sclark39 2012-08-27 02:13
I like how evolving the better body prevents you from picking up some DNA. This game's a bit of a grind, but I think that means if you polished it up it would do quite well on Kong.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → Explore, Evolve, Escape!
By kirbytails7
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 84 | ||
| Theme | 83 | 3.71 | ||
| Fun | 211 | 3.12 | ||
| Overall | 240 | 3.21 | ||
| Innovation | 278 | 3.07 | ||
| Humor | 326 | 2.19 | ||
| Audio | 418 | 2.26 | ||
| Mood | 430 | 2.52 | ||
| Graphics | 439 | 2.71 |
I like how evolving the better body prevents you from picking up some DNA. This game's a bit of a grind, but I think that means if you polished it up it would do quite well on Kong.
Pretty addicting, I wish that you had to plan your improvements in order to keep getting stars. Pretty neat!
Great concept! I agree that the grinding might be necessary, but different levels might solve that. Nice to see a good canvas/js game.
Fun game. Good execution of the theme. The level design was such that replaying after each upgrade wasn't too much of a drag.
Thanks, all! The goal was to have a tolerable amount of grinding, sort of like a dungeon crawler, with advancing enough each time to keep it interesting. Glad you liked it.
Nice game. It's true that you have to grind, but that's only annoying during the first few generations. Once you start rocking, you can't even consider it grinding, since everytime you reach new places.
I escaped in 15 generations. That's acceptable grinding, and given that there's a single level, I feel it was the right choice.
Nice game!
I just re-played it. First game in the LD48 I've actually wanted to replay. The evolution mechanic made me want to try again and take a different path. This time I escaped in 15 evolutions (the first time I didn't even know there was an escape). Great work, again. :)
Cool concept. I like how the music evolves.
Cool, had a nice Spore feel to it, how you can choose your upgrades, but it looks way too long to get to the good stuff.
I really liked the concept, the music evolving was indeed a nice touch. I just really feel that the evolve menu has some navigational issues... It just takes too long to navigate through it, and it's such an important part of the game!
Great job with the game!
This is in the theme and the character is funny.
So, you made a music and it evolves each level (great idea by the way) but a string hurts my hear !
I really enjoyed it!
I liked how I could customize my character to fit my play style, very cool! Great job!
I really enjoyed this game, it was pretty fun and could get rather addicting. This is a game I will play again. :)
Thanks for all of the comments!
Fun fun fun. Worked really well with the theme. Has an ending you want to work for.
Really fun mechanic. Had a good time getting collecting dna and upgrading.
A preview of the a selected evolution would be nice. Especially since the bigger body blocks off some of the DNA.
I really enjoyed this one! I think the menu needs some work, it's annoying to have to cycle through all options just to exit and things could just be clearer.
Another problem is that you need to be so close to the edge of the screen to make the scrolling advance, which reduced considerably how far ahead you could see.
Overall great game, I had lots of fun with this one!
@Brassawiking Yeah, I realized afterwards that I should have done that.
@nuria You can press the down arrow on the menu to skip to the end. Also, the camera bit was initially a design choice, but I didn't think to adjust it at any point.
love the game hate the music.
Felt very well thought out, for a prototype. Would like to play a more polished version.