{"author_link":"\/author\/ahnimal\/","author_name":"ahnimal","author_uid":"4149","comments":[{"author_name":"panzermancer","author_uid":"5826","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1346086080,"text":"It's a damn shame this game doesn't run well, and that I have to refresh in the Newgrounds version every time I want to respawn. However, I do like the graphical style, I'll give it that.\r\rI feel like the problem here is that you might have gotten a bit too ambitious, considering your available time. There were a lot of awesome ideas in this one, although, as with many other games, it was rather dubious as to how the mechanics worked.\r\rI personally think you should keep working on this one post-comp; there's potential in this idea yet. Just make sure to fix those nasty bugs, though."},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1346089080,"text":"The crashes everytime I die on newgrounds as well. Otherwise, could use more introduction as to what I'm doing.\r\rVery cool game, I immediately knew I had to run away from the baddies. That kind of intuition is important and thrilling."},{"author_name":"LiteLab","author_uid":"15662","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1346089440,"text":"As stated before, it crashes when I die. I never really understood what I was supposed to do, but the graphics are nice."},{"author_name":"Brassawiking","author_uid":"13137","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:51pm","epoch":1346089560,"text":"Way to aggressive robots and the fuel last forever. Still, this looks like the beginning of a really awesome game. \r\rOne component in the future to make it work, is that perhaps when refueling, you also replicate yourself into lets say 4 copies based on what you have + new parts. The replicates are your lifes. That will make into a true evolution as a bad robot will never be able to survive long enough to replicate. If all of the robots\/replicates were bad, then you will go extinct =)"},{"author_name":"Porter","author_uid":"5692","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:52pm","epoch":1346089620,"text":"You definitely got started, but it sounds like your idea was out of scope for the time you were given. The graphical style was cool, I like the direction you were going. Best of luck getting it back together."},{"author_name":"My Milked Eek","author_uid":"7229","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:54pm","epoch":1346089740,"text":"Looks cool, a shame it crashes upon dying. If you could fix that issue, it would be awesome."},{"author_name":"ahnimal","author_uid":"4149","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1346161200,"text":"I've worked out the crash. Please report any other major bugs, while I work on a post compo version."},{"author_name":"bobiniki","author_uid":"5583","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1346163480,"text":"After my second death I spawned in closed area where I cant escape... And enemies were trying to reach me. Overall I like the graphics and how the controls feel. Very mild game."},{"author_name":"Colapsydo","author_uid":"3984","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:20pm","epoch":1346166900,"text":"Really smooth mouse tracking and animation.\rI'm not sure to understand how are determined the part we got and the upgrades, but who cares? That's fun."},{"author_name":"Starmen","author_uid":"13726","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 1:03pm","epoch":1346245080,"text":"I like the art a lot. It's a very simple and clean art style but it works very well. It's a nice idea too. Could've done with a bit more time, but overall it's a good entry."},{"author_name":"chaosBrick","author_uid":"12046","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 11:38am","epoch":1346412780,"text":"I like the idea of the game, but i can imagine that this would work out better as a top-down shooter as I didn't really know if I was attacking the enemies or they were attacking me."},{"author_name":"Teknik","author_uid":"15737","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1346527980,"text":"great game!!"},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"Sep 11, 2012 @ 12:56pm","epoch":1347367860,"text":"Took a while to figure out what was going on. The goal seems to be to die in some way. It didn't help that the first time I played it I spawned in a small box with no way out and no other robots."},{"author_name":"Khayet","author_uid":"9592","time":"Sep 11, 2012 @ 3:48pm","epoch":1347378180,"text":"Overly attached robots O.o\r\rLike 'someone', I once spawned in a small room without any way to escape and no other robots in sight. Other times the other robots just got stuck to me.\rI also kind of didn't understand what I was supposed to do or how to attack. What are the winning\/losing conditionns of this game?\r\rWhat I did like was the instantly fun movement system and the spriting. \r\rThis could be the start of a great game, but it's not really there yet."}],"images":["ld24\/4149-2e06576b8d86681f56fa4dc7f51897a4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/Ahnimal\/evoroid","text":"Kongregate (Broken)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/dump\/item\/3351c79359d20ba513bb7f1270a00749","text":"Newgrounds Dump (Fixed)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/rr9ow8j9gl99ng2\/src.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29509","g_author":"4149","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29539","g_title":"Evoroid","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"577","g_commentcount":"14","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\/4149-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"So I made this game and everything went perfectly until a bug came up 15 minutes before the deadline.\r\nThere is an overwhelming number of variables that need to be balanced in order to make the game work, and I wouldn't be able to do it even if I had another 24 hours, so the game may be very unbalanced.\r\n\r\nAnyway the idea is that you are this robot, in a tiny world of similar robots. You have some random parts attached to you and other robots usually have more parts. When you die or run out time\/fuel, you evolve, and gain either new parts or upgrades to your existing parts. If the game didn't break and I hadn't overslept I would have added bosses with special parts that would can only gain my killing them. \r\nThe objective of the game is to survive as many levels as possible, as you only have limited lives but unlimited \"refuels\".\r\nIf you can actually survive the aggressive AI, then you will evolve as planned, but when you die the game crashes.\r\nI would have tracked you guys' statistics with Mochi, but apparently it broke the game even more and therefore the Kongregate version doesn't load, at least not for me.\r\n\r\nHave fun!\r\n\r\nEDIT:\r\nI've fixed it and also made some slight balance changes and increased the size of the level.<\/p>","title":"Evoroid"}