This is the game I was making for UFEC. Due to time constraints (I only started around Christmas) I didn't complete it. Most of the basic ideas are there, but it is very rough around the edges. I wouldn't submit it only for there have been few enough entries anyway (at the time of writing I'm guaranteed third place!) and that I promised myself I would. I'm not even 100% about that third place, I could be disqualified because my game doesn't fulfill all the criteria, and the lateness of my submission should surely count against me. [smile] Game link. Its a java jar, which I have written a windows batch file to launch. It hope it should be reasonably easy to get it to work on other platforms, but I haven't tried. Screenshots: I hope that by playing it you might see what I was trying to achieve, even though I didn't get there in the end. I do hope to come back to this game in the near future, but I've spent the last 2/3 weeks desperately trying to clean it up, fix lots of bugs and flesh out the gameplay and I need a break from it for a while. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy what can be enjoyed [grin]

Fair criticism. I spent so long trying to clean out bugs that I didn't really have enough time to tweak and balance the game. The armoured critters in particular are way too strong, but its almost necessary to get past some of the more demanding obstacles - like the green windmill, which I should probably have slowed down in hindsight.

Thanks for playing!

I didn't have enough time to slap a main menu on it, so it just crashes out when it runs out of levels. I might see about fixing that in the next day or two, it shouldn't be too hard to get in an ugly menu of some description.

I've uploaded a new version (same download link). It features fixes for certain bugs, a very ugly and simple "main menu" so it no longer bombs out when the game is over - though it still doesn't make it very clear that this was the last level.

I've also tweaked the gameplay a little, taking fang's suggestions into account. I only spent a couple of hours tonight at it, so I didn't get to balance it, but its a little more reasonable now. It actually costs something to evolve now, whereas before somehow it didn't (it was supposed to). The cost for evolution, healing and splitting have been increased, but the rate of "background" points have been increased a bit too. The armoured critters have been toned down from 10 times as resistant to merely twice as resistant. Fire does more damage, before it barely did anything - unless the critter got stuck in a fire and couldn't escape... The bouncing critters appear to be horribly broken, I might get a chance to fix them over the weekend.

I also forgot to mention, you can press "R" to skip a level. Other than that = the keyboard is full of hazards at the moment, there are a few debug hotkeys, so I don't recommend experimenting with keys. One of the things on my TODO list is to disable all the debug stuff with one global configuration option.

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Of course I didn't implement any checking mechanism,so when the game runs out of levels it just crash.

Mine was similar, except it did check. But it tried to valiantly continue despite the lack of level, which caused a crash in some other code. With the new system it should be fixed.