cooperjknapp 2020-04-21 01:44
Nice job! Quite fun and the music is an absolute bop.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Botanist Blitz
By maxter10001, brokencoggames, Travis Hermant and thugjesusxvii
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 860 | 3.64 | 45 | |
| Fun | 923 | 3.46 | 45 | |
| Innovation | 1312 | 3.24 | 45 | |
| Theme | 239 | 4.16 | 45 | |
| Graphics | 1119 | 3.70 | 46 | |
| Audio | 266 | 3.88 | 46 | |
| Humor | 1039 | 3.01 | 42 | |
| Mood | 1180 | 3.41 | 44 |
Nice job! Quite fun and the music is an absolute bop.
good game, so fun! You should consider put some and particles on it! the player is a bit slow.
I really enjoyed the music, really brought me into the mood of the gardener. It felt like I developed a rhythm with some of the levels, I felt somewhat trance like. This is very fun! The skulls floating in the water was a nice touch.
One small tweak I'd suggest is to make the water meter more prominent, it took me a moment to notice it.
I'd love if people could comment on whether or not they were able to beat all the levels! :)
Just going to throw it out that the last two levels are supposed to be fairly tough, but they're beatable I promise. Might take a few tries but I figured it'd be good to take it up a notch for the end
oh you can drown :D great work on the assets! Very clean and pretty visuals!
I couldn't get past level 6 :( Awesome game. I had a lot of fun playing. The music is great!
Fun game! Pressing the space bar seemed unnecessary though.
Love the concept and the sample but effective graphics! Really had a lotta fun playing this game. Very curious about the little white creatures (?) in the water. My only critic would be it's too easy to fall into the water, and I kinda wish it's more forgiving there? But also may be just me not very good at playing games ;(
Fun game, it feels repetative tho, the introduction of the bees was a real nice touch. Good Job!
i like the concept, but couldnt make it far since the triggers are very small and hard to interact with, great job tho.
Love the music and assets!
Impressive amount of levels!
Very clean gameplay loop and great art. Love the different obstacles in each level. However, I found myself falling into the water a lot when I thought I was going around it. Great game!
This is very nice, I especially like the the music is both chill and fast-paced simultaneously. I also love the little skulls floating in the deadly deadly water. It seems a little bit punishing that you can over-water the plans, but I suppose that's all part of the challenge.
Excellent music and mood. Still kept refreshing by the vareity of levels.
Cool game! The music is really good and the gameplay is nice. My only problem is the area to apply the water.
Cute little game! Very nicely designed with simple graphics, and great esthetics! Congrats!
Fun! Some issue on at least the first level with clipping into water when clearly not, but solid!
Nice idea and art. I liked the drowning sounds for some reason^^
I liked the gameplay and mood of the game! It was a little bit stressy experience sometime (was in a rush to the plants!) but calming music helped. = ) WASD keys were not working for me (I'm on Windows/Opera playing in browser), so I used arrow keys and had fun playing the game! Nice game!
There's a special kind of irony when you drown trying not to overwater plants.
Just played! very nice! Probably I will tweet about this in the next day on this page https://twitter.com/Free_IndieGames !
i like the idea and the mechanic very much. i would recommend, to use a key for entering the next stage. overall, very well done.
Mate, that music is GREAT! Well done with this. I had fun playing it. A lot of people have gone for the watering plants theme this LD and this is a great execution of it. My only complaint is that it was too easy to drown in the water! Some of the times it felt as if only on pixel of the character's foot was in it. Overall though, a good game with GREAT music and a satisfying core gameplay loop.
The music war great aswell as the graphics. I like Puzzle games sooo... Keep up the good work
music is short but so good and fit, i even kept the page open for a while to listen. The game is fun too, quite a man keeps drinking and peeing to plants so hard. XP
WASD doesn't work for me (tried the HTML version in Firefox).
Why are there skulls floating in the water? o_o This gardener doesn't mess around...
Great game! Unfortunately I couldn't beat the second to last level, its was just too hard. Other than that I have no other gripes, its a very solid entry! Awesome work team!
Good job on making a fun little micro management game. I enjoyed the concept and game play, the Music and sFX were spot on and entertaining, the mechanics were simple yet fun, and the progression was a good curve. I honestly could not get past stage 5 bottleneck, though i tried and tried. welp from what i have played here are my thoughts. For my feedback i would like to suggest a few things ( i am sorry if others have said this before I didnt read the comment). 1. The angle at which you have to be to connect with the plants and water spout are a bit rough, especially on advanced stages where time was crucial. 2. the x shaped stage has a misplaced drowning Death trigger in the middle of the platform on the sandy area. I died just stepping near it, but none of the stages before had that sharp of a danger spot near the water. Botinist blitz-sm.png 3. The bees area nice touch as a repeatable obstacle to slow the players progression or make them plan their moves. However I feel there could be something like a Stung timer or visual indicator to help the player with visual feedback of their actions and the consequences. 4. Add a feature like extra items/tools to help the gardener, even if they are temporary buffs, like a temporary pesticide or speed boost or something for later could give the player a increased engaging experience. 5. maybe its different per device, but WASD did not work for my laptop.
Over all a very good jam game, Well Done!
Thanks for the really detailed feedback @jarithius! We've gotten a lot of feedback about the drowning areas not being optimal, so we will likely try and fix that after this is through. Great idea on adding extra tools as well.
Thank you to everyone else who is providing us feedback as well, it's great to hear people are enjoying this game :)
Nice game! Had fun playing! Liked the various elements you put that add a nice touch to the lvl design, the bees, the water and moving logs.