plants now grow and bloom :)

Red blooms explode and the numbers are debug info!

Looks neat! Is it a match-4 game?

sort of. Trialed the base gameplay and it's not currently 'fun', so making a quick rethink....

ok. After needing to ditch the first take on this. I'm now at version 2:

This is much more fun...

basically you need to collect the flowers and bring them back - there are 12 to collect.

flowers come and go and it's up to you which you collect - nice and easy? Not quite. You also have a crane that is dropping crates, these will build up blocking your path...

I'm sure there is more to come :)

yep. definitely more to come - some floors...

and better pixelating so everything matches better - just getting flow right now....

collecting blooms!

Busy adding in bonus 'chill' stuff including freeze and snowman, floating fruit bonuses and enemies - a worm and a cat - shudders!!!

collect the blooms to open the door and escape...

I've now got a second level...

Looks like those crates are building up, and a worm has appeared!

Only one bloom to go and I'll have to make a new level... Or maybe the icecream cart will just roll over everything....?

Starting to pull everything together now.

The flower you collect will also be checked for 3 in a row bonus life! So there is a tactical element added into things.

Also Added TNT crate that explode when dropped.

end of level bonus added :)

Autoplay is now operational. So the game can play itself - great for demo mode!

I just had a completely insane idea:

Do 3 versions of the same game in the same game:

Atari 2600

NES

And Arcade

Essentially the graphics are the things that would change...

Bloom arcade machine prototype - I believe only one of these was ever made?

working on other screens now such as hiscore stuff:

And 2600 graphics finished:

I tried to remain more or less faithful in spirit to the Atari single color per line graphics.

Work now begins to get everything working...

Here's the main menu with the 3 machine options

getting complicated now.... :(

auto cycle of different screens needs uber attention

bugs, debugging, sound and vision...

And it's finally finished. with downloads for both Windows and MacOS

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