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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Extinction Evader | compo | 512 | 2.72 | 2.80 | 2.04 | 2.96 | 2.67 | 2.58 | 2.85 | 2.25 | 48 |
Definitely the best entry I've played so far and it'll take some beating. The lack of sound was disappointing but was more than made up for with the amount of content.
I kept the game open for about a week in a tab in my browser as I couldn't defeat the laser boss and had to keep trying now and then; eventually managed to complete it.
Cool little game with good use of the theme. Combat was hard but fun to try and figure out how to best go about killing the knights.
I instantly died the first time I started the game lol.
Restarted and managed to run away and explore the maze. Love the graphics - the vines help to set the mood well.
Gameplay mechanic is simple but works really well. I'm not sure where the theme comes into the design though (other than the title) - I thought the maze might have been generated or something but it looked the same to me.
Regardless, one of the better games I've played so far
I like the idea but there's no real win or lose state. I get the message that you were going for though so it communicated that effectively.
The music set the mood well too, so I carried on 'playing' past the point of 'getting it' just because of that
Game format was pretty standard, well done though. Wasn't a massive fan of the controls as it was pretty hard to control my direction (and ended up stuck in a corner for a while)
I got my girlfriend to play test it and she said the buttons disappearing looked like a glitch - maybe I shouldn't of ignored her... They do disappear after a while when you max out that evolution otherwise you could be 1px wide or be travelling the whole width of the stage in a single frame. I needed to explain the evolution a lot better I think.
The lose scenario is just when you run out of health, I had some problems with figuring out the balance of how difficult it should be so it's probably fairly easy.
And the kittens hurt you because they are evil (and because I remembered the kitten challenge just before I submitted :P)
Thanks RandomM00
- I didn't realise negative health was happening, should've done <= regardless really, it was pretty careless of me
- Cool thanks, I actually didn't think of that and the abrupt disappearance of trails was bugging me (as was some of them being off centre) but I ran out of time before I could look into it. Will add them to the world next time.
- I couldn't figure out Pixel level collision within Flashpunk because I didn't know how to access the BitmapData of an Entity. It bugged me too which is why I ended up giving the dinosaur a large square head so it filled the hitbox :P
Thanks for the detailed feedback
Very cool idea that was done well
Cool concept and pretty challenging. I couldn't get past the first level (level select only let me click the top item even when it said 27/25) but I might be missing something. Having to swipe over more than one with the things that bounce you around is a cool idea and was very well executed
The world seems cool and there's tons of potential for a game like this, but I wasn't sure what was going on or what I was doing. The lack of audio and tactile feedback made it hard to set all the pieces in context so I didn't really know my role in the game - I sat back and watched and it ran like a simulation
Had fun with it, got to the endgame and couldn't use my death ray though (as you mentioned above) which was disappointing but the concept was cool and I liked the style of it
Took me a minute to get what I was supposed to be doing but I really liked it when I did. I never managed to get an asteroid to orbit a planet completely which made me sad hehe. I only played the Compo version but it seemed really polished and a lot for only 48hrs
This was a cool take on the 'Match X' format and I think it works well
Cool idea, though the physics confused me sometimes as they didn't quite do what I was expecting. Also, way too addictive :P
The look and feel of this is awesome and really creates an atmosphere. I was a little disappointed at the ending as the gameplay was a little thin on the ground, but overall it was cool and reminded me of some of the Assassins Creed Subject 16 stuff
The premise of being tasked to kill off the slimes and then them waking up and multiplying is cool, I don't think the gameplay matches up to that unfortunately. The core concept works well but there isn't much feedback telling you what's going on
Couldn't run this on Win 7 64-bit. PlayWindows.sh flashed up the command prompt but didn't seem to have any result, running the jar file resulted in a Jave Exception
I really liked this; the backing music was great, and the graphics were really cool too. The gameplay is relatively standard without an ultimate goal (other than to survive) but I enjoyed it
Fun game but (As other people have said) pretty hard! Some of the graphics are really cool, especially the protagonist and the dinosaurs. I liked the humour of it too