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Beetlefield : The Forecast

By benjamin-soule

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall54.17
Innovation34.26
Fun243.81
Theme74.34
Coolness1100
Audio393.66
Graphics394.16
Mood1003.30
Humor2242.53

Comments

ultrasnowfire 2012-08-27 03:14

Realty fun game to play! Got addicted to it after about 2 minutes!:)

deepnight 2012-08-27 04:02

Amazing ! :)

jsjwooowooo 2012-08-27 06:10

Great game! This take on the evolution theme is quite ingenious and well-implemented. If you wanted to know the small issues I experienced, I didn't hear any sound, just letting you know in case there was supposed to be any, and one time the description boxes for the powerups were stuck open, obscuring the field a bit, but that only happened once.

Issues aside, this was quite awesome and fun! I wonder how much deciding the battle goes to the setup of the bugs, but either way, picking and voting and watching feels wonderfully epic!

loggiant 2012-08-27 06:17

I think this game is amazing! I played an earlier build you posted, and I really like the extra effects/evolutions you added since then!
And the skirmish mode is also a wonderful idea, in fact here is my wonderful team:
Hototo;0;5;8;14;3;0;6472d

masterbaldwin 2012-08-27 06:40

Awesome game :) Loved every bettle killing, explosing tearing, upclose blade blasting minute of it!

ncannasse 2012-08-27 09:58

Quite funny to play and see how things evolve. But the instant "gameover" is a bit frustrating.

benjamin-soule 2012-08-27 13:34

jsjwooowooo > for the sfx I can hear them here, If anyone have the same problem please let me know. This is the first time I try to write music on a LD game I really hope you can hear (or suffer ) it :)
For the hint box problem, I think I will add a post compo version with some corrections.

Barktroll 2012-08-27 19:27

Awesome game, can't stop playing it.

maxium 2012-08-27 19:27

Interesting, but wish I could do a little more than just vote on who wins

pixelulsar 2012-08-27 19:30

Really fun, and very good use of the theme. One of my favourites.

sanguine 2012-08-27 19:34

I love it! Nothing comes to mind that is annoying or badly designed. It's just like cockfights, but with beetles!

ionium 2012-08-27 20:16

Port it to tablets - you will make gorillions.

midgard 2012-08-27 23:11

ALL good mother of god this is an awesome game!

Midgard's Army;7;9;4;12;26736

cipher 2012-08-27 23:12

This should win the compo

flyingbear 2012-08-27 23:12

cool concept for a game, and matched the theme nicely. It really got me rootin' for my beetle team. Might've been nice to have just a little bit to do while the fight was going on. The beetle leg animations really impressed me for some reason =)

brassawiking 2012-08-27 23:33

Only issue I got with the normal gameplay is that it is almost like playing who wants to be a millionaire, but without the life lines =) Something to help you get up to the higher levels.

farmergnome 2012-08-28 00:31

Awesome game!

omaha 2012-08-28 00:50

This is an amazing game. So much polish.

yettatore 2012-08-28 02:55

Guau! Too polish!

mamick 2012-08-28 03:34

Fantastic game! I played it so many times until I could beat your team (Me;5;8;10;13;13;1;b44e3). Watching battles got a bit tiring though, and a fast forward button might be nice.

tobiasnl 2012-08-28 09:35

THE best entry I've seen yet. Good graphics, sounds and music.
The game mechanic are also very original and well made. Kudos for you, sir.

marudziik 2012-08-28 11:07

Wow, I'm speechless. Awesome. Just awesome.
I don't know if it's my computer, but when there are a lot of beetles and bullets on the screen, it slows down a little (not much, it still works perfectly). Also, something to reset the game without refreshing the page would be neat.
Nevertheless, perfect entry.

benjamin-soule 2012-08-28 11:44

marudziik > There should be a menu button to letting you go back to the menu... You had nothing poping up at the end of fights ?

daydalus 2012-08-28 23:58

Very solid game. Graphics, sound, etc are very well done. It's funny how I found myself rooting for my team even though I had no control - pretty good AI to have the beetles battle it out for so long. Would love to see this game concept expanded where you can buy different traits to build an army and challenge others.

benderbinary 2012-08-29 07:45

Pretty, pretty, pretty and addictive!

andreibarsan 2012-08-29 11:57

Really, really fun! :D I enjoy this type of game so much! Well done - incredibly polished, even for a regular game developed in a month or so! I liked the AI a lot! I would really enjoy reading a post-mortem or something describing some of the game's technical details!

vladp 2012-08-29 12:26

Very addicting! Amazing game :D

vladp 2012-08-29 15:15

BUG: When only one larva left you lose even though the larva transforms a second after

bmacintosh 2012-08-29 15:50

Easily the best graphics I've seen. Looks like a published game. The gameplay, though, had a tendency to be frustrating - even when one team had an obvious advantage (Blade/Elite vs Intimidate/Intimidate), it seemed like the outcome could still go either way.

vladp 2012-08-29 16:20

Check out my army "Vlad;12;6;15;1;6;13;11;af6ac".
Right now I've beaten every other army on that page :)

porpentine 2012-08-29 21:52

ahhhh i love gladiator style games, nice job on...everything!

porpentine 2012-08-29 22:00

gyahhhh, i love the balancing act of learning when to change sides, this is one of the best entries

spe 2012-08-29 23:43

That is some really clever interpretation of the theme! In my opinion the fights feel a bit too random due to the movement and shooting behavior; and could also be a bit faster, but that may be in some degree subjective. However the game mechanics is very impressive for 48h.

thewiseguy99 2012-08-30 05:11

What a great game!!! The graphics are amazing especially considering the time. Very slick well put together game. Impressed!

90sml 2012-08-30 11:37

The idea is awesome. The skirmish mode is great and can get addictive.

My army is so bad ^^ Dams;9;6;af064

amidos2006 2012-08-30 11:42

that's incredible :)

yakka 2012-08-30 11:51

This game is awesome. Seriously! Great art, music and gameplay. Simple idea really well realised.

timtipgames 2012-08-30 11:58

this game is brilliant. Great gfx, funny and addictive idea.

dustystylus 2012-08-30 12:38

Well, I think this is my winner. It's 1) Addictive 2) Beautiful 3) Sounds good 4) Fits the theme and it feels like a lot of polish has gone into this. Really exceptional, well done!

demianthekiller 2012-08-30 14:21

My best army is unbeatable : Demianthekiller;0;0;12;12;12;12;2;2;2;2;cd17c

Mister 3.14 2012-08-30 14:37

My army:DNA;0;12;15;6;2;14;b50c9 !
Very good game !

keenblaze 2012-08-30 14:44

The most innovative game I've seen here! Plus very well polished. I think has a great future!

Mister 3.14 2012-08-30 15:18

Twinoid en force !

keenblaze 2012-08-30 19:09

Benjamin,check this out! rrrr;1;3;15;5;0;6;2;32355
This is super army :D

mr_hk_ 2012-08-30 19:25

very cool game, but i do prefer monkey rather beetle =)

fun yet pretty stressfull

marudziik 2012-08-30 23:11

@Benjamin Yeah, at the end of the fights, but what if I wanted to go back during the fight, the voting or just after selecting skirmish mode? :) As I've stated before, this is perfect anyway. :)

thurig 2012-08-31 06:13

Fun game with great game play!

echa 2012-08-31 09:31

Great!

Mister 3.14 2012-08-31 12:13

BEST ARMY EVER >> thopie;2;10;8;4;8;12;9;11;0;7;1;10;15;8;2;14;117c0
comme quoi, avoir une mauvaise connexion peut être bénéfique ;)

dr_soda 2012-08-31 14:27

This is both thematically appropriate *and* fun! Great job on the idea! I like the AI, and even though your interaction is limited so simply betting on the winner it's still really entertaining to just watch the fights go down.

ointment 2012-08-31 18:53

NONONO-- YESYESYES! SHOOT! SHOOT! NO GODDAMMIT HOW COULD YOU ALL MISS IT WAS 3 VS 1 AND HE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.

Oddly exciting for a zero-player game. I guess it's because the mechanics are simplistic so it feels fair to estimate which team to bet on and to understand how a match develops.

benjamin-soule 2012-08-31 19:17

@Jiggawatt " A zero-player game " :D I have to use that as a subtitle

@marudziik You're right I have never implemented esc key during play on any games whereas I appreciate it on others games :) I will do it on next version.

I'm currently working on a post-compo version with no memory-leak, and new habilities. I already finished POWER, OFFENSIVE_BOUNCE, SALVO, CANNIBALISM, SEEKER_BOMB and EXALTED.

josriley 2012-08-31 22:19

New Favorite! This game held my attention for the last half hour! The unpredictability makes it interesting to watch, and the hope of seeing hyper-evolved teams fight is a great incentive to keep trying. Great Work!!!!!!

zazery 2012-09-01 02:41

This is so awesome. The DNA code sharing is awesome.

kmad 2012-09-01 12:50

Brilliant concept and very polished. You've got some great ideas in there like the DNA sharing. Great work!

colapsydo 2012-09-01 13:42

This game is just playing around with our emotions. If you want to rise a winning team, you have to wish the death of the team you were cheering during the previous battle.
Hopefully there are just beetles, monkeys would have been worst.

sience 2012-09-01 21:52

Wow. You should make a post compo version with online dna trading machanism.

depp 2012-09-02 12:14

Love it! They're so good at dodging, it would be nice to see 'em slip once in a while.

mes 2012-09-02 15:06

awesome!

fylth 2012-09-02 20:46

Sweet, excellent game, really looking forward to the post-compo version! If I may make some suggestions, could we see more abilities that effect elites (to make them even more useful) and an ability to prioritise targets (so that they first tend to go for Elites, then Queens and then normals)

In any case, keep up the good work!

recursor 2012-09-03 00:39

Very cool concept. I played it again and again...and again....

Theremin 2012-09-04 00:21

My best army (well, best losing army... you can tell when people invented their army wholesale if it's completely unbeatable, funnily enough. You should have seen the other one; that was a poor bet.) George;5;5;1;13;6;10;9;15;5;8;e079c . Dodge is my favorite skill, but it doesn't show up here, though it does in the other army. Such a bad bet.

grouflon 2012-09-05 16:41

The web link don't seem to be working anymore :(

ghribacki 2012-09-05 20:44

Whoa! This is definetely my favorite entry so far!!
Simply awesome. The Skirmish mode was my favorite, though I lost the code I got from the Evolution mode when copying yours over to make them fight. I think it doesn't matter anyway, since mine lost. =P
Really liked the graphics, couldn't fit more the theme and it was really fun and challenging. VERY innovative.

Congratulations! =D

adhesion 2012-09-06 03:51

Wow, so addictive! Nice music and variety too. Tends to be a bit back-and-forth sometimes though.

infernet89 2012-09-06 09:50

Very nice graphics, too bad the lack of real interation :(

rev 2012-09-06 20:17

Very good game.

I beat you. I didn't save my code but I had :
My team name was : AHAHAH and the skills was:
DODGER, GRENADA, RAPIDFIRE, AMBUSH, ELITE, INTIMIDATE

maple 2012-09-07 05:14

Amazing. I love the little legs as they walk, too, lol. My only gripe is that as far as I can tell, there's no way of backing to the menu in Skirmish mode if you can't provide codes.

skulls 2012-09-07 08:27

tripleintimidate;10;14;7;52030 CUM AT MY TRIPLE INTIMIDATE BRO
Love this game, gonna bookmark this shit.

pierrec 2012-09-07 11:03

This is excellent. I have no time to test the squirmish mode, but I will.

kddekadenz 2012-09-08 17:03

Very entertaining, innovative and beautiful and it does sound good, too.

kddekadenz 2012-09-08 17:06

Oh, and here is the DNA: The Smashers;13;12;9;1;14;0;2;6c09b

hamster_mk_4 2012-09-08 19:10

This game is as fun to play as betting on horse racing. I know many people who like that sort of thing but I am not one of them. The innovation and adherence to the theme are quite impressive. As is the polish you managed to put into the game.

davedobson 2012-09-08 22:13

Very nice game - I liked the non-traditional style of play, where you decide who wins to gain powerups for other battles. Very fun, and very well executed.

airdeck 2012-09-09 04:19

Surprisingly fun since all you do is bet. I just wish there was like a "DNA library" that would automatically store & list your winnings.

papygaragos 2012-09-09 12:48

so... basically, you just click once and watch? how did i spent 20 minutes on that?

kibertoad 2012-09-09 13:25

Excellent game!

puzzlem00n 2012-09-13 01:10

What does it mean when your guys just start flashing yellow and run off the screen? Is that a glitch? Or intimidation-related?

Great game. One of the best, and fantastic art. I literally double checked to make sure this was in the 48.

lekochen 2012-09-15 11:18

Very innovative, great game!

benw 2012-09-16 17:46

Just played way too much of this. Please please please refine it a bit more and release it on ios/android.

dany45 2012-09-19 12:49

Just amazing game (for 48 hours) :D

ULTIME_DNA_CODE_BY_DANY45;0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30;31;32;33;34;35;36;37;38;39;40;41;42;43;44;45;46;47;48;49;50;51;52;53;54;55;56;57;58;59;60;61;62;63;64;65;66;67;68;69;70;71;72;73;74;75;76;77;78;79;80;81;82;83;84;85;86;87;88;89;90;91;92;93;94;95;96;97;98;99;9e61a

csanyk 2012-10-06 04:04

This game was awesome! Only would have liked it if the transitions from screen to screen were a bit faster. I get impatient waiting:)

csanyk 2012-10-06 04:08

I beat the Benjamin best swarm easily with this: pug;14;1;13;5;6;7;7;69e3b

jpcote 2012-10-09 03:46

Very good game, very funny.

kgs0142 2012-10-23 09:56

This one is pretty cool!!

Zygoatsalami 2013-08-17 21:25

This game is great!
I beat your army with (QIFATA;10;11;3;9;1;9;04eb3)

Hate9 2018-05-03 16:28

It's been a really long time, but it's really really weird that nobody ever mentioned that you can just use a previous code as the army name (with or without the last, longer bit) and it'll add the new traits to the old ones, making it really really easy to make an OP army.

Hate9 2018-05-03 16:33

As a really easy example of an obviously fake code, just look up at Dany45's ULTIME_DNA_CODE_BY_DANY45