Wonderfully clever introductions of new mechanics. It just really worked for me, many “Heh?? … Ah!” moments
Got stuck on the level with the clouds where you can pan pretty much arbitrarily left and right. Maybe there was something to be found but I didn’t get it.
If I just heard the pitch for the game idea I’d think it wouldn’t be fun. Seeing what you did with it proofs me wrong. Super juicy. Personal preference: the camera’s movement could be a bit less “heavy” and more “agile”
The music design is beautiful and the concept works. The blue line is a bit unforgiving at the start since it travels faster than you (maybe that’s only in non-fullscreen mode; I’ve only played in the browser)
We had kind of similar ideas actually 🌼. Thanks for the game!
Super nice ideas that could be extended further! Very well done.
I liked the little moments like when I got “pacifist” in a level and thought: “Cool, I got an achievement! … Oh…”
I got stuck on a (seemingly) immovable point of darkness, and I couldn’t redirect the darkness
Yes, these are more common the higher you go and they are a bit too hard to redirect around. Have you tried deliberately chopping off parts of the top using darkness, to lead it to a better direction?
Btw, what is the level select with the numbers for?
It’s not really a “level select”, it’s a “select one experienced day in the plant’s diary”. It was an idea I had at the end when polishing things up. I thought, why not imply that every day is the same for the plant (which again could maybe interpreted as the plant being delusional about what happens etc). I guess that’s a stretch but why not introduce some things that make the player spin their own interpretations :B
Thanks! I didn’t know what L-systems are and I didn’t use engines or premade physics stuff.
Plants grow the following way: The likelyhood of randomly generating a new sub-branch above a branch is the sum of the distances to the lights (each ^(-0.5) with a maximum). The only other check is that the amount of branches in one height doesn’t exceed 10.
Also, see the description, I did finish the game in time :), if you know a safe and easy way to “inject” built js into an html file, I’m all ears
The concept is really cool with nice art. A lot of improvement ideas have already been suggested but here I go: This could be amazing if the characters were behaving a lot differently instead of following the player and mashing (like, I didn’t get the archers to attack). If there was a way to know your health, I missed it. Lastly, the menu buttons are only detected when you click above them (in full screen and small screen).
Thanks for making this game :)
So polished <3. The movement is innovative and interesting. There are times where you get caught very shortly after you start the game, so maybe spawning the light a bit further is better :shrug:
These are nice ideas for mini games. The car and apple one are fine difficulty-wise but the tower stacking requires memorizing or luck to be able to catch the last blocks. Speeding up your player movement the same way you speed up the blocks or giving a visual marker on the screen where they will fall could be one solution.
Anyway, very cool that you entered this jam, and keep rocking!
Mad impressive for a 2 day jam! Amazing gameplay, editor, graphics, sound fx and there are only very minor bugs, for example when you launch onto a slope
Sweet idea. I think what sometimes prevents registering the click on another plant is that your own plant is between the cursor and the other plant. That’s just me guessing, tho.
