August 24th-27th 2012 :: Theme: Evolution
---- GOAL ----
Bid for the team that will win the battle.
If you success the loser team gain a new evolution.
Then, you'll have to think again the issue of next battle until you fail.
---- DNA CODE ----
On the gameover screen you can generate a DNA Code for saving the best beetles team.
You can exchange those codes with friends and make them fight in the skirmish mode.
---- MY BEST DNA ----
-> benjamin;10;0;6;1;9;7c940 <-
please tell me if you can beat it :)
---- WARNING ----
I had no time for a loading screen so please be patient with the white page :)
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
 | Innovation | 4.26 |
| #5 | Overall | 4.17 |
| #7 | Theme | 4.34 |
| #24 | Fun | 3.81 |
| #39 | Graphics | 4.16 |
| #39 | Audio | 3.66 |
| #100 | Mood | 3.30 |
| #224 | Humor | 2.53 |
Comments
Great game! This take on the evolution theme is quite ingenious and well-implemented. If you wanted to know the small issues I experienced, I didn't hear any sound, just letting you know in case there was supposed to be any, and one time the description boxes for the powerups were stuck open, obscuring the field a bit, but that only happened once.
Issues aside, this was quite awesome and fun! I wonder how much deciding the battle goes to the setup of the bugs, but either way, picking and voting and watching feels wonderfully epic!
I think this game is amazing! I played an earlier build you posted, and I really like the extra effects/evolutions you added since then!
And the skirmish mode is also a wonderful idea, in fact here is my wonderful team:
Hototo;0;5;8;14;3;0;6472d
Awesome game :) Loved every bettle killing, explosing tearing, upclose blade blasting minute of it!
Quite funny to play and see how things evolve. But the instant "gameover" is a bit frustrating.
jsjwooowooo > for the sfx I can hear them here, If anyone have the same problem please let me know. This is the first time I try to write music on a LD game I really hope you can hear (or suffer ) it :)
For the hint box problem, I think I will add a post compo version with some corrections.
Interesting, but wish I could do a little more than just vote on who wins
Really fun, and very good use of the theme. One of my favourites.
I love it! Nothing comes to mind that is annoying or badly designed. It's just like cockfights, but with beetles!
ALL good mother of god this is an awesome game!
Midgard's Army;7;9;4;12;26736
cool concept for a game, and matched the theme nicely. It really got me rootin' for my beetle team. Might've been nice to have just a little bit to do while the fight was going on. The beetle leg animations really impressed me for some reason =)
Only issue I got with the normal gameplay is that it is almost like playing who wants to be a millionaire, but without the life lines =) Something to help you get up to the higher levels.
Fantastic game! I played it so many times until I could beat your team (Me;5;8;10;13;13;1;b44e3). Watching battles got a bit tiring though, and a fast forward button might be nice.
THE best entry I've seen yet. Good graphics, sounds and music.
The game mechanic are also very original and well made. Kudos for you, sir.
Wow, I'm speechless. Awesome. Just awesome.
I don't know if it's my computer, but when there are a lot of beetles and bullets on the screen, it slows down a little (not much, it still works perfectly). Also, something to reset the game without refreshing the page would be neat.
Nevertheless, perfect entry.
marudziik > There should be a menu button to letting you go back to the menu... You had nothing poping up at the end of fights ?
Very solid game. Graphics, sound, etc are very well done. It's funny how I found myself rooting for my team even though I had no control - pretty good AI to have the beetles battle it out for so long. Would love to see this game concept expanded where you can buy different traits to build an army and challenge others.
Really, really fun! :D I enjoy this type of game so much! Well done - incredibly polished, even for a regular game developed in a month or so! I liked the AI a lot! I would really enjoy reading a post-mortem or something describing some of the game's technical details!
BUG: When only one larva left you lose even though the larva transforms a second after
Easily the best graphics I've seen. Looks like a published game. The gameplay, though, had a tendency to be frustrating - even when one team had an obvious advantage (Blade/Elite vs Intimidate/Intimidate), it seemed like the outcome could still go either way.
Check out my army "Vlad;12;6;15;1;6;13;11;af6ac".
Right now I've beaten every other army on that page :)
ahhhh i love gladiator style games, nice job on...everything!
gyahhhh, i love the balancing act of learning when to change sides, this is one of the best entries
That is some really clever interpretation of the theme! In my opinion the fights feel a bit too random due to the movement and shooting behavior; and could also be a bit faster, but that may be in some degree subjective. However the game mechanics is very impressive for 48h.
What a great game!!! The graphics are amazing especially considering the time. Very slick well put together game. Impressed!
The idea is awesome. The skirmish mode is great and can get addictive.
My army is so bad ^^ Dams;9;6;af064
This game is awesome. Seriously! Great art, music and gameplay. Simple idea really well realised.
this game is brilliant. Great gfx, funny and addictive idea.
Well, I think this is my winner. It's 1) Addictive 2) Beautiful 3) Sounds good 4) Fits the theme and it feels like a lot of polish has gone into this. Really exceptional, well done!
My best army is unbeatable : Demianthekiller;0;0;12;12;12;12;2;2;2;2;cd17c
The most innovative game I've seen here! Plus very well polished. I think has a great future!
Benjamin,check this out! rrrr;1;3;15;5;0;6;2;32355
This is super army :D
very cool game, but i do prefer monkey rather beetle =)
fun yet pretty stressfull
@Benjamin Yeah, at the end of the fights, but what if I wanted to go back during the fight, the voting or just after selecting skirmish mode? :) As I've stated before, this is perfect anyway. :)
BEST ARMY EVER >> thopie;2;10;8;4;8;12;9;11;0;7;1;10;15;8;2;14;117c0
comme quoi, avoir une mauvaise connexion peut être bénéfique ;)
This is both thematically appropriate *and* fun! Great job on the idea! I like the AI, and even though your interaction is limited so simply betting on the winner it's still really entertaining to just watch the fights go down.
NONONO-- YESYESYES! SHOOT! SHOOT! NO GODDAMMIT HOW COULD YOU ALL MISS IT WAS 3 VS 1 AND HE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.
Oddly exciting for a zero-player game. I guess it's because the mechanics are simplistic so it feels fair to estimate which team to bet on and to understand how a match develops.
@Jiggawatt " A zero-player game " :D I have to use that as a subtitle
@marudziik You're right I have never implemented esc key during play on any games whereas I appreciate it on others games :) I will do it on next version.
I'm currently working on a post-compo version with no memory-leak, and new habilities. I already finished POWER, OFFENSIVE_BOUNCE, SALVO, CANNIBALISM, SEEKER_BOMB and EXALTED.
New Favorite! This game held my attention for the last half hour! The unpredictability makes it interesting to watch, and the hope of seeing hyper-evolved teams fight is a great incentive to keep trying. Great Work!!!!!!
Brilliant concept and very polished. You've got some great ideas in there like the DNA sharing. Great work!
This game is just playing around with our emotions. If you want to rise a winning team, you have to wish the death of the team you were cheering during the previous battle.
Hopefully there are just beetles, monkeys would have been worst.
Wow. You should make a post compo version with online dna trading machanism.
Love it! They're so good at dodging, it would be nice to see 'em slip once in a while.
Sweet, excellent game, really looking forward to the post-compo version! If I may make some suggestions, could we see more abilities that effect elites (to make them even more useful) and an ability to prioritise targets (so that they first tend to go for Elites, then Queens and then normals)
In any case, keep up the good work!
Very cool concept. I played it again and again...and again....
My best army (well, best losing army... you can tell when people invented their army wholesale if it's completely unbeatable, funnily enough. You should have seen the other one; that was a poor bet.) George;5;5;1;13;6;10;9;15;5;8;e079c . Dodge is my favorite skill, but it doesn't show up here, though it does in the other army. Such a bad bet.
Whoa! This is definetely my favorite entry so far!!
Simply awesome. The Skirmish mode was my favorite, though I lost the code I got from the Evolution mode when copying yours over to make them fight. I think it doesn't matter anyway, since mine lost. =P
Really liked the graphics, couldn't fit more the theme and it was really fun and challenging. VERY innovative.
Congratulations! =D
Wow, so addictive! Nice music and variety too. Tends to be a bit back-and-forth sometimes though.
Very good game.
I beat you. I didn't save my code but I had :
My team name was : AHAHAH and the skills was:
DODGER, GRENADA, RAPIDFIRE, AMBUSH, ELITE, INTIMIDATE
Amazing. I love the little legs as they walk, too, lol. My only gripe is that as far as I can tell, there's no way of backing to the menu in Skirmish mode if you can't provide codes.
tripleintimidate;10;14;7;52030 CUM AT MY TRIPLE INTIMIDATE BRO
Love this game, gonna bookmark this shit.
This is excellent. I have no time to test the squirmish mode, but I will.
Very entertaining, innovative and beautiful and it does sound good, too.
This game is as fun to play as betting on horse racing. I know many people who like that sort of thing but I am not one of them. The innovation and adherence to the theme are quite impressive. As is the polish you managed to put into the game.
Very nice game - I liked the non-traditional style of play, where you decide who wins to gain powerups for other battles. Very fun, and very well executed.
Surprisingly fun since all you do is bet. I just wish there was like a "DNA library" that would automatically store & list your winnings.
so... basically, you just click once and watch? how did i spent 20 minutes on that?
What does it mean when your guys just start flashing yellow and run off the screen? Is that a glitch? Or intimidation-related?
Great game. One of the best, and fantastic art. I literally double checked to make sure this was in the 48.
Just played way too much of this. Please please please refine it a bit more and release it on ios/android.
Just amazing game (for 48 hours) :D
ULTIME_DNA_CODE_BY_DANY45;0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30;31;32;33;34;35;36;37;38;39;40;41;42;43;44;45;46;47;48;49;50;51;52;53;54;55;56;57;58;59;60;61;62;63;64;65;66;67;68;69;70;71;72;73;74;75;76;77;78;79;80;81;82;83;84;85;86;87;88;89;90;91;92;93;94;95;96;97;98;99;9e61a
This game was awesome! Only would have liked it if the transitions from screen to screen were a bit faster. I get impatient waiting:)
I beat the Benjamin best swarm easily with this: pug;14;1;13;5;6;7;7;69e3b
This game is great!
I beat your army with (QIFATA;10;11;3;9;1;9;04eb3)
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Realty fun game to play! Got addicted to it after about 2 minutes!:)