{"author_link":"\/author\/tcstyle\/","author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","comments":[{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:10am","epoch":1346133900,"text":"Had to make a bugfix (within bugfixing rule #1). The original version will eventually crash when reaching generation 10. If you have downloaded the original version, please redownload."},{"author_name":"Frozen Fractal","author_uid":"7882","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1346178180,"text":"Charming :D"},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1346183100,"text":"Pretty fun to play, I played for more than a few mins. Kudos for involving your kid. You should probably include some kind of packed exe version, for those without Python (yes, there are such people - crazy, I know!) or PyGame, though. Try py2exe or something similar. Anyway, very nice entry."},{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1346183340,"text":"@marudziik:\r<br\/>There is a windows version available already (the 'Windows' link) made with py2exe."},{"author_name":"bvanschooten","author_uid":"14520","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1346183820,"text":"OK, so it's a jam because your daughter participated :-)  I like the graphics and sound."},{"author_name":"Kayelgee","author_uid":"15267","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1346184000,"text":"ok I am really displeased I tried so hard to get only the good ones and did it I got every good stuff and no bad stuff in one level but I didn't get some special award for this :(\r<br\/>I really like the art style ^^"},{"author_name":"bobiniki","author_uid":"5583","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1346184060,"text":"I like the handmade feel of everything"},{"author_name":"Guardian_Bob","author_uid":"15211","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:13pm","epoch":1346184480,"text":"There are a couple of bugs, I stopped shrinking and the first movement was at much faster speed.  That said this was different and cute."},{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1346184840,"text":"@Kayelgee:\r<br\/>The &quot;special award&quot; issue is something I noticed to late. Would enhance the gameplay alot, I guess.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Guardian_Bob:\r<br\/>Do you mean stop shrinking at contact or from generation to generation? Was the movement in the second stage slower after absorbing a lot of brown\/black stuff? If that's the case, that is intended by gamedesign but probably not communicated clear enough."},{"author_name":"Guardian_Bob","author_uid":"15211","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1346187660,"text":"tcstyle - both.  I stopped shrinking from generation to generation and from contact.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And after absorbing lots of brown and black stuff, I would start a round going up and move quickly.  When I then went down I would slow down."},{"author_name":"vigrid","author_uid":"10441","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:45pm","epoch":1346190000,"text":"Wow, I love the traditional art and music feel this game has. You have a great daughter, you're a lucky man she agreed to jam with you :)"},{"author_name":"savethejets1","author_uid":"15315","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 10:38pm","epoch":1346193180,"text":"Really cool that you involved your daughter. I dig the music too!"},{"author_name":"ButtercupSaiyan","author_uid":"4948","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:02am","epoch":1346198220,"text":"Awwww! This is really sweet..."},{"author_name":"Gidaio","author_uid":"14818","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 9:16pm","epoch":1346274660,"text":"It was a lot of fun. Animation and\/or variation would have been nice, but you can't expect too much from a three-year-old. :) Initially, I was confused with the whole 'evolution' part, until I played it a while. Then I noticed that the 'cripples' started getting bigger."},{"author_name":"brett-kaplan","author_uid":"15809","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1346275260,"text":"While the basic concept is solid, I feel that the level gap in between colliding with something and getting the effect makes the game feel too disconnected."},{"author_name":"Yakka","author_uid":"13985","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1346275860,"text":"I loved the art :-)"},{"author_name":"berareu","author_uid":"15244","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 10:25am","epoch":1346322000,"text":"Great game! The watercolor artstyle combined with the music offer a very pleasant mood :) \r<br\/>The gameplay is fun too even if in some levels I could barely move...mostly because in the beginning I tried to eat everything instead of selecting stuff :)"},{"author_name":"infernet89","author_uid":"14271","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 10:31am","epoch":1346322360,"text":"Really loved the graphics and sound style!"},{"author_name":"Zed","author_uid":"4687","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 1:10pm","epoch":1346331900,"text":"This is adorable. You know things are bad when a three-year-old draws better game graphics than you do... I really enjoyed this! Thank her (and yourself) for me."},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 2:34pm","epoch":1346509740,"text":"As far as generation 14, I could absorb all enemies and it still wouldn't kill me, so I didn't like the difficulty curve, but the rest of the game is very sweet, from the paintings to the guitar music."},{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 2:33am","epoch":1346552880,"text":"I'm not really noticing any difference in wheel size. The graphics were nice, more games should be drawn by 3 yearolds."},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1346594700,"text":"handrawn style is nice and in the menus as well. Music fits the style. Smooth gameplay made me play longer."},{"author_name":"wlad","author_uid":"15017","time":"Sep 4, 2012 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1346788380,"text":"I played it until generation 10 with a lot of fun, but 5 generations later I stopped because not much changed from generation to generation. But overall a very nice game! Especially the graphics :-)"},{"author_name":"McFunkypants","author_uid":"2297","time":"Sep 6, 2012 @ 11:47pm","epoch":1346974920,"text":"I absolutely LOVE that you got to make a game with your little daughter. This is a dream of mine: someday I hope to to gamedev with my baby son. Great work!"},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"Sep 14, 2012 @ 4:46am","epoch":1347597660,"text":"This is fun - reminds me of my entry for Tiny World in LD 23 ( http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-23\/?action=preview&amp;uid=10977 ).  I love your daughter's art - really fun, and I'm sure she enjoyed working on it with you.  Sound effects and music are fun and cute, and gameplay is smooth.  I wish there were a little more variety to it, although I enjoyed playing (got to level 12).  The evolution aspect was fun; the speed was really the most noticeable improvement.  Nice work!"},{"author_name":"RawBits","author_uid":"5167","time":"Sep 14, 2012 @ 12:05pm","epoch":1347624000,"text":"I'am so jealous about you managed to get coop with your daughter... :) She must be looking at you like if you are a mage or something bringing her drawings to life!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I love the art and music. Also it's a so simple concept. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Sep 14, 2012 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1347641700,"text":"Yea, the game looked and sounded really nice, although there wasn't much changing from generation to generation. :)"},{"author_name":"tompudding","author_uid":"12467","time":"Sep 17, 2012 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1347915660,"text":"Looks and sounds great."},{"author_name":"PaulSB","author_uid":"1626","time":"Sep 17, 2012 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1347915720,"text":"Definitely adorable presentation. I didn't find the game that rewarding as I only managed barely noticeable changes between generations but yeah, totally loving the cute looks."}],"images":["ld24\/4834-e8f7cc699f9b08290212edb82d040348.jpg","ld24\/4834-b804ebcb8b6d1089f2ab7ad9f1342aee.jpg","ld24\/4834-398b943057d0fcdbd9d4e0dac33b57c5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.rustybotgames.net\/WatercolorWE_Win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.rustybotgames.net\/LD24_WatercolorWE.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.rustybotgames.net\/LD24_WatercolorWE.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28896","g_author":"4834","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"28926","g_title":"Watercolor Wheel Evolution","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"136","g_commentcount":"29","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/4834-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/4834-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/4834-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"*** Had to make a bugfix (within bugfixing rule #1). The original version will eventually crash when reaching generation 10. If you have downloaded the original version, please redownload. ***\r\n\r\n* Almost all arts by my daughter, who will become 3 this week! *\r\n\r\nAbsorb the stuff floating around with the Wheel to influence the next generation. Depending on the stuff you absorb you will be faster, bigger, slower or smaller next round. The stuff that makes you smaller and slower also hurts you. Your size represents your health.\r\nEach type of stuff influences an aspect of the Wheel. \r\nAbsorbing stuff influences aspects and number of the stuff in the next generation. If you leave out types of stuff they will be bigger and faster next round and even get random movement changes.\r\n\r\nGo try it out.\r\n\r\n** Windows version: Start WatercolorWE.exe **\r\n** On systems with python\/pygame (Linux) start WercolorWE.py **<\/p>","title":"Watercolor Wheel Evolution"}