Evolve or GTFO! by cptalbertwesker

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made by cptalbertwesker for LD24 (COMPO)
Evolve or GTFO is my attempt at making a silly little game where the town you inhabit evolves.

The idea of the game is to keep your house hip and cool with the trends in housing. The game is mostly finished, I would have liked to have added a little more depth to it, but I am happy with the result.

Your household begins with two adults and a child, the adults earn a yearly salary and make yearly expenditures, what you have left of this can be spent on upgrading your house with full on modifications like an extension, or just a sneaky upgrade like a pet dragon.

The game isn't perfect, and there are many aspects that did not get polished to the standard I would have liked, but oh well, least I finished in time for the 48 hours, was deadly close.

I made the game in Game Maker HTML5 so below there is a link to both an exe, and a HTML5 version, sound effects were edited in Audacity, and all the lovely visuals were thanks to Microsoft Paint.

On the failure state; if you fail to upgrade your house at all, it gets demolished, and if your family runs out, which it will, it also spells game over.

Ratings

Coolness 10% 1112
Overall 2.38 650
Audio 3.38 83
Fun 2.08 653
Graphics 2.62 475
Humor 3.25 70
Innovation 2.31 596
Theme 2.54 510

Feedback

Catmoo
28. Aug 2012 · 12:39 UTC
Haha I love it, especially your take on a great piece of music :)

I found myself waiting forever for the superhero communication device but the music was great to listen to while I waited :D
gnx
28. Aug 2012 · 23:24 UTC
What did I just play?:D I think I mainly scored this one based on the background theme playing.
AaronGordon
29. Aug 2012 · 20:59 UTC
I like the fact that you went for a different take on evolution. I didn't really have any motivation to do anything in the game tho. Also i just spent a lot of time waiting with nothing to do. It just felt like i was going through the motions. Maybe having some effects that building certain things have would be nice.
Shmarah
29. Aug 2012 · 23:07 UTC
You know you're getting 5 stars in Audio, man.
Frozen Fractal
30. Aug 2012 · 18:09 UTC
Not much in terms of gameplay, but wonderfully silly and hilarious :D
RawBits
02. Sep 2012 · 14:09 UTC
Nice idea! :) You need better instructions though. Like why is the wife left, and what heppened with the child? In the upgrade menu you need to show somehow what items can be bought and what are already yours. But aside from these things it's a nice concept - and creative music. ;)
MurrayL
02. Sep 2012 · 17:33 UTC
Dave says: That background music! A fun little idea, but needs more info given to the player.
Joshayy
11. Sep 2012 · 18:33 UTC
Epic game, and funny music. Loved the little house sprites =P, the gameplay was a bit too linear though, otherwise good job!