Ultimate Plant by nimblegorilla

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made by nimblegorilla for LD24 (COMPO)
A puzzle game inspired by a variation of the classic game of life by John Conway.

Ratings

Coolness 79% 2
Overall 3.15 270
Audio 1.00 627
Fun 2.77 385
Graphics 2.68 447
Humor 1.17 617
Innovation 3.28 183
Mood 1.84 660
Theme 3.33 206

Feedback

kevincorrigan
26. Aug 2012 · 21:37 UTC
this is a nice game, challenging but fun.
ethankennerly
27. Aug 2012 · 01:56 UTC
Clear and thoughtful!
aschearer
27. Aug 2012 · 03:33 UTC
Interesting little game. I felt there were a bit too many menus. It kind of seemed like I was doing word processing more than playing a game! The gameplay itself was good though it was not always clear to me why a given set of flowers expired. On the other hand, for other levels the solutions tended to be too straightforward (e.g. you have 2 seeds which you place in the two corresponding lines).
panzermancer
27. Aug 2012 · 04:12 UTC
Very well put-together. I can see myself coming back to this one sometime very soon.
panzermancer
27. Aug 2012 · 04:15 UTC
Definitely a great game to play while the other ones are loading :D
Thurig
27. Aug 2012 · 05:06 UTC
Solid puzzle game! Really like this. Too bad there is no sound. Good job!
johnfn
27. Aug 2012 · 05:07 UTC
Ah, a pure HTML5 game! Nice effort! Your CSS and web design look really nice. The game itself needed a little more spice I think. I found it difficult to visualize what it would look like a few turns in the future. I like the concept too, and a few tweaks would make it pretty cool.
TwilightFlandre
27. Aug 2012 · 05:34 UTC
I enjoyed the puzzles and the game was clearly well thought out. I would of liked some other graphics and some more variety in gameplay but I enjoyed what I played.
mappum
27. Aug 2012 · 05:59 UTC
I understood what was going on, and it was still too hard to figure out what would happen. It seems like it is easier to guess the solution than think.

And if I didn't know what Game of Life was, I would have no idea what this was.
geekygenius
27. Aug 2012 · 06:58 UTC
:D I love the GOL! Nice original idea.
zachstronaut
27. Aug 2012 · 15:16 UTC
Very cool use of Conway's Game of Life! Fun!
Uberi
28. Aug 2012 · 01:25 UTC
Very complete. It's not often that a cellular automata game becomes so engrossing.
Milo
28. Aug 2012 · 01:29 UTC
The game looks really clean and runs nicely. It's a little too hard to really figure out the solution in many cases, but it's a good puzzle.
ASOT
28. Aug 2012 · 01:35 UTC
Interesting game. Some levels are really easy and some are very hard, or maybe I just don't understand it that well. 5 on innovation!
Maxium
28. Aug 2012 · 05:06 UTC
Nice to see a puzzle game here
Ragzouken
30. Aug 2012 · 12:53 UTC
Nice game, a good take on making the game of life into a real game :) Clicking through the menus gets in the way a lot.
Colapsydo
31. Aug 2012 · 09:23 UTC
Nice concept and graphic interface.
It will sound like a whim but I would have enjoyed flowers sprites and some garden background.
Jacic
31. Aug 2012 · 19:12 UTC
I thought the first puzzles were too easy, and the difficulty didn't increase soon enough. This is really fun though. :)
berareu
31. Aug 2012 · 21:26 UTC
Great puzzle game, liked it a lot :)
In my opinion you should have put a bigger tutorial since it's not easy to grasp it just like that
Kmad
02. Sep 2012 · 09:51 UTC
Super little puzzle game. Fits the theme brilliantly and is yet very original, I'm impressed with the tutorial too - it teaches the basics of the game well. Great game!
evilseanbot
04. Sep 2012 · 07:35 UTC
I liked this game a lot. I did feel like the "Make little spinners" puzzles were a few too many, and that the generator puzzles were somewhat hard to grasp without a lot of fiddling around.