danlthemanl 2012-08-27 01:18
This game is awesome! I almost cried at the end :'(
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → Caveman Evolution Story
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humor | 64 | 3.32 | ||
| Mood | 81 | 3.42 | ||
| Theme | 90 | 3.69 | ||
| Overall | 164 | 3.38 | ||
| Graphics | 200 | 3.38 | ||
| Fun | 239 | 3.04 | ||
| Innovation | 247 | 3.15 | ||
| Audio | 429 | 2.23 | ||
| Coolness | 742 | 39 |
This game is awesome! I almost cried at the end :'(
Baby caveman :)
I loved how the skills vary over the different ages! Nice graphics too although I'd have liked to have animations :-D.
Good humour and very nice graphics, really enjoyed the simplicity of it :)
I loved it!
Nice game! The graphics all fit well together, the story's rather amusing; I like it. The spike collisions could be a bit more lenient. Other than that, I quite liked it.
By the way: When I play the web version, all that happens is the elderly man drops off the screen. And my browser lags.
+ nice graphics
+ good story
- it took me 3 attempts to actually play the game, the first times it would simply crash or some error would appear.
- too short
Ah, the human body. The final frontier. How to we change ourselves? How do we make ourselves better? How do we *evolve*?
Since the dawn of time we have wrestled with these questions. We have found no answer, for the question itself is not a valid one.
The harsh reality is that we do not evolve. Or, at least, our physical body doesn't; our flesh starts its decay the moment we break free of the womb. The absoluteness of life is that we are all going to die, eventually.
But we still should not fret. What liberates us is our sapience. If there is one thing we can evolve, it is our mind; if there is one thing that is always increasing, it is our wisdom; if there is one that is endless, it is our knowledge.
Hence why our protagonist's quest is a fool's errand. Rather than try to regain youth - and as such, *devolve* his body - he probably should instead he keeps his mind sharp, and not go falling into holes in the goddamn lawn.
Very linear, very challenging sometimes, controls were a bit hard. Overexplanation of what's going on feels like a cop-out and breaks the mood a bit. Beautiful washed out pixel art at times. Not sure I reached the end; tunnel was blocked by rocks. Performs better in Firefox than Chrome.
great ideas, i really loved the end too, the web version is still a bit buggy but the normal one works perfectly.
Also, ni art for something this minimal, really like it :D
The graphics were nice, however animations would of made the game even better. I really enjoyed the story. Great game!
Fun game! the jumping spike is kinda hard because you die only by touching its sides.
cool game the spikes are a little to hard or touchy i finally gave up and didnt make it to the end though i really wanted to see the end after reading the comments.
lol. Sad Caveman. Interesting how one has to die to 'evolve.'
I really liked that.
+ for graphics, concept and amazing ending
Nice!
Good story and nice graphics.
A little difficult sometimes :)
Nice little story. I feel like this could have been an interesting puzzle game if you could change ages at will but that would obviously lost some of the meaning behind the story.
Fun little story :)
sometimes the game crashes and the player doesnt evolve from child to youth :( but nice idea :)
Hahaha, this was brilliant, the web version got stuck at the part with breakable rocks, he never turned into adult, but I could finish the windows version. Really nice job, humorous ending!
Nice. Very nice. Simplicity is great.