Thanks for the review! Glad you enjoyed it!!

Thanks!! Yeah, that’s what most trees tend towards due to the growing algorithm (didn’t leave time for tweaking it to perfection haha)!

Thanks!! Definitely just a toy since there’s no goal haha! And yeah, the tree growth algorithm I used is terribly inefficient, along with it re-rendering the entire tree basically every other frame. Still trying to think of ways to make it more efficient post-jam, though if I go the route I’m thinking (basically making it even more of toy and removing the time flies and just making it about pruning and growing the bonsai with more control) it should be a little more efficient just because I won’t have to worry about it tracking the time flies haha.

Post-jam that’s definitely the direction I’m taking this! I need to relook through all the comments because there’s been a ton of good suggestions, but for sure I’m going to have a way to control the speed of growth, and a tool for making a branch follow the cursor, and likely one for adding subbranches. Though having sliders to like adjust for frequency of subbranch creation, or some other series of things would be cool!

Thanks for the review!!

Thanks! Yeah, my growing algorithm is a bit spendy on the memory side, especially when the tree gets really big with lots of branches. Definitely need to change it so that it “bakes” the parts of the tree that are finished growing, or something like that. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! :D

Thanks! I’m leaning towards a mode post-comp where there’s no flies, and there’s a tool to have the branch follow the cursor with a controllable time speed. It would be a lot more sandbox-y, but then this kinda is too since there’s no real point haha

This was my alternative to getting into bonsai hahaha

Haha thanks!! Even though it’s a bit wonky, I really like how the pruning visuals turned out. Very satisfying just chopping all the branches off in my opinion haha

Thank you!! I also had a line in there acknowledging the fact that there were no leaves on the trees, but I went ahead and implemented the leaves in the last like forty minutes haha

Thanks!! I had a lot of procrastination so the majority of the game happened a few days before the deadline. I added leaves in the last hour haha! I’m hoping to add some feedback and sound effects after the voting period so it’s a bit more complete, because I like the concept.

Ahh yeah, so I made it so that once you prune a branch, then that branch wouldn’t grow anymore. The pruning tool is a bit wonky though haha. It’s still possible to hit a time fly into the branch and get a new branch growing out of it (at least in theory… I should have done more testing haha). Thanks for the review!

Thanks! If I had planned my time better, the idea was to try and grow bonsai into certain shapes for points/money. That got scrapped because I did everything at the very last minute haha

Thanks!! That would have been smarter: it’s actually just an array of points, and when the simulation is running I extend the last point in the array until it is a certain distance then add another point. I give it width by caching two points that are like perpendicular to the two vectors on either side of a point, and each point can have sub-branches that grow out of either side.

I should have had the points be deltas so that when I rendered the tree the sub-branches would actually be attached to the sides and would grow out, but I ran out of time and hard-coding the points worked okay.

Yeah, I spent a bit of time trying to debug that, but I couldn’t figure out why it doesn’t cut exactly where you click. If you snip/prune at the same spot multiple times, eventually it’s cuts it done to where you had originally clicked it. I’m doing a distance search of every point to find the nearest one, so it must be finding the wrong point or something.

I briefly thought about day/night theming, but somewhere along the way I decided to make it monochromatic and I couldn’t decided on something different that should happen. Maybe like decrease the light bloom at night… although that would essentially just make everything pulse when the simulation is running haha

Thank you!!

Thanks!! I should have added a bit of sound/music (I really enjoy that part when I get to it) instead of making it so the moon goes through the phases each time it passes haha

Thanks!! Yeah there’s nothing really now except for a glow over the buttons. That’s what happens when the majority of the game gets finished a few hours before the deadline haha