Kitten Evolution by AngelDE98

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made by AngelDE98 for LD24 (JAM)
You are a human in post-apocalyptic times, where the cat (and kitten) race is dominating over the world. Because of that, you are working in a lab. Normally AGAINST kittens - but instead, you kill all the other worker bots and rescue the kittens!

Movement : Arrow Keys
Attack : DOWN or SPACE

Goal of the game:
Reach the third level. Kill all other worker-bots, evolving yourself and powering up your power level. Also rescue the other kitten before the bots kill them.

IMPORTANT!
Use the launcher at least ONCE because it needs to download the game .jar, extract natives and files out of it and then launch the game. The engnie has a errorous self-extracting mechanism causing the desktop being copied, but that code shouldn't be ran now.

Current errors that I know about :
- Level 3 crashing when kitten get killed by bot (Fixed, was a java nullpointer in the Mob AI)
- Level 3 freezing with a whitescreen (on some machines)
- Kittens in Level 2 can't be saved (Fixed, bugfix got "approved" on IRC because of collision bugs causing the player getting trapped and saving the kitten the only way of fixing the collision trap bug)

Also, the screenie is an older one. Hence the new UI cursor and mouse and the missing DLC CENTER.

Feedback

commanderstitch
27. Aug 2012 路 20:02 UTC
game froze loading the third room.
X-0ut
28. Aug 2012 路 09:21 UTC
I wanted to get into this but stage 3 is still crashing for me.
On the first few attempts I got stuck on the AI also, so I avoided them in the next play.
馃帳 AngelDE98
28. Aug 2012 路 09:23 UTC
@commanderstitch, fixed. It was caused by a nullpointer in the Mob AI.
馃帳 AngelDE98
28. Aug 2012 路 09:26 UTC
How many bugs are there in Map 3 ? If I just think I fixed one, another one comes up ...
timtipgames
28. Aug 2012 路 09:55 UTC
Visually, the menu ist the best part of the game :) All in all it looks decent i think. The gameplay is very much not surprising (ignoring the bugs). As far as I can tell, the theme is, well, only met by the title of the game. There is no level 4, right?
馃帳 AngelDE98
28. Aug 2012 路 12:04 UTC
@timtipgames, the goal is reaching level 3, killing all the other bots evolving your power (see the lvl count top-left) and rescuing all the kittens.
timtipgames
28. Aug 2012 路 12:16 UTC
I think I understood that part. The gui text is super small btw.. Concerning the "rescue the kittens" part, it is not indicated that there is an end to the flood of kittens and bots, so I guess no one would try long enough to see it?
馃帳 AngelDE98
28. Aug 2012 路 13:21 UTC
@timtipgames, the flood should be infinite. Hence the "Evolution" theme... you can only level up your power by killing the others. If you die, the level gets cleared and you loose some points... but it isn't bad.
mes
29. Aug 2012 路 04:57 UTC
i got stuck on a whitish screen after the second room.
juaxix
30. Aug 2012 路 11:13 UTC
I like the Music and the idea of keep warping for funny kitties =]
MadcoreTom
30. Aug 2012 路 11:16 UTC
Same here, I'm stuck on a white screen saying "Searching Map"
SaintHeiser
06. Sep 2012 路 07:35 UTC
The game does not start on my PC. Java installed.
olav_st
06. Sep 2012 路 09:28 UTC
Could not get to level 3, stuck on a loading screen that says "Searching map..".
Judging from what I saw of the game, the graphics were nice and the menu was very polished. The gameplay did not feel very polished and I think that you should have used more time on the gameplay and made a simple menu instead. It was annoying to lose all your speed just because you touched the roof. Good job nonetheless and too bad that it wont load the third level.
Josh @ Dreamland
11. Sep 2012 路 03:08 UTC
Good graphics and audio. Freezes on level 2 loading screen and commences filling RAM, never to complete.