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Grow, Thrive, Evolve by Taffaz

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made by Taffaz for LD34 (COMPO)
Grow, Thrive, Evolve is a game where you have to grow Dooda from a small aquatic being into a creature of the land and finally a flying beast.

I decided to use both themes for this game.

Growing:

You grow by eating smaller animals and you get hurt if you get hit by a larger animal although the plants won't hurt you if they are too large.

There are three stages, each with 3 phases. As you grow the camera will zoom out to keep Dooda a reasonable size.

Two Button Controls:

Control is done using the left and right arrow to turn with Dooda travelling forward at his max speed at all time.

I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave any feedback.
Web http://www.taffaz.com/ludum/ld34/
Jar (22MB) http://www.taffaz.com/ludum/ld34-desktop-1.0.jar
Source http://www.taffaz.com/ludum/ld34-sources.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=19054

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.20 510
Audio 2.72 436
Fun 3.41 291
Graphics 2.61 724
Humor 2.45 439
Innovation 2.51 817
Mood 3.00 444
Theme 3.81 418

Feedback

Blake_Lead
14. Dec 2015 · 08:49 UTC
Nice little game, occupied me for five enjoyable minutes !
gene-z
14. Dec 2015 · 11:31 UTC
Vera Nice game
Geukes Colin
14. Dec 2015 · 11:32 UTC
A game, in which growing is central.
Spend a couple of minuts of my life, on this game. Quite liked it. The graphics are a bit bad, and the screen is glitching some times. But overall, a good score!
chrizdekok
14. Dec 2015 · 11:34 UTC
Best game I tried so far. Great work!
Instead of using the mouse to choose upgrades it would be simpler to just use left/right.
The animation of the creature I really enjoyed. :)
Shared
14. Dec 2015 · 11:57 UTC
Very nice
Andrew Deem
14. Dec 2015 · 12:23 UTC
Nice work man! Fun little time killer. Reminds me a bit of Spore or Flow (which isn't a bad thing). I enjoyed how the enemies are you changed depending on the phase you were in.
SecularBaron
14. Dec 2015 · 12:24 UTC
Cool game. It was satisfying to evolve.
cynicalmonkey
14. Dec 2015 · 12:25 UTC
I liked the music it set a good mood although an idea for later builds might be o have the music evolve with the creature, gets faster for speed, heavier for defence. i would take the mouse out of it entirely though, with the options being on the left and right it would just fit with the control theme.
daandruff
14. Dec 2015 · 12:27 UTC
A nice early-game Spore clone. I felt that the upgrades didn't matter all that much. Solid entry though :)
icereci
14. Dec 2015 · 12:29 UTC
Seems like agar.io. Enjoyed playing.
Ayte
14. Dec 2015 · 14:02 UTC
Really nice game !
I really enjoyed this !
🎤 Taffaz
14. Dec 2015 · 14:45 UTC
Thanks for all your comments. I was definitely intending to make it so you could use the arrow keys to select the upgrades and I just forgot to do it.

Spore was definitely the inspiration for this game and I hadn't heard of flow or agar.io but I checked out agar.io and was impressed.
Capitals
14. Dec 2015 · 15:16 UTC
Music was really good, suited it perfectly - always my weakness. I can't help but think this is inspired by the bacteria stage of spore, I love that stage. I would say you could improve by making it clearer what you could eat, what speed and defense does and if you were to work on better graphics. Good Luck!
greenscreen
14. Dec 2015 · 15:27 UTC
Great gameplay. Reminds me of agar.io, but with scaling. Also kinda similar to amoeba phase of life in Spore game.
Somnium
14. Dec 2015 · 15:59 UTC
A very enjoyable game!

The different phases felt different, both in the possible opponents/prey, and the difference in the surroundings (my disregard for speed-upgrades did not serve me well in the avian phase...)

Great use of the themes! The graphics were functional, and sufficiently different across the three phases to give variety.

Also, thumbs up for using LibGDX!
pjimmy
14. Dec 2015 · 17:02 UTC
nice, very interesting, good job
bazkur98
14. Dec 2015 · 17:10 UTC
Not bad! I enjoyed the 5 or 10 minutes I played (web version). Controlled really well. Followed the theme better than my entry probably did! Good job.
deadpixelsociety
14. Dec 2015 · 23:39 UTC
I enjoyed this and played to completion. Felt like I was playing a take on the first level of Spore which was quite fun. I went full speed and they never stood a chance.
TomenLuca
15. Dec 2015 · 17:16 UTC
Cool little game, could use a little polish. Liked the fact you included evolution in there as an extension on the theme growing.
Phil Strahl
15. Dec 2015 · 19:24 UTC
Almost made it, those darn birds! ;) Very nice game with a rather melancholic soundtrack. Reminded me a little of SimLife. Which is good!
Category5Kawaiiju
15. Dec 2015 · 19:27 UTC
He's soooooo cute! I love how he gets a little propeller! That was adorable!
AzureAspect
15. Dec 2015 · 20:32 UTC
Played till the end, eat and grow games are always fun.
The difficulty could have been a bit harder, I lost health only on the last stage (while being quite large)
well done game :)
trozen
15. Dec 2015 · 20:34 UTC
Pretty nice little eating things game. Tried to be a pure herbivore for most of it, at least until I ran out of visible flowers.
RhythmLynx
15. Dec 2015 · 21:34 UTC
This is pretty cool, I like that you did different environments. One thing I would suggest is some kind of warning or highlight, or larger and more discrete variations in size; there were several times where I was damaged by something just slightly larger than me that I thought I could eat.
WebFreak001
15. Dec 2015 · 22:07 UTC
Really nice game but it would have been nicer if you could stay big in the sections a bit longer to reward to player
MorganLeFay
15. Dec 2015 · 22:11 UTC
Fun game to play but definitely room for improvement. While I think rescaling the screen is important in a game where you constantly grow sometimes it felt a little odd to be so small again. Also the sound when you get hit was kind of painful for my ears.
brainybeard
15. Dec 2015 · 23:00 UTC
Interesting game, it kind of reminded me of the beginning stages of spore. I liked how you gave use the oppurtunity to upgrade one of two abilities, I personally went for defence all the way however I'm unsure what effect this actually had on my creature. Maybe in future updates it would be interesting to show how choosing speed or defence affects your performance. Overall, really fun game, the music worked well and perhaps the art could do with a tiny bit of work, but generally it was a fun game :)
Zeezgames
15. Dec 2015 · 23:02 UTC
Loved this game i dont really like these type of games so i was surprosed when i enjoyed playing it the music was soothing and relaxing :)

Well Done!
justinooncx
16. Dec 2015 · 01:38 UTC
It's the most fun part of Spore! Pretty fun game!
Warboys
16. Dec 2015 · 12:11 UTC
I had a good time :) I really liked the music, very suiting to the survival of the fittest!

There was something very unsettling about the create art and chasing behaviour, was scary when those birds were after you!
rjhelms
21. Dec 2015 · 04:18 UTC
This is really cool. Things got hairy once the birds started chasing me!
the-arrival
26. Dec 2015 · 10:23 UTC
eat everything... nice concept :)