fuzzywuzzie 2015-12-14 03:22
Couldn't launch the Windows version because I was missing love.dll, but after installing love and running the source I had a lot of fun! I loved the Pokemon battles and evolving over time :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → SAUROPOD vs THEROPOD
By tijn
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio | 4 | 4.32 | ||
| Coolness | 3 | 54 | ||
| Humor | 39 | 3.87 | ||
| Overall | 117 | 3.77 | ||
| Mood | 136 | 3.57 | ||
| Fun | 211 | 3.55 | ||
| Theme | 346 | 3.89 | ||
| Graphics | 410 | 3.22 | ||
| Innovation | 521 | 3.11 |
Couldn't launch the Windows version because I was missing love.dll, but after installing love and running the source I had a lot of fun! I loved the Pokemon battles and evolving over time :)
Thanks for playing, FuzzyWuzzie! I updated the Windows download to include the DLLs now, I hope that fixes the issue :)
Sweet game :)
I developed a strat, where I gathered the mobs behind me, didn't save me from dying to a Condorraptor in Level 6 though. Unfortunately it was difficult to find plants outside of the center regions. But it was fun, that dinosaur got very big in the end!
Unfortunately, can't play/ windows 7 64x http://rfdshir.net/img/bug2.jpg
That's a shame, Rfdshir. I've tried to patch it. Could you try downloading it again to see if it works now?
Definitely the best evolution simulator I have played this evening. I feel you cheated a little by using actual photographs of the dinosaurs, but otherwise a great educational entry with predictably excellent audio.
Amazing game! The feel, the sound, the combat screen. Everythings superb. Great job.
The music is (again) perfect. It matches the theme of the game and the game matches the theme of the jam! Especially the intro of the battle music really produces that "let's bring it on" feeling. Also the dinosaur sounds, they are hilarious :D
As someone else already pointed out, there is not enough to eat outside the center region (or there should be some kind of world border) and maybe there should be a different way to kill predators. I could imagine luring them into deadly ravines are similar things.
Art style and music fit together nicely, too. Both have a somewhat innocent happiness to them.
I don't think evolution is something that happens instantaneously, but in the age of Pokémon, who could tell the difference?
I like this game!
Audio is top notch. The music is wonderful, of course, but the variety of dinosaur sounds is staggering, and the percussion on the footsteps is perfect.
The game does get bogged down in later levels, in the sense that you've already lost when you're surrounded and can't outmanouever your enemies but playing through to realize you've actually lost takes time. Still love what you've got going on here, though.
Wow there's a lot of content in this. I was caught off guard by the battle screen and that to be a fun addition. I was also caught off guard by the battle prowess of my leaf eater and the chumpiness of all these stupid carnivores. I ended up facing them all head on so I could hunt for leaves in peace rather than running. Great job.
Wonderful audio all around -- given that most entries tend to favor most things above audio it's refreshing to hear something so polished with such a focus on music and sound design -- the music was perfect for the game: all the songs worked well for their scenarios in addition to working well with each other; switching from one song to another never felt jarring. The little sound effects were wonderful too, and added a lot of character to the thing.
The audio also worked really well with the visuals, combined with the transitions and animation it felt like one of the same entity, rather than two separate parts.
An enjoyable experience with a good sense of humor, even if simple in terms of gameplay.
I have spent way too much time on this. Well done!
Ah the genuine dino noises... no idea how you got the microphone back in time but 100% worth it. A silly little game which I had fun playing.
Great mood thanks to the music. The dino sounds are hilarious. Good stuff!
Nice job! I really enjoyed evolving my dinos! Very pokemon like! Also congrats on all the sounds! WORTH IT
Very fun game, the sound and music was great and it all worked well together. Good use of both themes.
This is cute! I love the voiced sound effects and the jaunty jungle-y music. But this is seriously ambitious. Pokemon-style battles? Wow. But why is evolution so unfair? I keep flattening out into a surfboard more and more with each pass! This game's really cool.
Fantastic
Sort of repetitive gameplay, and easy to accidentally run away from all the plants and have nothing more to eat, but besides that
Great sounds, really great music, nice evolution mechanic with the changed graphics for each stage
Great game! I had fun. The sfx were good, as was the music. I'd have liked there to be more depth to the mechanics... for example the size of the foes didn't seem to matter. Keep up the good work!
Really cool game. Love the sound effects and the evolving part. Only downside I found is you could only find food "at spawn"
Tijn, after the patch it's work. The level of fun was through the roof! And then I played just to listen to new dino sounds ^_^ The only thing that caused the issue, it's a strange movement of herds of enemies. But it's a cool game anyway.
Fun game :). Awesome sounds !
This game is glorious. I liked when the other dinosaurs meowed, I especially loved it when I started meowing. 10/10 ign.
I love it :D and half of the time I was trying to create music with my walking sounds and not to mention I was imitating those very natural dino sounds while playing XD
The audio of this game is the best I've heard so far this LD (maybe you just cater to my funny sfx taste).
At first I thought that if I meet an evil Theropod I lose, but then when I was really large I saw a small one and critically kicked its arse.
While graphics are modest, the dinosaurs getting longer (instead of bigger) was pretty amusing :)
A very solid entry, well done!
Best. Sounds. Ever.
I enjoyed playing it. I know the programming bogged you down, so a lot of feedback I could give may be things that you didn't get around to.
Your graphics are pretty simple, and while they may not be a style you would want in the end, I think a few simple things could make this style work for you much better. One thing is the fact that the only things on screen are things you care about. While its true that everything on screen should have a function, not everything has to relate directly to the gameplay. So maybe things like minimalistic patches of grass (pretty easy to make with the simplex noise generator included in LOVE), maybe patches of water, dead dinosaurs, or just various things like that.
Also, I'm not sure about the background color choice for the battle screen. The battle screen could have some sort of background art to it.
This brings us to the biggest issue. I killed dinosaurs, but couldn't eat them. I don't care if I'm not made to eat them, if they taste disgusting, or the fact that my teeth just aren't cut for it. I worked hard to kill them, I want my reward.
On a serious note, maybe some factors could guide your evolution. Like the fact that I tried becoming a carnivore, but couldn't.
Loved it! The music was awesome! :D
Brilliant in audio department, and any game that is about eating is fun.
I got to level 12 easily, too. :)
Such majestic creatures ;_____;
Great job! Very attractive gameplay! But to simple to avoid battles at all.
I love the sfx of this game xD The concept of evolution is very interesting, the music is also good. I really enjoyed to play! This is a very good work!
I like the pokemon-esque battle system and that you made it with LÖVE <3
Good job! :)
Ok, so I'm starting comments before playing. Humor gets auto +1 for the features... brb...
Haha, I played that longer than I thought I would. Solid entry, great voice (?) acting! Loved it.
I didn't know there's a RPG-like battle scene until I reached level 9, and then quickly pounded by all the surrounding enemies.
Do different dinosaurs have all distinct voices?
Amazing game. Really cool combat system and amazing music and audio. I really like the graphics and the game is really fun. I probably played this for a little too long (millions of years).
It amazes me how much some people get done during these jams. The battle music is so good :D
►https://youtu.be/KnAkZO2efhE
I absolutely loved the music and sound effects in this game, several times I actually laughed out loud at the hilarious dinosaur sounds! The game itself has so much promise, and saying that the submission itself is an amazingly fun game in itself. Check out my video for my playthrough of it.
Cool stuff. I liked the combat mechanics and the gathering aspect of the game. I'm not sure if my evolution had any consequences on stats (attack / flee skills) but I ended up finding the game a bit easy and repetitive. Unsure if it was because of lack of balance or just because I was getting good at it, lol.
haahahha you guys will have a surprise when you play this. A good one .
Cute little game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/l1a-s63Ve1s
The audio is spot-on, the voices are very amusing and the music fits the theme perfectly and is really nice to listen to. I spent the first chunk of the game walking in rhythm to the music and very much enjoying the feeling of that.
It's definitely interesting to have a tile-based game in which the player occupies multiple tiles. It wasn't the most intuitive, but once I figured out I eat with my head it made sense.
The combat is painfully repetitive, though. The amount of dodges and light scratches just makes the event drag on, and since there's no way to skip cutscenes or auto-attack, I'm just stuck mashing X until my hand hurts. Since you're aping pokemon, one of the things that makes the grind more bearable in pokemon is that you can take out much weaker enemies with one, two hits max. That balance would have improved this game greatly.
Also, running should really despawn the enemy you're running from, since I ended up immediately getting into combat after running.
After a couple evolutions, I got stuck with no food anywhere in range. I tried exploring but I couldn't outrun the enemies and after not finding any food for about half a dozen battles I just gave up.
Sound and visual design is great, but the core gameplay needs serious balancing.
Great game, my favorite this LD so far. Running around, dodging enemies, eating plants and evolving was fun.
As others have said, balance issues drag the game down after a while. Wonky AI movement behavior causes them to combine into an impenetrable wall of death if you're unlucky, locking you out of the starting area where the plants are. They never attack each other or give up chasing you, and once you get in combat with them it's often impossible to escape - right after running, you get into combat again the very next turn. You're forced to just muscle your way through, which seems to be entirely luck-based. It's also slightly frustrating that combat is purely detrimental; you get no reward for victory other than your continued survival, so strategically it's best to avoid combat at all times. It would be nice if the player was rewarded for strategic combat choices, like attacking weaker animals, if only through something like improved combat capacity in the next evolution.
The music was great and the sounds were fitting and added a lot to the experience. However, I would've loved to see different sounds per dinosaur for attacking and being hit; as it is right now, you repeatedly have the exact sample playing twice in a row every turn, which just sounds weird in addition to not making it clear whether it's the 'attacking' or 'being hit' sound.
Graphics were great but a bit too repetitive. I like the minimalist look, but you can't easily deduce an enemy's (or hell, your own) characteristics by their look, and many different enemies look the exact same (not even color differences).
Not incredibly fun, but still enjoyable to play, and the sound effects were funny.
Nice concept well executed. I liked the dinosaur sounds :DD
Wow, great music, really fits the game, the gameplay was okay, I missed some different attack styles like in Pokémon, but it plays well without them. Whaa!
I managed to survive until level 10. The combat is really boring just hammering that attack button until it was over... but it's really cool that every enemy has its own sound.
Also one time I got lost in the infinite nothingness and couldn't find back to my patch of gras in the middle. Enemies had a really aggressive chase pattern and most of the time it was impossible to avoid them.
Love the music! And the game just get tenser and tenser, when I've invested literally millions of years in it. That spinoffsaurus nearly did me in, but I survived and lived to see millions of additional years!
Graphics were nice, the fight screen very nice! Awesome work. The battle music is perfect!
Haha i love this kind of sfx :) nice humor and great audio tracks, gameplay is a bit repetitive but the fun is here :)
Good work i was stuck for nearly half an hour in playing this funny game.