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The evolution games / unnatural selection by Andrew

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made by Andrew for LD24 (COMPO)
There is no evolution, only the games, Darwin was wrong and aliens were right. You're not sure why you're there but you have to fight or get extinctioned. Everybody else there as well. Which is a problem.

Survival of the fittest indeed.

WASD to move, space to jump, click to shoot, scroll to change weapons.

WARNING: Contains raptors, sharks, turtles and kittens.

I'll upload a non web version (just in case) soon.

The kongregate version has some small ai tweaks and the kongregate api, so you can compare catkill numbers, scores and all that good stuff. Additionally enemies get added as time goes on in case you run out of things to kill. It's essentially a post compo version, or a jam version whichever you prefer to call it.

Web (unity) http://software.o-o.ro/ld24/index.html
Kongregate version http://www.kongregate.com/games/Sqloud/the-evolution-games-unnatural-selection
Source https://dl.dropbox.com/u/550111/ld24/ld24.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=5432

Ratings

Coolness 85% 2
Overall 2.59 577
Audio 2.34 394
Fun 2.37 563
Graphics 2.88 388
Humor 2.93 135
Innovation 1.98 696
Mood 2.60 392
Theme 2.18 625

Feedback

TobiasNL
27. Aug 2012 路 11:40 UTC
Nice style. The game itself got boring fast though. I really liked the grenades (and the hand throwing it), nicely made.
rhysvdw
27. Aug 2012 路 11:42 UTC
Cool, that was fun. I couldn't change weapon on account of not having a mouse wheel on my laptop though.
PTSnoop
27. Aug 2012 路 11:42 UTC
Aaaaaaah! Kittens!
Zed
27. Aug 2012 路 11:45 UTC
Wow. I am absolutely awful at it, but I give you bonus points for letting me massacre kittens, after all the bloody talk of them because of that damned joke theme...
馃帳 Andrew
27. Aug 2012 路 11:45 UTC
@rhysvdw ah sorry about that, will be fixed in a post compo build
michax
27. Aug 2012 路 11:46 UTC
Had fun with it and i like pixel art and animation.
馃帳 Andrew
27. Aug 2012 路 11:47 UTC
@Zed I know exactly what you mean. The secret is using the landscape to your advantage.
mariscal
27. Aug 2012 路 11:48 UTC
I liked the art and the weapons! good work!
pereubu
27. Aug 2012 路 14:05 UTC
slaughtering kitten is priceless, thanks dude D:
josefnpat
27. Aug 2012 路 20:21 UTC
Sorry, running linux. Go Unity 4.0!
馃帳 Andrew
27. Aug 2012 路 20:25 UTC
@josefnpat sorry :( I know that feel, this is the first LD I code on windows. I'll upload the standalone, maybe it works under wine.
Wyatt White
28. Aug 2012 路 04:58 UTC
Interesting idea, but some controll issues kinda ruined it for me. Polish those and this could be a great game
Sergey Mohov
28. Aug 2012 路 16:12 UTC
I can't say I understood much of it, but it was really fun in a weird unreasonable sort of way :'D
馃帳 Andrew
28. Aug 2012 路 16:43 UTC
@Sergey Mohov I'll probably quote you on that.
DustyStylus
28. Aug 2012 路 19:33 UTC
teh kittehs! I could hear them and then it was too late. D: I won't sleep tonight... (I love the sounds in this btw)
savethejets1
28. Aug 2012 路 23:17 UTC
I knew it was gonna be good when I saw, "WARNING: Contains raptors, sharks, turtles and kittens."
Accidental Rebel
30. Aug 2012 路 05:02 UTC
Kinda hard to target the kittens as I wanted to headshot them Haha.
馃帳 Andrew
30. Aug 2012 路 18:51 UTC
@Accidental Rebel that shouldn't be too hard, half their bodies are the head :)
tcstyle
31. Aug 2012 路 20:49 UTC
That's pretty tough. I like the soundtrack. 1000 kittens were killing me every time after falling down the tower.
angrygeometry
01. Sep 2012 路 00:01 UTC
andrew i love your games and this one is especially good
goffmog
01. Sep 2012 路 11:58 UTC
Wow, what a hard game - found it kind of random whether I managed to kill a kitten or not when I shot it, and more accurate at long distances for some reason. Understandable decision to go with billboards for the monsters, that's something I'll have to consider for my next LD instead of making them out of primitives as making one 3D model takes me closer to 48 days than 48 hours ;) Oh to be an artist.
Syarahsy
01. Sep 2012 路 18:52 UTC
I love your whole menagerie. I was definitely looking to see what the next creature would be. The music is really good.
Jedi
02. Sep 2012 路 11:41 UTC
WHO GAVE THOSE KITTENS CANNONS!? >:(
Great job, but I can't survive more than a minute! :)
matthias_zarzecki
03. Sep 2012 路 21:30 UTC
Murderous kittens, indeed.

Love the low-fi graphics. Gameplay could use a bit tightening though.
mohammad
03. Sep 2012 路 21:33 UTC
great!
cant stop playing!
keep it up!
marudziik
03. Sep 2012 路 23:34 UTC
I wasn't sure what to do, besides killing kittens, that is. 10 mins is quite a long time and it's extremely difficult to survive that long. Music got a little boring after a while, but it also kinda fits. The game could use some gameplay reworking. Other than that, graphics are actually quite good. Nice entry!
Yakka
04. Sep 2012 路 09:42 UTC
Very strange game. I'm not a big FPS fan sorry. But I like your idea to make the gun pointer as a light.
Richard Matey
04. Sep 2012 路 13:32 UTC
Finished the game with 855, really like the mood and those cats are pretty terrifying even more than the sharks. How did you do the flash light effect?
馃帳 Andrew
04. Sep 2012 路 13:53 UTC
@marudziik it's not so hard once you figure out the trick to it. The various creatures aren't that smart

@Richard Matey it's just a spotlight object
hamster_mk_4
12. Sep 2012 路 06:11 UTC
The shotgun kittens and torpedo sharks were interesting, but I rarely got to see the side of these monsters. Some random movement would have improved this game significantly. The monsters would not get stuck for ever, and we would get to see the monster from more angles. Also if you don't want to spend too much time lighting a scene, the directional light is your fiend.
馃帳 Andrew
12. Sep 2012 路 10:26 UTC
@hamster_mk_4 the sharks especially are not meant to be fought head on and you can generally circle around them, one thing you can do for kittens is jump over them as they charge at you, then see them circle around. Not entirely advisable though.