{"author_link":"\/author\/orni\/","author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","comments":[{"author_name":"MattHartley","author_uid":"15450","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 12:05am","epoch":1346025600,"text":"Very cool, lots of fun"},{"author_name":"zakchaos","author_uid":"13273","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:01am","epoch":1346036160,"text":"Enjoyed your game for a few minutes man, You have a great consistent art style, and a very cool control scheme there man. I think that adding Story text, as well as varying backgrounds could make your game engaging, and very fun!\r<br\/>thanks for makin this cool little game, def gives me lots of ideas!\r<br\/>-@Zakchaos"},{"author_name":"Ragzouken","author_uid":"13822","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:14am","epoch":1346054940,"text":"Fun, pretty - It would have been nice if you could have had the map always spawning a mix of the creatures, so it doesn't seem like everyone is evolving exactly as you do, but rather that you are rising up :)"},{"author_name":"nosfer","author_uid":"8471","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:19am","epoch":1346055240,"text":"it's like pokemon simulator, i like it :)"},{"author_name":"Lidfrid","author_uid":"12884","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:29am","epoch":1346055840,"text":"Very cool graphics and gameplay, well done!"},{"author_name":"Twisted Devotion","author_uid":"6971","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:34am","epoch":1346056140,"text":"I like it, The graphics are great and consistent and the game play is challenging."},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:42am","epoch":1346056620,"text":"thanks guys :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I wanted to include other species, about a dozen, and different color variations and abilites - but there is only so much I can do in 48h"},{"author_name":"PohyCZ","author_uid":"6511","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:03am","epoch":1346057880,"text":"Awesome, i love this one! :)"},{"author_name":"zapaman","author_uid":"7159","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:04am","epoch":1346057940,"text":"Extremely cute and fun!"},{"author_name":"phren","author_uid":"238","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:05am","epoch":1346058000,"text":"Wow, very cool graphics! The game was fun to play, but I seemed to get owned by dinosaurs spawning right next to me and shooting fireballs. Overall the game felt very complete. Great job!"},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:12am","epoch":1346058420,"text":"yeah, you have to look out for those, that's what the trees are for, try staying in between them\r<br\/>games are supposed to get harder - especially game I make ;)"},{"author_name":"Thurig","author_uid":"14830","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:27am","epoch":1346059320,"text":"The graphics are really good! Plays fine. I enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"Jamin","author_uid":"2356","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:42am","epoch":1346060220,"text":"Fun little game!  Straight-forward and has a very nice pace to it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I did catch myself realizing a bit late that I had evolved.  I guess the new icons on the screen should have been evidence enough, but I was naturally expecting more of a Mario-style grow\/shrink sort of thing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh, however, GAH, chording E+D to dash right.  Maybe throw a key like that on shift instead?  My fingers will love you for it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'll have to go back and play Asylum, and I look forward to playing more games built by you.  Thanks for the awesome!"},{"author_name":"amidos2006","author_uid":"2510","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:10am","epoch":1346061900,"text":"Amazing as usual as all ur ludumdare entries :) I like it :)"},{"author_name":"JokerDen","author_uid":"16034","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:00am","epoch":1346064900,"text":"Amazing visual work. I like style and gameplay very good. And he look like charmander :)"},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:30pm","epoch":1346073900,"text":"Nice game! My absolute favorite feature: Enemies shooting at each other :)"},{"author_name":"Vennril","author_uid":"15816","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1346090100,"text":"Fun game and cute art style =)\r<br\/>I also like how you can actually look around with the mouse."},{"author_name":"MattHartley","author_uid":"15450","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:34pm","epoch":1346092140,"text":"Awesome, very fun"},{"author_name":"savethejets1","author_uid":"15315","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:11pm","epoch":1346094360,"text":"Cool game. Love the Graphics."},{"author_name":"pereubu","author_uid":"16143","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:48pm","epoch":1346096580,"text":"maaaan, this game is insane, from all the guys that used the theme &quot;evolution&quot; this way, you're the one that added it to the gameplay the more professional way so far.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game is absolutely clean from any bug and\/or problem and the art is shiny.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>the roguelike style fits prefectly and dying is absolutely not frustrating ( in the bad way i mean ). Great job, i'm now trying another time to go to the top of the food chain !"},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1346097840,"text":"I'm very amazed you guys like it that much!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I had to scratch so many features I planned to do that I feared the &quot;remaining&quot; stuff wouldn't be enough for a fun game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It's a shame I hadn't 2-3 more hours to invest ... I could've implemented more polishing effects (screen shakes and shadows and sound effects and such things) as well as more content (like more abilities) and improve the AI more. I think the AI turned out more or less decent, but being a long time Robocode coder I could improve it (much much) further\r<br\/>\r<br\/>sadly I don't think I'll make a post-compo version, since the game concept has quite limited potential"},{"author_name":"Mach60KAS","author_uid":"5788","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1346097960,"text":"The graphics are really lovely, and there's quite a lot of fun to be had from marching around a fire breathing dinosaur, too. :) Good Job!"},{"author_name":"x3zinja12","author_uid":"15067","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:42am","epoch":1346125020,"text":"I love this, whole-heartedly! It takes a simple motive and adds a fantastic art style and intuitive gameplay without losing the sense of direction and purpose. Great Game!"},{"author_name":"kodguaxinim","author_uid":"16902","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 8:46am","epoch":1346143260,"text":"Very fun game and will be pretty neat to have a post-compo with that 2-3 plus hours. Add a childish anime short story to it, a couple of cute light-hearted companions to relief the loneliness of the main char. It's always good for a portifolio or just for fun haha\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really like it, and by the way, I feel like a charmander and thats pretty cool"},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:59am","epoch":1346154840,"text":"Nice and addictive game. Here is my feedback:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>- If I got a levelup, there are spawning enemies on my level. That's a bit sad, because it makes no sense to try to be fast. Instead you can fight single enemies and then regenerate slowly. It would be funnier, if a lot of enemies spawn at once at the start and everybody tries to kill as much as possible to get on the higher levels.\r<br\/>- Sometimes enemies killed me instantly with 2 or more hearths. I'm not absolutely sure about this.\r<br\/>- An enemie spawned into me and killed me instantly. A spawnfree-radius would be nice."},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 12:10pm","epoch":1346155500,"text":"@Jeremias:\r<br\/>thx for your feedback - all your points are good ideas which I somehow didn't think of during development (my head was buzing from all that coding anyway)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>actually the enemies progress on their own - if you evolve too slow they will start spawning on higher stages than you (making your life considerably harder) but I agree - I didn't think this through"},{"author_name":"emveyh","author_uid":"8574","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 4:58pm","epoch":1346172780,"text":"Great graphics, great controls, great game! :D keep it up!"},{"author_name":"Zccc","author_uid":"14205","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1346172900,"text":"Great graphics and very fun."},{"author_name":"crockid5","author_uid":"12651","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:04pm","epoch":1346173140,"text":"Interesting concept, i like the way that the world is so free, and all of the lifeforms are againts each other not just you :)"},{"author_name":"IJoshayy","author_uid":"14252","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:31pm","epoch":1346174760,"text":"Fun game, if a little to hard. Good job =)"},{"author_name":"Ligh7zIncrement","author_uid":"14746","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:31pm","epoch":1346174760,"text":"Good all round :)"},{"author_name":"FunByJohn","author_uid":"5063","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1346174880,"text":"Very cool. I interpreted the theme being a fix of evolution and survival of the fittest :D It felt pretty cool walking around fighting my own species, and then realizing sometimes when a more developed race appears, it sorta scares you for a moment, sort of tells you how it would feel to be a real animal walking around in nature encountering a more dangerous and bigger animal :)"},{"author_name":"CappaGames","author_uid":"12184","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:29pm","epoch":1346178240,"text":"Liked the graphics, gameplay and evolution system. Good job."},{"author_name":"kirill","author_uid":"14327","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1346180940,"text":"Wow, nice one! Great gfx. I liked the tree so much, I had to have a go at my own tree, lol: http:\/\/styts.deviantart.com\/#\/d5cuwcw\r<br\/>What was annoying is when you were turned at a slightly wrong level you would not hit your enemy and get killed very quickly, so I never made it beyond the firebreathing level.\r<br\/>Also, nice particle effects on the fires.\r<br\/>I'm bookmarking this one ;)"},{"author_name":"Colisan","author_uid":"14410","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1346181540,"text":"Never made it to the winged one... it hard ! But I really, reeeaaally enjoyed it ! Congrats :)"},{"author_name":"Bemmu","author_uid":"13321","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1346182740,"text":"Cursor position affecting the camera and the player turning to face the cursor were nice touches."},{"author_name":"BrothersT","author_uid":"12722","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1346183460,"text":"great little game. It definitely gets a lot more fun when you throw in the long range attack. well done!"},{"author_name":"Pixelulsar","author_uid":"10737","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1346187300,"text":"Good game, it was very fun.  Graphics are also cool."},{"author_name":"nuria","author_uid":"4978","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1346190060,"text":"Very good graphics! The controls were not good though, I don't think using the mouse was all that necessary. In general a cool little game, well done!"},{"author_name":"renatopp","author_uid":"15241","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1346190720,"text":"Cute and fun! And man, it's hard when comes the fire!"},{"author_name":"flyingbear","author_uid":"16232","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 10:00pm","epoch":1346190900,"text":"The main character sprite enticed me to check this out. solid gameplay, looked forward to seeing what the upgrades were."},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1346191920,"text":"NICE"},{"author_name":"BenW","author_uid":"128","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 4:10am","epoch":1346213100,"text":"Looks really good. I could never evolve past fireballs though, it just got too hard."},{"author_name":"Maple","author_uid":"1551","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:12pm","epoch":1346242020,"text":"Not bad at all. :)"},{"author_name":"Barry Abrams","author_uid":"14387","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:54pm","epoch":1346244540,"text":"Game was pretty solid, though I think it could use a bit of backstory or something."},{"author_name":"Chezzo","author_uid":"17002","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 1:33pm","epoch":1346246880,"text":"This is a crazy good game, man! Difficult, addictive, AND you could tell you had no idea what you were going to do before you got the theme. Which is the point of LD, I think. Wonderful job. This should win."},{"author_name":"xhunterko","author_uid":"1960","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1346272740,"text":"Very fun!"},{"author_name":"kato9","author_uid":"5821","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1346275440,"text":"Really nice! Simple concept but executed very well. The enemy AI is actually pretty good (especially for 48 hrs). Graphics are solid as well. But why F5 to restart?? Haha, not that it's a big deal, but kind of annoying on a mac keyboard."},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1346277900,"text":"@kato9:\r<br\/>because I initially didn't have the time to make a restart function and thought that the browser would simply reload the swf on F5 ... but I was wrong about that and had to change that but somehow kept the F5 key (well, it was late, I was tired ^^)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@barry abrams:\r<br\/>I can't really think of a backstory for this - but if you have some cool idea, please tell me :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@BenW:\r<br\/>yeah - it is hard. but I've managed to beat it twice so it's doable although I have to say that some little tweaks (like a spawnfree radius around the player and a small delay before enemies could shoot fireballs) would improve balance a lot (funny, those are changes I could make in 5 minutes but somehow didn't saw during development)"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 12:07am","epoch":1346284920,"text":"I was alone in the world. Discontent with my predicament, I went off in search of a partner, an equal, to share my company, and finally end my solitude.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>After some time in the woods I indeed saw another! Oh blessed be the spirits, my loneliness was finally at an end. Eager, euphorically I approached my new friend-to-be, and\r<br\/>\r<br\/>SO I MURDERED HIM AND ATE HIS HEART\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Seriously. This is how the &quot;story&quot; of the game reads.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Enough about that, though: Graphics are beautiful, gameplay is punchy, and the evolution-aspect is well done. Also nice work on the crontrols, they work so flawlessly I wasn't inconvenienced at any point.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But still. Your enemies are &quot;your kind&quot;? Make them another color, it would be a first step towards defusing this"},{"author_name":"Jacic","author_uid":"5267","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 12:30am","epoch":1346286300,"text":"Nice game, but a bit simplistic (as you mentioned). What's here is fun though! :)"},{"author_name":"AndyBrown","author_uid":"5699","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 5:39am","epoch":1346304840,"text":"Great entry! I found myself dying instantly a few times, but it was fun to level up and evolve!"},{"author_name":"Maxium","author_uid":"13926","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 7:53am","epoch":1346312880,"text":"Fun game. Camera controls felt a bit loose, but the fighting was still good."},{"author_name":"SiENcE","author_uid":"10298","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 9:24am","epoch":1346318340,"text":"Your pixel graphic is very nice! I would choose the mouse buttons as weapon controls instead of keyboard."},{"author_name":"Kuulog","author_uid":"10301","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 2:37pm","epoch":1346337120,"text":"Fun game. I liked the way you can move the camera with the mouse."},{"author_name":"Starmen","author_uid":"13726","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 6:26pm","epoch":1346350860,"text":"Really nice, fun game. I felt like I was a Pokemon, which was great. The art was really nice too, although I noticed some tiny mistakes. Stuff like just flipping the sprite to do left\/right movement. That doesn't work because the lighting swaps sides and that looks a bit weird. Still, that tiny gripe aside it's a really nice game. Good job."},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1346352960,"text":"Great graphics and really fun! Hey if you need music for anything I'd be happy to help, I love making music! Love the extra abilities with E and Q, really felt like I could kick ass when I got them"},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1346356260,"text":"Excellent game, great fun.\r<br\/>Sometimes it felt like I was dying for no reason, but I think that is because the game over screen is so abrupt I didn't see what did kill me.\r<br\/>Also the monsters attacking the second they spawned right next to you was irritating."},{"author_name":"AuxiliumGames","author_uid":"14016","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 11:05pm","epoch":1346367600,"text":"Pretty fun game :D Camera control was well done, and a great feature!"},{"author_name":"90sml","author_uid":"14122","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 12:19pm","epoch":1346415240,"text":"I really loved the graphics and the idea. But too bad there is no music or any goal except destroy them all :p"},{"author_name":"Switchbreak","author_uid":"2645","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 11:58pm","epoch":1346457180,"text":"Really nice graphics. I got a bit frustrated, it would be nice if there were checkpoints at each stage of evolution. The combat seemed weird - sometimes I could fight, other times the attacks would randomly one-shot-kill me and I would have to start all the way back at the beginning."},{"author_name":"Gib","author_uid":"3222","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 9:53am","epoch":1346492880,"text":"Loved the way you handled the camera. Great entry o\/"},{"author_name":"Evil Cult","author_uid":"8607","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 8:09am","epoch":1346659440,"text":"At first I didn't like the way the camera moved but as I played more I really liked the frantic looking around feeling as if I was playing an FPS. Graphics are fantastic. Audio was good but could have used some music I think. Gameplay was also great but I found that a couple of my deaths seemed a bit unfair. Fantastic work for the 48 hours. Probably the highest rating I have given a game thus far."},{"author_name":"mfitzp","author_uid":"15757","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1346675340,"text":"Great little game, would love to see this developed further. I think you could extend the game concept if you included multiple species, perhaps some that don't attack their own kind (swarm), and reproduction with mutation. Make it asexual, so after a certain time\/when full health\/enough space in the environment it splits into two (including the player) with some alteration in stats or random level-ups. That would give you both natural selection and evolution.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, it's great fun as it is! Thanks for making it."},{"author_name":"shard123","author_uid":"3824","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 3:59pm","epoch":1346687640,"text":"A really great entry! It was easy to learn and really addictive. The graphics and polish were really good!"},{"author_name":"juaxix","author_uid":"10960","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1346692260,"text":"The only thing I would like to change is the balance of the firepower and enemies generations.\r<br\/>What is the tree chopping stuff for?\r<br\/>Thanks for an awesome game!"},{"author_name":"free_napalm","author_uid":"12423","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1346694120,"text":"Great work, and nice consistent graphic style. Quite addictive, too, but I quit after the third failure in fireball age, because I did not want to play through the easy levels again."},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1346709780,"text":"Wow, that was fun!"},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Sep 4, 2012 @ 6:07pm","epoch":1346781720,"text":"Nicely done, loved the art :)"},{"author_name":"Gornova","author_uid":"2572","time":"Sep 6, 2012 @ 8:54am","epoch":1346921340,"text":"I liked you rgame, well done!"},{"author_name":"LoneStranger","author_uid":"203","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 4:30am","epoch":1346991900,"text":"I thought the idea was good, but the controls were a little difficult to get, especially when the camera changes, but the mouse cursor doesn't. I like the idea though, especially how the trees end up as casualties of the battles."},{"author_name":"AaronYip","author_uid":"4897","time":"Sep 10, 2012 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1347305160,"text":"Everybody else covered all the highlights I would have said, lol, so I'll try to give more feedback. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The fireball battles were definitely the sweet spot. :) I found myself hoping for more abilities and design centered around that mechanic (wind buffers, teleports, stuns?), maybe at the cost of skipping one of the earlier melee evolutions or somehow adopting procedurally generated sprites (ala Bubble Tanks). Deaths came pretty quickly though, and I seldom knew what hit me. :( Then again I may just be terrible at this, lol. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I disagree with you that &quot;the game concept has quite limited potential&quot; :P I can totally see a free-for-all DotA\/LoL-esque battles with this system. Different evolution paths determined by how you play and earned by successfully killing other players and &quot;farming&quot; trees. Add in regenerating health, running away, stuns, and it'll still be an awesome gaming metaphor of natural selection. ;) Make it happen, man. :D"},{"author_name":"Fadobo","author_uid":"15165","time":"Sep 10, 2012 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1347315180,"text":"Really awesome man, super addicting!"}],"images":["ld24\/10771-07fbe65dfdd8fc4b072bbb7ac0372722.jpg","ld24\/10771-89090a0499ca128739f11f9e096301ec.jpg","ld24\/10771-20541ed3df21bceb97fb3c790ac43777.jpg","ld24\/10771-e8c88ae4e4f2adec0563de10803cfa73.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/2667903\/DinosaurSurvivalBash.swf","text":"Web (Flash)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/2667903\/Dinosaur%20Survival%20Bash.rar","text":"Source (Flashpunk)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29887","g_author":"10771","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29917","g_title":"Dinosaur Survival Bash!!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"42","g_commentcount":"73","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\/10771-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/10771-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/10771-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/10771-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"story:\r\n======\r\nthis is a game about natural selection!\r\n(which is the prime force behind evolution as we all know)\r\n\r\nyou play one of many little creatures, hoping to evolve into a fullgrown badass, firebreathing dinosaur!\r\n\r\nit's survival of the fittest! kill the other - evolve!\r\n\r\nyou have to evolve into the highest form and kill all other puny competitors to win the game.\r\n\r\nhave fun!\r\n\r\ncontrols:\r\n=========\r\nwasd: move around\r\nmouse1: attack\r\nq: fireball (later on)\r\ne: sprint (later on)\r\n\r\nnotes:\r\n======\r\noriginally I planned a lot more but as you might have experienced yourself - time is rather short. I wanted to include random mutation as well (being the other important part of evolution) to have some actual evolution going on in the game. however - that system turned out much too complex and I had to scratch it :(\r\n(same goes for music ... I suck at composing)<\/p>","title":"Dinosaur Survival Bash!!"}