AvRvE by Cake&Code

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made by Cake&Code for LD24 (JAM)
AvRvE
(Aliens versus Robots versus Evolution)

Your name is Al-Ian, and your job is to go to Earth and
destroy some of Earth's most potentially dangerous species
before they're given a chance to evolve and wreck havoc on
homo sapiens (in the future). Make your way through perilous
puzzles, and be sure to avoid all of the Robots that are
trying to stop you from giving mankind a chance to
successfully thrive.

*GOAL*
Work through a series of isometric puzzles and complete any
necessary tasks to kill off any major threats. *ROBOTS
CANNOT BE KILLED*, just make sure you avoid them like the
plague.

*IMPORTANT SHORTCUTS*
ESC - While in-game, it opens the pause menu
R - With the pause menu active, it restarts the level
H - With the pause menu active, it brings you back to the
main menu (you will lose progress)

*CAKE N' CODE*
Zeik: The Boss Programmer
Cake: The Dainty Designer

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.83 18
Audio(Jam) 3.59 35
Fun(Jam) 3.52 34
Graphics(Jam) 4.25 28
Humor(Jam) 2.98 64
Innovation(Jam) 3.33 51
Mood(Jam) 3.31 51
Theme(Jam) 3.36 50

Feedback

razorquick
27. Aug 2012 · 23:48 UTC
Sweet game ; crisp pretty graphics and a good soundtrack.
you keep up to your reputation C&C. reminds me of a similar game in LD23 . by far the best I have seen :)
The final stage is very challenging . too me a lot of tries !
make a full sized game with similar GFx it rocks . you rock :D
rmatey
28. Aug 2012 · 00:14 UTC
great game! Really love the graphic style and polish to the user experience, keep it up!
mappum
28. Aug 2012 · 04:47 UTC
I'm really impressed by the great puzzle design (I suck at making puzzles). The art was really awesome as well. Overall I really liked this, good job.
DGoodayle
28. Aug 2012 · 15:54 UTC
Loving the soundtrack, nice graphics too. Gameplay was pretty solid :)
Zamando
28. Aug 2012 · 15:57 UTC
Nice game. Liked the puzzles!
rab236
28. Aug 2012 · 16:26 UTC
Great game and great puzzle design. I really enjoy playing this. Great work.
kill0u
28. Aug 2012 · 17:27 UTC
Wow, nice game :o
A little hard at first, but very interesting when you get the concept :P
Zoomyzoom
28. Aug 2012 · 17:43 UTC
Love the graphics :D and the 3rd person controls are easy to grasp (which is rare) would love to see you continue to develop this :D
Barry Abrams
28. Aug 2012 · 17:44 UTC
The style of your graphics are top notch. very clean and crisp.
AaronGordon
28. Aug 2012 · 17:49 UTC
I liked the graphics, very crisp and high quality visuals and audio. Interesting concept but evolution was only loosely tied into the story and not the gameplay. Still nice job with the puzzle designs!
Killerbug
28. Aug 2012 · 18:54 UTC
Very impressive. Such a polished game! I am speechless.
Sergey Mohov
28. Aug 2012 · 19:06 UTC
Absolutely wonderful. Puzzles get pretty goddamn hard soon enough :D
JaJ
28. Aug 2012 · 19:31 UTC
I liked how you used evolution, using the history of evolution for an unexpected game instead of another tamagochi or upgrade based game.
blundis
28. Aug 2012 · 19:42 UTC
The player sprite is awesome! Nice puzzles and awesome graphics.
juaxix
28. Aug 2012 · 19:45 UTC
Very good game, kids can learn things while playing, you can put the text while playing too
DustyStylus
28. Aug 2012 · 19:59 UTC
Cheeky little brain teaser this one. Haha, can't get past the one after the wooly mammoth. Gonna keep trying though. Lovely graphical style, has real polish!
Rabbits...
28. Aug 2012 · 21:46 UTC
Wow I really enjoyed this...It took me a while to figure out what things did what, but by the end i took out the dodo and successed!
patrickgh3
28. Aug 2012 · 22:39 UTC
This game was the most fun one I've played so far! I love the graphics and music. And I liked the mix of both puzzle and skill based levels. I only wish there was more gameplay. I think you could have made many more interesting levels with the kinds of tiles there were. But awesome game nonetheless! :D
Puzzlem00n
28. Aug 2012 · 22:49 UTC
Nice. Very nice. The graphics never disappoint with you two! I agree, this game could and should be expanded up to 10 times it's current length.
Chezzo
29. Aug 2012 · 05:02 UTC
This game is crazy fun! At first, I thought, "Well, duh, you just walk there." And then the ice happened. We need more levels and tiles!
Yann
29. Aug 2012 · 07:09 UTC
Nice puzzle game!
I agree with AaronGordon for the theme not being reflected enough in the gameplay.
Maybe you could add some "natural disaster" tiles that would destroy for instance trees blocking your way or make some ice melt. This way you make the level itself evolve as a part of the puzzle solving.
Or you could give 3 goals for each puzzle like saving a mammoth, a sabertooth cat or a dodo, and according to this choice the next puzzles get modified (yeah a bit crazy to create though :D)

Anyway, I agree with everyone, graphics and audio are good, the gameplay is a little unforgiving (don't waste a millisecond or you're dead) but still good and nicely polished.
tdsmale
29. Aug 2012 · 12:08 UTC
Clever!
Jacic
29. Aug 2012 · 18:19 UTC
You two never cease to amaze me. :) This game is great, and difficult.
kibertoad
29. Aug 2012 · 18:34 UTC
This one was actually fun to play, which is rare for LD entry :). Thanks!
Kuulog
29. Aug 2012 · 19:46 UTC
Fun game with great graphics! I enjoyed this one a lot!
wombatica
29. Aug 2012 · 20:27 UTC
sweet graphics
sP0CkEr2
29. Aug 2012 · 22:10 UTC
Wow -- Spectacular -- What a great game.
Zelen3d
30. Aug 2012 · 01:21 UTC
A well done great polished game. Plus you have some points at humor!
andreyin
30. Aug 2012 · 02:09 UTC
Absolutely loved the art style!! My only complaint is that it wasn't long enough, I wanted to play more!
Accidental Rebel
30. Aug 2012 · 03:08 UTC
Very polished. I liked the art style. The music was too chimey for me though. Only gripe was my disorientation to the diagonal movement. But that's just me.
rylgh
30. Aug 2012 · 06:41 UTC
Awesome, super polished. I really like the main character's design. I'd love a wallpaper featuring him/her/it.
Thurig
30. Aug 2012 · 08:55 UTC
Nice graphics and music. Fun to play.
wlad
30. Aug 2012 · 21:19 UTC
Yap, this game can keep up the fun even after a few tries. Impressing graphics, nice moody soundtrack.
foxor
31. Aug 2012 · 02:14 UTC
I'm shocked. Great job, this is fantastic!
5n4k3
31. Aug 2012 · 23:40 UTC
Impressive! Someday I want to make a game that good =D
RARoadkill
01. Sep 2012 · 01:30 UTC
Took me awhile to get the hang of the controls. I kept hitting keys based on which way my guy was looking. Great game though, with fun puzzles.
Kassoon
01. Sep 2012 · 07:06 UTC
Very slick, great puzzle design. I'd have perhaps made the retry button more prominent since it felt a bit cheeky to skip levels, but the puzzles were fun enough to figure out that I kept retrying. Good job!
raarlac
01. Sep 2012 · 20:42 UTC
10/10 game. Everything is flawless. I loved it!
alwaysinbeta
02. Sep 2012 · 00:11 UTC
Excellent game. Really enjoyed playing it until I got to the Dodo and kept getting within a few blocks before dying!
thewiseguy99
02. Sep 2012 · 19:49 UTC
Really great puzzle game. Difficult though, I had so many tries (especially cos I am crappy at puzzles). Lots of fun trying! Graphics are really good as was the ambient background music. A really well executed/thought out game. Really good relation to the evolution theme. Very god job!
hamster_mk_4
03. Sep 2012 · 13:15 UTC
Very cute game. I like the way you introduced the various blocks and tied them into the species the player was exterminate. I didn't like the escape the falling bricks challenge and thus I could not get past the dodo level. I really like your graphics style. Especially since it was obvious what was is foreground and background.
cadin
03. Sep 2012 · 19:13 UTC
Very nice. Challenging puzzles and very polished presentation. I got really frustrated on the wooly mammoth level because I kept pressing the wrong key. This is a problem I have with all isometric controls (the directions don't match the directions of the arrow keys), not specifically a problem with your game.
Jungorend
04. Sep 2012 · 02:06 UTC
Great game! I love how every tile, you know what it does without being explained. Everything is very clear and colorful!
heuermh
04. Sep 2012 · 03:00 UTC
Very cool, would just recommend swapping the move on and restart buttons. The first time I played I skipped a few levels before I realized that was what was happening.
caranha
04. Sep 2012 · 21:26 UTC
The game was pretty fun and challenging to play! I liked the different challenges in the puzzles, with the mix of time-based puzzles, turn-based puzzles, etc. The music was pretty neat. Good polish!

The connection with the theme was kinda tenuous, but I really liked the game! Thanks for suggesting it!
marudziik
04. Sep 2012 · 23:11 UTC
Feels very complete, and has really good graphics. Liked it!
DaveDobson
07. Sep 2012 · 04:23 UTC
Interesting puzzle game with a neat look. Kind of a Ricochet Robot feel once you hit the ice after the first few levels. I enjoyed it; nice graphics and sounds.
NateNaterson
07. Sep 2012 · 18:04 UTC
Music gave me a bit of a headache but I absolutely loved everything else. Was a bit hard to figure out a first but once I did, it was quite a fun game.
infernet89
07. Sep 2012 · 21:37 UTC
I can't understand why, but if i die instead of gameover i pass to the next level O_
🎤 Cake&Code
07. Sep 2012 · 23:25 UTC
@infernet89 you don't have to beat every level to "beat" the game. :) There are different endings depending on what species you're able to kill off.
michax
09. Sep 2012 · 09:34 UTC
Awesome graphics! I kind of suck in puzzle games so it was a little to hard for me :P
Also i didn't see restart button at first and was confused why levels are changing even if i failed :P
PapyGaragos
09. Sep 2012 · 11:41 UTC
Awesome. The only thing i didn't like was the music.
Bouyer
09. Sep 2012 · 18:44 UTC
I loved the music
vilya
10. Sep 2012 · 02:08 UTC
Very very polished! Great job! The time-based levels got a little frustrating (so it was a really good decision to include the "move on" button).
Megazell
16. Sep 2012 · 06:42 UTC
Excellent work!