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August 24th-27th 2012 :: Theme: Evolution
Primordial Pool - ben657 - Jam Entry
There are bugs, and not as much as we wanted to put in due to time constraints and generally not doing any planning... But it's turned out pretty well! The basic gameplay is there for what we wanted, and it can easily be expanded, expect a post-jam version!
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 63% |
| #73 | Theme(Jam) | 3.16 |
| #148 | Overall(Jam) | 2.97 |
| #150 | Fun(Jam) | 2.78 |
| #165 | Audio(Jam) | 2.31 |
| #172 | Mood(Jam) | 2.48 |
| #187 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.69 |
| #206 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.31 |
| #206 | Humor(Jam) | 1.53 |
Comments
It's kind of frustrating when an enemy spawns on you and you immediately shrink.
The followers seem kinda useless.
It's weird that when two blobs are about equal size, the slightly larger one immediately absorbs the smaller one.
Nice work, I can definitely see this being expanded on.
This was very zen for me. It was great. Keep up the good work. I don't know what you could change.
Thanks for the kind words! We were getting a bit frustrated with little bugs by the end, so a lot of the things we wanted didn't get put in, and a few big things were missed, as mentioned, but definitely going to polish it up after votings done :)
I like it! Got really protective of my kids. As has already been needed, feedback is desperately needed when absorbing others.
The music got a bit annoying after a while, just a couple of variations and maybe a bit less frantic would have made a huge difference.
Nice! I really liked that collision with enemies/victims was not instant, and you had to absorb them over time.
The music was nice, but It could have not looped that soon.
Nice art! Really funny.
With an infinite game are this game could be awesome.
I played about 6-8 minutes and I like it.
But I didn't understand what my followers do?
It's hard to recover after being eaten by big cell, but it's ok.
Your cells looks not so "fried eggs" like my. :)
Nice game, but one thing I found frustrating is, bigger cells quickly absorb me and bring me back to the beginning, and growing is slow. Also, the absorbing sound is a bit annoying after a long period of time, but otherwise, nice music and gameplay.
Cool, didn't understand what the followers did though. Also, the looping music gets kinda irritating after a while :P
I realy liked game idea and that you shrink when loosing health, its better than normal health bar. Nice game
Nice game. Relaxing and well rated to the theme. A great start and something to build on for sure. Well done!
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I love the art style in this! It's lo-fi, but effective! Very cool!
I think that the game needs a bit more feedback about when things are happening. Like, when you are absorbing things, or when you are getting hurt versus stealing from the enemy.
Overall - great!