Biovolve by Cryptix
Biovolve is a simple game where you have to evolve your character to overcome certain obstacles.
There are 3 different evolutions, fire, water and grass. To evolve you have to search for the specific evolution orb.
Controls
Arrow Keys to move
R to Restart
There are 3 different evolutions, fire, water and grass. To evolve you have to search for the specific evolution orb.
Controls
Arrow Keys to move
R to Restart
| Web (Stencyl Arcade) | http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/14360 |
| Web (.swf) | http://cl.ly/J11p |
| Source | http://cl.ly/J0Ew |
| Web (Kongregate) | http://www.kongregate.com/games/cryptixdev/biovolve |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=7468 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 66% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.36 | 180 |
| Audio | 3.02 | 165 |
| Fun | 3.10 | 215 |
| Graphics | 3.40 | 193 |
| Humor | 2.03 | 391 |
| Innovation | 2.42 | 552 |
| Mood | 3.09 | 159 |
| Theme | 2.57 | 497 |
Some points:
- When you press JUMP rapidly in mid air, the character is like hovering. Is this behavior wanted? Its a little disturbing sometimes
- I didn't get the point of evolving back to grey?
- At a certain point, the same level was launched over and over. Did a reach the end of the game?
- According to me, the difficulty is not increasing enough and fast enough. I nearly never died. The game needs some enemies maybe, or obstacles (pikes, ...)?
PS: I went in the water being grey, it happened once. The high falling speed may cause it? (I was jumping from a cliff)
Keep up the good work! :)
Thanks!
The jump issue is one i need to work on, but probably won't happen by tonight.
It evolves back to grey every level because of i wanted each level to be seperate and it changes in the level at some point just because i wanted to confuse people :)
I think if i rework on this game, I will work on making the levels more complex.
Regarding the issues, can I ask where you played it and which level, etc.
Other than that, a nice solid little platformer. Some of the powerups seemed redundant though, unless they get mixed in later levels.
I glitched into the water (through the kill trigger?) in the level with the water.
Overall a very cool little puzzle-light platformer. Good audio, effective graphics. When I picked up the first power up and started flashing red I knew exactly what was going on.
In the second lava level you can get stuck and be forced to use the restart key. This is jarring to gameplay and can be solved though thoughtful level design. (for example water/lava/spikes instead of a plain floor.
I love the idea of using masks like Nihilumbra for iOS ;)
+ nice music
- not very innovative
- there's not too much evolution involved
I liked the art style, simple and effective.
There were a few glitches, like in one level you had to touch the goal just right or else it would restart, and you can float by repeatedly tapping up, etc. but they were mostly pretty minor. Great job! I had fun playing.
I agree on the bugs, but I'm not going to fix them for the comp, because I don't think thats right. But I will hopefully go through the game again, and focus on making proper levels. Maybe a few easy levels, and then straight to mixed levels.
So look out for a decent game soon :)