EVO by shide

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made by shide for LD 38 (JAM)

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Create life in your own small world and watch it grow and evolve. Sit back and relax or intervene by sending blizzards, earthquakes, sun strikes or meteors. You can try to change the course of natural evolution by your actions using only mouse and no keyboard. The game has objectives to guide you and you can restart the game at any moment, but there is no end goal due to the nature of the game.!

Controls

  • Left mouse button - select
  • Right mouse button - pan camera
  • Scroll - zoom

Links

Gameplay video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjBqvon8cI

Ratings

Overall 110th 3.897⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 252th 3.414⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 147th 3.655⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 69th 4.069⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 190th 4⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Audio 80th 3.885⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 375th 2.609⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 242th 3.519⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 36🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

Fiote
03. May 2017 · 17:43 UTC
I expected everyone to die when the second meteor hit lol. Nice entry =]
Clothos
03. May 2017 · 19:11 UTC
Had lots of fun with this one clicking around and watching things grow.
noddingTortoise
03. May 2017 · 23:00 UTC
Awesome game! The style reminds me a lot of the Civ series. I think the graphics are excellent, and the audio is really well done. I also liked the side missions that popped up, but it would be nice to have a bit more information on how to complete some of the tasks as some seem a bit vague. Overall really well done!
Yirggzmb
04. May 2017 · 04:06 UTC
Very enjoyable watching things grow. Very well done.
mindtricks
04. May 2017 · 15:23 UTC
Oh my God, this is so pretty! Love it! Art and music are awesome, gameplay is really fun and I really love the idea.
hbocao
06. May 2017 · 02:37 UTC
Beautiful entry! With this graphics, the presentation and the music, the mood is set! Very peaceful to play.
MestreRothLD
06. May 2017 · 17:18 UTC
Really great sim. The presentation is top. The goals help to guide the gameplay. Very solid entry.
huminaboz
08. May 2017 · 00:48 UTC
Very cool. The concept of the achievements made this much more fun to explore, as well as teaching and giving direction. Had issues with the interface overlaying things I wanted to see and trying to look around but could only ever seem to zoom in on one tile. Basically I always felt restricted from seeing what was going on.
Zirrrus
12. May 2017 · 17:34 UTC
Really impressive project!
OccultOne
16. May 2017 · 23:17 UTC
I Played this on Livestream today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtyZ8Rudok

Really neat concept, I had a lot of trouble really understanding how my actions were affecting the world. I think there was also simply too much GUI Stuff on the screen at once and the game would have benefited from trimming the UI Down. Good job!
theDoodleGuy
16. May 2017 · 23:33 UTC
Interesting sim, I played for quite a while but with no real agenda or goal, I probably just didn't get it. The game looks and sounds beautiful and I did get a bit too excited when I saw I had create Godzilla lol! Although the hints were a great touch I didn't feel like they guided me much and once I was able to hurl another meteor it didn't seem to do anything (again, it might just be me as I don't think I understood the goal) but this did not stop me playing until my computer fan started screaming so loud it woke the wife up. Good game overall :slight_smile:
Ithildin
17. May 2017 · 02:56 UTC
I loved the idea, I really like evolution simulators. Getting better feedback to my actions, to better explain how they would affect the world, would have been a nice improvement. As it is right now, it feels a bit like a random click fest, unfortunately, even if I was following the hints from time to time.

Improving this would do wonders for an otherwise solid entry. Nice game!
lilkrit
17. May 2017 · 03:01 UTC
Very cool game, and it has surprising amount of features for this amount of time!
frankiesmileshow
17. May 2017 · 06:10 UTC
That was great! I got a ctulhu to appear in my squid-infested waters. I wonder if something special happens if you throw a meteor on the great old one...
Moonleaf
17. May 2017 · 07:20 UTC
Simply excellent. Great concept, very good execution. One of the best games I've seen in LD38
fangzhangmnm
17. May 2017 · 07:28 UTC
Great graphics and audio. And I've seen that you have take some efforts on making the simulation. Shouldn't get such a less rating.
Breadmower
17. May 2017 · 09:19 UTC
Quite relaxing to play, tinkering around with the different combinations of effects. I eventually ended up with an island full of diplodocuses, slowly twirling around - almost in time to the soothing music :-) Great stuff!
givit-game-studios
17. May 2017 · 10:12 UTC
I loved it.
Anubhav Kashyap
17. May 2017 · 11:23 UTC
Amazing game, amazing art, amazing sound, absolutely amazing! This is an awesome game!! By far the best I have played. Good job! :thumbsup:

If you can, please rate me https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/survival-game
uvwar
17. May 2017 · 22:24 UTC
Very awesome! Reminded me a lot of that Birthdays the Beginning 'game' that just came out. Keep working on this if you can, I love these kind of SimEarth games!
ruthiepee
17. May 2017 · 22:40 UTC
Amazing presentation, I really adore this game. It seems really full-featured as is but obviously it would be super cool if you kept working on it. I didn't realize you could scroll to zoom in until late game but I just wanna say I love the bouncy select animation. There's a surprising amount of detail in the animals I would have missed too. The interface and the tutorial are the most well designed parts of it all (something many LD games overlook) and the music is lovely as well.
BAJARYMI
18. May 2017 · 02:39 UTC
Really well made. Great visuals and camera effects.