What a creative idea! Lawnmower attached to a rope was not something I'd come up with lol but what a smart idea. Visuals are really nice too! Love all the little particles (leaves drifting in the wind) and small details around the ground, the flowers are so pretty! And small piles of leaves are nice too (the want for them to react when you walk through them is big but that's like the least important feature for a jam game to have in the world lol). The grass texture itself is nice and simple too and it's nice and seamless. The cut grass trail left by the lawnmower is very cool too, you really get to see it if you're bad at puzzles and the level has time to go on for a while, so I hardly saw it all (apart from all the times I saw it). Also the trees are very nice, I grew a lot of respect for pixel art trees recently when trying to make them myself (outside of the jam) and I just want to say they're shaded very well! The player character is nice too, being able to sit down in the chair to speed up time is a very cool diegetic way to have less UI! Also glad the game doesn't bug out when winning the level while you're sitting on a chair, the character getting up smoothly and doing the victory animation is impressive. The UI for entering a level is really clean and pretty too! Also being able to get run over by the lawnmower is crazy lol, love the Among us style one bone sticking out.
Woah that music too! I was not expecting a katamari damacy sounding ost but it's awesome lol!
Very cool simple and smart gameplay, it just made sense and made you feel smart doing it, the cap or whatever popping off the lawnmower when starting it is a cool detail, and having to pull the lawnmower multiple times is so much cooler than if you had decided to just make it a one activate button! When the rope cutters (spades I think) came in I was very impressed, first I thought they'd just be a instant death that you had to be careful and look out for but actually having to use them to move the lawnmower is so cool, I was thinking before "wow are we actually gonna do that" and then it was "oh dang that's so cool we're actually doing that :D"
I actually blasted through the levels but I had a hard time on level 10 (juggling the spade was so cool but I just always got the length of the rope wrong to cut the very edge grass lol).
Really dope game! I'm surprised everything is so well polished and the lawnmower just worked exactly as expected! The pacing of the levels and the mechanics taught were paced perfectly too. Excellent work!
(very cool to have a extra "game finished" level)