Journey of life by 1176Studios

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made by 1176Studios for LD24 (JAM)
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

Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.36 72
Audio(Jam) 3.10 94
Fun(Jam) 3.55 31
Graphics(Jam) 2.91 173
Humor(Jam) 3.91 8
Innovation(Jam) 3.16 78
Mood(Jam) 3.07 84
Theme(Jam) 3.94 12

Feedback

infernet89
26. Aug 2012 · 17:26 UTC
Loved the Pokémon reference during the evolution!
But the transition for letters (and reproduction minigame) was so slow and boring!
Levynski
26. Aug 2012 · 19:10 UTC
Like this
jijaweb
26. Aug 2012 · 19:55 UTC
Fun. Made my laugh.
Th3dz
27. Aug 2012 · 15:23 UTC
Can't run the web one. 404 on dropbox. :(
🎤 1176Studios
27. Aug 2012 · 15:38 UTC
Please try again, dropbox seems to "drop" sometimes ;)
My Milked Eek
27. Aug 2012 · 16:07 UTC
EEK APPROVES :thumbsup:
NiceAlexanderAS
27. Aug 2012 · 16:09 UTC
Nice game , i like the idea :D
turnip
27. Aug 2012 · 16:12 UTC
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.
🎤 1176Studios
27. Aug 2012 · 16:14 UTC
Don't eat all the meat at once!
🎤 1176Studios
27. Aug 2012 · 16:15 UTC
Find your mate on level 3 ;)
wumpus
27. Aug 2012 · 16:32 UTC
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.
Edd Morgan
27. Aug 2012 · 16:38 UTC
"Nooo not your cousin!"

Very cool little game. Fun to play, easy to pick up, varied throughout and true to the theme.
CataclysmicKnight
27. Aug 2012 · 16:38 UTC
That was hysterical, particularly the last evolution :)
BuffaloPhil
27. Aug 2012 · 16:39 UTC
I like when Darwin approves my existence!
polegar
27. Aug 2012 · 17:27 UTC
Nice and fun assets but lvl 2 is impossible sometime
vigrid
27. Aug 2012 · 17:29 UTC
I approve this game :) I thought I won't make it to the end but I did, yay!
TheJackiMonster
27. Aug 2012 · 17:32 UTC
Really nice game! An awesome idea!
siondream
27. Aug 2012 · 17:34 UTC
Liked: pokemon reference, audio, humor style, different mechanics.

Disliked: balancing, it was too easy.

Overall: awesome :-D.
kevincorrigan
27. Aug 2012 · 17:36 UTC
This was nice, good job. The main characters speed kept changing, idk if that was intended, but I found it a little annoying.
🎤 1176Studios
27. Aug 2012 · 18:27 UTC
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 :)
mariscal
27. Aug 2012 · 19:12 UTC
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
🎤 1176Studios
27. Aug 2012 · 20:17 UTC
yup, debug mode. dont tell anyone!
Barry Abrams
28. Aug 2012 · 12:52 UTC
Web version: Took a few minutes to load, then told me my browser doesn't support WebGL.
DustyStylus
28. Aug 2012 · 19:40 UTC
"noo, not your cousin!" resulted in a major belly laugh. :D

Alas, I couldn't find anyone to mate with. (such is life...) :(
AaronGordon
28. Aug 2012 · 19:41 UTC
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!
ameliayn
28. Aug 2012 · 19:57 UTC
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.
mokujin
28. Aug 2012 · 20:39 UTC
It's fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun) i like it
juaxix
28. Aug 2012 · 20:43 UTC
This game is so fun and creative...how much to learn!
dvdking
28. Aug 2012 · 20:54 UTC
Great game! Gameplay is pretty simple, but the whole story was very interesting and funny. Especially I laughed when unfortunately f*cked my cousin :)
SiENcE
28. Aug 2012 · 21:58 UTC
Haha the funniest game i played so far. Great!
TwilightFlandre
30. Aug 2012 · 04:57 UTC
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!!
AMSmirnov
04. Sep 2012 · 20:05 UTC
Great! :D I like it!
Teknik
09. Sep 2012 · 17:57 UTC
brakusaourus evolved to bob. loved it very funny.
KevinWorkman
14. Sep 2012 · 15:32 UTC
The web link gives me this error in chrome: Error 111 (net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED): Unknown error.
thewiseguy99
14. Sep 2012 · 21:21 UTC
What a fun game! Great relation to the theme. Overall a very good entry. Well done