Praegressus by shard123

made by shard123 for LD24 (JAM)

Praegressus (which means evolution in Latin) is a top down shooter/ role playing game. You play as a prisoner who is falsely accused of murder. But the story is not so simple...

Controls:
W/A/S/D = Movement
Left Mouse Button = Shoot (When you get the gun)
Hold Shift = Sneak (Helps you avoid detection)
Space bar = Evolution Power 1 (When acquired)
Right Mouse Button = Evolution Power 2 (When acquired)

Your game will save at specific points. When you die, press L on the title screen to load your save. The evolution theme is in the game it isn't very prominent though.

Post Compo Update coming out after the voting ends.

Windows Link 1	https://www.dropbox.com/s/aq326jkpe64o849/Praegressus.exe
Windows Link 2	http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/203691-praegessus
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=3824

Ratings

Coolness	33%	832
Overall(Jam)	3.13	118

Audio(Jam)	2.71	133
Fun(Jam)	3.07	98
Graphics(Jam)	2.60	197
Innovation(Jam)	2.47	188
Mood(Jam)	3.00	93
Theme(Jam)	2.73	139

Feedback

FoxFiesta

28. Aug 2012 · 09:31 UTC

The gameplay is cool, but not perfect. The graphics and audio are not very good but it's less important.
I had some fun playing it, but it could be better ! ;)

Huchickut

28. Aug 2012 · 09:34 UTC

Quite fun actually. I like the story.

Doft

29. Aug 2012 · 01:19 UTC

The shooting sound was too loud, other than that it was pretty interesting. The controls could be better too, for example making the character move diagonally

Knighty

29. Aug 2012 · 10:31 UTC

It was fun, but nothing really special about it. I didn't like that you couldn't move diagonally.

Jorjon

31. Aug 2012 · 04:53 UTC

Actually it was pretty fun. I have some remarks: First, why you have to "load" the game? Why a message says "GAME LOADED"? No need for that. Second, intro story is too long. The best stories are told via gameplay, not throwing a bunch of text hoping the player will read. Third, the movement feels dumb. It would be better with diagonal and soft movement. After that, there are some other minor remarks, but as I told, it was pretty fun anyway. One last thing is, I don't have A CLUE what does this have to do with EVOLUTION.

Zabot

03. Sep 2012 · 00:27 UTC

Great game, my only issue was that they kept seeing me through walls.

mohammad

03. Sep 2012 · 16:19 UTC

windows 2 dafaq?
but good game, even though its gamemaker.
but can i ask a few questions?
1. when you slow down time, did you just set the room speed to 15 or so for about 50 steps?
2.for the coppers, for the eyesight did you use position checking or did you draw a collision line?
3. did you use a variable for the messages or was each a sepreate object?
btw pretty good game. kept playing it too.
and to those who are weeping about not moving diagonally, gamemaker doesn't support double key pressing. im fine with that actually, unless he make a variable and defines the direction (A LOTTA WORK!) then you cannot press multiple keys at one time. im guessing Mark Overmars will have to look into that.

🎤 shard123

03. Sep 2012 · 16:53 UTC

Thanks for the comments, fixing some of the bugs and adding some stuff you guys said in the post compo version. And to answer your questions mohammad:
1: yeah I did, it's lazy but I was really pressed for time
2: collision line
3: separate object
The post compo version will add moving diagonally! sort of...it works pretty well I think

Cake&Code

04. Sep 2012 · 04:37 UTC

The movement felt slow, the enemies were a bit simple-minded, the sounds might have been annoying at times, but the story was well-told. The story was by far the best part of the whole experience, nicely done.