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In Temporal Gardener your unconventional weapon/gardening tool is a reverse time gun. Return rotten grapes to a time when they were fresh and ripened on the vine.
A simple concept game programmed by myself in Unity with C#. Graphics include a square, made in MSPaint, stretched and coloured to suit. No sound. Was going to be compo but fell back to jam (insert grape pun).
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Ratings
| #212 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.58 |
| #834 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.55 |
| #875 | Humor(Jam) | 2.04 |
| #882 | Theme(Jam) | 2.70 |
| #933 | Mood(Jam) | 2.30 |
| #952 | Overall(Jam) | 2.64 |
| #960 | Fun(Jam) | 2.33 |
| #1566 | Coolness | 44% |
Comments
Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't quite figure out what to do in the game. I guess a bit more of instructions in-game could have helped. I grew some vines, I dropped some grapes... very little seemed to happen. The growing vines were pretty hypnotic though.
Love the concept yet some indications would be nice and a restart button as well. A soothing background music would have fit pefectly. I couldn't figure out what to do at level 3. A mechanic that has a lot of potential.
Nice idea, but i kept ending up with fragments of broken vine that never grew anywhere. Couldn't really see how to play.
Nice looking but can't really understand the principle. Made it to level 3 by sheer chance...
Played the first two levels, but started running into some bugs :(. Here's a pic of the issue http://i.imgur.com/BRqKZhe.png
This game certainly has potential, with its minimalist graphics, but it definitely needs a background music and some indications on how to play. Actually I was stuck on lvl 2 because the grape just moved up to the ceiling when I clicked on it ^^
Nice procedural plant, but I'm not really sure how you actually get the grapes as i seem to get them randomly
Nice idea, I like the Pratchett theme. But the gameplay seems pretty random, I don't think I really catched it
Concept is pretty neat but give us instructions dammit ! Minimalist graphics are nice !
Making a game from an idea of Terry Pratchett is great to start with. Making it about Couterwise Wine is quite ambitious!
Understanding the game is quite hard. I got to level 4, did something wrong and the plant stopped and reloading on Kongregate is pain with the commercials, so after two tries I didn't try beyond that, sorry.
I took a look at your post jam version and that solved most issues. Might try that later on.
Well done!
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I really like the game idea, but the progress is slow and I got stuck with a thick vine that took me forever to unwind when I was just starting out. Needs bit more of a tutorial.