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Dining with Darwin's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Weirdness/Charm | #4 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Music and Sound | #31 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Overall | #31 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Overall | #32 | 3.397 | 3.397 |
| Balance | #37 | 3.056 | 3.056 |
| Polish | #41 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
| Fun Factor | #44 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Visuals | #56 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Super creative! I loved the concept once I figured out what I was supposed to do. Fun use of lore as well. Music fitted in well and the sound effects made me laugh.
The game loop was a little slow for me, it takes a long time to get going and part of the challenge seemed to be randomness instead of a feeling of skill.
Pretty hilarious game idea. I enjoyed hunting down all those different species and eating them for science!
Nice balance and the sound and visuals work great with the humor. Great job!
Love this! Such a fun idea, keep it up!
This was a delightful surprise!
When I hit the part that said "and eat them" in the opening scrawl, I actually burst out laughing.
I love that you procedurally generated the wildlife, and that poisonous creatures were very close to benign ones. Even knowing that, and looking at the pictures, I still screwed up at times.
NOM NOM NOM!
Nice work, and great idea!
Haha! This is hilarious!
Love the way he walks and how his mouth "noms". I was able to walk off screen in the upper left corner of the first level and in the second level Collected all the creatures and one of the poisonous creatures and didn't advance. I loved the concept and your execution was great. What a fun game!
Thanks for the feedback! As to the bug reports, I'm currently working on the first one, but the second one isn't a bug--you need to collect all of the poisonous creatures, as well! (But only eat them once!) I admit that that wasn't very clear. I'm working on an Android port of the game right now and plan to make that easier to understand.
5 stars charming and weird haha! Cool concept for sure. His walking animation is hilariously awesome!
Thanks! I had it on my to-do list to change the walking animation to something more normal because I thought it looked so silly. We ran out of time and never changed it though. Glad you liked it :)
HAHAHA! This is great the concept with the music, I had such a good laugh! Unfortunately I died because I had to find a poisonous bug with 1 hearth left :/
It took me a bit to figure out that size did matter, because sometims the bugs look a lot like each other with very minor colour or size difference. But I get the idea why it worked that way and with the lack of time that was not something you could those random cases out (no problem at all, very understandable).
It is a very fun game!
Thanks for playing! Actually, we did put in code to ensure that creatures wouldn't look too much alike unless it's intentional.
Creatures have five traits that affect appearance (and many traits that don't): color, size, head shape (or lack of head), leg shape (or lack of legs), and body shape. We randomly generate creature species, and we check to see if a species is similar to (i.e., all traits are the same, or all traits but one are the same) any existing species. If it is, we don't create it.
However, that rule is broken for the poisonous species. All of the poisonous species actually look exactly like one of the edible species, except for one trait. So you'll have poisonous species which have the same head/body/legs/color as an edible species, but a different size (for instance). Or everything the same except for different colors, etc. We did this to make it more challenging to spot poisonous creatures, sort of inspired by the real-life case in nature where you have poisonous mushrooms which look similar to edible ones with a certain key feature which is different.
Thanks for explaining that clears up I had one that had a bit of a different colour, it was very minor and it took me a while to figure out by trail and error :P
The concept is fun but would have deserved to be explored a bit deeper, and the peacefull atmosphere is cool. It should be a little harder, you could hide the poisonous known species for more challenge.
That's a good idea! Hiding under bushes or behind the branches would be a great behavior to add to the creatures.
Awesome concept, very unique and weird. It was hard to find the poisonous creature, but rewrding when I did.
I liked the way it showed you what creature you ate so I didn't have to remember it after eating it. The art was pretty cool, it had that funny feeling to it, good job.