced creatures.

kyliroth 2010-12-21 11:25

Thanks, the voice was really a last minute thing so i didn't spend much time matching the speed. You can press enter to skip the text dialogue but it won't stop the sounds. Forgot to add that, 1 line of code can solve that.

I'll add some deletes and removes too. I was going to make it so you can select where you want them to breed, but it just finds the centre point between the two creatures and spawns them around that point.
Cheers though!

kyliroth 2010-12-21 11:34

Just quickly fixed that dialogue thing. No major change though.

thristhart 2010-12-21 20:49

More a toy than a game, but a pretty amusing toy!

xeon06 2010-12-30 01:00

That was really fun and interesting!

endurion 2010-12-31 18:31

Very ambitious!
But right now it doesn't really deliver. I spliced around with monsters and humans, and suddenly the game slowed to a crawl (about 0.1 FPS).
There is no real goal as of now?

kyliroth 2011-01-03 14:37

Endurion: Yeah, there is no limit or optimisations for HUGE amount of monsters and no goal... it's merely a toy. There was a lot i learned from this though, and what i can do next time to ensure i have a 'game'. I spent more time on foundation code which i was annoyed at.
Thank you for your feedback though. Much appreciated!
xeon06: Thank you very much! It's good to hear.