Beast Emerging by adcrusher
Guide a hungry beast in his quest eat everything in sight! Strengthen your monster and grow into shapes that you couldn't even dream of!
Controls:
W,A,D - Lick
Arrow keys- Move
This is my third Ludum Dare entry, and I had a lot of fun with this one. Good luck!
PS:
Depending on your browser, the web version could go slow or have sound glitches. If this is the case, please use the exe. Thanks!
Controls:
W,A,D - Lick
Arrow keys- Move
This is my third Ludum Dare entry, and I had a lot of fun with this one. Good luck!
PS:
Depending on your browser, the web version could go slow or have sound glitches. If this is the case, please use the exe. Thanks!
Ratings
| Coolness | 81% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.82 | 96 |
| Audio | 3.16 | 304 |
| Fun | 3.96 | 36 |
| Graphics | 4.13 | 84 |
| Humor | 3.60 | 82 |
| Innovation | 3.64 | 189 |
| Mood | 3.49 | 204 |
| Theme | 3.56 | 299 |
It was exciting to see the monster transform. Things like that makes you want to try again.
Only problem is that sometimes it feels like you couldn't have done anything to avoid damage:
- Depending on where a helicopter drops a bomb, it is impossible to dodge it.
- Dragons seem to have inconsistent fire speed and sometimes they fire so fast that you can't "fit between shots".
- Collision detection feels very unforgiving. Everything gives you full damage even if it seems to miss or just graze your legs.
The running bombs are great because whenever you eat one it was entirely your own fault.
I kept wanting to eat the dragons :)
I really liked this game. It was hard, but I eventually was able to get the hang of the rhythm of it; I particularly liked how you added a couple of confusing inputs, so I didn't just run around eating absolutely everything without thinking about it (I tried licking the bombs, the helicopters, the dragons, the bombs walking around on the ground...)
Pretty much the only thing missing is a soundtrack, though at this point I feel like that might be something of a genre convention... ? I feel like there's a lot of these games involving monsters and killing things (albeit generally not from the perspective of the monster) that are SFX only. So, iffy on it.
Anyway, thanks for the game!