Life-Cycle of the Great Asp Turtle by Ashera

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made by Ashera for LD17 (COMPO)
Update Monday Apr 26: I fixed the collision handling. You don't get stuck on islands anymore, but you might bounce violently off them. It's at http://selenetan.com/dump/ludumdare17/201004262336 .

This is a game about being an Aspidochelone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidochelone ), or Asp-Turtle. Swim around and eat fish to get bigger. Ram ships when they're smaller than you to get the stuff inside. If you're big enough (there will be a peach square on your back), you can pick up people who will shoot ships for you.

It's not very complete. With about 18 hours to go, I tossed out flixel and decided to write my own game framework and physics engine from scratch.

Edit: Whoa my entry disappeared, even though the screenshots remained... Weird!

Ratings

Coolness 1% 155
Overall 2.69 129
Community 3.22 64
Fun 2.44 136
Graphics 2.65 139
Humor 2.60 70
Innovation 3.13 73
Theme 3.25 89