Caveman Evolution Story by davidllanos22

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made by davidllanos22 for LD24 (COMPO)
This is the story of an old caveman who wants to be younger.

Controls:

-Move with left and right.
-Jump with Z.


Ratings

Coolness 39% 742
Overall 3.38 164
Audio 2.23 429
Fun 3.04 239
Graphics 3.38 200
Humor 3.32 64
Innovation 3.15 247
Mood 3.42 81
Theme 3.69 90

Feedback

danlthemanl
27. Aug 2012 · 01:13 UTC
This game is awesome! I almost cried at the end :'(
K1NET1K
27. Aug 2012 · 02:10 UTC
Baby caveman :)
siondream
27. Aug 2012 · 13:37 UTC
I loved how the skills vary over the different ages! Nice graphics too although I'd have liked to have animations :-D.
Ligh7zIncrement
27. Aug 2012 · 14:20 UTC
Good humour and very nice graphics, really enjoyed the simplicity of it :)
aitorman
27. Aug 2012 · 14:22 UTC
I loved it!
Josh @ Dreamland
27. Aug 2012 · 14:31 UTC
Nice game! The graphics all fit well together, the story's rather amusing; I like it. The spike collisions could be a bit more lenient. Other than that, I quite liked it.

By the way: When I play the web version, all that happens is the elderly man drops off the screen. And my browser lags.
madflame991
27. Aug 2012 · 14:33 UTC
+ nice graphics
+ good story

- it took me 3 attempts to actually play the game, the first times it would simply crash or some error would appear.
- too short
zeh
27. Aug 2012 · 15:00 UTC
Ah, the human body. The final frontier. How to we change ourselves? How do we make ourselves better? How do we *evolve*?

Since the dawn of time we have wrestled with these questions. We have found no answer, for the question itself is not a valid one.

The harsh reality is that we do not evolve. Or, at least, our physical body doesn't; our flesh starts its decay the moment we break free of the womb. The absoluteness of life is that we are all going to die, eventually.

But we still should not fret. What liberates us is our sapience. If there is one thing we can evolve, it is our mind; if there is one thing that is always increasing, it is our wisdom; if there is one that is endless, it is our knowledge.

Hence why our protagonist's quest is a fool's errand. Rather than try to regain youth - and as such, *devolve* his body - he probably should instead he keeps his mind sharp, and not go falling into holes in the goddamn lawn.

Very linear, very challenging sometimes, controls were a bit hard. Overexplanation of what's going on feels like a cop-out and breaks the mood a bit. Beautiful washed out pixel art at times. Not sure I reached the end; tunnel was blocked by rocks. Performs better in Firefox than Chrome.
pereubu
27. Aug 2012 · 15:22 UTC
great ideas, i really loved the end too, the web version is still a bit buggy but the normal one works perfectly.
Also, ni art for something this minimal, really like it :D
pardue
27. Aug 2012 · 15:46 UTC
The graphics were nice, however animations would of made the game even better. I really enjoyed the story. Great game!
Drabiter
28. Aug 2012 · 03:42 UTC
Fun game! the jumping spike is kinda hard because you die only by touching its sides.
Vurb
28. Aug 2012 · 03:56 UTC
cool game the spikes are a little to hard or touchy i finally gave up and didnt make it to the end though i really wanted to see the end after reading the comments.
crzikrn
28. Aug 2012 · 04:54 UTC
lol. Sad Caveman. Interesting how one has to die to 'evolve.'
jellycubestudio
28. Aug 2012 · 14:57 UTC
I really liked that.
+ for graphics, concept and amazing ending
Per
28. Aug 2012 · 17:49 UTC
Nice!
Good story and nice graphics.
A little difficult sometimes :)
kato9
28. Aug 2012 · 21:14 UTC
Nice little story. I feel like this could have been an interesting puzzle game if you could change ages at will but that would obviously lost some of the meaning behind the story.
vigrid
28. Aug 2012 · 21:32 UTC
Fun little story :)
amidos2006
29. Aug 2012 · 15:46 UTC
sometimes the game crashes and the player doesnt evolve from child to youth :( but nice idea :)
AdventureIslands
29. Aug 2012 · 20:22 UTC
Hahaha, this was brilliant, the web version got stuck at the part with breakable rocks, he never turned into adult, but I could finish the windows version. Really nice job, humorous ending!
Puzzlem00n
01. Sep 2012 · 15:20 UTC
Nice. Very nice. Simplicity is great.