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Genemon

By pietro-ferrantelli

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall84.35
Fun94.20
Graphics94.71
Audio174.25
Coolness1100
Mood344.09
Theme384.17
Innovation394.05
Humor2923.32

Comments

funisfun8 2015-04-21 02:26

Well, I'm sorry about your roll back, however, I REALLY enjoyed the game! I hope you develop it past Ludum Dare to finish it and maybe include multiplayer? I really love the idea and the game turned out great!

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-21 06:50

Thanks a lot ! We finally managed to finish in time :D

kovalsky 2015-04-21 07:10

It's nice game, dudes!

funisfun8 2015-04-21 07:13

Do you have plans to take this past LD? I'd LOVE to see it.

2015-04-21 07:42

The long awaited game i was so itching to play ever since i saw the first upload its amazing and the pixel are is my fav!!

kazura 2015-04-21 07:44

Very nice game ! Congrats

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-21 07:52

Thanks dudes ! We will post a bugfix update tonight :D

thestartlestare 2015-04-21 08:38

The Monsters and Combinations.. just WOW

mortus 2015-04-21 09:23

Super cool graphics and monster merging system! Quite fun to play too, nice work!

malsanity 2015-04-21 09:37

Brilliant idea, but you need it to be turn based or has some sort of keyboard shortcuts. The AI always destroys me

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-21 09:47

Yeah I made a big mistake : the first level should normally be the third ^^ I will fix it

nikteddy92 2015-04-21 10:16

OMG This is one of the best game I have ever seen in LD!!!
The sprites are AWESOME!!! And the music great!
The mechanic is really enjoyable!!
I ended the game 3 times before voting! Real fun! I hope you'll win! :D

thomaslean 2015-04-21 10:21

Thanks everyone !

ultravisitor 2015-04-21 12:22

I saw some posts about this game on the top page and it does not disappoint. This is a great idea for a game jam length of time. The art is really top notch and the music/sound is near perfect. The only issue I have had is that the spawn pop ups are black for me and there is a black bar over the top of the level that I assume is another popup. Super good!

sakergames 2015-04-21 12:24

Wow, what a cool game. The sprites and anims are beautiful.

akirassasin 2015-04-21 12:25

Holy...

tselmek 2015-04-21 12:29

One of the best games I've played! Nothing to say about the graphics, the sounds, the gameplay and it is a lot of fun! Congratulations!

aaronjbaptiste 2015-04-21 12:38

Fuck yeah!

Awesome. Not sure if it's a bug but you can merge genemon's with locked ones? At least I was able to get last tier Genemon's super early that way, seemed unbalanced.

Love it nonetheless. Great work

seconddimension 2015-04-21 12:39

Great graphics and sound effects, over all a very fun game to play.

noxiistudio 2015-04-21 12:40

Splendid! Gimme moar!

esayitch 2015-04-21 12:40

Game is fantastic, you could probably sell it if you polish it. Great concept and execution, graphics are fantastic, so is the sound. My only suggestion would be to make the creatures have more pronounced special ability; i.e. a creature that heals, or one that bombs an area every once in a while, etc. I haven't gotten far, so if that is something you do later on, cool!

Good luck!

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-21 12:41

Thanks everybody !
@aaronjbaptiste You're right ! I will fix that tonight, thanks a lot !

madball 2015-04-21 13:17

That's an amazing work you've done! Graphics are awesome! Though seems like the interface isn't finished. Also, I'd like DNA to regenerate instantly before each level.

The game seems to have some unobvious rules about who kills who. In general, the game lacks a tutorial.
I found a strategy of upgrading the clone power and infesting the field with beringeis, completed the last level without losing health.

2015-04-21 13:44

I sended you game to a twich steam so now there wil come more players. :D

pavel_insight 2015-04-21 15:10

I was waiting for this release. :)

alexdjones 2015-04-21 15:24

Amazing looking game, really impressed with the level of polish. A really great concept well executed, would love to see an expanded post-LD version!

nonobattle 2015-04-21 21:07

Simply put: awesome.
Great game enough said.

heugamer 2015-04-21 22:05

Was waiting to play this one! Great game, but the DAMN AI CHEATS MAN!!

justinmullin 2015-04-22 00:46

Spectacular art and animations. Really top notch. The gameplay was a little loose to me, seemed fairly spammy, but I enjoyed figuring it out. I'd play this game just to fiddle around with the evolutions though, great stuff!

eregaia 2015-04-22 03:56

amazing. graphics and animations are top, the power for last tiered genemons are too weak in my opinion. and the abilities are all 01 so maybe its not updating correctly

kabutakogames 2015-04-22 05:07

Very slick entry - loving the glowing art

phocker 2015-04-22 05:16

by far one of the best i have played so far - polished - great job!

thomaslean 2015-04-22 12:10

We actually work on a final version, polished and all the bugs fixed !
It'll be released soon !

phi6 2015-04-22 12:42

Amazing polish, had a lot of fun with this! Spammed the first few levels to win (I found being aggressive is a good strategy instead of trying to defend) but progressively got harder :P

drauthius 2015-04-22 22:08

Very well done! I barely want to stop... Awesome graphics.

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-23 00:24

[BUGFIX UPDATE] (still needs a proper game-balancing)

Thanks for your feedbacks ! It really helped us to find bugs :)

sputnik 2015-04-23 00:28

Awesome pixel art! Bravo!

hjalte500 2015-04-23 00:42

This game is awesome how did you manage to get it done in this time? Damn

noxnode 2015-04-23 00:43

dunno if this is happening for anyone else, but the link is kinda broken, I think you must've copied and pasted the link twice, I can still get to it if i delete a bit off the URL tho. Really sick game, I'm surpised you guys could make so much polished content so quickly. kinda easy tho, could just button mash and easily win every round.

xbcw 2015-04-23 00:53

Really fun, nice work.

diegoescalante 2015-04-23 00:53

That was awesome! Very fun that I had to play it again after beating it. One thing that I wish the game had was some hotkeys. that way I didn't have to move the mouse all the way below the playing area to select a different genemon. Other than that, awesome job!

thegamefather 2015-04-23 01:12

This is very fun! Nice modification to tower defence, and great art!

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-23 01:16

Ok now it's a little bit harder. Hope I will find the good game-balancing tomorrow :D Thanks everybody !

renatopp 2015-04-23 01:26

This is the best game I've played so far, the graphics and gameplay are really awesome!

If you guys are thinking in doing a post-compo version (I hope you will, specially for mobiles), my tip is to balance the low level monsters, I've won all levels by only spawning dogs and upgrading DNA. I could achieve 94+ life in all levels.

Congratulations for your game, it is really really awesome.

someone 2015-04-23 01:38

That was an awesome game.
Some keyboard shortcuts to switch types would have been useful.
Also I am always too busy trying to survive to have time to read all the information.
I did unlock all the variations in the first round which made the second round less interesting.

novadream 2015-04-23 02:07

Sweet game! :D
The graphics and audio were amazing.

devilright 2015-04-23 03:02

Lots of awesome details. I sank a good chunk of time playing this :)

minibobbo 2015-04-23 03:02

I loved this. The art, sound and gameplay worked wonderfully.

Maybe it was just me, but all the type was so small it wasn't useful to me. So it was all trial and error gameplay. I'm assuming there was some rock/scissors/paper type thing going with the creatures, but I couldn't read the stats during the game to figure it out.

mildmojo 2015-04-23 05:18

The version on the submission page rendered the playing field as mostly black with a few bright pixels for the creature spawns (FF 37), so I used the "doesn't work" web link which seemed to work perfectly. =D

Great concept. Combining units to progress through the tech tree was really cool, and the larger sprites and mutation animations were very pretty. The sounds were a good mix of combat and semi-creepy scifi.

I played on a touchscreen since it was easier than trying to use a trackpad, but dragging moved the page instead of the cursor in game. Not sure if that's even a problem you could solve in the browser.

If I played more, I probably could've figured out which units were most effective against an incoming attack. My noob attempts were mostly frantic clicking and whizzing around picking up DNA seahorses every time I ran out. The pacing was quite frenetic. I would've liked a little bit slower gameplay with a little more emphasis on strategy.

It feels very complete, though. Nice job.

dusho 2015-04-23 06:48

amazing game.. lots of fun.. well made

lyskaros 2015-04-23 07:05

WOW! If I could vote, I would give you 5 stars everywhere. This his the best LD game I've ever played, can't stop plying this...

puppetmaster 2015-04-23 07:09

Very cool game, beautiful animation, and polished gameplay!!
Well made, congraz!!

louis-denizet 2015-04-23 08:20

This is... incredible! This is deep and really really interesting to play while simple to understand it's amazing for 72h!! 5 stars all the way for me :p

Only thing I could say : I would have liked to play with my left hand so my right hand can focus on monster placement and collecting bonus So maybe we could summon with 1 2 3 4 on keyboard and select the floor of evolution with the mouse wheel to act faster.

Anyway congratulations all the way (hello de indiemag^^)

goldplatedxplodingfist 2015-04-23 09:31

Greate game, looks and feels really pollished, i enjoyed playing through it, the only thing that would make this better would be CoOp or Versus.

split82 2015-04-23 09:39

Really great entry.The only problem I see is too many possibilities in the beginning. I can mix creatures even before I know what they do :)

druid 2015-04-23 09:51

Woow! Excellent entry! Great work !!

szrapnel 2015-04-23 10:15

Rounds should have faster gameplay (60sec per level max).
There is a wirt bug :D If you plug in headphones, genomobs in opposite direction :)

szrapnel 2015-04-23 10:17

But the game is insanely awsome!!! This can be a huge $$$ product!

tuism 2015-04-23 10:27

Duuuude, are you kidding me?!? I can't believe you guys pulled THIS off in the short amount of time!!

The concept is amazing, it's just really difficult to control and understand, and the real time nature of it makes it really hard to get into it from the get go. I feel like I'm just spamming buttons as quickly as I can. I guess eventually I'll understand some of it but right now it's just spam spam spam.

I feel like keyboard shortcuts are needed. OR put this on a touch device, though touch feels like it doesn't suit it as the buttons will have to be tiny tiny tiny.

Superbly polished, well done (if you didn't start the game before 72 hours :P) I think it could become something cool if you just slowed it down a bit and made it easier to understand.

gagapete 2015-04-23 10:47

This is awesome. At first I missed the hint about collecting DNA but as I made my first fusion I was like "Whaaaaa?". It is impressive and has so much potential.
Online-Coop- and Versus-Multiplayer would make me pay 10 bucks for this.

lochmann-apps 2015-04-23 10:54

Great fun, excellent. Good job.

sararycow 2015-04-23 11:45

Wow! Awesome game! Very fun to play and beatifull art and animations. Yo should continue working on it, I would play it for sure!

sergi-montaner 2015-04-23 12:25

Once you shoot the first laser....Stress!!!
Loved the monster combination scenes.

demy 2015-04-23 13:09

This is magnificent!

terrykim426 2015-04-23 13:11

This is great! Nice gameplay mechanic! It would be even better if you add in shortcut keys for the monsters' selection.

latency 2015-04-23 16:00

Just so you know, the current web link is broken, you need to mess with the URL to get it to work, looks like it was posted in the box twice

catman 2015-04-23 16:08

Awesome! Has a lot of potential!!

crazyheckman 2015-04-23 16:25

Really really hard, I tried 3 or 4 times to get past the second level and just couldn't do it. Can't really blame someone for balancing issue in a LD game though, just a shame that I can't get to the later evolutions.

Really cool god damned game though. If it were a little easier it would definitely play the hell out of this thing on Kongregate or something if you continue working on it.

arcturusdeluxe 2015-04-23 18:10

Cool game! Very nice presentation, great graphics and music. The interface maybe could be a bit more intuitive. Would love to see a more polished version.

nkoo 2015-04-23 18:12

Great game ! Amazing content within the jam time ! I only regret the lack of shortcuts for creature selection, because you lose a lot of time jumping to the bottom left of the screen to change creature. Amazing overall :)

kaa 2015-04-23 19:19

Best Ludum game I've seen! Thank you!

pinkmonkeyhead 2015-04-23 22:18

Add multiplayer or make the CPU easier and this would be flawless

gfm 2015-04-23 22:48

This was amazing! At first I thought it was a simple strategy game, but then I noticed how quick I get DNA and started spawning lots of genemons... it was awesome. *-*

If you guys added multiplayer support and hotkeys, it would be perfect!

barkergames 2015-04-23 22:57

Awesome game!
One time I started I tried to create a guy and it failed, but then all the enemies guys were going backwards.
It fixed itself as soon as I successfully created a guy.

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-23 23:41

Thanks everybody !
@barkergames : Wow, that's weird ^^

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-04-24 19:51

(UPDATE) The game should be easier now ;)

ultraval 2015-04-24 20:18

WTF? take a nice score sir!!

skiddings 2015-04-24 20:23

Awesome art! And a fun concept too. An immediate improvement would be being able to hot select creatures to spawn from the number keys or something.

hatsome 2015-04-24 20:29

Really enjoyed the game, it was a little fast for my taste. Had one of the best graphics I have seen yet!

sydan 2015-04-24 20:42

Probably my favourite game of Ludum Dare so far. This should really be put onto the market as something sell-able. The one thing I think could be done more would be a clearer tactical advantage in game for different genemons.

lyskaros 2015-04-24 20:43

5/5. Everywhere. JUST WOW!!!

Best fun and graphics I've seen so far. The concept is amazing and your Genegun is the best unconventional weapon among the games I've played. Has a lot of potential for a commercial version !

Contrary to others, I don't think that hotkeys would be a good idea because there are 13 monsters and it would be to complicated to understand this kind of controls.

sebasrez 2015-04-24 20:44

This is so cool, at one point enemies started going backwards and I couldnt combine anymore but the premise is really interesting and something I have been wanting to play with as well, this take is really interesting!

lyskaros 2015-04-24 20:52

OMG ! Just noticed that you were only 17 years old ! That's so amazing, I hope you'll win :D

zeriver 2015-04-24 21:37

Whoaw... just whoaw.

ithildin 2015-04-24 21:43

Brilliant, brilliant entry. The polish level is amazing in both graphics and sound, and I love the genetic fusion mechanic.

Congratulations for your entry, it's one of the best I've played so far, and I can see a lot of potential to turn into a full fledged game (I don't know...for example, different arenas, lots of creatures and combinations are clear candidates).

dray 2015-04-24 21:52

Well, i think that the humor is the only one i can't max. good job impressive job

abcdef65g 2015-04-24 21:55

Killer idea, creativity at it's finest. When you guys work on a commercial version do count on my attention!

straybyte 2015-04-24 22:15

Just perfect, what can i say.

tapisama 2015-04-24 22:28

Amazing game, one of the best i've played so far this LD!!. I would just like to point out that is way to easy to win just by spamming low tier units, specially with the third upgrade.

dreauw 2015-04-24 23:42

Wow, amazing game here :)

I got the same bug as barkergames with enemies going backwards after clicking to start the round with a failed spawning. Not a game breaking bug has it's fixed after spawning a new creature.

What amazed me the most is that you sucessfully teach the game and all the features without any boring tutorial or anything. Just an intuitive interface. That's something that I'm really bad at :D

The art is beautiful, the music is good too.

I like these kind of games where you can "evoluate" and upgrade things.

Really, nice work !

lucentbeam 2015-04-25 05:42

Wow, great work!

oparisy 2015-04-25 07:59

My kids loved you visual design! The game is nervous but not too hard at the beginning, which is good. Was there sound? I like the possibility to choose the order in which I "unlické" the "weapons". Solid title!

mouch 2015-04-25 08:22

Whoa.... that was good!
I love it!

Keep it up mates!

zener 2015-04-25 15:46

This is GREAT!!! Kudos! Funniest game I played so far :)

monos 2015-04-25 18:37

Fast paced and really fun, completed in about 10 minutes of button smashing.

Sadly skipped the tutorial but understood what to to after the first battle, and that grants bonus point.

zaibakk 2015-04-25 19:23

Really amazing! Complimenti ragazzi! ;)

stevesalmond 2015-04-25 19:45

Awesome fun. The creature designs are totally badass :D Don't really have any crits, enjoyed the game thoroughly. Oh, only that I thought I had to click on the pickups at first, took me a little while to realize that it was just mouse over. Congratulations on a kickass game!

jadernak 2015-04-25 20:08

The most fun I had so far in this LD, good job!

glowingsnail 2015-04-25 20:13

Balance wise, it seems taking the upgrade to have double and triple level 1 monsters then spamming level 1 monsters works best.

chuigum 2015-04-25 20:16

Probably one of the best LD games I've played so far! Loved the art style, loved the groovy music, and awesome innovation! So original. Usually a kind of game like this I wouldn't like, but I enjoyed it a lot! Had lots of fun. Fantastic job!

horsed 2015-04-25 21:25

Incredibly well made. I will continue playing that.

2015-04-25 21:44

Best LD game I've played so far. 5/5

landosystems 2015-04-25 23:41

Very nice take on tower defense. Beautiful art.

dracomagna 2015-04-26 01:35

Awesome game! I really love the concept. It's feels like a dirty pokemon. But I feel like the big creature aren't that usefull (I mainly used the monkey and was able to win).
Anyway, amazing job!

ehtd 2015-04-26 06:24

Really fun game! The first 5 Overall I give this jam. I played until I won. Took me two retries.

arche-san 2015-04-26 10:52

This is impressive for the amount of time!
I don't know if it's me but the game got really easier with the clone upgrade.
Excellent job guys!

ointment 2015-04-26 11:53

Okay now this is a genuinely impressive entry. Some kind of special abilities to make monsters stand out more would probably be the next level for continued development.

keyboardcat 2015-04-26 13:00

5 stars everywhere, really good job ! (En plus, si c'est des français :))

trasevol_dog 2015-04-26 13:06

That was really good ! Graphics look amazing and the game plays really nice ! Fusioning creatures feels very rewarding for some reason... Awesome game !

greytram 2015-04-26 15:36

Excellent game! Just simple and brilliant! Cheers!

gil_villarreal 2015-04-26 19:19

Very well constructed. Nice attention to detail. Unique and fun to play.

GreyShock 2015-04-26 20:02

Those are some amazing animations! Great job :D

rgehan 2015-04-26 20:38

Didn't really understand how to play at first (probably because I was too lazy to read). But it's fun once you know what to do.

Really polished game, good graphics and sounds !

fizz 2015-04-26 21:41

This is hands down one of the best games I've played so far. Awesome work, I hope to see this continued in the future.

ThijsTak 2015-04-27 10:21

Fun game but needs balancing. The clone ability makes the level 1 guys way better than any of the higher level due to the cooldown. Also, hotkeys would have helped a lot.
Good entry.

flickta 2015-04-27 14:29

Love the artwork, moster design and animations.

dkoding 2015-04-27 21:43

Nice game. Love the music.

fenix 2015-04-27 21:45

That's an awesome idea! And both graphics and sounds fit so well to the concept. I hope you will not abandon the game after LD. :)

anikki 2015-04-27 21:45

Nice

jhrrsn 2015-04-27 21:59

Wow, the art & UI design in this game is awesome! The idea is great too. It was a little too fast-paced for the tactical elements to really gel for me, but I can tell there's a lot of depth there. Good job!

catwheel 2015-04-27 22:00

Fantastic!

killako 2015-04-27 22:02

Great game, two player would be awesome

ewchap 2015-04-27 22:14

An amazing achievement. Great work. Would love to see this expanded.

boateye 2015-04-27 22:15

One of the best entries in here! A solid tutorial would go a long way if this went to a full release, but as it stands, I could see this being a fun little mobile diversion. The music, animation, and Juice is EXCELLENT!

ciaodavinci 2015-04-27 22:24

Excellent work!
Hotkeys would make the gameplay a lot smoother.

norwalnate13 2015-04-27 22:28

I like this game like this much |_________________________|
Do you have any plans to port it to PC?

nightshadow0 2015-04-27 23:39

Interesting mechanic, i enjoyed it. The multiple spawn enhancement is a bit odd though, as it discourages experimenting with fusions; i made it through the game just spamming triple lv1 apes.

teesquared 2015-04-28 00:50

Great game. Worked in IE too. Good job. A Genemon-strous game.

xwarzonex 2015-04-28 01:13

Possibly the best game this LD. Audio, graphics, setting, everything, is PERFECT. The game is alittle confusing, but still easy to grasp. The way the game is layed out is great. 5/5

cdgugler 2015-04-28 03:40

Incredibly polished and fun game!

leafo 2015-04-28 17:42

great idea, sweet graphics

commodorekid 2015-04-28 21:50

Very good idea. If this was a full game with online battles, I would like to try that. It's kind of a yugioh combined with genetics.

felipeberquo 2015-04-29 22:19

Wow!!! One word: awesome!! Love the graphics and the sound/music. Good job!

Jeremias 2015-05-04 10:18

Incredible! This is one of the best entries I ever played. Really... wonderful art, nice gameplay, superb music.

mach60kas 2015-05-05 13:12

Challenging and very interesting - loved the amount of polish you've put into the presentation! It's very hard to keep tabs on how powerful each unit you have is (since you need to worry more about spawning monsters constantly), but apart from that I loved it! Keep it up! :)

triplevisiongames 2015-05-05 16:36

Awesome game! Amazing graphics and nice and challenging. Did tend to spam stuff out but it rarely worked that well

mike-cullingham 2015-05-06 18:25

Really cool entry. Impressed that you got this much done. Liked the genetic combination idea. I didn't have much strategy to win other than spamming clones and the occasional big guy, but it was definitely engaging.

mathmadlen 2015-05-10 01:48

cool idea, pretty fun game with great art and music!

deadbodyoutline 2015-05-11 01:17

Cool graphics and concept!

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