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August 24th-27th 2012 :: Theme: Evolution
Journey of life - 1176Studios - Jam Entry
Cross-Platform jar | Web (Chrome)
Experience the full evolutionary saga from the beginning told by Charles Darwin himself as you control one individual
(and later his descendants) of a race of small creatures living on an not so distant world
The game focuses on the most important aspects for the survival of a species.
Tools:
Two Swedish guys
LibGdx,Eclipse
Paint.Net
Photoshop
Fruityloops
Badass stereo shotgun microphone
Update #1 Text is quicker on evo screens
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Ratings
![]() | Coolness | 67% |
| #8 | Humor(Jam) | 3.91 |
| #12 | Theme(Jam) | 3.94 |
| #31 | Fun(Jam) | 3.55 |
| #72 | Overall(Jam) | 3.36 |
| #78 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.16 |
| #84 | Mood(Jam) | 3.07 |
| #94 | Audio(Jam) | 3.10 |
| #173 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.91 |
Comments
Lol pretty funny but the cutscenes went on for aaaaages! Found level 2 unfair because there wasn't enough food spawning and just didn't get level 3 at all.
Yeah, I got screwed on the food level too. The evolution cutscene was nice the first time but all that waiting each time put me off in the end. I like the sense of humour to it though. The 'cousin' joke made me laugh.
"Nooo not your cousin!"
Very cool little game. Fun to play, easy to pick up, varied throughout and true to the theme.
That was hysterical, particularly the last evolution :)
I approve this game :) I thought I won't make it to the end but I did, yay!
Liked: pokemon reference, audio, humor style, different mechanics.
Disliked: balancing, it was too easy.
Overall: awesome :-D.
This was nice, good job. The main characters speed kept changing, idk if that was intended, but I found it a little annoying.
Thanks for all the nice words! kevincorrigan: I didnt bother to base the movement on time (It depends on framerate now), so maybe your computer is to slow/ doing something in the background :)
Oh my god this game is amazing!! I can't stop laughing with the last step of it!! hahaha
By the way, I was playing with my laptop , accidentally press the num key zero 0, and I was skipping the levels :P
Web version: Took a few minutes to load, then told me my browser doesn't support WebGL.
"noo, not your cousin!" resulted in a major belly laugh. :D
Alas, I couldn't find anyone to mate with. (such is life...) :(
I really like the theme in this game, and the humor in it is great. I will say the first level is very frustrating as the enemies randomly spawn, and you can just instantly die. If they were to spawn from the sides of the screen it wouldn't be a problem. The second level felt a bit boring and was not very challenging and the slow scroll of text was very boring to wait. But in any case well done! Just needed a bit more play testing and tweaking!
The first level tripped me up a lot. Since the enemies spawn randomly, there were several times where I instantly died. And then the second level was extremely easy in comparison. And I could never find a mate in the third level (do they all look like you or only your "cousins").
The humor was pretty good, but the evolution scenes took more time than I would have liked. It took me forever to realize it was saying "Darwin is disappointed" and "Darwin approves" Those two bits were really pretty much unintelligible.
Overall, it was a pretty fun game, though.
Great game! Gameplay is pretty simple, but the whole story was very interesting and funny. Especially I laughed when unfortunately f*cked my cousin :)
Probably one of the intentionally funniest games of this competition that I've played so far! Gameplay was good despite the first level being quite unfair in terms of difficulty. Great job!!
The web link gives me this error in chrome: Error 111 (net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED): Unknown error.
What a fun game! Great relation to the theme. Overall a very good entry. Well done
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Loved the Pokémon reference during the evolution!
But the transition for letters (and reproduction minigame) was so slow and boring!