Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Keep the Garden Alive
By gamepopper
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 691 | 3.26 | 34 | |
| Fun | 710 | 3.06 | 34 | |
| Innovation | 753 | 3.01 | 34 | |
| Theme | 484 | 3.71 | 34 | |
| Graphics | 689 | 3.16 | 36 | |
| Humor | 488 | 2.81 | 34 | |
| Mood | 541 | 3.18 | 34 |
really fun~ The controlls are a little finneky with all the different plant sprays. but It feels really nice. the movement is a little tricky from time to time but I really like the premise and was sad when I accidentally killed a flower :C
Hard controls to get into, and jumping often didn't work. :/ But besides that, fun, hard game :D Nice Job
Nice graphics, the main guy looks like a brown marshmallow
Cute graphics and fun gameplay! I wish there was more kind of a goal. Would be nice for a little UI for info on controls.
I kept the garden alive for 5 min 35 sec! I had to keep watering the flowers which made it hard to kill weeds or bugs. Not sure what effect the weeds had on flowers. I like how the weed killer kills the flowers too.
It felt a bit strange there were platforms you couldn't really get to. I think if jump was just space or up or so it may have been easier for controls.
Keep up the good work!
Nice game, got to 8 minutes something and got bored, but it works! I liked the animations a lot, this kind of composite animations made of distinct blocks fascinate me. The gameplay was hectic and the controls quite good.
Challenging little game. Took a while to memorize what key controlled what spray. Good job. Thanks for the game.
Is that a whispy woods reference? Neat game!
Good garden game!our game has similar concept to you, but also have differences. Please come back and play our version! By the way, what the reward of killing weed? when I kill weed I sound a negative SFX? Anything I did wrong?
Cute little game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/YzvpDVUnHwU
Simple, but pretty :) Nice game!
Fair graphics and simple mechanics, nice Compo one!
Art is simple yet effective, music added a nice ambience. The controls were a bit hard to get used to, but nothing terrible.
It became quite challenging to keep the garden alive, but great for a few minutes and game jam entry.
I think adding a few mechanics and cleaning up the controls slightly would yield a good little game! Good luck with your results!
I disliked K being jump, would have preferred spacebar or something else. So I mostly just ignored the upper parts of the level. Even so I was able to get up to 5 minutes!
@aeveis The game does have a double jump, admittingly I put that in because some of the random platforms were impossible to reach otherwise. @chainedlupine That's fair, you could also jump with W (or if you had a gamepad the A button) but I can see the spacebar as being more convieniant.
After getting used to the controls I had a ton of run. Running around trying to get the garden cleaned up while maintaining the plants was challenging.
The main character was really cute!
Only issue I had was that you cut sit next to a plant and it kept the garden alive without moving around.
Great job!
Very cute game. With a good game experience, I hope to optimize the operation key.
Really cute game with a clever use of the game theme. Gets challenging fast and the visuals are really cute! The controls were a little tricky to get used to but otherwise awesome job!
I really enjoyed this one for a while, i was captured by the cute graphics and the gorgeous soundtrack, but after a while if felt kinda simple, not in a very bad way, but i was expecting there to be more, and was left expecting new levels or something.
I realized that the maps are generated? for each run, so that gave it some replay-ability! the only graphic i had some issues interpenetrating where the slim gray bars, i thought at first it was some kind of status bar that was not following the camera properly until it started growing stuff on them haha
The keyboard layout was a bit funky, a long time since i have seen the IJKL format being used along with WASD, the extra jump key was a bit redundant, but not disliked haha, the aim did not always correspond with the facing of the player sprite in the left/right direction.
not sure if it was intentional, but you can hod down watering and it sprays endlessly, unless you start running, then it sprays intermittently as you run.
2 minutes 15 seconds was my best. Liked: Concept of the bug spray and basic design. Liked the way the instructions were laid out in the tutorial screen. Challenging to travel around and spray different parts of the world.
Suggestions: I was getting the buttons mixed up a lot - I thought maybe a summary of the 4 button actions listed on the main game screen in the corner as a helpful reminder of the controls while I play would have been nice.
Good work!
Ahhhh ! this is pretty cool! I like how there is a visual signifier on the screen telling you where the other flowers are that need watering :) Maybe add some pests that you can stop for a future version? And upgrades for your pesticide/water that you can buy when you sell flowers!