lucasncv 2012-08-27 16:38
Nice idea! I think the controls are better suited for a touch screen. The little bars are a bit confusing at first.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → Kryphilis
By lajos
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Nice idea! I think the controls are better suited for a touch screen. The little bars are a bit confusing at first.
Very interesting game, it's different. If you click the x button it makes a random explosion appear! haha destroy your population faster! It was very difficult to get the partners to get together, they seemed to die much faster than i could pick. Very nice idea though, maybe have only a couple be effected and spread it like a virus that you have to try to stop. :)
I like the idea but there are some points that made it less fun for me:
- I found it really hard to get them to mingle most of the time, the controls are a little unintuitive in my opinion.
- The balancing and pacing isn't quite right. I couldn't focus on the inheritance aspect of it at all, because they all die so quickly. A smaller portion of the map with less people and a bit more longevity would probably have fit this well.
Nonetheless, I think there is a really fun mechanic hiding in there, you just need to get it out somehow. ;)
Thanks for the comments. I had much greater ambitions, like level progression, some attraction behavior, but then it was Sunday afternoon ;) I also agree that the controls needed a bit more work.
Really liked the concept, but controlling a large population with a bunch of tiny mouse movements seems to be a bit too much for me. Larger sprites and some way of controlling them more effectively would make this much better.