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Genes Chase

By m-gryko85

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Theme2763.14
Humor4091.96
Mood5232.33
Audio5321.81
Innovation5362.47
Overall5902.56
Fun5932.28
Graphics6382.19

Comments

hnjslater 2012-08-28 19:03

What was the reason for requiring java 1.7? 1.6 is pretty standard everywhere, 1.7 not so much.

lurkingshadow 2012-08-29 04:15

text worked fine on chrome, could not understand game though.

ben657 2012-08-29 19:27

Nice idea, although as a frog, i could just jump infinitely and fly :p

m-gryko85 2012-08-29 19:53

@hnjslater, @lurkingshadow I didn't bother about that during compo. Later I noticed that people was having problems with newest Java. I will make 1.6 build in few days (when I will find some time)

@ben657 I run out of time at the end and didn't fully implemented jumping :P

gidaio 2012-08-29 20:04

The ocean level is WAY too huge, and doesn't have any scenery to break it up.

johnfn 2012-08-29 20:21

There's an error when I try to play this game:


java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ld/evolution/main/MainApplet : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.defineClassHelper(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:1017)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.access$100(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:68)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader$2.run(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:994)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.findClassHelper(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:958)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.findClass(Applet2ClassLoader.java:134)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass0(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:249)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:179)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:160)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadCode(Plugin2ClassLoader.java:678)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager.createApplet(Plugin2Manager.java:3045)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Plugin2Manager.java:1497)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

atraxgames 2012-08-29 20:25

Nice idea(reminds me the first part of spore) but need some polishing

m-gryko85 2012-08-30 07:23

@hnjslater, @lurkingshadow
I have recompiled game under older version of Java so now it should work perfectly

@johnfn fixed

evilseanbot 2012-08-30 08:09

A solid attempt, but the platforming bugs are a pretty big issue.

amodo 2012-08-30 09:42

Music and graphics were in a way authentic and reminded me of the old days. Had some fun playing this through - especially as flying frog :D

pyro 2012-08-30 09:55

Flying frog is the best!

dedhedzed 2012-08-30 13:34

Ahh! I closed the game and the music kept going! Game's pretty cool but, as someone else mentioned, that 2nd level is SO empty. It got really confusing, scrolling around on a static blue background - It was like I wasn't going anywhere.

Everything else is awesome, though

vigrid 2012-08-31 15:43

Flying frog - yep. Saw that. Flew one. Fun little idea. I kinda started liking the music in game :)

tcstyle 2012-08-31 20:25

Whoa, the music is still playing after quiting the game. Anyway, nice, but annoying, soundtrack to write this comment.
I liked the idea to pick the right scheme to finish the levels. Got stuck in one of the selection screens, unable to choose the next form.

zx81 2012-09-05 11:42

A very good game, loved the small fishy thing!! The music was quite good as well!!

someone 2012-09-05 12:36

Yay, flying frog!
The poison in the first level wasn't obviously poison. Also the sound effect for eating something is the same as dying which made it a bit confusing.

cakencode 2012-09-05 18:41

I too noticed the infinite jump with the frog, but at least it enabled me finish the level by floating up to the higher areas!

With some more polish I could see this being a lot of fun with the evolution mechanic you have. It reminded me of The Silver Spire's mechanic (http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15812)

saintheiser 2012-09-06 08:15

I have java, but game not loaded. I've updated this fucking java and game not loaded again. Fucking java...

saintheiser 2012-09-06 08:17

Solved the problem... but game is sooo BUGGY!. Can't play.

frogmaster 2012-09-06 09:55

Yeah, You can infinite jump with every character. This is because You can jump while You jump (yo dawg!). I couldn't find the last gene with the snake. Overall game is ok!

gama11 2012-09-07 09:01

Nice little game. Controls felt smooth until the third level, jumping is kind of weird. It was cool that you can chose between different life forms each level - I don't really see why you'd chose one without any abilities though.
Collecting DNA was a bit counter-intuitive, it seems like you're losing DNA at first.
The levels could be improved, they're not very challenging and the ocean wasn't really well-designed.

lacutis 2012-09-14 21:10

I liked this game. I wasn't quite sure how some of the elements interacted, like what the difference between eating different things was. Overall though it was fun. I did manage to leave the level on accident and had to restart. The music was a little grating with headphones on.