Wormelution by cappelnord

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made by cappelnord for LD24 (COMPO)
Made with Love2D. The game is about evolution, which is basically life, which is basically eat enough to find the best partner and have progeny. Your graphic card needs to support shaders and your machine shouldn't be to shabby in general. Have fun!

Controls:
Arrow keys - Move around
Hold down Left Shift - Flirt/mate
Space - Dash
S - Statistics

If your Energy runs low you'll loose Health and can die.

The Game easily gets out of Balance after some evolution cycles but well, it's a 48 hours game. Source code is a bigger mess than last time. Programming with classes isn't so bad after all ...

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.74 46
Audio 3.68 36
Fun 3.28 145
Graphics 3.90 75
Humor 2.00 396
Innovation 3.35 164
Mood 3.74 32
Theme 4.25 13

Feedback

Beyamor
27. Aug 2012 · 00:53 UTC
It ran on Windows 7 for me. The background illumination was neat. After I ate a green dude, I never saw another one, which, I suppose, is natural selection at work.
headchant
27. Aug 2012 · 02:36 UTC
Slick graphics, very 'designery' and polished! Love the statistics and the mating sounds.
MattHartley
27. Aug 2012 · 09:43 UTC
Very fun, great gamaplay and graphics
Vordux
27. Aug 2012 · 14:11 UTC
As others said, polished game, clean controls and style.

Good incorporation of the theme, an enjoyable experience, an intelligent design that forces the player to think about how they should interact with the ai to progress.
Dakota
27. Aug 2012 · 14:14 UTC
Nice Mix of gameplay and graphical. All in All a very nice Game.
turnip
27. Aug 2012 · 16:30 UTC
The mechanics and simulation were great, but it needs some sort of goal to keep you playing.
Karel
27. Aug 2012 · 16:30 UTC
I really like this one a lot. Probably the best one I've tried so far. Nice work!
Lucariatias
27. Aug 2012 · 16:31 UTC
Brilliant! Lovely art style, very nice sound effects and music. Felt really smooth to control and great fun to play. It's a little like Spore, but still very innovative in itself. For 48 hours, this is amazing!
DGoodayle
28. Aug 2012 · 12:24 UTC
Loved it :)
Jeremias
28. Aug 2012 · 12:27 UTC
Great, smooth atmosphere created with your visual style, the background music and the soundeffects.

Was fun to play, but I wished it had more variations in the attributes which can be changed, like specific "spells".

Nic job at all :)
Ragzouken
28. Aug 2012 · 13:18 UTC
Quite entertaining, and a good idea for the theme :)
samoojamies
28. Aug 2012 · 14:29 UTC
Wow, nice mood.
Sergey Mohov
28. Aug 2012 · 16:32 UTC
Amazing graphic and sound design, almost realistic evolution simulation. Very well done :-)
vigrid
28. Aug 2012 · 21:07 UTC
Wonderful music. Feels like a very complete game, even though the gameplay could be easily made more complex and engaging. Graphics does its job. Convert it to a phone game! Great take on the theme, too.
fhoenig
29. Aug 2012 · 05:02 UTC
My favorite part are the hearts. Really cute. Up rating on mood too for sure.
DustyStylus
29. Aug 2012 · 09:29 UTC
Very nice production. I like the art style in this and the sounds are nice and ambient. Perhaps needs more of a goal as already mentioned. Great entry though, well done.
cominu
29. Aug 2012 · 11:11 UTC
I love it!:D
Benjamin
29. Aug 2012 · 11:15 UTC
Nice work on audio it really give the game a personnal touch. The pink glowing + heart fx is a cool FX for flirting.
hansolo
29. Aug 2012 · 11:38 UTC
I couldn't play it on my PC, window is opening but only with a white screen.
Whatching the video was fun, wish I could play it..
🎤 cappelnord
29. Aug 2012 · 11:54 UTC
@hansolo I wish I could help you but I don't have a Windows machine at hand and without an error message it's kind of impossible to find a solution :-( You could install Love2D and try the Linux/Love2D Version if this works.
Wan
29. Aug 2012 · 14:09 UTC
Clever one! There are big Spore influences here but the gameplay remains original, and mood of the game quite unique thanks to the nice sound landscape and good graphics.

Ths main downside is that the evolution feature seems to lack some balance, since I always end like... short, and heavy... it's hard to find someone worth mating with ;) On the opposite I found the combat aspect of the game pretty fun.

Overall it remains a solid entry, congrats.
michax
29. Aug 2012 · 18:21 UTC
Smooth gameplay and nice graphics! And most important fun to play.
TinyPlatypus
30. Aug 2012 · 12:02 UTC
Really interesting, nice graphics and smooth, polished gameplay!
vilya
30. Aug 2012 · 21:17 UTC
I think the balance was a bit off - energy seemed to run down too quickly while just moving about, so chasing after the green guys for food was a bit pointless. I think you also have to repeat the same action (flirt, bump, etc) too many times to get a result. Adjust that & I think you'd have a pretty compelling game, because the basic mechanics are pretty sound.
infernet89
31. Aug 2012 · 20:58 UTC
Very nice, this kind of evolution by flirting is a clever idea!
timtipgames
01. Sep 2012 · 15:30 UTC
I don't know what it is, but I just made love with it! I really love the concept. The shaders are really nice and I like how the mechanics work. I wish it was easier to see if a mating would be beneficial, because sometimes I fell in love with a worm that looked good, but it turned out it was a really bad influence for me (but isn't that how it goes ;)). Overall: A really nice entry.
monsieur_nez
03. Sep 2012 · 23:46 UTC
Good idea, remind me the beginning of spore
ggiraldez
04. Sep 2012 · 19:31 UTC
(I come from your comment in my game) This is great! Love the graphics, sounds and background music. The flirting/mating idea is very interesting. I didn't like the controls much, but my opinion is obviously biased ;)
AdventureIslands
04. Sep 2012 · 20:54 UTC
Whoa, this was really cool. Nice concept and very well done. There could perhaps have been some objective other than just mate and grow, but nice job anyway.
csanyk
17. Sep 2012 · 00:49 UTC
One of the best that I've played out of this LD. Really well done.