Octo-Darwin Vs Bat-Monkey by AaronGordon
Darwin has created an experimental evolution ray, which rapidly evolves life! But something's gone horribly wrong... The evolution ray mutates life into horrific winged tentacle beings!
Bat-Monkey has escaped from Darwin's evil lair and stolen the evolution gun! Help Bat-Monkey escape by shooting the glowing objects (bananas, mud puddles and horses) to rapidly evolve them and slow Darwin down!
It's a pretty hard game, but games these days are far to easy we say! It's good to have some good old fashioned difficulty every now and again.
Try to beat the developer high scores on our online score board!
CONTROLS
Space to Jump
Mouse to aim and fire
INSTRUCTIONS
Extract and double click launch in the octodarwin folder
(You must have the latest version of Java installed)
CREDITS
Aaron Gordon
Oliver Knott
Alistair Lynn
Jeremy Morse
Sam Phippen
(Known Bug - Doesn't launch in administrator mode)
Please rate and post your feedback in the comments, and we'll play and rate your game in return!
Bat-Monkey has escaped from Darwin's evil lair and stolen the evolution gun! Help Bat-Monkey escape by shooting the glowing objects (bananas, mud puddles and horses) to rapidly evolve them and slow Darwin down!
It's a pretty hard game, but games these days are far to easy we say! It's good to have some good old fashioned difficulty every now and again.
Try to beat the developer high scores on our online score board!
CONTROLS
Space to Jump
Mouse to aim and fire
INSTRUCTIONS
Extract and double click launch in the octodarwin folder
(You must have the latest version of Java installed)
CREDITS
Aaron Gordon
Oliver Knott
Alistair Lynn
Jeremy Morse
Sam Phippen
(Known Bug - Doesn't launch in administrator mode)
Please rate and post your feedback in the comments, and we'll play and rate your game in return!
| Web Applet (Chrome) | http://alastair.hovercatsw.com/octodarwin/ |
| All Platforms (Java) | http://www.samphippen.com/octodarwin.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=16006 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 55% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.00 | 139 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.88 | 116 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.14 | 83 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.25 | 125 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.64 | 19 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.39 | 197 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.79 | 119 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.96 | 102 |
http://imgur.com/jVSk5
What could it be?
C:\Users\<My Real Name>\Downloads\octodarwin\octodarwin\octodarwin-desktop>launch.bat
C:\Users\<My Real Name>\Downloads\octodarwin\octodarwin\octodarwin-desktop>"C:\Program File
s (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java" -cp "..\octodarwin-desktop\bin;..\octodarwin-desktop
\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl.jar;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl-natives
.jar;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-natives.jar;..\octodarwin\bin;..\octodarwin\
libs\gdx.jar" me.teaisaweso.games.ld24.Main
The system cannot find the path specified.
C:\Users\<My Real Name>\Downloads\octodarwin\octodarwin\octodarwin-desktop>"C:\Program File
s\Java\jre6\bin\java" -cp "..\octodarwin-desktop\bin\;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs
\gdx-backend-lwjgl.jar;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl-natives.jar;
..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-natives.jar;..\octodarwin\bin;..\octodarwin\libs\
gdx.jar" me.teaisaweso.games.ld24.Main
The system cannot find the path specified.
It is a pretty hard game or sure. You have to shoot about 2/3 objects (as well as jumping the obstacles) if you want to stay ahead of Octo-Darwin! We play tested this quite a bit and you'll always stay ahead of him if you shoot and dodge everything.
The procedural generation of objects isn't perfect but these are checks in place to make sure that you'll never get 3 obstacles in a row with nothing to shoot.
We've also just got a web version working for anyone having problems with the zip.
Any feedback is more than welcome!
Graphics and music are also great.
Good crisp and smooth graphics, liked that!
Sometimes there's be no weapons to use and other times obstacles would be sent in droves. There needs to be some tweaking to the randomness system to make this game feel more fair.
When it worked right though, it was magical. Loads of fun and silly to boot. Nicely done.