August 24th-27th 2012 :: Theme: Evolution
On a manned mission to a distant habitable planet, your ship crash lands and your entire crew dies. Alone in a strange place, you must explore and overcome various environmental challenges. There appear to be several species of intelligent aliens that have evolved to the planet's harsh climate; perhaps you can enlist their aid to survive, and maybe even find a way back home.
I realize this is more of an art demo than an actual game. I wasn't able to spend very much time this weekend working on it, but over the next several weeks I will be working on completing it and adding a lot of features and polish. If you're interested in future progress, you can find more information in the post mortem in my journal. Thanks for looking!
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 82% |
| #95 | Graphics | 3.80 |
| #97 | Audio | 3.33 |
| #274 | Mood | 2.82 |
| #425 | Humor | 1.92 |
| #533 | Fun | 2.45 |
| #641 | Overall | 2.41 |
| #704 | Innovation | 1.95 |
| #739 | Theme | 1.51 |
Comments
I'm not sure what to think. Jumping seems fun, but it's a bit strange that you go through walls. Really it was just too short! Make more!
Really good graphics. You should continue after Ludum Dare :)
What you used to make that game?
@midgard Thanks for the comment! I'll definitely be continuing work on this project. The game itself was written in javascript using the ImpactJS engine. The rest of the tools that I used can be found in my post mortem writeup if you're interested.
Unfinished but shows promise. It is one of the smoothest html5 games I've played in a while. Feels like a flash game. Sound works well too. The tune is fun. I'll definitely have to check out whatever html5 engine you're using.
Seemed like a good start! I really didn't find any gameplay. I basically walked right, missed a jump and fell to the floor, walked right some more and it said i finished! seems like this has potential to be the start of something great though! well done!
A good start, probably a great game in there, given a little more time
I liked the art a lot. The movement felt slow relative to the spaciousness of the environments - though maybe that was just my computer being slow, I'm not sure.
Camera positioning needs some improvements :). Looks good. Good luck with the post mortem version!
@axcho The slow-feeling movement is most likely due to the gravity being set a bit lower than normal. It's almost something you wouldn't notice without looking for it. I do have mixed feelings about it, so I may raise it a bit due to your comment.
@samoojamies The camera positioning is actually entirely intentional. :) What about it didn't you like? The way it doesn't quite catch up when you fall?
Audio & Graphics are fine, but needs more gameplay. I'll sure stay tuned for more updates!
Great little game, sort of lacks content like mine, but this only means that we should keep working :-) The world doesn't end with Ludum Dare. It doesn't, RIGHT?!
Really enjoyed how floaty everything was. Wish there was more to play, though!
Its a shame you couldnt get more done, it looks as though this was going to be fun.
Solid start on this one. I look forward to seeing more of this game.
The biggest loading bar ever :D I liked the astronaut..the anim was so sweet. And the controls for a platformer (jumping) were pretty good, because they often make the biggest problems (after collision detection).
Hope you make more of it!
The physics felt odd at times, but were well done. Unfortunately it's not much of a game at this point. Keep working on it. I'd like to see how it turns out! :)
Really cool stuff, good graphics, music and controls. Keep the work on it ;)
Very solid engine for HTML5, but the down slopes need work (can't jump on them while moving down). Great audio, great graphics, but I'm afraid there wasn't much else to this game at this point. Do continue it; it seems to be a nice foundation.
Nice, if unfinished. I liked the look of the graphics. Your character and the movement mechanics reminds me of Redder by Anna Anthropy. There doesn't seem to be anything resembling Evolution going on, though:(
Hum too bad there wasn't an objective...I understand on here games can be short. But I can see this has a lot of potential
FYI- the source is minified js. so it is pretty pointless.
@Josh Thanks for the kind words. I dislike the way slopes are treated as well, I will definitely be working on them a bit well.
@csanyk I haven't heard of Redder, but I will definitely seek it out and play it!
@thewiseguy99 Contacted you on twitter about the source. :)
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Like you said, graphics were great! Wish there was more gameplay!