Combine And Conquer by Lucas Tiridath

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made by Lucas Tiridath for LD24 (COMPO)
In this game, your aim is to survive through five rounds of natural selection. If you play your cards right, you might even wind up as a kitten! But odds are you wont.

Before each round, you are given two evolutionary paths to follow. The result will be a new hybrid animal that you will play as in the next round of combat where you will play five of your evolutionary rivals. Once you kill them all, you get to make another evolutionary selection.

CONTROLS

Movement: WASD (Note that what these keys does exactly depends on what you are but they will always move you in the direction you would expect. For example, if you have wings, W may make you fly whilst if you don't it may only be jump etc.)
Attack: Space (always attacks directly in front of you)
Move to next screen: Enter

Well that's about it for the moment. It's been a great LD and I look forwards to playing all your games! I hope you enjoy mine :).

Ratings

Coolness 45% 641
Overall 2.63 563
Audio 1.88 521
Fun 2.35 568
Graphics 2.08 668
Humor 2.38 267
Innovation 2.96 324
Mood 2.35 516
Theme 3.77 73

Feedback

scoots
26. Aug 2012 路 22:00 UTC
Really cool concept. I chose the turtle and defeated some lizards. Then I chose to evolve with a fish and it made me a lizard fighting a turtle fish. When I beat the turtle fish, the level didn't end and there were no other characters to fight against.
馃帳 Lucas Tiridath
26. Aug 2012 路 22:30 UTC
Hey, thanks for trying it out for me :). Are you quite sure you killed everyone? The screen scrolls quite a long way each way so could you have missed someone? The way to know is that there are always 5 of them so if you've not killed 5, you're not done yet.
wumpus
26. Aug 2012 路 22:52 UTC
This works on the theme nicely. Mutant Turtle/Bird combos are an amusing prospect and a fun use of the theme.
NiceAlexanderAS
26. Aug 2012 路 23:29 UTC
Hahah i like the idea... looks like a multiplayer game xD
馃帳 Lucas Tiridath
27. Aug 2012 路 06:23 UTC
Yes I was thinking of doing it as multi player (nothing to do with saving myself the effort of coding the AI of course) but I figured most people wouldn't be able to play it if it wasn't single player. If I develop the idea in future though, I'll almost certainly include multiplayer. Thanks for the feedback :).
KhaoTom
27. Aug 2012 路 10:12 UTC
Aw man, attacks should cause knockback or something to make it feel crunchy. Primordial setting goes well with the simple drum track, but def needs some more sounds. Lava spout was a nice touch. Love the animal combinations. Congratulations on a good showing.
Vordux
27. Aug 2012 路 12:36 UTC
I like the concept of the game, some interesting elements in there.
Kickerua
28. Aug 2012 路 08:02 UTC
I like concept.
The game is quite hard for me. (completed first level only on third attempt)
I like music it add a lot of tension to game.

It would be nice to see how many enemies still alive.
ben657
28. Aug 2012 路 10:31 UTC
Any game with a flying turtle lizard is great in my books!
evilseanbot
30. Aug 2012 路 07:11 UTC
A decently executed game. It seems pretty hard to succeed if the stats aren't in your favor, though.
DavidErosa
01. Sep 2012 路 00:13 UTC
Nice one, though a little slow paced.
ghRibacki
03. Sep 2012 路 02:13 UTC
Nice concepts but a little hard to play, at least for me. Got my ass beaten up three times in a row. xD
I also didn't understand how the first screen says I'm the lizard but I'm a turtle if a choose the turtle or a lizard if I choose the fish. Couldn't choose the lizard for some reason (wow, that was really confusing).
heuermh
13. Sep 2012 路 04:20 UTC
Like the animal hybrids, nice idea. More feedback on attack success would be helpful.
Puzzlem00n
17. Sep 2012 路 19:48 UTC
Not bad, not bad. Pretty cool stuff, and although starting all over seems kinda harsh, I can't think of any alternatives. Funny stuff, man. Funny stuff.