{"author_link":"\/author\/citiral\/","author_name":"Citiral","author_uid":"6637","comments":[{"author_name":"Bemmu","author_uid":"13321","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1345998180,"text":"Best LD game so far. At first the controls were confusing. Awesome that you managed to get a "tech tree" included, I kept playing longer than I intended just to see the effects of the different upgrades."},{"author_name":"surreal_whale","author_uid":"5003","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 9:52pm","epoch":1346017620,"text":"Quite fun, although I never worked out where the dinosaurs hitbox was. I approve of the use of 1000 kittens :)"},{"author_name":"panzermancer","author_uid":"5826","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:48am","epoch":1346031780,"text":"After a while it would lag from all the kittens, somehow. I could only get to about 600 before I stopped. It was pretty fun while it lasted, though."},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:55am","epoch":1346032200,"text":"I like the upgrade menu a lot. At first the keyboard control map confused me."},{"author_name":"danlthemanl","author_uid":"5573","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:31am","epoch":1346034360,"text":"Pretty fun, I was quite confused with the hole stat tree stuff though."},{"author_name":"toteus","author_uid":"13114","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:41am","epoch":1346034960,"text":"good game i liked it"},{"author_name":"BenW","author_uid":"128","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:57am","epoch":1346039520,"text":"Neat game. I couldn't bring myself to kill all 1000 kittens but I did make it about half way."},{"author_name":"MasterBaldwin","author_uid":"6656","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:36am","epoch":1346041860,"text":"Loved every bloody kitty death :) And I voted for 1000 Kittens lol"},{"author_name":"bytegrove","author_uid":"11939","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 12:01pm","epoch":1346068560,"text":"I think the game starts out a little too slow, but rapidly becomes overwhelming. It's not as much fun when it takes so much dna to upgrade your dino, it feels like you're progressing much slower than the kittens. Maybe add intermediate upgrade stages, and make the current ones more powerful? I also didn't get what implications the reproduce\/generations functionality had? It felt more like a way to just escape a hairy situation. It was also a little hard to reach the P-button while playing.\rI liked the upgrade menu, nice with tech trees. The tune was pretty catchy, nice work!"},{"author_name":"Wan","author_uid":"9172","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:52pm","epoch":1346075220,"text":"Pretty amusing! It starts pretty slow, but the evolution trees are clever and the gameplay cool enough to keep the player entertained."},{"author_name":"bluefoxgs","author_uid":"15375","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1346076720,"text":"haha, I had this idea for 1000 kittens but when evolution came up I didn't think of this :) well done. The controls confused the hell out of me but once I got them down it was a really fun game."},{"author_name":"atla","author_uid":"14922","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1346077800,"text":"Well looks like a nice game. But as far as i can remember i've seen screenshots of THIS game the day before the contest started?"},{"author_name":"Citiral","author_uid":"6637","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:41pm","epoch":1346078160,"text":"@Atla, that would be impossible, because I made this game during the competition. It has some generic colors though, maybe you saw something that used kind of the same color palette?"},{"author_name":"atla","author_uid":"14922","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:18pm","epoch":1346080380,"text":"No i saw someone posting a screenshot of a dinosaur and a kitten. And it had the exact same colors and graphics. And i'm pretty sure it was the evening (german time) before the competition started and the final theme was announced. That's why i wondered."},{"author_name":"Citiral","author_uid":"6637","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1346085600,"text":"Strange.. I swear I made this game, and the graphics, myself. Do they keep IRC logs, maybe someone could try and find that screenshot? (also, dinosaurs usually have the same color, you don't see a pink dinosaur running around that often, :p.)"},{"author_name":"kato9","author_uid":"5821","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1346090040,"text":"Really clever game design in theory, but I have to say the gameplay gets very repetitive after just a short time. Not especially strong on the visual front (that lime green color is blinding) but the music is pretty good. Overall, good effort but could use some refinement."},{"author_name":"thecowfactory","author_uid":"8752","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:52pm","epoch":1346093220,"text":"I killed about 800 before i got bored..."},{"author_name":"CdrJameson","author_uid":"15980","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1346098740,"text":"Once the odd controls were understood I rather enjoyed it. Upgrades come too slowly (and fire rate is too slow), but nice Robotron\/Infinity Blade cross idea. Bit cheeky with the kittens! Getting an upgrade tree in there was a bit of a coup."},{"author_name":"pardue","author_uid":"15733","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1346101200,"text":"Interesting use of the theme... I like the dark humor. :)"},{"author_name":"gbellgames","author_uid":"16030","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:25pm","epoch":1346102400,"text":"I liked the use of the theme, but the game is too slow to be any fun. It takes toooooo long to be able to evolute, and in the beginning when you get overwhelmed by the kittens, you don't have much to do.\r\rThe controls work very well, the scheme with wasd+mouse is pretty good."},{"author_name":"MadGnomeGamer","author_uid":"10251","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1346107080,"text":"Awesome in-joke idea! :D\r\rTakes way too long to evolve though. I lost the fun before i got my second mutation."},{"author_name":"Timster Studios","author_uid":"7460","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1346183280,"text":"Really enjoyed playing this one. It reminded me a bit of Infinity Blade, with the generations and stuff. Very good game overall."},{"author_name":"X-0ut","author_uid":"12","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:12pm","epoch":1346188020,"text":"Easy selection of evolution, a little slow paced in the shooting department but I still went on to destroy 1000 kittens :D"},{"author_name":"Maxzilla60","author_uid":"17024","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1346251680,"text":"Ollie, you and your game rocks! ;D"},{"author_name":"pighead10","author_uid":"8539","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 11:10pm","epoch":1346281500,"text":"Quite fun, although it was a little slow paced."},{"author_name":"tumoxep","author_uid":"13912","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1346436540,"text":"Awesome, but controls are bit confusing.\rThanks for review."},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 1:35pm","epoch":1346506200,"text":"I liked the tech tree. Played the compo version for rating. I understand why you made things cheaper in the post-compo version :) Overall I think its a good game."},{"author_name":"Zabot","author_uid":"14146","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 2:51am","epoch":1346640360,"text":"Good job squeezing in the kittens. Much approve."},{"author_name":"moonmagic","author_uid":"4706","time":"Sep 15, 2012 @ 7:17am","epoch":1347693120,"text":"I loved the mechanics and menus (!) of this game, and the slew of kittens that happened (ha). I wish it was a little faster? I just want to stack them kittens up."}],"images":["ld24\/6637-4d550f89bbafea9df85099afbf6a8e1a.jpg","ld24\/6637-37cda67eb44e27b0093c1330f99a4917.jpg","ld24\/6637-f8d1b67105cab0bd3997bb4d8334d2ec.jpg","ld24\/6637-3c8ab4c7188cdccb6d4b4e9d9552df3f.jpg","ld24\/6637-1cef7f287ed6e1a79df65dc262922e9a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/44145179\/EvolutionVSKittensCOMP.swf","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/44145179\/EvolutionVSKittens.7z","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/wxcvbn999\/evolution-vs-1000-kittens","text":"Web POST COMP"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29652","g_author":"6637","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29682","g_title":"Evolution VS 1000 kittens","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"188","g_commentcount":"29","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\/6637-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/6637-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/6637-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/6637-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/6637-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"PLEASE PLAY THE POST-COMPO VERSION. IT REMOVES THE GRIND FROM THE GAME BY MAKING EVERYTHING CHEAPER. (It's genuinely fun now, I swear!)\r\n\r\nMy first Ludum Dare entry.\r\n\r\nYou control a race of dinosaurs, who are constantly attacked by the \"Thousand Kittens\". It's time to evolve and kill them once and for all, the save your race from extinction by to evil \"Thousand Kittens\".\r\n\r\nWASD\/ZQSD\/Arrow keys to move, LMB or space to shoot. In control scheme 1, use the mouse to aim, in control scheme 2, use the K\/L keys to rotate. Eat the dead kittens to gain their DNA in order to upgrade yourself.\r\nPress enter\/escape\/P to return to the upgrade screen when playing.\r\n\r\nI hope you have fun playing it! :)<\/p>","title":"Evolution VS 1000 kittens"}