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Artificial Selection

By quentinmonek

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness351
Audio3352.52
Humor3772.06
Theme5102.54
Fun6472.12
Mood6671.82
Overall6772.31
Graphics6951.96
Innovation7171.92

Comments

gareth001 2012-08-26 05:03

I like the artwork and thats some nice AI.

mamick 2012-08-27 06:46

Interesting concept of evolution and nice music. It could be better, yes, but I can see where you were trying to go.

This is my first LD (though I've been programming for a long white), and I found that using GameMaker really made things easier, so maybe consider using something other than java?

gareth001 2012-08-27 06:50

This is a good game!

depp 2012-08-27 08:09

But.. nothing happens when I win...

mjiig 2012-08-27 09:48

I don't know if I was doing something wrong, but I had to major problems. Firstly shooting didn't seem to do anything for me, except very rarely (like once a minute a bullet would appear). Secondly, when I died and muated (-5 health), nothing actually happened.

I'm on Ubuntu 21.04 Java 1.6.0_24

markavian 2012-08-27 09:50

I win, I win! Death to the purple bats and the bananas!

I was expecting, maybe, to evolve as I killed stuff. I like the different drops that you get, and that the monsters drop stuff before they die, so you can sort of harvest the banana for the <-> powerups.

madpew 2012-08-27 11:19

Needs more sound effects and some way of winning. animations would have been nice as well. Anyways. Well done. It's your first attempt after all.

shmarah 2012-08-29 21:44

I think you have great potential; try working with sprites if your art really bothers you, because making pixel art doesn't essentially require drawing skill to look great. That said, I think that it was relatively great, and I love this music!

mach60kas 2012-08-29 21:45

Took me a second to get the controls, but the game itself is quite nice. :) I like the music, too! :D

wlad 2012-08-29 21:55

nice game! i cant see why you beat yourself up about it, its playable and the concept works. i liked the controls.

thurig 2012-08-30 10:04

Too bad the enemies don't respawn after killing them all. Nice idea!

x-0ut 2012-08-30 10:29

You put yourself down too much, the art isnt that bad. The music is very good too.

kmad 2012-09-01 11:12

Good effort, I think you're a little hard on yourself - LD is tough and you've got something out there that you can build on. I had a bit of trouble with the shooting, the bullets only appeared infrequently but other than that it could work well. I liked the idea of evolving when you die.

quentinmonek 2012-09-02 03:16

The bullet speed depends on your framerate, I didn't really realize that until I tried it on my Macbook :/

harusame 2012-09-04 14:16

Nice music and your game is fun :) But enemis don't respawn, it's finish when we kill all ?

gama11 2012-09-07 09:29

Cool idea, but lacks polish. The gameplay isn't interesting enough right, enemies are all the same bascially, just different images. I was able to defeat all of them within 3 or so deaths - not Try Again or anything from there.
Don't force the player to pick up his mouse for restarting in a keyboard-based game.
More sfx would be nice, music was good. The graphics, however, are rather poor. Hit detection should be pixel-perfect, but all the hitboxes seem to be squares.