{"author_link":"\/author\/skulls\/","author_name":"Skulls","author_uid":"11868","comments":[{"author_name":"colincapurso","author_uid":"7205","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 10:18am","epoch":1345975980,"text":"That was a deeply moving experience, i'm going to get my kids to play it"},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:30am","epoch":1346055900,"text":"That was a pleasant surprise."},{"author_name":"dvdking","author_uid":"14173","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:31am","epoch":1346055960,"text":"Graphics are well drawn.\r<br\/>It has a high difficulty. There are a lot of enemies and they shoot really fast, so i can't dodge or kill them before loose health"},{"author_name":"Skulls","author_uid":"11868","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:43am","epoch":1346056680,"text":"I lowered the damage bullets deal and their speed, thanks for the feedback dvdking"},{"author_name":"Misericorde","author_uid":"15380","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:55am","epoch":1346057400,"text":"Yeah we had the same idea.\r<br\/>But you did it better, I still have a lot to learn \r<br\/>in programmation. \r<br\/>The voice is a great addition too !"},{"author_name":"madpew","author_uid":"2196","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:06am","epoch":1346058060,"text":"Could need more sfx, graphics are awesome. Gameplay is ok. Enjoyed it. Well done."},{"author_name":"Zoomyzoom","author_uid":"7301","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1346176980,"text":"That was a pleasant surprise indeed!"},{"author_name":"K1NET1K","author_uid":"5405","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 10:27am","epoch":1346235720,"text":"I love the characters of dawkins and darwin"},{"author_name":"AuxiliumGames","author_uid":"14016","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1346278260,"text":"So awesome that the nuns shoot the face of disapproval lol! The audio and graphics in the actual game were pretty good. Overall, very funny, and fun to play!"},{"author_name":"Robotic","author_uid":"8502","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 6:53am","epoch":1346309280,"text":"Very surprising and funny !"},{"author_name":"amodo","author_uid":"8798","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 9:18am","epoch":1346317980,"text":"The music and speech go very well together and create an air of profundity."},{"author_name":"Kayelgee","author_uid":"15267","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 10:48am","epoch":1346323380,"text":"the audio was nice"},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 11:56am","epoch":1346327460,"text":"I didn't find this emotionally affective at all. It's simplistic gameplay to tell an over-simplified and one-sided story and your description over-sells it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The graphics and sound are decent though."},{"author_name":"dengzo","author_uid":"9378","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1346329020,"text":"Good job! Overall good ;)"},{"author_name":"Deykoweec","author_uid":"13839","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 12:47pm","epoch":1346330520,"text":"i guess that thing about &quot;interactive art&quot; and &quot;emotional rolercoaster&quot; is a joke, right?"},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 5:25am","epoch":1346390400,"text":"Stylish and funny - I really liked the art and the humor.  The voiceover quotes were fun and well-done also.  Really good work.  Those nuns with the dirty looks are scary.  Ironically, the Catholic church hasn't been as down on evolution as others, but I think that's not so relevant.  I couldn't quite tell what the Logic powerup was doing for me - more powerful shots?  Nice work."},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Sep 6, 2012 @ 6:27am","epoch":1346912520,"text":"the game itself isn't very fun (pretty basic to me and I don't like shoot'em up much) but you did an awesome work with the graphics and sounds so it becomes really enjoyable for 5 minutes. shooting nuns is fun."},{"author_name":"_AM_","author_uid":"15911","time":"Sep 6, 2012 @ 10:17am","epoch":1346926320,"text":"Interesting sound bits. I think the game is a bit too minimal... this passes for a game, despite what your description might say. There are clear win and fail conditions in place."},{"author_name":"demonpants","author_uid":"531","time":"Sep 6, 2012 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1346953320,"text":"Mac version?"},{"author_name":"Skulls","author_uid":"11868","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 7:31am","epoch":1347002760,"text":"I think it says something about indie games that some people took my introduction to this game seriously."},{"author_name":"Maple","author_uid":"1551","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 8:25am","epoch":1347006000,"text":"At first I couldn't get this to play. I opened it, and I could see the main menu where it has 1 Player and 2 Player, but I couldn't click on them or anything. I tried a few times, then somehow the game started. Played it through. It's interesting. These isn't much to comment on, really. Any potential meaning didn't really grasp me, and other than that it isn't much more than a basic sidescrolling shooter. Everything was smooth, which was good. Would have been good to have some sort of end screen rather than just go back to the main menu, though. Solid enough. I'm interested to see what you come up with next Ludum Dare."},{"author_name":"Gama11","author_uid":"16160","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 10:23am","epoch":1347013080,"text":"Polished art and nice music. \r<br\/>There's no reason not to fire all the time, so you might as well get rid of the shoot keys. It's more of an annoyance than anything that you have to keep them pressed, just add autofire. Plus, WASD combined with space doesn't work so well.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Gameplay itself was not too innovative. It basically a reskinned, horizontal-scrolling space shooter. It doesn't fit the theme all that well either.\r<br\/>Feel like a score counter or something is needed that keeps track of your progress."},{"author_name":"triliyn","author_uid":"14121","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 11:30am","epoch":1347017100,"text":"That was certainly amusing. As a game it wasn't great, but I certainly don't regret having played it.\r<br\/>I had a problem where occasionally, if I was firing continuously, Darwin would get stuck and fall toward the back of the screen. Dawkins did not appear to suffer from this."},{"author_name":"Skulls","author_uid":"11868","time":"Sep 8, 2012 @ 8:55am","epoch":1347094200,"text":"@triliyn\r<br\/>That's probably because his beard gets caught, I'd fix it but I don't care enough."},{"author_name":"michax","author_uid":"14308","time":"Sep 8, 2012 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1347137100,"text":"Go darwing go! Nice idea and graphics. Gameplay could be a little varied but anyway, nothing beats slaping priests with a book. God as a final boss would be nice addition."},{"author_name":"Skulls","author_uid":"11868","time":"Sep 9, 2012 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1347202740,"text":"Fixed the bug anyways."}],"images":["ld24\/11868-eeaa82d88e4937c8d87fa1130b68a720.jpg","ld24\/11868-93b9e602ef46d7769b946e4ca4949a8f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?raudfdbz6sd5wtk","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28616","g_author":"11868","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"28646","g_title":"Darwinicide aka Charles Darwin versus the Catholic","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"197","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/11868-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/11868-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is my 'video game' although I prefer the term 'interactive experience' or simply 'interactive art'. It explores the philosophical conflict in our society between rationality and irrationality or according to other between our spiritual side and materialism. I refer of course to the conflict between science and religion.\r\n\r\nI warn you now this game will be confronting, it will take you on a journey through the oppression of a brilliant mind as it is forced to conform to the Church's orthodoxy and rebels against the boundaries imposed upon it. So please sit back and prepare yourself for the emotional roller coaster ride that is Charles Darwin versus the Catholic Church (also known as Darwinicide).\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\nPlayer 1\r\nwasd- move\r\nspace- shoot\r\n\r\nPlayer 2\r\narrows- move\r\nctrl- shoot\r\n\r\nCredits:\r\nGame design and coding: Robert Reed\r\nGraphics: Colin Capurso\r\nMusic: Joshua Douglass\r\n\r\nA jamalaide production for more games and info on jams in Adelaide go to http:\/\/www.jamalaide.org.au\/\r\n\r\nEdit: I fixed a bug where your beard gets caught and added a loading screen post jam, yell at me in the comments if you feel this was too much editing.<\/p>","title":"Darwinicide aka Charles Darwin versus the Catholic Church"}