Genotype

by freegor
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.23
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.94
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.09
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.43
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.73
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★62%
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative." - H.G. Wells

Controls:
Mouse click to move
Z to attack
X to make sweet, sweet love

Engine: flixel + Flixel Power Tools
Sound: sfxr

Comments18

Kortuga9827 Aug 2012, 03:13
Very fun once you get into it. Good show :D
Geti
Geti27 Aug 2012, 03:23
Score seemed funny each time, 7 gens and 10 kills even when i died right at the start :) otherwise pretty solid, would've liked to see more intra-species cooperation + type mixing.
sclark39
sclark3927 Aug 2012, 03:27
Lots of fun. Hard to understand what is good to mate with, but the playing-hard-to-get mating was amusing.
adventureloop
adventureloop27 Aug 2012, 09:06
Really cool idea based off of the theme, a little hard to know who to mate with.

This game is not easy to play on a track pad, though the comments suggest thats its hard where ever you are. I LOVE hard games.
Andrew27 Aug 2012, 17:25
Would be nice to have some feedback on what traits you have/can get
cadin
cadin27 Aug 2012, 17:26
The graphics are nice and the movement feels really smooth. I like the concept a lot too (fits well with the theme), but I couldn't figure out how to know who to fight and who to mate with. Nice work.
CaptainIcy
CaptainIcy27 Aug 2012, 18:51
Very nice. It's a lot of fun once you get used to it. I like the concept and the style. Nice job.
fruitfly27 Aug 2012, 19:17
visually a nice game; controls are not so nice with german keyboard as "y" and "z" are interchanged compared to the US layout.
Accidental Rebel
Accidental Rebel27 Aug 2012, 19:23
Surprisingly fluid movement. I had fun just controlling it. The artstyle, although simple, serves its purpose for portraying the mood of the game. Nice work.
marudziik
marudziik27 Aug 2012, 22:30
Looks and plays very nice. I wish there was some specific goal, even if it was just some kind of 'survive timer' or points to get. Good job though.
rwos
rwos28 Aug 2012, 15:18
I liked that game a lot! The idea is nice - it's simple, but simple things are sometimes the most fun. The graphics are really well done, everything looks very polished. Controls work fine - except that it's not the most ergonomical key choice for those of us on a QWERTZ keyboard... :-) Sounds are minimal, but that works well for the retro-style.

Over all this is a really good game in it's own right, even outside of Ludum Dare! I'm quite impressed!

Oh, and FYI: works fine in Firefox 10 on Linux.
matthias_zarzecki29 Aug 2012, 12:05
Ok. Having to "hold Z to mate" while the other thing is trying to get away from you is wrong.
bukt
bukt29 Aug 2012, 16:31
Wow! Very addictive!
dector
dector31 Aug 2012, 14:39
Can't mate anything :( But good evolution-based idea.
dengzo
dengzo31 Aug 2012, 16:30
good stuff!
csanyk
csanyk1 Sep 2012, 02:04
Can't play this well at all on a trackpad, but with a mouse this might play well. Neat concept, and seems well executed, well polished.
PapyGaragos
PapyGaragos1 Sep 2012, 10:00
I liked the controls, which is refreshing when rating LD entries
chamberlainpi
chamberlainpi1 Sep 2012, 21:33
Interesting idea. Wasn't quite sure if I was supposed to mate with every types (lol), but once I downgraded from the big Red genotype to the Blue genotype, I figured I could get closer to the small Green genotype. Got killed before I had a chance to even flirt with one though.

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