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DNA_Evolution by dj_pale

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made by dj_pale for LD24 (COMPO)
Well, not very impressive but the important thing is to participate ;)

Used all tools as originally stated, only exception was to use Garageband instead of Milkytrakcer, did not use Tiled either.

Tools:
- Programming: Haxe, HaxeNME and HaxePunk in FlashDevelop
- Audio: bfxr, Garageband, Audacity
- Gfx: Paint.NET

Instructions:
- Drag and drop to build DNA bases
- Rotate with space while dragging to flip base
- Avoid incomplete bases
- Pick up power ups
- It practically goes on forever, but I guess it becomes impossible quite shortly :P

Web http://dl.dropbox.com/u/541553/LD24/index.html
Source http://dl.dropbox.com/u/541553/LD24/DNA_Evolution.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=9921

Ratings

Coolness 49% 570
Overall 3.15 270
Audio 3.33 97
Fun 2.85 336
Graphics 2.65 461
Humor 2.06 377
Innovation 2.93 336
Mood 2.50 440
Theme 2.92 366

Feedback

photex
27. Aug 2012 路 23:33 UTC
I think this is a pretty fertile start to a touch-enabled game on a tablet.
Jamin
01. Sep 2012 路 01:01 UTC
I agree with photex; this could be a real fun phone / tablet game. Replace space bar with tapping on a piece before picking it up.

Maybe consider dropping new pieces in a grid on the side rather than randomly placed. The wiggle effect is neat, but it seems to interfere with grabbing pieces.

Elegant, fun game.
Teknik
01. Sep 2012 路 15:58 UTC
very nice game. maybe some warning that you get new halves when you make a connection. at first i though they were based on time and was just trying to solve the first ones but didn't have the proper connections.
馃帳 dj_pale
02. Sep 2012 路 11:49 UTC
Hi, thanks for the comments! I agree that the mouse interface is not optimal (the arm would ache after a while) and would have been better off on a tablet :)
MurrayL
02. Sep 2012 路 12:20 UTC
Looks/feels pretty nice, and plays well, but the difficulty needs to be adjusted.
On at least two occasions, I had seemed to have no parts that fitted any of the ones I could see. I actually lost the game because I couldn't make any moves.
monsieur_nez
02. Sep 2012 路 13:37 UTC
Really good idea, good potential!
cadin
02. Sep 2012 路 16:56 UTC
I think this has a lot of potential. I like your sound effects!
I didn't understand how the new pieces get made. At certain points I didn't have any of the pieces I needed. Is that something I have control over.
Nice work!
yosh
02. Sep 2012 路 23:15 UTC
I don't have a mouse right now so it was quite a pain to score anything. However I like this puzzle concept and it could certainly make a mobile game :P
馃帳 dj_pale
02. Sep 2012 路 23:18 UTC
The piece-generation is unfortunately not suited to the incomplete bases being generated. Made a semi-fix to spawn new piece types sequientially, but one might still get unlucky.
harusame
04. Sep 2012 路 20:09 UTC
Too difficult because we don't have the good piece. But it's fun, good idea and good potential for a phone and tablet. I like audio :)
garygreen
04. Sep 2012 路 20:49 UTC
Nice idea. I really enjoyed playing it. I liked the incidental touches to the game too, such as the voice and the slight jiggle and zoom in/out of the DNA bars.
raarlac
04. Sep 2012 路 20:52 UTC
Nice game! First HaxePunk game I see here. Its gonna be awesome to study the source code :)
aare
04. Sep 2012 路 21:28 UTC
I like the voice saying "evloution", reminds me of mortal combat series :P
I like the animations and poilsh of this game, though the gameplay is not the greatest :/ Especially frustrating is when You don't have fitting pair of nucleotyde
Adhesion
06. Sep 2012 路 03:54 UTC
Fun but a bit hard to understand at first - maybe make the color matches clearer than just having the examples on the title screen. (The shapes are a bit too small to be immediately obvious in-game)
Matt Rix
15. Sep 2012 路 00:28 UTC
Decent game, pretty fun to play, although I think it might be better without having to flip the pieces at all.