You are an evolutionary experiment. It's lonely in the lab. You yearn for freedom, but it won't come. Fortunately, you can make things easier for the next generation.
Gather DNA to gain new evolutions for your species, and one day you might escape. Arrow keys to move, S to kill yourself if you get stuck (I ran out of debugging time a bit too soon). There are multiple exits, and you're free to evolve however you see fit. Also, since you might ask, the music gets better as you progress.
I like how evolving the better body prevents you from picking up some DNA. This game's a bit of a grind, but I think that means if you polished it up it would do quite well on Kong.
Thanks, all! The goal was to have a tolerable amount of grinding, sort of like a dungeon crawler, with advancing enough each time to keep it interesting. Glad you liked it.
Nice game. It's true that you have to grind, but that's only annoying during the first few generations. Once you start rocking, you can't even consider it grinding, since everytime you reach new places.
I escaped in 15 generations. That's acceptable grinding, and given that there's a single level, I feel it was the right choice.
I just re-played it. First game in the LD48 I've actually wanted to replay. The evolution mechanic made me want to try again and take a different path. This time I escaped in 15 evolutions (the first time I didn't even know there was an escape). Great work, again. :)
I really liked the concept, the music evolving was indeed a nice touch. I just really feel that the evolve menu has some navigational issues... It just takes too long to navigate through it, and it's such an important part of the game!
I really enjoyed this one! I think the menu needs some work, it's annoying to have to cycle through all options just to exit and things could just be clearer.
Another problem is that you need to be so close to the edge of the screen to make the scrolling advance, which reduced considerably how far ahead you could see.
Overall great game, I had lots of fun with this one!
@Brassawiking Yeah, I realized afterwards that I should have done that.
@nuria You can press the down arrow on the menu to skip to the end. Also, the camera bit was initially a design choice, but I didn't think to adjust it at any point.
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I escaped in 15 generations. That's acceptable grinding, and given that there's a single level, I feel it was the right choice.
Nice game!
Great job with the game!
So, you made a music and it evolves each level (great idea by the way) but a string hurts my hear !
I liked how I could customize my character to fit my play style, very cool! Great job!
Another problem is that you need to be so close to the edge of the screen to make the scrolling advance, which reduced considerably how far ahead you could see.
Overall great game, I had lots of fun with this one!
@nuria You can press the down arrow on the menu to skip to the end. Also, the camera bit was initially a design choice, but I didn't think to adjust it at any point.