The World Hates You

Made in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 24 competition– theme: “evolution”. Accordingly, this game uses an evolutionary algorithm to generate the hardest platformer levels possible. As you play, the game reports back your progress over the internet to a server which breeds the hardest levels together and sends the results out to future players.

The game does not have a win condition. The purpose of this game is not to be won. The purpose of this game is to get progressively better at killing you.

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You can find the Ludum Dare competition entry page for the game here.

This game requires an OpenGL 2.0 compatible computer to run.

4 Responses to “The World Hates You”

  1. Bryce Says:

    I wish this game didn’t give me levels I’ve already beaten during a current playthrough.

  2. mcc Says:

    The final judging just came back, and this did WAY better than any of my previous Ludum Dare entries! I actually got 7th place in the overall competition:

    #2 for Innovation (4.38/5)
    #3 for Theme (4.43/5)
    #7 for Overall (4.13/5)
    #51 for Fun (3.63/5)
    #170 for Audio (3.00/5)
    #372 for Graphics (2.93/5)

  3. Katy Says:

    When I downloaded it onto my mac it had some sort of error, it said the server wouldn’t respond and hand no proper error handling?

  4. Aidan Says:

    Could you please put the server back up or make some way of running it locally? I really wanted to check this out, but it’s impossible to “play” now.

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