Treevolution

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.75
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★22%
Story:

According to a forgotten ancient legend, 10 million years ago there were only 7 things.

The 7 things were:

Fish. Yarn. Buttons. Communism. Magic. Hats.

This was an odd legend.

From these 7 things, humanity evolved. And so did lots of other things...

Nobody knows for sure, but one popular opinion states that people grew on trees.

Your challenge is to outsmart evolution. Combine elements to grow trees, and evolve humans before 10,000 BC.

Notes:

Game play should be pretty self explanatory. Easy to figure out the rules, really difficult to win.

Here is a spoiler to get you started:

hat + magic = rabbit

Credits:

For how to generate dynamic trees: http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop-ch1.pdf

Music is by Edward Grieg, thanks to Kevin Macleod.

Comments11

daydalus
daydalus28 Aug 2012, 00:15
Pretty funny and original game you have here. Graphics had a nice indy feel to them. Still haven't figured out how to make humans, but did find some funny combinations ;) The buttons felt a little unresponsive at times, and it was a little tedious waiting for my tree to get destroyed so I could start over. Great game though, good work!
Cell28 Aug 2012, 06:30
hah, i like the humor.
axcho
axcho28 Aug 2012, 06:34
Art and music were great, personality and humor were great too. I wish the game moved faster so I spent more time making choices and less waiting for the animation to hurry up already. Maybe my computer just chugs when the tree gets too leafy. :P But still.

It would be great to see this on an iPhone or something. Something faster.
YopSolo28 Aug 2012, 19:39
Really funny, well done :)
tcstyle29 Aug 2012, 21:11
Well done with the style and humor. Gets frustrating after some time trying around to combine stuf.
DevoreUK31 Aug 2012, 18:02
I couldn't work out the combinations :( me being stupid?

Love the art, music, text everything really. Neat concept. Wish I could have skipped some of the animations though, that would of kept me playing longer.
Teknik
Teknik1 Sep 2012, 18:51
great game. a little slow at time waiting for the tree to grow and de-grow. but awesome none the less.
chumez2 Sep 2012, 11:54
Nicely done, the art and the music fits, a bit confusing at times, but interesting nonetheless.
hgcummings2 Sep 2012, 12:10
Quirky and really nicely presented. A bit tedious having to wait a long time when you choose an incorrect combination, although some of the correct combinations are quite amusing. Reminds me a bit of the old LucasArts point-and-click adventure games, where things always made sense on some odd level of logic (e.g. you need it to rain, so you start washing a car and naturally it rains immediately afterwards).
Andy Go12 Sep 2012, 11:52
Good.
But I have to say it's a little boring to combine a lot of things without results.There should be more possible combinations I think.
bvanschooten15 Sep 2012, 22:54
well presented, interesting to play for awhile, but I could find little logic to the combinations. Slow end animation made me quit early.
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