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Flowershop Tale

By geti

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Graphics1234.21
Audio2403.50
Mood2423.58
Humor3392.95
Theme4633.73
Overall6683.16
Innovation7772.73
Fun9552.54

Comments

bazz_boyy 2015-12-14 09:50

Hey dude, I like your art and your characters. Very funky. I could definitely see something interesting coming from this concept. I couldn't make anything happen though unfortunately t.t

mauludder 2015-12-15 00:07

Kudos for the art and sampling (is that you? :) ). Gameplay-wise could have used way more but seems you're already aware of that.

geti 2015-12-15 01:41

For those wondering about how to make it work - you have to get a shape before you can get a colour, and you just have to stand in front of the machines or register to use them.

The mumbling is indeed me, wished the girlfriend was in at the time so I could have more than one voice ;)

Indeed, shame there's not too much to play. We'll see if I get time to actually put a story and win condition to it, but it seems it wont happen before the deadline.

dustoutgames 2015-12-15 01:47

I really wish there was more to this. The graphics and audio are gorgeous! I wanted to play more.

commodorekid 2015-12-15 10:36

It's quite repetitive. I guess you decided to have the images low quality this way, well it works. The core game is there. I also like the concept. I wish you could add more to that core.

ashdnazg 2015-12-16 11:48

Graphics style is indeed very nice! Music slightly repetitive but effects are cool.

jcsirron 2015-12-20 01:59

That was an oddly zen-like game. Interesting!

ointment 2015-12-20 14:05

Can't get this to run. "Game.exe has stopped working" straight off the bat, using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I did unzip the game first.

Looking at the other comments, this is probably a problem on my end. The game seems to be based on SDL, so I wonder if it's somehow trying to use some of the SDL 1.6 DLLs I have on my system instead. (SDL has been problematic to setup before...)

2015-12-20 17:06

Very funny little game. The art is just amazing *_* Unfortunately the lack of some kind of aim is really sad :(

geti 2015-12-21 01:10

Glad people especially like the art :) It's the one thing I was really happy with the outcome of so very nice to see people appreciate it.

@Jwatt - thanks for trying it at least; 1.6 is a weird "in between beta" version of SDL anyway, the last official one before 2.0 was 1.2 as far as I know. I'd probably remove whatever you've got installed, 99% of games that use SDL just bundle it directly (as I have here) on windows because as you've seen, trying to set it up globally is problematic.

mirch 2015-12-21 01:50

Even though it's not finished, I think it has a lot of potential! Really had fun playing it!

rjhelms 2015-12-21 04:56

Really nice design around the sound and graphics.

There's not much too the gameplay, but it feels like the start of something like Painters Guild.

nihilaleph 2016-01-02 01:48

Pro:
+ Art and sounds are great
+ Nice concept
Con:
- As already mentioned, not much to play
- More buttons control would be nice, but then it wouldn't fit the theme...
Obs:
o Recettear should be a nice reference

Great work!

geti 2016-01-03 03:01

Thank you for the reference to Recettear - I had not seen or played it but it looks like a very similar game :)

I'll probably not be continuing this game directly (at least for now/in its current form) but its quite inspiring to see other games in this sort of space doing well.

nirabazgames 2016-01-05 01:51

nice game