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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Homes Through Time! | compo | 761 | 1.50 | 1.40 | 1.46 | 1.84 | 2.26 | 1.14 | 2.03 | 1.78 | 85 |
A bit on the easy side - simply driving at max speed while shooting can rack up enough missiles to instakill any enemy you meet. Ususally, you will lose a significant amount of health, but if you simply sit still and let it regen, then repeat, you are pretty much invincible.
So many bullets, and really no way to kill enemy ships without letting them hit you back makes for a not very enjoyable experience. The constant humorous popups makes matters worse, given that they cannot be seen through and cover half the screen, thus making you unable to discern whatever enemy ships are hiding underneath. One final problem is the fact that the enemy fires single color projectiles, which become practically invisible on a red background. You should give them a clear edge with an inverse color so as to make them always visible to the player.
I really liked the fact that you had voice acting, though. :)
Whenever I attack the enemy, his troop numbers increase, and all the troops I attack with perish. Had a planet stacked with 17000 troops, send it against a planet with 1000 or so. The enemy just has three planets, with a total troop count of about 2000. After my attack, the enemy planet has 10000 troops.
Seems as if the game is confused about who the troops belong to, and give them to the enemy istead of attcking him. Or my troops just really hate me, and all defect :(
One of the few games this LD where I actually thought starting from scratch was worth it. Second attempt - Jetpack Mode :D
I completed the game without buying a single upgrade. Very easy due to the enemies always circling along the map edges. By sitting in the bottm right corner cintinually firing left, I quickly destoryed most of the enemies.
You might want to make it easier to hit when roaming, as the enemies move so fast you really cannot hit them consistently with skill alone, and then change the enemy AI to move more randomly.
That was fun :)
Quite cool, albeit a bit too difficult for my tastes. Retrying constantly due to high difficuty rooms in a game with less than perfect controls is not fun. If the controls WERE perfect, or at least really polished, such as in Super Meat Boy, the player will blame him/herself rather than the game. In the game though, that was not the case, as I felt the controls were killing me, and not my lack of skill. I would suggest lowering the difficulty a bit, or at least provoding checkpoints in the harder rooms.
Indeed it did. Had but one day to actually make it, as I only got planning done on day one. Didn't want to make a generic blob-game, nor did I want to do go the "make an upgrade game and call it evolution"-route. A game about actual evolution would be a bit beyond me, so I ended up with trying a story-based one. Then I spent almost all the time left on trying to make decent graphics. Gonna try and make a nice little postmortem about it, and since it's actually an idea I want to make, guess I'll spend some time on completing it as well. Learnt a lot, I did, at least.
This game is awesome :D
Yup, the game seems fun, but the hitbox is just too large to provide a fun experience, when coupled with the extremely fast movement speed. I die far too often in situations I should survive.
Liked it a lot! I didn't die at penguins, but that part was a little too long considering the risk of death, in my opinion. Might want to make it a bit shorter, or safer.
Have to vote you down because you broke the compo rules by using external music. If it was a jam entry, would have been different.
Something about swinging that sword around, just clicks. So fun. If the game was centered around it, say, full swings do more damage, enemies shield on one side, things like that, that would be really awesome.
Yeah, I get some kind of error as well. Don't want to post the error file in this here chatbox, though. Might be a tad long.
This game is GREAT! Couldn't escape becoming a black hole, though.
A good start. You should work a bit on pacingg the text a bit better. Sometimes, it was fast, others horribly slow. Make it consistently fast. A bit of strategy to the fights would be good as well, right now, all you had to do was run away, shoot, then run away some more.
Cannot run the game in Win 7. The process starts, but nothing more happens. Tried a few times; task manager showed three instances of the process open, but no game showed up.
Nice game. I managed to get stuck inside a wall, though :P
Get's tedious on larger levels when the asteroid moves so slow. You should up the speed by a significant margin or make a fast forward option.
Haha. My first story was a gun platform. Kept upgrading it until the enemy could not build above level 1 anymore. :D
Great game :D
My only complaint is an explanation as to how they evolve when you kill them. Say, something like "Darwin gave them a potion which boosts their mutation rate".
Can't really rate the game when I cannot figure out the solution to the first level. Make an E, okay. Make an E in a frictionless environment? How is this even remotely possible? Pix or it didn't happen. :P
Quite a bit too long levels compared to how repetitive they get. Make the levels shorter, so that one failure does not equate to a lot of repetition. Stopped at the flying level due to a collision a long way in. Did not feel like doing all of that all over again.
Other than that: Great mood and music. Really soothing.
Runs too fast. The fact that you have to restart the allpication to play agian does not help, either.
Liked it. Could have done something more to encourage combining genes, though. Having some other way to restore health might be a good start. As it stands, I found it most useful to simply chug one health restore gene when at low health, and then switch to one damage one immediately. Rinse and repeat. Worked to complete the game, at least.
Cool game. :)
My only gripe was with crowd control. The cloud was somewhat insufficient, and climate control is more of a "kill everything"-button. Something in between would've been great, I think.