hey Chris here!
I managed to get to 250 points: Loved the simple piano melodies, the theme, and the satisfaction from clicking and putting each tile in! The feeling of these things combined matched the jam's theme well. It might be interesting to take this theme with another gameplay loop, or simplifying this tile-based matching mechanic. I wasn't able to understand the connection between the pollen, the bees, the flowers with the tiles themselves and how it was scored, and there were a few holes in the middle of my ecosystem that I was secretly hoping to get a tile that just perfectly matches and fills it!
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Thanks for playing!
There are a few ways you may accidentally soft-lock some spots if you are not careful when placing tiles, it’s part of the strategy. One feature I didn’t have time to implement was the ability to ask other players for specific tiles you may be missing.
Scoring: You get one point for each side that connects, that is, that matches the color of a previously played card. Then the points get multiplied by the card boost at the top left of the card. Additionally, every time you find a seed cache for a new flower you get a specific number of points depending on how many different flowers you currently have as indicated by biodiversity.
Pollinators spawn on purple segments and their kind depends on biodiversity but currently are only aesthetic and do not affect the scoring.
I’ll add this to the game page. I hope it was useful.