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Grow

By vaclav

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Theme5143.69
Innovation6292.90
Overall7872.85
Mood8142.31
Graphics8382.26
Fun8512.51

Comments

bushmango3 2015-12-14 03:26

Why are the lice eating my beautiful plant?!

kbf123 2015-12-14 03:28

Cool idea.

graceavery 2015-12-14 03:28

Great first entry! Nice work on the music, as well. :)

binarybot 2015-12-14 03:30

Nice game! My top score wasn't very good, I got a top of 23. (Actually, that might be good, just saw your screenshots.) Anyway, cool game. Good idea putting the T in though, as waiting wasn't very interesting :)

xbooperxdx 2015-12-14 04:11

Pretty interesting concept, and fun. Wish it had audio though. Good game though

programyourface 2015-12-14 04:18

It was Ok. But I was kind of confused with what all the bars and stuff where for.

dooskington 2015-12-14 04:20

I didn't really know what was going on. Also, why are lice eating a plant?

boundtotheearth 2015-12-14 04:22

Interesting idea and pretty well executed. I think the life bar and regeneration on your UI could be explained better but it was easy enough to understand once I played for a while. Nice job!

Highest score was 26 gonna go for 30+.

vaclav 2015-12-14 04:22

@graceavery It's my 3rd entry and the game has no music/audio at all.

irwatts 2015-12-14 04:38

This is by far the best plantlice sim I've tried.

torcado194 2015-12-14 19:36

I'm not sure I fully understand this game. Is it not most efficient to hold the 'g' button for a little less than 5 minutes then spam the 's' key? interesting, none the less

vaclav 2015-12-14 21:36

Well, try it..

japes 2015-12-16 12:06

Interesting idea - was a bit unclear what was going on with the red/green arrows and what affected my health, at first. But after a while I figured it out.

retrogradeorbit 2015-12-17 12:48

do too many lice kill the plant? I had trouble finding the sweet spot.

philipp 2015-12-17 13:16

Good take on the theme.

The system is interesting. Played it three times and I clearly was getting better. It was a bit bothering that the growing stopped even when you were holding the "G"-Button, didn't get this the first time.

zenmumbler 2015-12-21 16:27

Interesting idea, will need some time to get to a good score.

miwuc 2015-12-23 23:57

Interesting idea. A bit hard to understand what's going on but I guess it's part of the game. I got a highscore of 21.

muel 2015-12-29 20:09

Nice concept.

You use the same life energy to grow and feed the lice.
It's the balance between having some to live with and some to give. Give too much and you die. Give too few and you don't score.

lereveur 2015-12-30 23:03

I had to retry a little until I find the better way to grow the highest amount of lice I can get, and then retry again with the post-compo to score in the leaderboard. :P

vaclav 2015-12-31 00:05

nice score :P

stuntddude 2015-12-31 10:43

This is a cool concept, having to balance your growth rate with the time you have remaining and the cost to add lice, and it's straightforward enough to figure out, but after a few rounds I'm still not sure if the strategy makes itself clear. Is it just a matter of growing as much as you can, figuring out the optimal time to start placing lice, and then placing lice until the game ends, or is there something more to the strategy that I'm missing? An interesting challenge, none the less.

Also, a small thing, I'm not sure why anyone would play without fast-forward, so it would make more sense to me for that to be the default.