sakuyan 2012-08-26 22:25
I like the concept and the style of art you got there. The sound is a little bit hard to listen to constantly :(
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → SURVIVE
By ragzouken
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Innovation | 72 | 3.66 | ||
| Graphics | 147 | 3.56 | ||
| Theme | 177 | 3.43 | ||
| Mood | 242 | 2.91 | ||
| Overall | 249 | 3.19 | ||
| Fun | 307 | 2.91 | ||
| Audio | 443 | 2.19 | ||
| Humor | 449 | 1.86 |
I like the concept and the style of art you got there. The sound is a little bit hard to listen to constantly :(
I got an error:
http://s8.postimage.org/bmhmqgro5/survive_error_Screen.png
Am I doing something wrong? I don't know anything about LUA.
I extracted the files into a folder on my desktop and started the .exe
That must be my fault somehow!
(fixed)
Thanks for the fix! This game is frantic, I like it!
I really like the art style. The sounds could probably be improved. I wasn't quite sure what I was doing with the gameplay. Perhaps having fewer "cells" at the beginning might give the player a chance to figure things out.
This an awesome idea for the theme and really orignal ;D i love it
One of the best entries played so far! I actually love it! Congrats!
It's an original idea, and it's a lot of fun to play once you get the hang of what you're doing.
Brilliantly executed and the graphics feel right for the game as well. The sounds are the most annoying part, and when you get pulled into a huge croud of the blobs in the middle to die multiple times and switch organism can be a little infuriating as well.
Wow, difficult and interesting gameplay with a very effective visual style. Well done!
Interesting though a bit confusing at first. Visual hints of what is happening would have been more useful than annoying sounds imho ^^ ... and also as someone proposed earlier, less cells at first
Very neat concept. I found it hard to get any control on the situation, mainly cause in the end all these cells kept cluttering in the middle and instantly sucking away my health :P but I can see how this could turn into a very interesting balanced game :)
Great concept, nice graphics as well, the consistency helped create a nice feel for the game.
I had to disable my sound, the game was better. Apart from that it was fun to play.
Cool game.
Thanks for all the feedback guys :)
The sound is annoying, I admit - I thought it'd be better than silence, but it seems it's more irritating than anything, especially since it only really serves to hint that you are winning or losing.
The fact that they cluster is a big problem - they need to try and spread out more - fleeing from attacks, building children in safety, and collision are possibly solutions that I'll try when I come back to this :)
And yeah, it's quite difficult to tell what's going on - fewer starting organisms is probably the way to go, but improvements to choosing which organism to take control of after you die will probably help too.
It's a fantastic looking game, of that I have no doubt. But gameplay-wise, I had little idea what was going on. And yes, the sound wasn't quite perfect :P
I like how the game matches with the theme very well, and I also liked the graphics. It was hard to tell what was going on though.
Sound was annoying ,crashed :(
Could you give me any more information about the nature of the crash? You can disable sound by pressing "n" btw.
I found it both pretty and fun to play. Oh, and thanks for including a color-blind mode! :D
original idea, I cant figure out how to win this.. I always get overrun by the other cells without being able to build my own tree. nice art style. enjoyed it, but it's too hard for me :/
Best LD game I've played so far. It takes a while to get used to, but after working out the best strategy for making childing and keeping myself at full I did well - there was a huge bunch of people in the centre at the end and I just died every time I switched character, but they were mostly mine so I won.
Cool! This game took me a bit to get the hang of, but I think that the underlying principles are really great. A lot of fun!
It's always the little games that get most of my attention... congratulations man. Found it a little hard to understand in the beginning but after playing with it for some time I really liked it!
Well, I don't think I ever got the hang of this game. I lost once, then I think I won once, because all the bleeps and bloops stopped, and everything looked roughly the same color. But even if I don't fully understand it, I can tell it's pretty creative. It would be really nice for us Dvorak users if you made arrow keys work too: the keyboard switcher doesn't always work for Love. :)
I like this one. Nice graphics and gameplay.
I guess I was the best organism, I was always the biggest, nice game :)
Wow! Cool game & graphics. The sound was a bit annoying, though :/
This was a pretty good game, I played through a couple of times, picked up what was going on very quickly. My third game they started breeding out of control, creating this singularity of blip boop beep that progressively got more psychedelic as the program crashed. Great work!
Very interesting game! I'm not sure if I won or not, but everyone was pink.
The AI seemed to have a tendency to create a massive cluster in the centre of the game area. Winning was just a matter of hovering around it, spawning new cells. Would be very interested in playing a version with better AI!
I quite liked the sound, too! If you added some ambient background noise (perhaps related to the current game state in a very subtle way?) it would create the perfect atmosphere.
I like how the audio kind of makes it's own music.
I really loved the graphic style of this - thought the fine art of staying alive eluded me. Great job!
The ending gets a little insane and I can't really see what's happening. Other than that, great graphics and the gameplay is unique.
Using a track pad with this sucks! BUT a fun and interesting game :)
Really cool concept. Feels quite similar to osmos. Was a bit confusing at the beginning, and can get a bit chaotic. Awesome art and nice sfx's. Nice job!
Well done, looks very nice.
I found impossible to manage the balance of life drain/inject, it's a very good project, thanks for coding it in Love, you can export it as web also, there is a bug when you deactivate the sounds...it keep emitting audio ¿?
I think you can use the shapes to create some kind of rule and transform entities when color mixes, create mutations inside the cell and so on.
Best wishes.
The style is strong in this one.
The concept is pretty cool, pretty difficult game. Also the sounds are very annoying, even if you turn off the birth sounds, the other wooom wooom sound keeps on playing.
I think this is the first entry I've played that uses sound also to communicate the lifeforming process, very cool.
Gameplay is confusing, rather chaotic.
My interest was held during the time I played it though.
An interesting take on evolution! Nice!
I loved the idea, very clever.. Unluckily soon there are too many cells in the same place, and it becomes quite unplayable..
I'll vote you high just for the color blind mode(I'm color blind :( )
Overall nice idea, but I think that it is realy hard to die :D
I tried dieing and it took me a minute or two. I don't know if this is good or bad just saying :D
Thanks again for the feedback guys :)
Really sorry about the sound bug (the warning sound should stop when the game ends!).
I was worried it would take me too long to implement collisions (it was actually shamefully easy :(), which would have (and has, post-compo - along with some changes to make the AI try to give birth in safe areas) solved the clustering problems.
There were also a number of bugs with detecting which organisms you were clicking on, if any, so there are some cases where it's difficult, if not impossible, to drain/heal/breed when it looks like it should be - I have fixed those post compo.
The other problem that seems to have come up is that a mutual attack on someone stronger than you appears no different to your attack failing as an organism kills you. I haven't worked out how best to solve this yet.
Unfortunately it wasn't executed as well as it could have been, but the concept is amazing. I'm sure if you worked with it you could end up with something quite awesome. Other than this, hmm, I guess I should point out the ringing noise that gets more prominent as the game goes on, can get kinda annoying. :) Not bad.
game starts stuttering/frame skipping and not sure why i respawn as a different color, but interesting concept! on windows 7 64bit
Probably due to the code being inefficient. When you respawn you take control of an existing allied organism, so you won't be exactly the same colour.
Nice! Took me a while to fully understand what to do, but quite fun once I got the hang of it.
Unlike some others I rather liked the sound :).
The concept is cool. It doesn't have much design on it aside from draining health from other organisms and create new ones, but there's potential for a full lenghted game. The graphic style is nice.