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Green Dream

By trusty

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8313.0642
Fun8012.9241
Innovation6353.1541
Theme2253.9841
Graphics6083.3142
Audio3723.2842
Humor7372.2636
Mood7012.9840

Comments

pagetb 2020-04-21 16:10

very interesting gameplay, cool idea!

bitpokit 2020-04-21 16:11

I like the music and when the rats come out! :)

verttixpertti 2020-04-21 16:13

Chill and cute. One thing that bugged me was audio starting on loop, when no plant had been planted.

maxathon 2020-04-21 16:15

Couldn't figure out how to keep the sun meter (?) from killing the first plant immediately. Looks cool, wish I got further!

lilwavep 2020-04-21 16:15

Nice job!

hiremedeveloper 2020-04-21 16:16

you made my zoom class more interesting

rob-avery 2020-04-21 16:16

The gameplay wasn't explained, so it took a while for me to figure out how to play. Also, there was no exit button in game AND when all your plants die and you have no money, there is no way to restart (from what I could see). Other than that, it was a really fun game. It reminded me of those resturant tycoon games.

brzyrt 2020-04-21 16:17

I really liked the art style, but it was kind of hard to understand why certain plants were dying. eventually I did figure out. It was fun for a short time but there isnt much substance to it. Good job with the art!

100th-coin 2020-04-21 16:17

Nice game! It's a bit tricky at first.

sanjana 2020-04-21 16:18

I love the game idea and though it looks simple, its actually very challenging.

voidsay 2020-04-21 16:20

works fine on Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64 Bit.

Didn't get that plants can be burned by the sun at first. It was a shame when I had all three plants and they all died, when the sun set for the night. Maybe shorten the night a bit?

jogodfrey 2020-04-21 16:21

I don't understand the controls for this, can you provide more instructions? I can't seem to keep the first plant alive for even a few seconds.

ramo 2020-04-21 16:23

Lost a few plants very quick at first, but once understood, the system is nice and makes sense! Good mood and good looking game!

marcio-miranda 2020-04-21 16:24

Gameplay wasn't very well explained so the first few minutes were just trying to interact with things, but once you understand the mechanics it's pretty fun juggling the plant growth, and I like the time of day shadow mechanic! I think it would have been easier to play if you could use your mouse to activate the tools as well, instead of switching tools with keyboard. I'd love to see a bigger and better version of this!

kent-reese 2020-04-21 16:24

A nice simulator, but even if the instructions I found things to be a little vague and hard to understand. However, my plants lived long happy live and I'm a proud father.

rigdonware 2020-04-21 16:24

I loved the artwork in this game! It took me until my plant died to know what I was doing. I couldn't figure out a way to dispose of a dead plant so if your first plant died, there was no recovering from it.

manimal 2020-04-21 16:25

Hard coordination game, mechanix are cool but you should think about controling the playground better. I was missing to move sideways only for a little. For this case, there will be proper control it with mouse wheele. And you save 3 more buttons with it. The atmospere of the attic is awesome.

antraxxx 2020-04-21 16:26

Nice game but it's hard to understand the gameplay at first. It would be cool if we can switch tools with the mouse wheel. I think push right and push left must be inverted. Nice work !

43sam 2020-04-21 16:26

Very nice and relaxing game with a chill atmosphere to it. The difficulty progression felt natural as well which was nice :)

jonrei 2020-04-21 16:26

Its a bit hard to understand what youre supposed to do, so I had to give it a couple of tries. Its a nice game one you know the basics of it

gabriel-pittol 2020-04-21 16:26

Pretty good. A bit hard and confusing at first, but really good overall. Loved the idea, pretty original. Good music and sound effects.

vila6 2020-04-21 16:30

i got a bit confused about the mechanics at first, but at the second try they turned out quite fun and curious. I still don't understand the timer (every time I looked at it, it was stuck at 0). A good experience overall!

zimennik 2020-04-21 16:31

Nice idea, but gameplay a bit repetitive.

taran-unraveler 2020-04-21 16:31

Simple concept, yet well executed. After a while the game was repetitive, though there was the trouble of handling 4 pots at time. Anyway, well done, had some fun playing the game.

faiorb 2020-04-21 16:31

Nice job on your game!

As an experience, it's one of those "starts slow but gets more interesting with time" games. I saw myself even somewhat confused at the start, but I right understood what to do. You begin with one plant, slowly getting money to buy more plants.

Things starts to get cool when you buy your second plant, and right after your third and the fourth one. The little achievements was a nice touch, helps too.

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luke-perkin 2020-04-21 16:33

Keeping plants alive is both relaxing and stressful, nice work.

simonl 2020-04-21 16:34

The concept is really simply and in the beginning it looks trivial, but quickly it gets quite hard to balance all factors.

Controls felt a bit confusing. I always confused push left and right because

Solid entry!

trusty 2020-04-21 16:36

Thanks for playing everyone. My original thought was the fun of discovery on how to play, vs making people read a lot of text. @rob-avery there is a pause menu if you hit escape to restart or quit etc. @rigdonware once you have enough money you can hit the refresh button to replace a dead or empty plant. If you die before that then use the escape menu to restart.

fabula-rasa 2020-04-21 16:46

Pleasant music and graphics! Gameplay is, to be honest, not my cup of tea but I was never much for gardening games (or for gardening itself, for that matter :)). But I think the concept is well executed and feels very complete.

derkuchen 2020-04-21 17:19

Nice idea, and I like the graphics. One thing that did not feel so good was that I bought a new flowerpot directly after sunset (maybe not the best idea), and because the plant spawned as well it died before the sun came again. Maybe there is a nice way to prevent that from happening?

lalada 2020-04-21 17:20

1. One palents -> me: Easy 2. Three palents -> me: A bit challenge 3. Five palents with sunset -> me: OMG!!OMG!!Who is going to died !? They all died!?

I enjoyed the stressful time, Good game and music :)

unfinished 2020-04-21 21:10

The learning curve was a bit steep. That could be improved by introducing one mechanic after the other. Overall a nice fun game.

seriouslycrunchy 2020-04-23 10:03

I thought not explaining everything right out of the gate was a good idea, but sometimes you can get to a situation where the sun is not out for a long time and so its impossible to keep something alive. Other then that, pretty good!

frank-gevaerts 2020-04-23 20:18

A very nice concept. Sounds and graphics are excellent! My plants keep dying though, for me it's a bit too hard.

william-derksen 2020-04-23 23:52

That was really fun. I loved how easy it started and how hard it eventually got. At first I felt pretty unenthusiastic about the gameplay, but once there was 3 or 4 plants I was constantly clicking on different things. At first I was going to say that the controls are a bit odd and that you could remove some of the buttons by having like dragging or just assuming the action based on the situation (like picking up coings), but now that I have finished, I think the breakdown of the controls into all of these different pieces made the game harder and made me need to press way more buttons to accomplish a couple simple tasks.

Good fun

trusty 2020-04-24 19:29

@william-derksen Thanks for this. It's exactly the direction of the game I was going for. Glad you had fun.