"Evolution of Man" is five differnt genres of games from simple platformers through to a third person shooter. The game tells a story of the evolution of games through these different genres.
Controls change in each world: 1st world: WASD or arrows 2nd world: WASD move, space to jump, hold shift to sprint. 3rd world: WASD move, space to hit, ctrl to pick up. 4th world: WASD move, left click to fire, space to open doors 5th world: WASD move, left click to fire
The game runs best in Full HD, other wise occasionally some objects get left off the screen to the left.
Game was made in Unity, using only free or open source tools, and 1 creative commons font. Made by Duct Tape Games, a 3 man indie development team.
WebPlayer version doesn't seem to want to show up, but its at: www.ducttapegames.com/Evolution/WebPlayer.html
I liked how you showed evolution not only from human characteristic but in gaming industry as well. Simple 2d maze, to platformner, to fps. Could not figure out how to get out of the room once I got the gun tho?
Congratulations man :D! You developed 5 different games and let me visit the videogames history! I love the last QTE :D.
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delVhar30 Aug 2012, 00:11
Hey guys, I was one of the programmers on this, just addressing a couple of the issues:
Fighter Level (AKA Double Dragon level)- Spawning off screen. If you die, on some (all?) resolutions you will spawn off screen to the left. Not sure how it happened (worked fine during dev), but you should be able to walk back on. The "next screen" triggers are also a bit off screen to the right.
Third Person level (AKA Shitty Console Port level) - The "blood" is your health indicator, it will fade if you stop taking damage for a few seconds. Most of the walls in the level will provide adequate cover to stop the enemies from being able to shoot you. Unfortunately I forgot to set the health back to full at the start of the quick time event, so if you are at low health when it starts, it will be a pretty crappy experience.
Sorry about that, we unfortunately ran out of time do do much polishing.
I think the idea of videogame evolution was pretty good, but I'd also liked to see a bit more interaction between the sequences, eg. picking up a weapon in the 3rd level and being able to use it in the 4th.
Also, the controls were a bit wonky.
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PeripheralGames30 Aug 2012, 12:49
Ambitious game but very difficult. I really like the evolution of games as well as man
I'm sure it would've been good later on but the second level was wayyyy too annoying and he moved so slow. Also, if you're going to make the player download a standalone build, you should put some effort into making icons and the config dialog banner. And there was no pause menu so I couldn't free my mouse cursor unless I force quit the game.
I think you need some more polish and you need to take full advantage of Unity's functions and capabilities.
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samoojamies31 Aug 2012, 15:52
Really nice idea and implementation not bad either. Many different scenes so it doesn't get boring.
What an awesome take on the theme and an amazing technical undertaking!
The only downside to your approach is that each of the levels ends up feeling a little rough and unpolished - but I'm pretty amazed at how much you managed to get done in 72h!
Good job in getting a lot done, funny take on the concept! Difficulty curve was also quite good. Could have wished for some more evolution in the sound, too short sound loops :) A couple of small issues: Respawned outside screen in level 3. Hard to detect doors in the FPS level.
Interesting idea. I liked the maze game, got through it without incident. But on the platformer, I fell through the floor once, and that led me to fall infinitely. Then, when I played through it again, the game crashed when I reached the flag (Playing on Windows XP. Third time lucky? Nope. It crashed when I reached the flag again. I would love to have been able to play the later games, but I can't :( On a side note, the controls in the platformer felt a little floaty, and the camera was too zoomed in and scrolled a bit too slowly, especially when you were falling.
Nice effort!