jasonsumm1 2020-04-21 09:57
nice little farming sim which hit the theme! good job :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → The Busy Gardener
By elektropapst
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1736 | 3.26 | 30 | |
| Fun | 1711 | 3.08 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 1794 | 2.98 | 30 | |
| Theme | 651 | 3.92 | 29 | |
| Graphics | 1560 | 3.37 | 29 | |
| Humor | 1872 | 2.16 | 26 | |
| Mood | 1333 | 3.33 | 29 |
nice little farming sim which hit the theme! good job :)
this one has simple mechanics but they are actually very deep if you get far enough, well done!
yeah, i like it
Thanks for the game :) Harves Moon vibes detected. Good job :) Wish you the best of luck!
P.S. It was quite tricky to run the jar file on Windows :)
Very cute and simple game, love the way it demands my constant attention while at the same time beeing king of chill ! I just find the beginning of the game a bit too slow when you're not at your first game and you know the rules
Very nice little gardening sim :) pretty graphics, calmning music and mood :) bit difficult though.
I couldn't get past score 14 so I guess I might not have figured out the optimal placing strategy. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it while I was playing. The graphics are clear, and the straw hat kind of reminds me of onepiece :-) The music was nice and deceptively relaxing. Great atmosphere.
Simple, thematic and effective design. Having to quickly plan the garden layout while also optimizing the route from one needy plant to the next is quite compelling.
Got to 20 flowers at best, but success here is down to a lot of luck unfortunately. Flowers seem to get thirsty completely at random regardless of when they were last watered. This means that a group of flowers cannot be prewatered to reduce the risk of a trip to the other side of the garden. New arrivals might also randomly require water right as they appear, which is quite unfair at times.
The controls aren't up to this wildly random task. Queuing actions is a nice feature, but I didn't find a way to cancel the queue, which doomed my gardener on one occasion. On another occasion the program crashed and on a third dozens of *"drop" icons* appeared at once and obscured the screen.
If I was in charge, I'd reduce the randomness, increase the wilt delay slightly, and fix the action queueing. On top of this I'd actually extend the layout planning aspect of the challenge by not simply giving points from alive plants, but rather from groups of similar colored plants. These groups could also yield extra points if arranged in specific configurations, such as *+, -, T* or what have you.
Anyway, it's a good start and despite the randomness (or maybe because of it) I gave it many a go.
Resting :)
FYI you can add this (for people like me :) ): windows user will need Java (seems obvious but...) and create a file .bat (thanks to Notepad for example) with your command line (java -jar desktop-1.0.jar)
Nice job
Pretty cool! I can image people playing it to create their own beautiful gardens ;)
Nice mood and graphics, but a bit difficult. I like that you used LibGDX, use it sometimes for ludum dare too.
nice music choice and mood
nice game
great game !
Well done! I like the graphics and the music keeps you relaxed even while your character runs around like crazy, haha.
Pretty relaxing game with nice pixel art! Smoother walk animations and "stats" of the flowers would have been nice instead of flowers randomly needing to be watered. Overall though good job and neat little game!
amazing how the stress level rises while taking care of your flowers xD