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The Wild Flower's Song

By nidzakornjaca

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Mood244.32
Coolness363
Audio664.00
Theme1214.15
Overall1963.68
Graphics3743.70

Comments

akirassasin 2015-12-14 23:29

OSX version displays 'can't be opened'.

nidzakornjaca 2015-12-15 01:03

Thanks for the comment!
Permissions need to be set for the executable file using chmod.

ornicar 2015-12-15 01:48

Really peaceful and relaxing, thanks ! ^^

zknet 2015-12-15 01:50

Fantastic! I loved the mood of the game... very peaceful.

suui 2015-12-15 01:58

Oh, nice is the word to describe it :)

Pretty relaxing, interesting concept, I enjoyed it.

fede0d 2015-12-15 02:05

Very atmospheric, I liked it.

diningphilosopher 2015-12-15 03:07

The droplet graphics make for a nice style, and the audio is very soothing. "Fun" is of course a bit lacking, but that's not what you were going for after all. Altogether a pleasant surprise for the first game I'm rating this LD.

squarebridges 2015-12-15 03:10

This is beautiful!

Slight issue with the web version is that pressing down fades the screen to black (underneath what I assume is the credits, which are unreadable.

nidzakornjaca 2015-12-15 09:25

Thanks for the kind words!
@squarebridges: If by down you mean S - then I forgot to remove some early debug code so it might be interacting a bit fiddly with the rest of the game >.<

I'll be reuploading a fixed build later today.

bloomingbuds 2015-12-15 09:51

very nice use of colors, lovely music and sounds!

neoludo 2015-12-15 09:52

Asides from a few glitches here and there with credits appearing randomly on the screen on top of themselves, this was a really nice, relaxing, meditative experience. One of the most relaxing games I've played in a long time... overall extremely pleasant. Thanks for the experience and beautiful poetry!

radstar 2015-12-15 09:53

Wow I love this kind of contemplative games! The art, the poem and the music/sound design are working very well together! Really good job!! :)

marod 2015-12-15 09:54

Very interesting game, but a little boring. Also I have problems to visualice the text, that overlaps with other text. Great game!

tyrants-not-found-team 2015-12-15 09:55

Perfect mood, perfect sound, fits the theme very well!
Not much else to comment, I think the game does perfectly what it set out to do :)
At most, it could've used more visual effects towards the end of the poem, perhaps more atmospherics or more blooming elements of the "flower" that keeps growing - more color or shapes :)

Very well done!

Cheers,
Ionut(Tyrants.not.found team)

remblej 2015-12-15 10:00

That loading though :)

diebackstudios 2015-12-15 10:05

I thoroughly enjoyed the experience keep up the good work ,
18 works u did some work :P

inbetweengames 2015-12-15 10:10

This is so wonderful. I.. I got something in my eye.

tomenluca 2015-12-15 11:23

Great mood

fractalbear 2015-12-15 12:43

Beautiful, loved it, thank you :D

baransu 2015-12-15 12:49

Nice game, but a little bit too short. He he he he

printhello 2015-12-15 12:51

Very nice

warboys 2015-12-15 13:31

Pretty :) I really wish I could appreciate poetry, but alas!

Note on the gameplay, I wanted to move around and make the tree grow in all kinds of ways, but often I'd see the next pickup too late and not be able to reach it in time. So in the end I just sat back and let it grow straight up until pickups arrived.

nidzakornjaca 2015-12-15 13:38

@Warboys:
Theres a *secret* button. Don't tell anyone!

tuism 2015-12-15 15:59

Played on itch.io. no sound?

I like the pretty style, that's really interesting, but I feel like it can barely be called a "game"... I could just leave it running. The branches and the poem are pretty, but ultimately not interesting to me. Maybe it's just me. I didn't like Monument Valley too and it won like a million awards...

I feel like I couldn't make round shapes like the rest of the branches were - my lines were zig zaggy and that felt out of place.

Would have liked to see a zoomed out view of my creation - I feel like that that would add a lot more to the creative aspect of this. To be creative and be recorded as such.

Pretty thing :)

sosolol261 2015-12-15 16:05

I looks very pretty :3

sience 2015-12-15 19:55

Wonderfull relaxing! The theme is suberb fullfilled and writing a poem for an LD game is just great :) !

diel-mormac 2015-12-16 02:01

This is a relaxing and reflexive game!
I loved the concept and I was really hypnotized by the sound!

Thanks for this awesome experience!

_hopfrog 2015-12-16 06:07

Lovely mood! I really really liked this one :)

blohod 2015-12-16 22:44

Very nice and relaxing, more of an experience than a game, I liked it. Played on a livestream at http://www.twitch.tv/meep706.

brocade 2015-12-17 10:55

Nice use of the theme and really relaxing.

ajopart 2015-12-17 11:09

Great mood !

cimbaman 2015-12-21 10:21

Read poetry, listen to relaxing music, and grow a tree while doing it.
This is game is perfect to play after a stressful day.

seconddimension 2016-01-02 15:45

What a lovely experience, really liked the mood and atmosphere.

sinclairstrange 2016-01-02 23:14

Man, what a fantastic mood and atmosphere this gives off! Lovely stuff, so relaxing and interesting! :D

jupiter_hadley 2016-01-05 15:43

Really neat experience! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/DUttdjt5uB4