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Chaos Gardens by Fudge

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made by Fudge for LD 40 (COMPO)

Fight a badly designed jetpack to collect fruit from crazy plants before they explode!

Controls:

  • A/D (or arrows) to walk.
  • W (or up) to jump.
  • Space (while jumping) to fire jetpack.
  • Shift to prune nearby branches or harvest nearby fruit.

Harvesting fruit (not branches) when ripe gives you points.

Controllers are also supported, although not actually tested.

There's no audio and I haven't had time for a Linux build (I'll add one if/when I can).

More screenshots: screenshot-final-two.png screenshot-final-one.png

Git repository https://bitbucket.org/gah/ludum-dare-40/overview
Windows https://bitbucket.org/gah/ludum-dare-40/downloads/ld40-v0.exe
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/chaos-gardens

Ratings

Given 7🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

Lugdumdare Team
05. Dec 2017 · 17:48 UTC
It was quite fun to play with the jetpack.. the controls are very smooth :)
But it's too bad there's no objective.

Graphics are nice. Good job :)
Poorwill
05. Dec 2017 · 17:49 UTC
I liked the random nature of how the plants grew and the jumping itself felt nice.

I would have maybe preferred some other buttons than space and shift for those actions.
Syrapt0r
05. Dec 2017 · 18:00 UTC
Movement feels very cool in this game. The way you have to carefully steer the jetpack just to float around is really nice. Of course, there is no real goal (I could make out) so it eventually became stale, but it was fun to harvest for some time. Good entry! :D
imod
05. Dec 2017 · 18:46 UTC
Interesting system generation of plants
paulhocker
07. Dec 2017 · 03:41 UTC
wow - what a really interesting game - i really like how you made the plants grow and
🎤 Fudge
09. Dec 2017 · 10:05 UTC
Thanks for the feedback!

I'm pleasantly surprised to hear positive responses to the jetpack, I honestly thought people were just going to find it annoying!
I'll maybe see if I can expand on it in some future project.

The plants worked about how I wanted, so I'm glad other people like them too!
I hope I get the chance to revisit them sometime, I really want to see how they'd look with physics.