{"author_link":"\/author\/taffaz\/","author_name":"Taffaz","author_uid":"19054","comments":[{"author_name":"Blake_Lead","author_uid":"60780","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:54am","epoch":1450082940,"text":"Nice little game, occupied me for five enjoyable minutes !"},{"author_name":"gene-z","author_uid":"26095","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:36am","epoch":1450092660,"text":"Vera Nice game"},{"author_name":"Geukes Colin","author_uid":"62758","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:37am","epoch":1450092720,"text":"A game, in which growing is central.\r<br\/>Spend a couple of minuts of my life, on this game. Quite liked it. The graphics are a bit bad, and the screen is glitching some times. But overall, a good score!"},{"author_name":"chrizdekok","author_uid":"43930","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:39am","epoch":1450092840,"text":"Best game I tried so far. Great work!\r<br\/>Instead of using the mouse to choose upgrades it would be simpler to just use left\/right.\r<br\/>The animation of the creature I really enjoyed. :)"},{"author_name":"Shared","author_uid":"52719","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:02pm","epoch":1450094220,"text":"Very nice"},{"author_name":"Andrew Deem","author_uid":"25356","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1450095780,"text":"Nice work man! Fun little time killer. Reminds me a bit of Spore or Flow (which isn't a bad thing). I enjoyed how the enemies are you changed depending on the phase you were in."},{"author_name":"SecularBaron","author_uid":"37422","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1450095840,"text":"Cool game. It was satisfying to evolve."},{"author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1450095900,"text":"I liked the music it set a good mood although an idea for later builds might be o have the music evolve with the creature, gets faster for speed, heavier for defence. i would take the mouse out of it entirely though, with the options being on the left and right it would just fit with the control theme."},{"author_name":"daandruff","author_uid":"3244","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1450096020,"text":"A nice early-game Spore clone. I felt that the upgrades didn't matter all that much. Solid entry though :)"},{"author_name":"icereci","author_uid":"32854","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1450096140,"text":"Seems like agar.io. Enjoyed playing."},{"author_name":"Ayte","author_uid":"30997","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:07pm","epoch":1450101720,"text":"Really nice game ! \r<br\/>I really enjoyed this !"},{"author_name":"Taffaz","author_uid":"19054","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:50pm","epoch":1450104300,"text":"Thanks for all your comments. I was definitely intending to make it so you could use the arrow keys to select the upgrades and I just forgot to do it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Spore was definitely the inspiration for this game and I hadn't heard of flow or agar.io but I checked out agar.io and was impressed."},{"author_name":"Capitals","author_uid":"28209","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1450106160,"text":"Music was really good, suited it perfectly - always my weakness. I can't help but think this is inspired by the bacteria stage of spore, I love that stage. I would say you could improve by making it clearer what you could eat, what speed and defense does and if you were to work on better graphics. Good Luck!"},{"author_name":"greenscreen","author_uid":"65503","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:32pm","epoch":1450106820,"text":"Great gameplay. Reminds me of agar.io, but with scaling. Also kinda similar to amoeba phase of life in Spore game."},{"author_name":"Somnium","author_uid":"50228","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:04pm","epoch":1450108740,"text":"A very enjoyable game! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The different phases felt different, both in the possible opponents\/prey, and the difference in the surroundings (my disregard for speed-upgrades did not serve me well in the avian phase...)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great use of the themes! The graphics were functional, and sufficiently different across the three phases to give variety.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, thumbs up for using LibGDX!"},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:07pm","epoch":1450112520,"text":"nice, very interesting, good job"},{"author_name":"bazkur98","author_uid":"63572","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1450113000,"text":"Not bad!  I enjoyed the 5 or 10 minutes I played (web version).  Controlled really well.  Followed the theme better than my entry probably did!  Good job."},{"author_name":"deadpixelsociety","author_uid":"3308","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1450136340,"text":"I enjoyed this and played to completion. Felt like I was playing a take on the first level of Spore which was quite fun. I went full speed and they never stood a chance."},{"author_name":"TomenLuca","author_uid":"66261","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1450199760,"text":"Cool little game, could use a little polish. Liked the fact you included evolution in there as an extension on the theme growing."},{"author_name":"Phil Strahl","author_uid":"47131","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:29pm","epoch":1450207440,"text":"Almost made it, those darn birds! ;) Very nice game with a rather melancholic soundtrack. Reminded me a little of SimLife. Which is good!"},{"author_name":"Category5Kawaiiju","author_uid":"57065","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1450207620,"text":"He's soooooo cute! I love how he gets a little propeller! That was adorable!"},{"author_name":"AzureAspect","author_uid":"54852","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1450211520,"text":"Played till the end, eat and grow games are always fun.\r<br\/>The difficulty could have been a bit harder, I lost health only on the last stage (while being quite large)\r<br\/>well done game :)"},{"author_name":"trozen","author_uid":"62783","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1450211640,"text":"Pretty nice little eating things game. Tried to be a pure herbivore for most of it, at least until I ran out of visible flowers."},{"author_name":"RhythmLynx","author_uid":"39966","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1450215240,"text":"This is pretty cool, I like that you did different environments. One thing I would suggest is some kind of warning or highlight, or larger and more discrete variations in size; there were several times where I was damaged by something just slightly larger than me that I thought I could eat."},{"author_name":"WebFreak001","author_uid":"10461","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1450217220,"text":"Really nice game but it would have been nicer if you could stay big in the sections a bit longer to reward to player"},{"author_name":"MorganLeFay","author_uid":"65148","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1450217460,"text":"Fun game to play but definitely room for improvement. While I think rescaling the screen is important in a game where you constantly grow sometimes it felt a little odd to be so small again. Also the sound when you get hit was kind of painful for my ears."},{"author_name":"brainybeard","author_uid":"65920","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:05pm","epoch":1450220400,"text":"Interesting game, it kind of reminded me of the beginning stages of spore. I liked how you gave use the oppurtunity to upgrade one of two abilities, I personally went for defence all the way however I'm unsure what effect this actually had on my creature. Maybe in future updates it would be interesting to show how choosing speed or defence affects your performance. Overall, really fun game, the music worked well and perhaps the art could do with a tiny bit of work, but generally it was a fun game :)"},{"author_name":"Zeezgames","author_uid":"63931","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:07pm","epoch":1450220520,"text":"Loved this game i dont really like these type of games so i was surprosed when i enjoyed playing it the music was soothing and relaxing :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well Done!"},{"author_name":"justinooncx","author_uid":"38380","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:43am","epoch":1450229880,"text":"It's the most fun part of Spore! Pretty fun game!"},{"author_name":"Warboys","author_uid":"33962","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1450267860,"text":"I had a good time :) I really liked the music, very suiting to the survival of the fittest!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>There was something very unsettling about the create art and chasing behaviour, was scary when those birds were after you!"},{"author_name":"rjhelms","author_uid":"39055","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 4:23am","epoch":1450671480,"text":"This is really cool. Things got hairy once the birds started chasing me!"},{"author_name":"the-arrival","author_uid":"47053","time":"Dec 26, 2015 @ 10:28am","epoch":1451125380,"text":"eat everything... nice concept :)"}],"images":["ld34\/19054-a7a83ae3157d769f42f32301cde8cd05.jpg","ld34\/19054-2851e251aa32cc7f414f145feaee5fa5.jpg","ld34\/19054-2f111a56ca6be6005fd1c7a502cfe69b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.taffaz.com\/ludum\/ld34\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.taffaz.com\/ludum\/ld34-desktop-1.0.jar","text":"Jar (22MB)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.taffaz.com\/ludum\/ld34-sources.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7409","g_author":"19054","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"7441","g_title":"Grow, Thrive, Evolve","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"510","g_commentcount":"32","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\/\/511439\/19054-shot0-1450055906.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/19054-shot1-1450055906.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/19054-shot2-1450055906.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Grow, Thrive, Evolve is a game where you have to grow Dooda from a small aquatic being into a creature of the land and finally a flying beast.\r\n\r\nI decided to use both themes for this game.\r\n\r\nGrowing:\r\n\r\nYou grow by eating smaller animals and you get hurt if you get hit by a larger animal although the plants won't hurt you if they are too large.\r\n\r\nThere are three stages, each with 3 phases. As you grow the camera will zoom out to keep Dooda a reasonable size.\r\n\r\nTwo Button Controls:\r\n\r\nControl is done using the left and right arrow to turn with Dooda travelling forward at his max speed at all time.\r\n\r\nI hope you enjoy and feel free to leave any feedback.","title":"Grow, Thrive, Evolve"}