Monkeyectomy by iximeow
Straight from the readme:
Hello and welcome to my second Ludum Dare entry!
I made this in the span of six hours this morning, after two other ideas just didn't work at all.
I had figured I'd drop out of the LD this time around but hey, look what happened today! :D
You may notice it is an incredibly small resolution: it's 160x144, the same resolution as the Gameboy Color. I felt it would be more fitting if I tried to stick to four-six buttons and a small resolution, as I knew the game would be simple.
The instructions are ingame this time around, and hopefully somewhat clear. You (the player) take the role of a Monkey about to undergo an experimental procedure to jumpstart the evolution of the Monkeyman race! I am no geneticist nor very familiar with biology; any resemblence to reality or real science is purely coincidence. There isn't any, though, so don't worry.
There are five buttons relevant to the game: w, s, f, enter, and escape key. Enter moves forward in the menus, and through the instructions. Escape at any time will exit the game. W/S move up and down the section of the genome presented ingame, and F attempts to replace invalid parts (in red) of the Monkeyman genome with parts of the next stage of Monkeymanity (in green)!
If you are too slow to fix the section of the genome shown, you recieve a blast of radiation and the process reverts one stage.
Have fun!
-Andy
Ninjaedit: For the Linux version you'll have to do chmod +x on LD24.jar itself and then run it.
Hello and welcome to my second Ludum Dare entry!
I made this in the span of six hours this morning, after two other ideas just didn't work at all.
I had figured I'd drop out of the LD this time around but hey, look what happened today! :D
You may notice it is an incredibly small resolution: it's 160x144, the same resolution as the Gameboy Color. I felt it would be more fitting if I tried to stick to four-six buttons and a small resolution, as I knew the game would be simple.
The instructions are ingame this time around, and hopefully somewhat clear. You (the player) take the role of a Monkey about to undergo an experimental procedure to jumpstart the evolution of the Monkeyman race! I am no geneticist nor very familiar with biology; any resemblence to reality or real science is purely coincidence. There isn't any, though, so don't worry.
There are five buttons relevant to the game: w, s, f, enter, and escape key. Enter moves forward in the menus, and through the instructions. Escape at any time will exit the game. W/S move up and down the section of the genome presented ingame, and F attempts to replace invalid parts (in red) of the Monkeyman genome with parts of the next stage of Monkeymanity (in green)!
If you are too slow to fix the section of the genome shown, you recieve a blast of radiation and the process reverts one stage.
Have fun!
-Andy
Ninjaedit: For the Linux version you'll have to do chmod +x on LD24.jar itself and then run it.
| All platforms | https://bitbucket.org/Iximeow/ludumdare24/downloads/MonkeyectomyLD24_all.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=5272 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 45% | 641 |
| Overall | 2.95 | 380 |
| Audio | 2.75 | 254 |
| Fun | 2.77 | 385 |
| Graphics | 2.95 | 363 |
| Humor | 3.42 | 56 |
| Innovation | 2.62 | 465 |
| Mood | 2.71 | 328 |
| Theme | 3.52 | 139 |
Cute, short, enjoyable. It taught me how to play and ramped up. It was fun! Kudos for having enjoyable audio and humorous imagery.
The only problem I see is that the game moves so quickly you don't have time to really look at the status photo as you start to evolve.
@Sergey, the size is small as the result of a combination of things. If it was larger my pixel art-ing would have needed to be larger or I would have to fill the screen with fluff. That made me think about historic screen limitations of game platforms and I thought "Whoa, I absolutely loved m GBC, I'll do it in that size". What I should have done was provided a checkbox that could double the size of the window if pressed, but... now I know for the future! :D
@Josh, if you happen to see this, did you absolutely make sure the game had focus? If so, what OS? I've heard that middle mouse clicking in the game will also break input, and I think pressing alt might as well. Had you done either of those? (I'd be trying to break it again myself but I'm about to leave again :( )