fersyvanderzee 2020-04-20 19:49
This is a very unique game. Really cool that the tree's state is locally stored!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → ZenTuree
By wischi
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1924 | 3.18 | 24 | |
| Fun | 2442 | 2.43 | 24 | |
| Innovation | 661 | 3.56 | 24 | |
| Theme | 470 | 4.02 | 24 | |
| Graphics | 1844 | 3.10 | 25 | |
| Humor | 1620 | 2.47 | 22 | |
| Mood | 1781 | 3.04 | 24 |
This is a very unique game. Really cool that the tree's state is locally stored!
I had to play the fast version to get a better feel for the game. The slow version reminds me of when I would play cookie clicker and leave a tab open for days, occasionally going back to click a few buttons. Keeping the tree growing even with your browser closed is a nice touch! My first instinct when I swamped my poor sapling was to refresh but to no avail.
That was quite a relaxing experience :)
When I first read that the tree needs two years to grow, my first thought was that you did not really follow the tipp that the game should be beatable in about 5 Minutes :D Adding the LD-Modes was a very good idea ;) When the tree is fully grown, the framerate significantly dropped for me. All in all nice work.
This is a very original idea! Love the name as well! Great Job!
@natethegreat swamping it doesn't kill it, only if you keep watering it. But I think I'll change the UI or something to make it more obvious because a lot of friends also instantly swamped their trees ^^ - Thank you for your feedback.
@fersyvanderzee - Thank you. I think a feature to share a tree between devices would be nice, but I don't want to force people to login on yet another unimportant page and haven't found an alternative that would be better than the local storage.
Can't wait to give you feedback - gonna write you in 2 years :D jk, played the 2hrs version a few times - love it; great during meetings at work
Sent here by an enthusiastic friend. This is a pretty excellent game. It may not be lauded for it's complicated mechanics, but it's very satisfying to watch your tree grow. Arbitrary wildlife would be a satisfying extension, but that might distract from the basic simplicity of the game. Thanks for sharing it!
I could see this as a clicker game! with multiple tiers of growth. nice!
Lovely game, with a great idea. Quite satisfying with its simplicity :smiley:
Such an inspired idea! Your brain must be awesome! Please keep making this like this :D Obviously not a "fun" game but it had so much more than that! the persistence of the tree was awesome!
Its ok, but I'm not really a fan of 1 button gameplay
So cool to see someone has also made a tree game! Loved your simple approach and game idea! Pretty satisfying to see the tree growing (had to go with the Non-Zen-s Mode unfortunately)
I can see advertisements for this game already: "Just like a tree, minus the tree!" It's surprisingly satisfying to comeback once in a while and watch the tree grow because I watered it. It looks pretty good at the end too.
Interesting and Original idea. nice work