Ludum Dare #24compo

Attack of the killer cute things!

by waynetron

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.03

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.29

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.13

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.51

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%

Fight your way through waves of cute little monsters, each with randomly mutated traits.

The most successful monster in each wave has its traits passed down to the next generation.

My best score so far is 275 creatures killed (A lucky combination of weak monsters and good powerups mostly). Would love to know if anyone beats it though.

I think I'll do a post-compo version with more monster stats and traits. There currently isn't enough variety to where the how the monsters can evolve. Any suggestions for new traits to add would also be great!

Comments21

Bemmu27 Aug 2012, 05:39

Pretty character graphics, but didn't feel hooked to the game. Might just copy that art style though!

cacciatc27 Aug 2012, 06:18

I like how his eyes light up whenever you fire.

Desi Quintans27 Aug 2012, 07:54

Great graphics and a lot of variety in the gameplay. I got fast tiny things that did 50 damage per hit. :/

pardue27 Aug 2012, 14:39

Nice game, The presentation was well done.

YopSolo28 Aug 2012, 00:51

cool :)

cappelnord28 Aug 2012, 10:18

cute graphics, good difficulty curve. Some animations on the monsters would be good.

SiENcE28 Aug 2012, 10:29

Very good graphic style!

Hint: Source download link does not work.

brother.byto28 Aug 2012, 10:36

Nice graphics, but it also didn't hook me.

TuxedoFish28 Aug 2012, 10:46

Extremely awesome graphics and gameplay but the noises were a bit irratating but everything else was well made.

Waynetronauthor28 Aug 2012, 11:07

@SiENcE: My bad, source link works now.

eyehawk28 Aug 2012, 12:40

Nice graphics and style, but the game play was a bit repetive - perhaps have powerups and more enemy types to vary it a bit.

dekart28 Aug 2012, 14:39

Nice graphics and sound. Not sure where the evolution is, but pretty fun to play :)

SecondDimension29 Aug 2012, 22:28

I murdered 45 adorable creatures, hooray! This was a fun little game, nice graphics. Creature behaviour did seem to change over time

Erephy31 Aug 2012, 20:01

I really liked it. Good job!

90sml31 Aug 2012, 21:29

Good graphics but a bit repetitive as said in comments. The aspect of the game is very neat.

Jezzamon31 Aug 2012, 23:25

NIICCE

yetanother1 Sep 2012, 00:50

Great graphics.

evilseanbot1 Sep 2012, 03:35

OH NO THE ENDING SCREEN IS RIGHT.

It mightn't been nice if the enemies had an animated reaction to being pelted.

Colapsydo2 Sep 2012, 10:39

Good little game.
It could have been nice to graphically differentiate enemy's projectiles from ours, sometimes it's easy to get confused.

Misfit3 Sep 2012, 16:30

Nice graphics!

RipX17 Sep 2012, 23:50

Enjoyed the game.. the step up in difficulty at level 3 was slightly abrupt, but a fun game.. Not sure where the evolution theme came into this. Overall enjoyable.. and I loved the end comment ;)