flanne 2023-01-09 20:06
Very polished and fun gameplay. Could be very re-playable with more plant types.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Powered Plants
By robotchimp
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 13 | 4.35 | 61 | |
| Fun | 6 | 4.44 | 61 | |
| Innovation | 129 | 3.76 | 61 | |
| Theme | 471 | 3.61 | 61 | |
| Graphics | 68 | 4.38 | 61 |
Very polished and fun gameplay. Could be very re-playable with more plant types.
Thank you! After voting and everything, I definitely wanna come back and add a few more plants.
I've been eyeing this one since your post! So well-polished in terms of visuals, sounds, and gameplay! Can't believe this was made in 72 hours :O
Really nice game, animations and graphics are pretty cool and flower's special effect brings nice variety and fun. Great job :)
I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience from the graphics and visual effects juice to the sfx and music. The purchasable plants and their different abilities kept me playing for quite some time. This is excellent!
Wow, a great entry! Solid tower defense with some interesting upgrades, and a nice escalation per wave--I managed to get to wave 8 before I couldn't keep up anymore.
The art is good, you're sticking to an aesthetic very well and I dig the palette. Impact effects, camera motion, time slow-down on a hit, it all works together well to add juice to it all. If I try to nitpick so I can have something critical to say, it's that the font can be a little hard to make out at times. All in all great work!
Incredible! I am speechless! Though, I did manage to get negative seeds at one point, so there's clearly something wrong there.
Love this!! The sound and graphics are awesome. The rotating laser was a cool new twist on Plants vs Zombies
So good! Tons of meaningful player decisions, and everything comes together.
Excellent and original game! The principle is easy to understand but strategy and reflexes are requires! It's quite complicated to win a wave if you start losing seeds... Perhaps the powers of the seeds should remain active until the end of the wave? Very well polished =) Thank you!
@cpt-slimers Oh, that is odd, it may have been while you were re-rolling? Think I forgot to set it so seeds can't go below 0 in that case. Thank you, though!
@korvack I definitely think that would be a good change to make, your right as if you lose your footing, it's difficult to really recover, thank you for playing!
Very stylish, in art and presentation! Fun gameplay loop and the plant upgrades are nicely done. Wish I could aim faster without upgrades (and also with the mouse) given the difficulty level, but maybe that would be too powerful? Great jam game overall
@mcbombadev Yea, I've definitely thought about making some sort of mouse-aim mode, possibly a later upgrade? I am worried it'd be too powerful. I'll definitely end up bumping the laser speed up after voting. Thank you for playing!!
wow such a solid entry! it was super smooth to play, super addictive, and i really liked the art!
this is great game i think i'll play again occasionally!
@amarokczukay This really means a lot! Thank you!
As a big roguelike fan, I loved how polished this experience was! Plus it wasn't easy, it was exactly the right level of difficulty to make you want to keep playing! Excellent work! You could win the whole jam with this!
@ben-toosey That's insane that you'd give it such high praise to believe it could win the whole jam, thank you so much. The support on here is overwhelming.
This game absolutely slaps.
This was great really addictive, only small gripe is that you can death spiral quickly.
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@phillip-scott Thank you! And yea, balancing in the short amount of time I had left was super difficult, I knew it probably wasn't even beatable but needed to get it out, definitely something I wanna fix in the future!
After the relaxing music started to play I hoped there will be something faster? maybe?. But than after starting the wave and I got exactly what I wanted :D The game definitely feels juicy which i really like. I haven't finished all the waves yet and want to try some other people's games, but I'll definitely come back to this one(and maybe even finish it ;)) good job :thumbsup:
@the1 Thank you!! I definitely wanted a big contrast between the wave and shop music. I don't think getting to wave 15 is possible right now because of lack of time to balance, but you can definitely try to get as far as you can, haha.
This game is perfect and i don't know how to make it better. I love this game so much. Excellent graphics and music. 10/10
Music is very suitable for this game.The screen and UI are very good.I like this game.
The sound was really well chosen! It made the game really engaging and made me feel more engaged and it made the game just more fun :)
This is great, graphics, sound, polish concept are all top notch. Game has a bunch of replay value to see how well the power ups work together. Impressive work, especially for such a short time developing.
This was fun! Mouse control for aiming would be great, while still keeping the turning mechanic for balance. The art is great and the game feels nice and punchy!
Nice concept, feels good and impact full but control feels a bit off. Died twice and feels like a dice roll, not allot you can do to prevent it skill wise.
Love the art.
@nodra Thank you for playing and thank you for the feedback!
Juicy!
I love this game and want to see it taken farther! Tons of potential! It reminds me of a previous ludum dare entry that ended up getting a full game release, Octogeddon.
Oh wow! Super cool, super polished, and very addictive game! I don't know what to say - I love everything... so juicy! My last result is wave 14 but I'm not done yet! :)
This would be a great rogue-like game.
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so polished! music absolutely slaps, did you produce it yourself?
Jeez! Lots of positive feedback!
@cappa-games Thanks! I definitely have plans in the future to update it. I looked up Octogeddon gameplay, I can see how it reminds you of it. Looks really cool!
@jiri-hysek Thank you! I'm surprised, I didn't even think wave 14 was possible!
@seltzerfish Sadly, music and sound effects are the only thing I didn't make, I don't have the time or skills for that, but at least I know I made a good choice in it, thank you!
This game is fantastic! The art and music are both beautiful, the particle effects are juicy, and the enemies have so much character to them. I love the theming. The variety of plants and enemies is great for a jam entry. I wish there was a bit more strategy with choosing what to attack, as right now it feels like just spinning in a circle is the optimal strategy. When I first saw "Stackable" in the seed descriptions, I thought it meant that you could place multiple in the same tile to bolster that plant's effect. That turned out not to be the case, but I think that would be a great idea if you wanted to expand on the concept. Great job all around!!
@aurailus Thank you so much both for playing and the feedback! I'd love to make some sort of 'plant-leveling' system, whether it's stacking one onto another or some other method.
the game is awesome, the gameplay mechanics with plants are really interesting, and the care given to all these little juicy effects helps to make it really cool and pleasant to play! love the music too !
This is really fun I love tower defense. I wish there was more of an automation aspect, but that's just me. It took me a while to find plants that shoot themselves, I guess bad rng? lol.
Also maybe I just suck but I feel like the plants die too easily and I lose a lot of my plants. Obviously mouse aiming would make the game easier, and maybe plants don't need to be buffed then, because I'll be able to more easily defend them. Maybe improve the way to defend them/strategically place them (I know there are rocks and stuff).
Good job!
@mathieuspooky Thank you!!
@qooorti Yea, I've been looking into mouse-aiming for the future. More automation plants I'd love, too. Thanks for the feedback!
Oh man this was good! Fantastic all around, especially the sound was really well done.
I very much appreciate the little detail that you don't let me purchase a plant that doesn't stack when I already have one. You made it clear with the description, but then not letting me purchase it anyway was icing on the UX cake.
I think I hurt my chances by not fully understanding what each plant did the first few rounds, and made a pretty poor setup. But as it became clear what each one does, the gameplay became very interesting and revealed strategic choices, love it. The beams reflecting onto a nearby enemy is always a great mechanic, and I'm impressed how well you got all the upgrades interacting with each other. Great job!
@mhorth Thank you!!
Awesome game! Loved the simple art style and it was very polished! The ability variety of the plants was dope as hek too <3 I was only able to get to 12 and I gave it a few tries xD
The interface is all really intuitive without having to read any instructions too, which can be a struggle even for seemingly simple games. Well done all around!
The only thing I would have wanted changed would be stacking all the plants that didn't. Even the rock could be something like +def to adjacent plants maybe xD
@itsboats Thank you so much! The rock was meant to be a bit useless as a gag, but extra defense to adjacent plants is a pretty cool idea.
Very fun :D
Holy heck this is insanely good. This is something I'd expect to see on Steam already!
very cool game. feels good to play, but aiming seems to lose importance after a few waves. Well done nonetheless!
@grisha Thank you!
@rohanmoon That means a lot! I've been thinking of updating it a decent amount and after voting period putting it up with a very cheap price on Steam.
@treenut Thank you! Yea, I agree, I really want a level of automation later on, but I think automation and the gun laser can be balanced a little better so it doesn't become entirely useless to use properly.
Really cool, feels really polished and juicy, my only issue is that sometimes my mouse glitches, and it just stops moving, making me die, which is pretty annoying, but maybe that's linux specifc problem, it's a really solid game, and i think it would work great as a steam and mobile release
@noeloskar That bug is really odd, must be Linux issue, the game shouldn't have any control over the mouse like that. Thank you for playing!!
This is an incredibly talented game! The most fun I've ever played in this jam. Gorgeous!
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Very satisfying combination of music and camera movement during fighting segments. Well done!
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A game with very polished details, the feeling to play is very pleasant ! Capture d’écran 2023-01-14 183216.png
Great game! good job!
Favorite game of mine this gamejam!
I really like the tower defence and the auto battler combo (I have also tried it, but yours is better)!
Some small feedback! - Easier to read descriptions, sometimes the font and the layour gets in the way of clarity! - Freeze a seed so you can buy it next round
You did everything that good game needs. I really love it. Respect from F-pressers!