Plant to Survive

cpt-slimers 2023-01-09 19:29

Neat!

It took me some time to realize that the player actually took time to plant, and it was not just spotty detection. This doesn't feel great. An easy band aid would just be to slap a little digging sound while the player is waiting for the plant to be placed.

There does seem to be spotty detection on upgrading the plants. I have to click more than a few times to actually get the menu to upgrade the plants. (As I've just just figured out, you can be at any distance and upgrade plants... any distance except for directly beside the plants.) But there doesn't seem to be an advantage over upgrading a plant as opposed to making a bunch of little plants.

The difficulty scales pretty fast, it doesn't seem to take very long until I get into a position where planting anything will get me killed (Health cost, and the stampede of grandmas). Slow down the scaling health drain, and add some kind of comeback mechanic, like little health packs. Maybe the plants could grow over time, and upgrade themselves?

The graphics are cute, and I like the shifting sprites!

Keep it up!

easyluckygem 2023-01-09 20:04

Nice work! Looks simple but intresting while playing.

Good idea to increase music speed with game difficult.

But i have some problems to click on plants. Its confusing, when plant on a keybord button and upgrade on mouse button.

Nice graphic, good music.

Good job!

tesseract 2023-01-09 20:32

Nice game, I managed to complete it. Clicking on plants to upgrade them felt glitchy. Is it supposed to be impossible to upgrade a plant when enemies are too close to it? If so, this should be explained.

oddang 2023-01-10 01:44

@cpt-slimers Thank you for the great feedback! I think you suggested some good ideas. And I'm well aware of the difficulty of clicking on plants. It's Unity's OnMouseDown() problem, but I couldn't solve it until the end...

Anyway, your words mean a lot to me. Thank you.

oddang 2023-01-10 01:51

@easyluckygem Hi! Thank you for playing! I'm glad you noticed the speed of the music. I'll try to think about how to unify the control method. Thank you!

oddang 2023-01-10 01:59

@tesseract I'm really impressed that you played the game to the end! I'm thinking of changing the plant upgrade mechanic completely differently. Thank you for your support!

neilcorre2k6 2023-01-11 05:39

Well done! Simple art style, but the idea seems solid. When the music sped up, my heart raced! :laughing: Kudos!

thyoi 2023-01-13 19:01

Very interesting design, reminds me of the 'Life is Currency' theme. I don't know how to get rid of these grannies, maybe add some attacks

oddang 2023-01-17 12:18

@neilcorre2k6 Thank you for playing and your support! @thyoi You can see something flickering around the character, that's an attack. But, since this isn't intuitive, it's no wonder you didn't notice... Anyway, Thank you for playing!

machwerx 2023-01-20 23:57

Fun idea! I couldn't make it to the end. I kept on planting, but couldn't figure out a strategy to last beyond 2:30 or so.

Edit: I figured it out. Just try to collide with the old people and always keep on planting. It doesn't seem worth upgrading the plants because it's more expensive to upgrade than it is to just plant again.

glaikunt 2023-01-22 21:04

awesome little game! I finally won! it took me a good few tries & it also took my a second to figure out I could kill! the old peeps. Great Job!

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rentem 2023-01-23 19:54

Nice Game! I Love the concept. I had once the problem, that I no longer was able to plant. It went away after some time and I can not reproduce it, so the problem was probably between chair and keyboard :smile: