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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game Design | #58 | 3.880 | 3.880 |
| Graphics | #66 | 4.160 | 4.160 |
| Overall | #96 | 3.693 | 3.693 |
| Fun | #102 | 3.760 | 3.760 |
| Innovation | #179 | 3.560 | 3.560 |
| Theme | #229 | 3.640 | 3.640 |
| Audio | #416 | 3.160 | 3.160 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
It incorporates chaotic combat which increases in difficulty over time. The combat is chaotic, because you have to keep your Plants watered, while keeping enemies at bay.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Almost everything. Code, Art, Animations, Sounds, ... EXCEPT for the Music were made from scratch by a team of 2.
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Almost perfect score if there had just been looping music!!! a minor nitpick, but an amazing game! do you have the art pack? i love it a ton!
Thanks for playing, yeah unfortunally takes away from the immersion after the first few waves.
No Artpack available, as everything has been done from scratch :)
Nice!
Loved the game, and I appreciate a good skill tree when I see one!
I really like how polished the game is an dthe art style is just beautiful. You really did a great job there, pls do not waste this project. Keep going! :)
Fun game! I wish there was a water bar for the plant.
The art is nice too, good job :)
Love the graphics and the fact that there is a upgrade tree!
Also sometimes i think that that theres a but that the plant starts to get regular damage even though there is no enemy and i keep shooting it with water
Glad you liked it, was very fortunate to work together with a great pixel artist! :)
The plant requires a lot of water, you probably couldn't provide enough/more than it requires at the time -> Buy the Water Magic Power Upgrade or Plant Water Reserves, they should help out and avoid some of the wither damage:D
Amazing game! I had a lot of fun playing. Reminds me a lot of online flash(rip) games I used to play. Wonderful artstyle and I really like the upgrade tree.
Some very minor issues:
- The upgrade progression is a bit too slow. Getting all of them would probably take 1,5-2h of playtime
- The golem's hitbox does not match the sprite (it's too far in front of him)
- The secondary plants seemed to have no purpose (?). I couldn't keep watered more than 1 at a time anyway.
Great job overall :)
Thanks for playing and the feedback!
You're very right about the 1,5-2hours, nice guess haha, unfortunately I couldn't playtest most things and relied on feedback from friends and then tried to get as many fixes in as I could. Still missed quite a few though (These Jams are no joke)
The small plants are supposed to be a kind of "bait/shield" for the main plant. You do loose some hp when one dies, but if you purchase most of the Plant Upgrades, you will see that they help you out a ton!
This is one of the most fun games I’ve played! I loved the mechanics and the growing system.
Nice game! Great watering/fighting mechanics.
Really nice game, solid fundamentals and the upgrades keep you playing :)
Very cute looking and addictive game! sometimes I have this weird bug when nothing hit the plant but it takes damage though.
Well you need to water it! Plants require a lot of love. :)
I had to stop myself from playing after a while. Great job. The only tiny, little issue I had was that the controls in the grass were hard to see at first and I wandered around for too long before realizing I had to plant the seed.
Amazing work!
Yeah we wanted to add an arrow indicator, which would also help you spot enemies off-screen but we didn't get around to it...like a lot of things :,D
Glad you enjoyed it!
Had a good time working on this, I think it turned out quite well! I'm especially proud of the art for the upgrades and their menu, which Hark did a great job implementing. My name here isn't IKEA so I know it's a bit confusing but that is me.
Can confirm, he is not an imposter:P
Look, mom, I'm little chaos mage! ^^
Lovely game :D
Hints, in case you would like to continue on development this game :)
- Sometimes, if enemy is too close, I miss him, because projectile point is already behind that enemy and projectile flies away.
- Ingame music seems to not loop, so after a specific time, there is silent :/
- The game could do have more levels - every level would be more difficult, but would give more XP :)
Thanks! Yeah was fixing things like crazy just minutes before the deadline and forgot to check if the music loops, had no time to really playtest is myself for longer than ~3min which is the track length.
This is really well done! Audio is fantastic, gameplay is fun, I like the upgrade system a lot, gives some good replay value.
Absolute banger soundtrack and great sfx. Loved the artstyle and great idea for a skilltree to give replayability. Ended up really enjoying this game and it's my favorite in the jam so far. Well done!
Thanks! Really liked the music too! Unfortunately that's the only part we did not come around to making ourselfes (you can check the original out, link is in the game description), since neither of us 2 had anything to do with music before :,D
Can still be difficult to find the right fit for music! Especially if its license free. :) What pixel art format did you use? 16x16?
Yeah, glad that bit music usually fits pixelart very well!
32x32 for Tilesets, everything else was sized/pixeled as we saw was necessary -> So no real rule there
This is a very cute game
She really brought chaos to my brain, an attempt to track the state of the spread of chaos and destroy opponents, or how to become Julius Caesar XD
Really cool concept, i really enjoyed the game and it really fits the theme well!
one thing tho i found an exploit to get upgrades faster. not gonna say here tho