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Thank you guys for the feedback, really appreciate it! :D
this game indeed not really well polished in my opinion, i made it in hurry and struggle (since i barely can do art stuff lol)
BUT i do indeed planning to continuing this game, update it wth new feature :D
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This is my game submission for LD34.
You can read the tutorial in the game main menu.
Inspired by one of the "forbidden" game on Atari.
Game backstory (made this just for fun, sorry for any grammar mistake, and don't take it seriously ) :
John is Professor from one of the most famous Uni, about a month ago, he and his colleague found a mysterious fossil/seed in an iceberg, after long research, he found out that the seed actually bunch of ancient huge mushroom spores, he called it Yggshroom, the name derived from Yggdrasil tree from norse mythology.
After some thought, he want to revive it, but this mushroom is not like ordinary mushroom, it needs bunch of water constantly and for some odd reason it also need electricity as catalyst.
He prepare the most advance generator he can get, this generator convert and run H2O into energy, and its special metal allow it to self healing as long as it still active and got a steady amount of water.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #137 | Fun | 3.67 |
| #256 | Humor | 2.88 |
| #267 | Theme | 3.98 |
| #313 | Overall | 3.45 |
| #372 | Graphics | 3.31 |
| #427 | Audio | 2.74 |
| #443 | Mood | 3.01 |
| #540 | Innovation | 3.07 |
Comments
2m 36s! Was enjoyable. :) I liked the hectic nature of the gameplay and watching as the mushroom grew into the sky was fun. With all that stress no wonder the poor doctor went bald.
Very good game! I enjoyed playing it and the music was nice to listen to. I think the meteors or whatever they are should spawn slower at first so you can get a feel for what does what.
Cool game. I'd make it so that the walking sound is way less frequent, as the walk animation is very slow and the sound is not in sync with it.
I like the fact that you used both themes. Game was a bit of fast fun. I finished it in slightly more than two minutes, is that good ;)?
Good luck!
gj with two-touch controls! Completed at around 2m40s. Super responsive and fun :D
I survived a couple minutes, the graphics is awesome, it has sounds and matches the theme, what more could one want? :)
Yeah that was certainly fun and well balanced. I really wanted to grow that mushroom. Couldn't work out where it was at the start though.
This is one of the best games I've played so far. Not too hard, but still challenging. The graphical style is great. There's always something to do, and no down time. Either you go to the well, fix the machine or grow the mushroom. Well done!
Pretty damn fun game, forcing the player to juggle three different resources. Well done! (The walking sound effect got super annoying super fast, though)
It's a fun game. I think there is some sort of endscreen or winscreen? I grew the mushroom to the top two times but every time I was to quick to click something and the screen disappeared. Maybe you could make that screen stay a little longer?
Good fun game. Nice music, good quality pixel graphics and addictive gameplay. :)
hey guys!
thanks so much for playing and the positive feedback, this is my 2nd LD, so it really means a lot to me :D
@morgan
that probably because when those screen come up, you press the arrow key, because like in the mainmenu, arrow key also use to chose either replay or back to menu when the win and lose screen appear
i will fix that soon, thanks for the feedback!
Hey, this one was really fun! Loved the gameplay, not super original but really engaging. Glad you used both themes, even when two buttons was used in the simplest way possible.
Little things I'd fix. If you win while holding an arrow, you'll miss the game over screen. And the wrench icon should appear a bit more often.
(why do you need water to fix the generator tho)
@reggianito its explained on the game backstory on the description :D
I really liked this one. Charming presentation, simple and well executed gameplay :)
Loved the game! Simple, fresh and innovative. Congrats! ;)
Nice little game with some potential. With some It would be great time waster for mobile devices
I love this little game. it's a great idea, very simple & addictive.
Simple mechanic that's well executed and moreish gameplay! Good job!
Well done! Simple yet addictive, this game is. Backstory is pretty crazy, still :)
Good compositoin from abundant-music you generated, sound conveniently it is. Ygg!
Really nice game!
I liked the animations of the little things that attacked the generator. The walking sound effect was also really nice.
The end of the game was a bit anticlimactic though; I was hoping for a bit more when the mushroom reached the top of the screen, but it's still good for a game jam.
Very cool game! It`s very fun to play and the art style is nice too!
I really loved this! It was awesome how you had to balance 3 things at the same time, as well as avoiding meteors.
super fun! a little bit too easy tho. some difficulty would not hurt.
Fast paced, fun game. Double theme used effectively, and a 'tutorial' that explains everything. 2m4s, by the way.
Had a surprising amount of fun playing this till the end. Two tries, a little over two minutes to finish the second round! Really amusing, you should totally make another level or something that comes after it.
Cheers,
Ionut(Tyrants.not.found team)
That was simple but actually very fun to play. :D Awesome pixel art and good deal of frantic action. :D
Pretty fun game! With the backstory, it makes a lot more sense. Also, them slimes are eeeeeviiiill!!
This was really fun! Easy to learn, but it got harder with time. Had a really nice, simply feeling to it. Great game! :)
Very nice, keeps me busy :). Never beat my 2m10s on one of the earlier tries. Seems like I shouldn't neglect the generator as it runs less efficient the more it is damaged. Or am I imagining things? :)
The art is cute and the mechanic is interesting. The sound is a bit annoying...
this was hectic lol kept me on my toes which is great :)
Well Done !!
Haha, I think I know the "forbidden" game that it was based on. :) Really nice game though, very well presented, fun, challenging. Nice use of both themes.
Fun game. I quite enjoyed the mechanics. The backstory was interesting.
My only gripe would be the sound design. Filling water and watering the mushroom is very harsh. I feel like it didn't fit the action I was performing. At first I thought it was an alarm going off because I was missing something.
Overall great job! I really liked it.
This game is really polished, I really like the simple visual style and the sound effects. They work well to give it a charming mood. The gameplay seemed balanced quite fairly, I failed a few times because I was too careless about getting hit by meteors, but once you realise that the most important thing is dodging them and you don't really have to worry about the generator dying (because you can just heal it), it's not very difficult. One suggestion I have is to make the plant decrease in size over time, to force the player into a more active playstyle where they have to risk getting hit in order to grow the plant, rather than simply healing the generator and waiting for a gap in the meteors. As well as that, perhaps something could be done to put a bit more variety into the gameplay, perhaps enemies being more likely to spawn opposite to your side, or multiple types of enemies? I found that more often than not, they would just spawn under me and die immediately. Overall, this is a great compo entry, with a nice simple concept that was executed really well.
Fun! I wish there was a more thematic reason for the stressor than "a billion meteors", but I understand why they're there. The three item resource management leant itself well to the frenetic atmosphere of the game. Great work!
thanks for the positive feedback guys, really appreciate it! :D
@bumblepie
thanks for the suggestion!, indeed i'm planning to continue is as post-LD jam, but we'll see how it goes :D
Simple and straightforward. It gives me a thing to do, and I do it! I feel like I didn't understand the game from the instructions.
Pretty cool how the simple mechanics allow for so much gameplay!
Wow! First Double theme one that I played! You did some awesome job with so little asset. This will be a hit on the apple store, no doubt. I only wished the mushroom protected me from the meteors.
Very good entry, has something common in concept with our game indeed! Love mechanics and art!
Great game, was playing for quiet a bit, game had me hooked! One change that I can suggest is having the well give a certain amount of repair then it goes into cool down because it seemed a little over powered how I could keep healing it. However, great game!
It took me a minute to get what was going on but once I did this game was pretty fun. I somewhat expected the Yggshroom's cap to protect me from the falling projectiles.
2m 21s. That was pretty awesome. Well done utilizing both themes :)
Great job! I found it a bit easy. I think the meteor spawn rate needs to increase the bigger your shroom grows.
Nice little game. Main menu graphics looked really nice, and it was fun to try and beat my best time.
Yeah! I did it! Haha, nice and smooth gameplay, I really liked it, also, the graphics and the sounds were very happy and fitting with the scenario.
Basic gameplay was quite fun. The art was cute. Sound choice was confusing though. Movement felt like repairing, filling water sounded like an error sound.
Clever mechanics! And more stars for your, for fitting a backstory in your entry. Nice!
Fun game, very frantic! I was a bit confused about the meteors at first but after a minute I figured it out =P Great job!
Simple and clean game idea. Nothing too innovative, but I think the game is clear and easy to understand. It may get a bit repetitive after a while, but the presentation and solid controls make up for it.
This game is deceptively fun - I feel the graphics weren't super cohesive but event the little beeping sound wasn't actually as annoying as I thought it would be. Really solid entry! Great use of just two buttons
Great entry! Congrat! Really fun, I played two or three times (actually, more, see bug below) until I managed to win it, and this is not obvious. Use of both themes is simple but effective. Liked the graphics, you can improve but the pixel art is nice. Audio is 100% guessed.
I experienced an annoying but a couple of time. If you push toward the mushroom (ops! yggshroom, sorry), you can be pushed to the left of it, and then you are stucked there untile death :( Hope you can fix it!
Uh, one more note: the font. You shouldn't have used it, or better, if you like that font you should have "copied" it in pixel art. I like the title screen a lot, but that font really ruins the pixel art atmosphere.
Neat little game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/7EMaRu1rC0U
THat was a very fun entry. I think you did a good job of using both themes. It was lovely and lots of fun!
Great concept! Felt smooth and rewarding, all while still retaining that hectic nature.
I really liked the game. I'd suggest adding in a "hard" mode to make it a bit more of a challenge. I really liked the mechanics of the game though, and the graphics were on point.
Good job, you got both themes into the game and it was fun to balance my time between the generator, mushroom, and water supply. I died before I could grow the full mushroom. You should give the professor a hair power-up which makes him less vulnerable to the asteroids.
Fun start of a game here. The time management with action dodging is quite fun. The time management portion is sorta like my entry.
Nice entry even if you think it was rushed!
It's a pretty nice micro-management game. Got very hectic towards the end as there was a lot of variables to keep in mind and everything happened really fast.
Only problem I had was that it was a bit hard to make out the mushroom before it had been watered as it was quite small and my eyes were kinda diverted by the cord right next to it.
Other than both graphics and audio were pretty nice and helped to cement the retrofeel of the game.
All in all, nice work :)
Simple little game. I enjoyed playing it. There wasn't much to it but it was fun for a few minutes and really felt complete.
Would have been nice if the mushroom kept growing off screen, and the game got harder as time passed. I found the game to be too easy.
Nice litle one.
A bit to easy to me, once we have the methods it's very easy to dodge the meteors and feed our mush.
Just a problem, the final score dont last at all (maybe I was still pushing a button) so no way to get my final score ! :'(
nocely made game. at first, i didn't know exactly what to do, but then i got it and it's a very nice balance between avoiding, watering, repairing and stomping. well done
Hahaha, I laugh so much while playing your game!
It's funny and have a precise mechanics!
Congratulations for your work!
OMG that sound... so annoying haha.
Apart from that this is a nice little game! I played another concept almost identical to this with a robot and some nukes, but this is a much better gameplay experience for sure. Nice work on the graphics too!
Lol at the backstory, completely nuts.
Simply game but efficient ! i like concept. Graphism are simple for me but you have good work for your 2nd LD ! continue like this ;)
I liked this one a lot, great job! (especially hitting both themes, and making fairly unique gameplay with them)
A couple of notes, if you decide to work on this more in the future: for me, the sound effects were very loud in comparison with the background music (I wish I could hear more of it, as I liked it a lot!) -- this wouldn't usually be much of an issue, but the very quick repetition of the sounds became grating after a while, specifically the "step" and "watering" sound effects. I would also suggest using a different sound for watering, to me it almost sounded like a "mistake" sound, so I was unsure if I was doing the right thing at first.
Additionally it would be cool to see more of a difficulty curve, as once I got the hang of things it became easy to finish -- honestly though you did an awesome job with limited time! I especially appreciate all of the art.
Great job!
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Great game! I really felt like a mad scientist! ..Who grows mushrooms! Err.. Yggshrooms!
Despite my best efforts, my generator broke and I wasn't able to do much from there :(