{"author_link":"\/author\/tomsik68\/","author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","comments":[{"author_name":"kyyrma","author_uid":"8424","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 10:20am","epoch":1346148900,"text":"Simple yet pretty fun. The gameplay is reminiscent of early 90s Windows games :) Everything feels very rough and unpolished, the collision detection is off. Enemies seem to enjoy getting stuck in the walls. Really cool that you have your own engine written for this."},{"author_name":"berareu","author_uid":"15244","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:12am","epoch":1346152020,"text":"Pretty simple game! It feels a bit rough, but there are a lot of big levels and that's cool for me! \r<br\/>I have to agree with kyyrma, it really looks like a 90s Windows game :D \r<br\/>I think there should be some kind of sound effect when you get hit by an enemy because on my first playthrough I didn't realize I was getting hit until I died! \r<br\/>And the bullets should be a bit faster! \r<br\/>Good work though :)"},{"author_name":"Maacus","author_uid":"15369","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:42am","epoch":1346153820,"text":"Nice and simple, I like these kind of games but I would like to see some story.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also after I died of hunger i could not restart the game."},{"author_name":"Zed","author_uid":"4687","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1346160240,"text":"Pretty cool. Kinda lo-fi, DOS-style. The collision detection's a bit iffy, and some background music would've been nice, but other than that, yeah."},{"author_name":"Sergey Mohov","author_uid":"9963","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1346168940,"text":"I agree with Zed, basically :-)"},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1346171340,"text":"Simple and fun to play :)"},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1346172540,"text":"Good start to a game!"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:38pm","epoch":1346178780,"text":"Aagh I want to be a Monkey, stupid humans!  Yes this was good fun, thanks!"},{"author_name":"X-0ut","author_uid":"12","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1346188740,"text":"Indeed this does feel very oldschool, the cavemen made me a laugh a bit :D"},{"author_name":"tomsik68","author_uid":"13547","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 8:17am","epoch":1346314320,"text":"Thanks everyone!"},{"author_name":"TinyPlatypus","author_uid":"12844","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1346328600,"text":"Nice overall with an ok engine but far to easy. Also still had the unable to respawn bug in the .JAR file."},{"author_name":"Teknik","author_uid":"15737","time":"Sep 9, 2012 @ 4:16pm","epoch":1347207060,"text":"was playing in firefox, and once you die you can't start a new game doing so just brings you straight to the death screen again. good game otherwise."}],"images":["ld24\/13547-9df0c251f235300546069860be21f7b7.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/29628587\/ld24.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/29628587\/LifeOfWorm_final.jar","text":"Java [.JAR]"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/29628587\/LifeOfWorm_src.zip","text":"Source(Game)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/tomsik68\/Simple-Game-Engine","text":"Source(Engine)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29437","g_author":"13547","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29467","g_title":"Life of a Worm","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"563","g_commentcount":"12","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\/13547-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In this game, you're a worm and your objective is to get DNAs and evolve to lizard, crocodile and then monkey. DNAs however, aren't everywhere, so you need to find them in different locations. Try not to get killed by humans, or hunger. On the upper right corner, you have hunger bar which can be filled by collecting food. Game is controlled by arrows, you can shoot infections using space. This game uses my personal engine called SGE (Simple Game Engine). Source of the engine is hosted at github.\r\nRequires Java 6+.\r\nTools used:\r\nLanguage: Java\r\nEngine: SGE\r\nIDE: Eclipse\r\nGraphics: Paint.NET(most of gfx), Inkscape\r\nSound: sfxr\r\n[UPDATE]: * Fixed not being able to play after die-ing. (we're allowed to fix bugs see -> http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/08\/27\/ludum-dare-24-weekend-ends-time-to-rate-games\/ )\r\n          * Made WEB version! <\/p>","title":"Life of a Worm"}