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Evolution

By ripx

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness352
Graphics953.80
Fun2553.00
Humor2802.33
Overall2923.12
Mood4482.48
Theme5652.40
Innovation5912.32

Comments

lazybraingames 2012-08-27 00:58

Nifty! I got to level 3. Love the graphics ;)

chamberlainpi 2012-08-27 01:34

Nice work Gary! Love the variation in solid tiles that makes up the level. It's like a totem-pole almost, some sort of ancient glyphs left by ancestors or something hehe. Didn't have time for music eh?

covebit 2012-08-28 06:15

i like it :D

mclogenog 2012-08-28 06:21

The game looks great, and plays nicely too. I wish there was a little acceleration and momentum or a floaty feel to the player, though. It would do a lot to the sense of being under water. Slightly bigger collision on the pickups would have been nice too; I found the required precision a little frustrating with the current movement. The inability to shake off the squids was also a little frustrating. As a whole though (and in 48 hours) this is great work!

ripx 2012-08-28 14:18

Thanks everyone :D

@chamberlainpi Made souond fx but ran out of time.
@Mclogenog Try trapping them behind walls ;)

buttercupsaiyan 2012-08-28 19:49

Darn those octopuses! Thank you for making this, I enjoyed playing what I could get through.

The colors in the pixelart are bright and vibrant and have rock solid design. It's a minor thing, but I really like the fading trailing bubbles on the fish.

Without the ability of a continue or some other method to deal with the purple guys, I didn't really get very far... I had the idea to trap the octopuses on the bottom area of the first screen, but couldn't seem to pull it off with the back-and-forth fish enemies too.

benw 2012-08-30 03:23

It's well polished but I feel like the lack of sound does it a disservice. Also I couldn't figure out how it tied in with the theme.

ripx 2012-08-30 18:07

@BenW The character evolves if you progress through the game :)

ripx 2012-08-30 18:08

@BenW Actually.. everything evolves, including the environment, other characters etc. Your next character is a little bee lol ^___^

harusame 2012-09-05 18:25

I love graphics and concept ^^ Great job !

No audio :/

khananaphone 2012-09-07 22:29

I enjoyed it, but no way could I get through the whole thing before getting sick of restarting.

voxel 2012-09-11 10:48

Favourite graphics this LD

ripx 2012-09-11 12:11

@voxel Thanks man... what an awesome comment!

reismann 2012-09-13 17:30

Beautiful graphics!

ncannasse 2012-09-17 21:45

I wished I could have evolved and eat these evil octopus !

thewiseguy99 2012-09-17 22:29

like the balance of everything. liked the simple ai of the baddies, the pacman ghost guys were relentless but slow. nice game!

jplur 2012-09-17 22:30

Great graphics, not very innovative or evololutionary.

alwaysinbeta 2012-09-17 23:28

Enjoyable game. Got hard really quickly. Those purple octopuses are deadly!

ripx 2012-09-20 12:31

#292 - So happy with that. Seems some people never got to see the character evolve lol. I must admit, I made it very difficult so, next time I'll try to make an ending before resorting to making it so people can't get to the end rofl. Had a great time guys, expect me at the next one and I'll put more that 24h into it! :D

zachstronaut 2012-10-05 14:31

I *love* your graphics, and you really capture something from the old arcade experience. Feels like an early console game that never got made. Excellent. Very hard though :p