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Small Worm

By huchickut

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness368
Fun973.44
Theme1323.53
Overall2613.17
Humor4141.95
Mood5232.33
Innovation5752.36
Graphics6412.18

Comments

ayce 2012-08-27 00:31

Great game! :D

TheFridolin 2012-08-27 09:55

I agree with AyCe.
The movement of the snake is fantastic and you can feel the improvement by the evolution! :D

Ligh7zIncrement 2012-08-27 12:50

Pretty good :)

vilya 2012-08-27 12:54

Good work. Nice smooth animation, intuitive controls. Could use some sounds, and a bit of polish on the graphics.

surreal_whale 2012-08-27 12:55

A nice twist on the standard snake game, fitted quite well with the theme and I liked having a choice of how to evolve my worm.

tompudding 2012-08-27 12:56

This was quite addictive, I wanted to get to the next stage to see what the next evolution would be. Great job!

entity2d 2012-08-27 12:56

Congrats on finishing your first LD game! Pretty good job, fits in with the theme well!

agersant 2012-08-27 12:58

Nice game. The game mechanics are a bit strange because the more you play the easier it gets.

Jeremias 2012-08-27 12:58

Very addictive. Strange how human motivation works :D I played it 12 minutes and 37 seconds. "Skilling" is such a nice mechanic. If you make a post-compo-version, just add sounds for eating or obstacles which hurt. Or a skilltree instead of choosing two options.

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turnip 2012-08-27 13:02

I really liked this game! But it is a bit grindy! It would have been just as fun if it took less food to level up. I completed in 13 minutes 33 seconds - by the end I just left it running on it's own - the game could have done with a bit more challenge after a few levels maybe.

Good job!

madpew 2012-08-27 13:24

12:33, nice idea. Smooth gameplay, somewhat slow if you take the wrong perks in the beginning. Missing sound and music, besides to that solid game! well done.

TheFridolin 2012-08-27 15:55

@agersant: //The game mechanics are a bit strange because the more you play the easier it gets.

I think this shows the use of evolution pretty well, because for us humans, that are on a pretty high level of evolution, life is more easy than for a bird :D

wumpus 2012-08-27 18:38

It was quite therapeutic guiding that guy around. Nice use of the theme and nice implementation overall. Not exactly challenging but relaxing enough to entertain. Nice one.

maacus 2012-08-27 18:53

Like the movement, and the gameplay adds nicely to the snake-concept. I think more polished graphics and some sound would make this game even better.

kyyrma 2012-08-27 21:43

Like some people have mentioned before, the snake movement is really fluid looking. Nice job.

Although this game is very basic, it really showcases one thing I've always believed in: allowing the player to customize his abilities always improves a game. Even something as simple as Snake!

aare 2012-08-27 22:40

I love that it can go through the walls - for me that is a rule that diverse the mere snake clones from the good ones

cappelnord 2012-08-29 10:30

Good to see another worm game :-D Beeing able to accelerate / deaccelerate would be great. I also find it quite confusing to have "more food" appears as an evolution stage. Keep it up!

wlad 2012-08-31 14:33

12:29 got addicted. Simple and yet a classic. :) Graphics are improvable

ayce 2012-08-31 16:11

As you can see from the source code, "more food" was originally called "better eyes (sees more food)" ^^

sev_inf 2012-09-03 19:18

Nice idea of classic game imporovement, but would be better game if it will have some sort of challange. Probably, some enemy or few obstacles. Cantgratulations with a first LD experience.

josriley 2012-09-03 19:26

Very smooth, clean game. Not sure why I didn't think of it, but snake is the classic evolution game!

zx81 2012-09-06 10:05

Good game, the snake's movement is great!