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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Grove | jam | 1329 | 3.45 | 2.81 | 3.12 | 4.05 | 3.76 | 3.52 | 2.20 | 3.91 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Crater Cargo & Space Stuffin' | unfinished |
Great game! The scoring is really well balanced. The tension that arises when you take the risk of going along the wall to get a multiplier apple is great. I found myself crossing my fingers and thinking ahead. Very well designed. The leaderboard provides a great way for the community to interact (good luck to whomever tries to beat my score!). Overall, awesome.
I like all of the explosions. I think it's a little too hard to lose. I'm able to just leave it running and it seems the enemies don't come fast enough to bring down the keep.
Very soothing. I don't know why, but I love that you can't see the tops of the trees and you can see fires flickering in the distance. It makes me feel like there are others just like me, that I will never meet, tending to their camp fires somewhere in the world. Kind of like the morose, lost feeling I got from Firewatch and The Dark Forest. The music feels like the chillest version of the Tristram theme from Diablo. The stars flickering in the water is lovely. The graphics remind me of Kentucky Route 0. A very nice late night experience :heart:
A lot more fun than I thought it would be. I couldn't quite pull out a win :O
It took me 2-3 instances of running directly at the yellow squares before I realized what I was supposed to do. Other than that, it was a fun game with a nice, somber atmosphere.
Huh, weird. I'll take a look. Thank you for the feedback.
@steven-c In the main menu, the controls are explained when you press "info". I'll update the page to include the instructions though. Thanks for playing!
@sarrixx I had some other ideas (fertilizing, misting, de-worming), but didn't get around to implementing them. Thanks for the kind review :)
@duck-reaction Yeah, I agree about the music. It was originally just going to be the title theme, but life got in the way :P
@west Thank you for the feedback. I was originally going to put pictures of the plant in the guide book, but getting the book to turn pages was more trouble than I wanted to deal with. I decided that not knowing, and having to experiment, would be part of the challenge.
@laralama thank you :)
@witdarkstar Thanks for the feedback. I think I've now seen 6 games about taking care of plants. The info text says, "return to the room by pressing 'space'". It's the last line of the info text, so maybe it gets cropped out on some resolutions. Sorry about that. Cool Plants/Chill Beats is downloading now; I look forward to playing!
@matt2728 Thanks for the kind review. All of the dirt starts with a default wetness of 75%, so the cactuses immediately start shrinking. That's probably something I'd change if I update it. You're the second person to mention the space bar. It's in the info menu, but it must be getting cut off. I'm glad you figured it out.
As for the water particles: I have a game object at the end of the spout of the watering can. As the mouse is being pressed, I begin spawning the spheres at that game object. I then get a normalized vector pointing from the center of the watering can to the spout object. I multiply that by a random vector along with a velocity. I then attach a rigidbody, so the drop is affected by gravity and I can give it an initial velocity, and a material so it's blue and semi-transparent. Finally, I call destroy with a half-second delay. See the code below, and feel free to contact me if you have any other questions.
``` void FixedUpdate () { count++; if (pouring && count % (50 / rate) == 0) { Vector3 dropDir = transform.position - transform.parent.position; dropDir.Normalize(); dropDir.Scale(new Vector3(Random.value * velocity, Random.value * velocity, Random.value * velocity));
GameObject drop = GameObject.CreatePrimitive(PrimitiveType.Sphere); drop.transform.SetParent(transform); drop.transform.position = transform.position; drop.transform.localScale = new Vector3(0.001f, 0.001f, 0.001f); Rigidbody dropRb = drop.AddComponent
drop.GetComponent
Destroy(drop, delayToDestroy); } } ```
@bredian You're the third person who's played it to mention Myst. Originally the sound I recorded for the watering can to make when pouring water sounded just like the the island with the trees and hydraulic pipes. Definitely not relaxing enough :)
@barbaraann Several people have mentioned confusion about the controls, so that's definitely my fault. Something to make note of for next time! Thanks for playing, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
OOf! I got 112.554. A very fun game. It took a little while to get up to speed with the controls, but I'm having a lot of fun with it.
The visuals and general atmosphere are great. Boy that car is hard to control, but I guess it must be hard when you're losing pints of blood!
I'm a big fan of the graphics and the setting. The monsters are very creepy. I can definitely see this in the Snowpiercer world.
Nice graphics. I had a hard time with the controls. I like the concept a lot.
Absolutely amazing. It honestly made me cry. A very nice contemplative experience. I see that you don't have "audio" as a category, but the music still fit very well. The forest, the figures, the art style, all amazing. It reminded me of Sylvia Plath's metaphor of the fig tree. 10/10. I'm curious to see other people's paths.
Cool game. I had a hard time figuring out how to switch my item, and I kept accidentally exiting from the "pause" menu.
It looks like a cool concept, but nothing happens when I click "play game."
I love the art style. I had a hard time knowing exactly what to do. I tried to sumo the child away from fires and bombs, but I still lost after a bomb exploded.
Great concept. I had a hard time getting into houses and a whole bunch of trouble getting out of the toilet :P
Awesome game. It took me a little while to get into the swing of typing that quickly. It would be nice with some tortured screams in the background or maybe a cackling demon.
I like your interpretation of the theme. The mood of the game was sort of weird with the music.
Wow! really cool, simple idea, but fun and challenging.
Really creepy. The music and vibe kept me on edge most of the time. Great atmosphere. I don't want to spoil anything, but I got a little stuck at one point. I had the same problem that others are having with the tiny text, but it was fine when I made it full screen.
Great game. My game is similarly about keeping your plants alive. I like the magical theme. I found a hard time getting through the tutorial before my plant died, and the physics bouncing object around made things significantly harder. I wish the character was a little taller, so I could look in the pot on the table. Anyway, great art, cool concept.
I also made a game about taking care of plants! I was a little confused about the size of the map. I tried exploring but couldn't get very far before the plant died. I liked having to kite the monsters away, so I had enough time to water the plant.
I tried several times, but couldn't get beyond day 27. It reminds me of the theme from a couple LDs ago, "that escalated quickly." Fun to see the unexpected consequences and try different paths.
I love the graphics and the music. I wish moving "forward" would move the direction that the camera was pointing rather than the direction the dog was pointing. Very cute!
Loved the graphics. Loved the idea. Controlling the ambulance was a pretty big challenge at first, but by the end, I was drifting off of cliffs, speeding through taco lines, and narrowly missing trains. Fun, funny, cool.
Sort of depressing, sort of fun. I wasn't losing for some reason. Also, every once in a while I would throw something?
The first time I lost, the game got flipped upside down somehow. Anyway, pretty fun and interesting.
The first time I lost, the game got flipped upside down somehow. Anyway, pretty fun and interesting.
As other people are saying, I had some trouble figuring out how to play. Once I figured it out though, it's a nice little rhythm game. I wish there was an option to play with my keyboard instead of clicking the balls with my mouse.
The graphics are very cute. I sort of wish I could drive down the road, more like a car chase. I also found a fun bug where I could continue driving around even though the ambulance was upside-down.
Cool game. I found it pretty challenging. Nice sound design and concept.
This was really fun. Several of the early levels I could run through without caring too much about my phone charge. The music is good. The shooting noises are a little abrasive for my ears. Overall awesome.
Cool idea. Mix a little alchemy, "who's that pokemon", puzzling and you get this masterpiece.
Very well polished and nice. Great atmosphere and graphics. I sort of wish I could have gotten a view of the whole forest once I lit all of the fires. Well done :)
Very cool. Some serious [Hogpocalypse Sow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-bIIaqeIsI) vibes.
Edit: it looks like the markdown is embedding the video instead of linking it :|
Great game. My game is similarly about taking care of house plants. Yours is much cuter though. My partner was trying to convince me to add a monstera, but I didn't get around to it. I love the sounds the character makes.
Very cool game. It would be nice with some sound like a pencil drawing on a page when you move a character or something. It was one of the more fun games I've played so far. I thought it was going to be too easy, but I thought the difficulty ramped up well.
I had a whole butt ton of trouble controlling the ship after I hit an asteroid, but I'm guessing that's the idea :dizzy_face: The graphics and music are great.
Definitely some chill beats! I kept killing my aloe :|
Holy cow, this is great. Very challenging and fun. It would be a fun arm-twister if you played co-operatively on one keyboard.
I couldn't get past level 6 :( Awesome game. I had a lot of fun playing. The music is great!
A lot of fun. Great music, is it you?! I got a streak of 26 before being stuck with X,G,Q,Z,Z.
@mp-raxxius I might have had an "I" or something, I forget. I went through a string of 2-3 letter words before getting to that point.