A really adorable game! The royalty free music felt a bit too frantic for what feels like it should have been a more relaxed gameplay experience (I never played the inspiration for the jam entry) but overall I thought it was cute and a very creative choice for the jam!
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Undergrowth (Mix and Jam Game Jam)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creative use of theme | #35 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Art | #69 | 3.261 | 3.261 |
| Sound | #77 | 2.522 | 2.522 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Very interesting concept and I was really impressed with the AI and art. My only critiques would be that the sound was a bit annoying after a while and the gameplay was mostly just waiting for things to happen. I think there should be more for the player to do. However, this was a very wholesome, happy game and it was entertaining watching all the creatures move around and do their own thing to grow the world! Nice job!
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FloatThanks for the feedback, yeah the AI part was the most interesting part about the game, credit for the art goes to kenney.nl :)
Yeah sadly I didn't have enough time for a better soundtrack, that's why I used an AI to generate one (with the annoying sideeffect of this voiceover which I didn't notice until after the time of the deadline^^)
Glad you like it :)
It's a interesting game, and mostly a Cute Game ! It's a very happy experience, good job ! :)
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SuperBunnyBallThanks for the feedback :)
Yeah the soil would dry out if it isn't grown enough but it seems as if you managed to get into the positive feedback loop of growth (which wasn't 100% intended :D)
If worms are on a good soil and the come close to each other they have a chance to reproduce, the game would have needed a bit more infos for all the systems, sadly i ran a bit out of time :)
Actually the chance if they come close to each other on good soil is 1:20 and if they come close to each other on bad soil it is 1:40 also if they reproduce your placement counter goes up, also if you just placed them then they cannot reproduce instantly all of the animals have a lifetime and after an certain "age" the can reproduce, maybe i shouldn't have added this many systems without more informations to explain them better :D
But it is good to know that this is not that easy to do i guess i gotta try to make this a bit more controllable or predictable, at the moment the movement of the worms is also a bit random if it is not raining so it could also be a bit of bad luck^^
Pretty interesting concept, never got to grow any trees tho and everything started dying because i didn't really know how to play. Maybe i'm just stupid tho, anyway good job c:
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Dimension switch: PortalThanks for the feedback :)
It probably isn't you that is the problem and more that it currently is a bit hard to get trees going, given more time i would have liked to add more ways for players to influence the environment, if you want to see the trees i would recommend clustering the worms at the beginning this leads to better soil there and a higher chance for trees to spawn :)
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