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An action puzzle game about growing plants by rotating the planet toward favorable weather conditions.
Featuring:
o Two button controls! (If you don't count R to restart when you get stuck!)
o Grow three different kinds of plants!
o Tornados, rain storms, and snow!
o Your own planet sort of!
Tips:
o All plants grow under open sky.
o Smirkflower likes the cold but hates wind.
o Smeggplant likes being wet but hates the cold.
o Flurp tree likes wind but hates wet.
o R to restart at any time
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 71% |
| #12 | Innovation | 4.31 |
| #66 | Theme | 4.28 |
| #129 | Overall | 3.75 |
| #208 | Audio | 3.26 |
| #219 | Fun | 3.53 |
| #228 | Humor | 2.94 |
| #320 | Mood | 3.21 |
| #401 | Graphics | 3.24 |
Comments
This is really inventive. I also enjoy all of the sarcasm.
Was it GladOs behind that game? Loved the humor and the concept. Very cool!
Haha the sarcasm is excellent, you had me chuckling a few times :-) Nice theme use, but i'd see if you could integrate the hud controls into the two buttons too! Good work!
Very cool idea, very difficult game but just the right side of frustrating to be fun. I found the text difficult to read at times when it ran over the planet but that's probably my fault for having a small laptop with a huge resolution. Nice and atmospheric (if you'll excuse the pun)
I won by basically doing nothing :D
The time limits were well thought out, hard to win the stage unless you plan on first round what you should do
Well done game!
Cool concept, and the timing was balanced just right, I think. As a previous commentator said, just the right side of frustrating (which is called "challenging"). Nice work! :)
I enjoyed this! I felt like God... with two buttons ;D
Nice job!
Good gradual tutorial. Nice touch with actually requiring the player to press arrows (or A,D) on the first one. The time limits seem very precise. I loved the snarky tutorial text!
I wanted more levels, but that's a good thing. The basics were covered, so not much I could ask for other than more weather configurations. Good job!
Hard puzzles, love it. Also made me smile a couple of times :)
I liked the sarcasm. Had a hard time with a bunch of the levels, the timing is really tight.
Great idea! Pretty hard, but really creative with the use of both themes!
Great concept, and really engaging. I found the smeggplants so difficult to grow -_- the game was brilliant fun though, and the time limit made it very challenging.
Liked the humor and the way the increase of difficulty is handled. The puzzles are also a lot of fun but I'm not a big fan of the time limit. Also the weather effects are pretty nice !
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Digging the concept and use of both themes! Very cool.