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----| Witch of the Grove |----
Living in the forest can be a tough deal! Your goal in "Witch of the Grove" is to fend off waves of natures wild critters. Luckily you have your witch powers to help you protect your garden. Plant your magical seeds to grow and harvest various beneficial fruits!
----| Gameplay |----
Defeat the enemies to progress through waves and earn the highest score possible!
The waves will get increasingly difficult.
To grow stronger, plant your seeds in the soil. Different seeds grow different fruits.
* Red: Heals some of your missing health
* Yellow: Grants you experience points - Level Up to increase maximum HP and power
* Blue: Restores Magical power, fill your bar to perform a powerful attack!
Combine 2 different seeds by planting them in the same soil to grow more advanced fruits!
To get more seeds, use your charged attack on stunned enemies before they disappear!
Enemies will try to eat your plants so watch out!
----| Controls |----
Arrow Keys - Movement
Space - Jump
S - Toggle Seeds
D - Plant Seed
F - Attack - Hold to charge your swing for more damage!
Press Up when attack is fully charged to perform a powerful magical attack (requires you magic gauge to be full)
F11/Alt+Return to toggle fullscreen.
F1-F8 changes window size in windowed mode.
----| Made by Tangram |----
Programming - Simon Jonas Larsen (@SimonLarsen)
Art - Lukas Erritsø Hansen (@Lukaserritsoe)
----| Music by stinkbug |----
Track: Citadel Bufonidae from STAFFcirc vol. 1
https://ubiktune.bandcamp.com/album/staffcirc-vol-1
(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license)
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 58% |
| #24 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.65 |
| #85 | Audio(Jam) | 3.94 |
| #107 | Mood(Jam) | 3.86 |
| #159 | Overall(Jam) | 3.74 |
| #161 | Fun(Jam) | 3.65 |
| #284 | Humor(Jam) | 3.09 |
| #389 | Theme(Jam) | 3.80 |
| #397 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.30 |
Comments
Wow! This is fun. Slashing wild boars and planting my crops -- nice. Overall this is super-duper polished. The artwork specifically is stunning and great music. Good stuff!
@CaptainRed_ Hitting space on the game over screen should restart the game.
A nice game !
I'm totally in love with your character, the game's graphics are so cute !
sweet ! a little too tricky with the keyboard, but i'm also a bad gamer ;)
Gorgeous graphics and great level of polish. Controls are tricky to get used to and slashing mid-air is difficult (possibly because the games tries to charge the attack and I'm just not timing my inputs very well)
I would add some more sounds and screenshakes when hitting enemies or when being hit to make more satisfying. :3
Awesome entry!
Awesome game! The graphics and animations look very good, the concept is really nice and the gameplay is well balanced.
Excellent work! :D
Wow! Really nice looking pixel arts!
It's a good game, altough I think you could put more description to your control inside the game, I started the game without reading your description, got dead because of not knowing the control.
Anyway, well done :)
*** UPDATE ***
There was an issue with the packaging of the OS/X version.
It should be fixed now.
Amanzing!
I thing that I really disliked are the command scheme. Why SDF? Is hard to select the seed that you need only going to the right.
Other than, I loved everything on it.
Nice game! Love the graphics. It was a bit hard with all the different things happening at the same time. Would have been nice with a short ramp-up of seeds and attacks being added and things happening. Some things, like having to have a powered attack to get a seed, seem a bit misplaced and just add more complexity. Simply put, just a bit too many controls, especially right off the bat. It's a fun game nonetheless, with a lot of depth.
I wish it had "built up" a little more slowly, it was hard to keep track of health/plants/controls, but overall it was cool to grow your own powerups!
Nice art. A bit hard to control but quite fun once I got used to it.
This is super charming! My main obstacle was figuring out how to get new seeds, reading the description helped with that : )
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cool game, needs something to replay at the end though, I have to close and reopen the window to play again