Great job! This game was a lot of fun! I would have liked some smarter AI, but I know that's asking a lot from a LD game (especially one made in half the time!) But, good work!
Innovation: 3/5 - Not a rip-off, but not really new ideas. Fun: 4/5 - Strangely satisfying to eliminate an entire race. Perhaps I should seek help. Theme: 3/5 - Sure, the world is tiny, but this is more "Tiny" than "World". Graphics: 3/5 - They get the job done, and are clear and concise. Not pretty, though, with more time it could have been polished. Audio: N/A - On a machine without audio, so will not rate. Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, therefore not rating. Mood: 2/5 - The robotic movement is vaguely immersion-breaking.
I liked the galcon style strategy feel to it.. I was quite bad at playing it but I had fun :D also really impressive for 24 hours! Maybe you can add levels so it gets more challenging over time and not so hard in the beginning.
I enjoyed it but wasn't exactly sure what I could do to help my bugs thrive versus the others. Once the flowers ran out I definitely had no idea what to do.
Fun little game. Quite difficult to survive in a swarm. I noticed up/down movement dominated over left/right movement, so holding left them pressing up changed your movement direction but holding up then pressing left would keep you moving up. Would have been less frustrating to weave through a swarm of bugs if the most recently pressed key always took precedence.
@moop: never thought about that, but definatly a good idea (and not too hard to realize)
@all: Thanks for all your responses, i really appreciate it :) It't funny to see that most of you say its rather too difficult than too easy. I always thought it was too easy, but thats of course because i played it all the time while i develop it :D And a good balancing in 48 hours (or in my case 24 hours) is almost impossible.
I also uploaded a timelapse, unfortunatly i forgot to start it in the beginning, so its only some parts of the whole time. Hope you enjoy it anyways.
Hey, this was really a lot of fun! I really miss having sound effects, but that's my only real complaint.
One problem I did have, the first time I played there ended up being sooo many bugs on the screen, and not many flowers. I feel like if the other bugs get the upper hand, they should try to destroy your nest, or something along those lines. I.e., a losing condition if you don't make enough headway against the other colonies. As it was I just had to restart the game.
The other thing is it's sometimes hard to spot your own bug when you first (re) spawn.
Nice. I like the idea and the game play. I sense that there are a lot of cool things that could be added to a game like this. The applet version runs perfectly on Linux (it is the only version I tried). The only issue is that there are some annoying lag spikes whenever I destroy one of those spawners.
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Fun: 4/5 - Strangely satisfying to eliminate an entire race. Perhaps I should seek help.
Theme: 3/5 - Sure, the world is tiny, but this is more "Tiny" than "World".
Graphics: 3/5 - They get the job done, and are clear and concise. Not pretty, though, with more time it could have been polished.
Audio: N/A - On a machine without audio, so will not rate.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, therefore not rating.
Mood: 2/5 - The robotic movement is vaguely immersion-breaking.
@all: Thanks for all your responses, i really appreciate it :)
It't funny to see that most of you say its rather too difficult than too easy. I always thought it was too easy, but thats of course because i played it all the time while i develop it :D
And a good balancing in 48 hours (or in my case 24 hours) is almost impossible.
I also uploaded a timelapse, unfortunatly i forgot to start it in the beginning, so its only some parts of the whole time. Hope you enjoy it anyways.
One problem I did have, the first time I played there ended up being sooo many bugs on the screen, and not many flowers. I feel like if the other bugs get the upper hand, they should try to destroy your nest, or something along those lines. I.e., a losing condition if you don't make enough headway against the other colonies. As it was I just had to restart the game.
The other thing is it's sometimes hard to spot your own bug when you first (re) spawn.
But, whatever. This was cool and fun!
Really really fun!
You should make a new one with some more "action" and it will be a super cool game :-)