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Good Luck Gardener

By farfin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness351
Graphics594.44
Mood2343.52
Humor3363.15
Innovation3613.23
Theme4553.55
Overall6223.10
Audio6751.87
Fun8562.61

Comments

crazyminnowstudio 2015-08-25 02:22

I'm not sure what I should be doing in the game? The graphics are cute. That's about all I can comment on.

sylvainab 2015-08-25 11:26

Graphically very nice, but I have not necessarily well understand the goal.

meursault 2015-08-25 11:45

I like the mysterious feeling you created by not saying anything about the game. Im still not sure if i got to the end or if something else would have been happend. The interaction controlls are a bit wonky but i got used to it.
Nice game.

realize2d 2015-08-26 22:36

as already said, the graphics are nice, but gameplay is somewhat confusing.

boardtobits 2015-08-26 22:38

Don't know why I'm doing what I'm doing but I sure look cute while I'm doing what I'm doing.

The tutorial image you have on your webpage explains the mechanics really well. Maybe a line or two more about what you're working toward?

bkgh 2015-08-26 22:41

I loved the games graphics, as well as the idea of it, but the progression seemed painfully slow.

Also not too sure what the game has to do with the theme, but regardless it was a very unique experience!

skt 2015-08-26 22:42

Hmmm I'm not really sure about what I'm doing, but nice graphics

shaw 2015-08-26 22:43

An interesting concept and cute graphics.

crucknuk 2015-08-26 22:43

smooth and artistic. Good work for graphism ^^

sararycow 2015-08-26 22:47

I didn't get the goal. I managed to kill the whole family but nothing happened. Anyway is a beautiful game, I loved the art and enjoyed playing it.

galanm 2015-08-26 22:48

Oh, this is cute. You play as a little ghost helping feed a family. How sweet!

Wait a second. No, oh god no, what is wrong with you. :P


This was wonderfully dark, and truly monstrous. I only wish I had seen the end, but both times I tried it, I ran out of things to grow.

theolinone 2015-08-26 22:49

Visually, this game was awesome. The innocent art style makes the whole act of killing the people kinda detached from the experience but in a good anthropomorphic way. The controls were not the most intuitive to figure out. I spent almost a minute trying to make him do something. Staying silent about the story, although it might not have been intentional, was a good idea mood wise. End game felt a bit lacking as no real ending was achieved.

wasdmagician 2015-08-26 22:50

Great graphics but that's about it.

The family in that house seem to have a love for playing cards, dice and the occaisional coin, after quater of an hour that's all I found.

alexset 2015-08-26 22:55

Cute game, like the random face on the ghost, bit cryptic on what you're supposed to do, not quite sure what to do after killing the family.

petegrammarman 2015-08-26 22:58

Loved the mystery of it all. The graphics were lovely and I was captivated from the start. Didn't get any sort of ending(and I tried!) but that's okay.

hoqjed 2015-08-26 23:04

Do those people seriously just eat literally anything they find on their doorstep? Gosh.

The tutorial image does help quite a bit, though I wish some of it was a little more intuitive through the gameplay itself.

The graphics are the definite strong point here. It's kind of what kept me around playing it, because it looked like a nice game.

I'm afraid I didn't actually enjoy the game part of it very much though. It felt very tedious after I learned the main pattern you had to follow. Pick up object, throw in ground, water, water again, pick, leave it for the people. It just didn't hold my interest, and I ended up quitting before I drained the people bar fully since I thought I kind of saw where it was all going. Though I did manage to get one of em killed... maybe that'll teach the rest of them a lesson about eating doorstep food.

I did like the cute oblivious monster approach though. Kind of a "I want to help people!" attitude, but proceeds to seriously screw stuff up haha.

Some audio in here would have been a great addition also. Atmospheric woods-y sounds and stuff for the main interactions. Maybe even some kind of background music.

It was adorable and I really wanted to like it based off of the visuals and humorous screenshots posted for it... but it just didn't do much for me in the end. At least it seems like you had fun creating it though! I do admire games that give off the feeling that the dev just enjoyed their time with it.

- Dylan

derevensky 2015-08-27 18:21

Pretty cool graphics and idea. Characters are really cute. Didn't get the point but it was quite relaxed :)

ptolo 2015-08-27 18:24

Lovely art but growing one plant at a time made the game too slow. I would totally play an incompetent ghost Harvest Moon game though :D

quetzakol 2015-08-27 18:37

Nice game, cool graphics ! What you have to do is not very clear and I felt like I always did the same thing but that was interesting.

azureknight808 2015-08-30 04:06

Good entry! The art is cute and the game mechanic is fun.

wooltech 2015-08-31 00:27

Oddly fun. Looks really nice, and the feeling of oh..wait..what am I doing to this family?! worked well. Didn't seem to be an ending though, unless I missed something.

leafthief 2015-09-02 09:58

The art was good and I genuinely felt bad although it was the only thing I could do (?) killing these people off one by one (getting my family back to me?)

oldpeculier 2015-09-03 09:39

Terrific art. Like many others I struggled with the controls—took me a minute to find "the button." Then I planted some things and...nothing happened. It's a shame—I want to like this a lot.

mase 2015-09-03 18:41

Very unique and droll scenario. I loved the messages like "shared the veg. has a big taste."
The slight randomization is nice as well.
Great work.

demy 2015-09-13 16:13

Rule No one: "Make sure your ghost don't have access to the fresh water."
Awesome, cute and creepy game!