Comments on: Post LD48… What Worked and What Didn’t http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/28/post-ld48-what-worked-and-what-didnt/ A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Guardian_Bob http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/28/post-ld48-what-worked-and-what-didnt/comment-page-1/#comment-63794 Guardian_Bob Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:11:15 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=177895#comment-63794 Fair enough, and I absolutely agree it is open to some interpretation; however, rather than evolving a pre-defined gun at a pre-defined point it would be better to take a more holistic approach. Each time the user wins your shoot-em up, mutate the enemies. If the user still wins try a different mutation.

Each time the enemies win, mutate the player until they can beat the enemies. The game has to keep the two in balance. At that point and more faithfully represents evolution and still allows plenty of flexibility.

]]> By: ButtercupSaiyan http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/28/post-ld48-what-worked-and-what-didnt/comment-page-1/#comment-63777 ButtercupSaiyan Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:31:45 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=177895#comment-63777 It’s a good thing that there’s a lot of unique ways to interpret the theme then, instead of only one way to do it!

This competition would be a lot more boring if they had just said “make a game with generations and evolution.”

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