Really nice tree generator. I love the inky style!

Fantastic concept! It blows me away how beautifully you two were able to execute it in this timeframe. I love the music and mood and especially the artwork! I hope you continue on with a social sharing feature.

Oddly satisfying to play

A fantastic experience! You might consider opting out of the "Humor" rating, so that it doesn't impact your score.

Oooh, this is very relaxing. Would be fun to have a neverending zen mode. Just chill out and make cool trees for a while. Really nice job on the ink style, and the little blossoms at the end are the cherry on the top ( :

Not too shabby. Would be nice to have a points system.

Is your sakura as zen as mine? Hah! I don't think so!


This painted tree growing game (or tool) is very well done. I mean, there's not much to it from a game perspective, but for what it is, the trees do look very different in construction, and the dynamics make up for some interesting shapes every now and then. Yes, they're still trees that look like tress, but that doesn't make them any less pretty :P

It's quite a relaxing experience. If anything, I'd say that its greatest success comes from letting reviewers of LD games take a breather from the madness that's all over the place. There's always space for a more chill experience. If there's one submission that can ease the mind and soul, it's this one.

I had a very enlightening time with this one. In behalf of my team, we're looking forward to your future projects in the LD environment. Kudos! :whale:

Amazing! Very simple and calming, although i got this message once:

"Out of memory. If you are the developer of this content, try allocating more memory to your WebGL build in the WebGL player settings."

Oopsy? :)

Checkout **Voxel Mob Arena** here and please leave rating!:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/voxel-mob-arena

Great stuff. Fun gimmicky thing but with a perfectly sparsely included gameplay mechanic making it just as engaging as it needs to be.

I really loved the art style in this one.

beautiful, calm little toy. i love seeing unusual game ideas like this in LD.

Btw - it didn't hit theme at all or am i missing something?

A "slow mo" effect when you're plotting your next branch angle would be a nice way to give players control over the pace of their creation process.

Good job on the game. It did a good job filling its roll as a calm and chill game. Also the tree artwork looked nice.

Beautiful and relaxing game! All the elements (art, music, game design) worked together to contribute to a soft, serene atmosphere.

Note: I also got the "out of memory" bug after playing through several times. I am playing on Chrome if that helps!

Great art and innovative concept (at least i havent seen something like this) but to be honest this streesed me more than relax because i need to be so fast :D what not means that i dont like it. My trees didnt become really big though. Nice Soundtrack. Wish for more soundfx on growing the wood

This game is incredibly relaxing! Just what I needed after a long day at work :)

Amazingly well executed in every way, and an all 5 star rating from me. Congratulations to you whole team!

Here's my game, if you want to check it out. Quite a bit less relaxing hahahaha https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/sumo-slam-2d

**Zen music. The gameplay is still fast.**


Nice idea. Had fun. Very artsy. :cherry_blossom:

Very very beautiful game, look at how pretty this thing turned out
i love the style you choose it goes very well with the music and the overall theme.
I really wish the tree would last a little bit longer so i could make even bigger and cooler trees but for the time available i would say very good job =D

It is chill indeed. Remind me a little of what we could find on website like theuselessweb (not a critic, it truly have a calm and artistic feels). Maybe more a toy than a game, but that's my point of view. Overall, good job.

Really, really enjoyed this one. Art was fantastic! It would be cool to see how this could evolve into other levels

Thanks everyone for playing, and the feedback!

@bartosz We came to the concept as, the more branches you spawn, the worse your planning gets, since you have to focus on adding branches and not necessarily planning their path. We understand that it might not come through so well.

Yeah, I got this message also: “Out of memory. If you are the developer of this content, try allocating more memory to your WebGL build in the WebGL player settings.” multiple times. But, in between getting that message, I made this tree:


This is one gorgeous, relaxing game. I'm not very good at it but it's a lot of fun!

Nice tree making game.
I enjoyed making odd trees.
Can't think of last line.

i love my tree

Love it. Absolutely love it. I feel like this tech could be used to generate some great procedural trees in a side scrolling mine-craft like (e.g. starbound)

Pros:
- Beautiful simple eastern aesthetic
- Relaxing
- A goal that's not really demanding or stressful but just gives you some direction, so it doesnt just feel like a peice of art or a tech demo (although it is both those things but the "make your tree bigger" goal makes it more)

Cons:
- Better for if the theme was "the more you have the more beautiful this tree looks"

- I feel like it would be even coolr if the earlier branches were more thick so that a tree could kinda split into two. It felt a little bit like I had more of a control over the fine detail, the tiny branches of the tree but not the trunk itself.

- I don't know if this is even really a con, but I wanted a way to compare my trees. Not to have points or know which tree was better but just to know how variable the parameters can get. I think this might be against the philosophy of a relaxing game like this though so take it with a grain of salt. That being said, I SO won the zen contest:


Excellent work, top notch. Top 3 so far and definitely my favorite conceptually.

The more you have, the better it gets. Close enough to the theme :p Really nice mood, well done !

So pretty! So fun! Glad to have something a little more calm.

Very well done on the art side... had to pull out my mouse to get a tree to work well.
A quality experience. Not 100% on calling it a game.


Very original! This can become a great mobile app ^^

I like the Japanese artstyle.Also,very innovative concept with lots of potential.

Great art style! I liked seeing the variety of trees such simple decisions produced.

Great aesthetic and super zen gameplay. As others have said, it would be a great mobile game a la "Kami". Stellar work!

Love the art and the music. Doesn't fit great in the theme but I loved playing it and found it very relaxing.

What an excellent game, never expected to see something as elegant as this

also here is mine, would i suggest a save tree button in future releases 

Yoooooo, I'm not going to make any claims, but I think I have the best Asymmetric Sakura of ALL TIME!!


Kidding aside, thanks for playing our jam's game! Please keep those screenshots coming! We love them!

-Art Cat

How lovely! I especially appreciated the little how-to screen.

Wait, is this a tree off?


(Upper right corner is what happens when you get that error message mid-build.)

Fantastic idea, you should make this an app! I love the countless combinations you can make with this!

I believe it would be a better game if made slower 3 times

Very cute and relaxing. If you wanted to expand it you could add obstacles like rocks and other trees and a point system for amount of screen covered.

@roaring-cat-games That actually makes a lot of sence - didn't realize that - i'll change my rating in theme part then.

Again - outstanding job!

Nice! Very cool idea and nice execution. This is super-original and the visuals aesthetics are off the chart.

Depending on where you want to go with it, this could be an amazing relaxing game if you slowed down the pace a bit and changed the music to something a bit more "Zen" (hit me up if you want some original music for this post-jam!).

Really nice work.

Satisfyingly
Dispelling stressful tension
Beautifully

one of my favourite games in LD!:) idea for the game is soo cool, and I love the artstyle!

This game is really beautiful. The sound and art is great, and fits in well with the the relaxation concept.
Having that said, I don't really see how the game fits in the theme. You will always have to create branches, so there isn't a way to avoid having more.

Also, there is no goal. After having played more levels, I just felt they were all the same, with just a tree generated differently. No objective nor evolution from level to level.

Trying to purposefully lose by trying to create a branch on top of others, most of the time didn't do anything. It took at least four times for me to lose. And it wasn't really losing, as the tree bloomed anyway. Not clicking in anything also let the tree bloom.

The game also kept crashing on WebGL with an out of memory error: "Out of memory. If you are the developer of this content, try allocating more memory to your WebGL build in the WebGL player settings".

Overall, the look and feel are amazing, and it is a great concept that can be turned in a wondeful game with some kind of progression and goal, but as it is I feel it is an experience and not a game. However, it was a great job, congratulations :)

This is pure perfection! A game with beautiful user generated art. Nothing to win, nothing to lose, just art. Great job!

First of all: Thanks for playing our money transporter game on stream yesterday. The feedback you gave us was really helpful!

This was honestly one of my favourite, if not my favourite game of the ones I played for this Ludum Dare.

Great graphics and concept. Really smooth feel to the game, just all around a great entry.

I personally would have considered antialising the tree, but given the time that's probably unrealistic.

This is nice and relaxing, looks beautiful and sound neat. Nice job.

Super zen experience as the mechanics, music and graphics complement each other really well. I still would like it if there were some sort of a scoring system (the tree's this tall, this wide, has this many branches or just an overall combination of those), but I just might not be zen enough :smile:

What a great experience and some cool tech behind the scenes. I think one of the best indications you have of player engagement is the fact that you have soooo many comments sharing what they've created with everyone. Any LD game that can get me to replay it a bunch is a winner in my book so good job on that.

Sidenote: I'm curious about your team now. How can you add more coders or artists to the team if the names codecat and artcat are already taken?!? You should add @SecretPocketCat above ^ while you're at it :)

My wife LOVES this game and would like to have it on her phone. Please let me know if you ever make an android version as it would make her day.

Thank you again for everyone sharing those trees and feedback. It's a very pleasant surprise.

For@badly-drawn-rod and a few others that have asked, we are planning a mobile release for the game. We took a week to recover and checkout a bunch of other LD entries, and now we are back to work brainstorming what needs fixing/adding before we package up a mobile version. Much of which is driven by all of your all's responses.

Thanks again! And keep sharing those beautiful cherry blossoms!

This is an excellent game, thank you! At first I didn't realize how it is connected to the theme, but then I read above ^^ and I totally accepted your interpretation. The theme is not rigid after all, it's open for some subjective interpretation. Congrats for your great game! :)

@peachtreeoath Unless another cat comes and kill me, my title won't be taken away! Actually, if it ever gets to that point, we'll have specific cat titles instead of general ones. We have a Music Cat that comes and hangout from time to time. :smile_cat:

Very pretty and relaxing, I love the ink on paper look. I'm going to echo what a lot of others have said and point out that it doesn't really fit the theme - if anything the more you have the better it is :) A really nice experience regardless.

This game is simple yet absolutely gorgeous. So relaxing but I was also feeling the pressure of trying to grow the tree as big as possible. A really wonderful submission! Just stunning.

Awesome game. Beatiful and simple! Maybe it's a bit too random at times(branches zig zag in an impredictable way) but other than that I absolutely loved it.

Beautiful game. My only gripe was that I didn't have much of an idea of how far the branches would grow or exactly in what direction as the chaotic-ness of the growth tended to move it outside the original trajectory a bit more than I expected, which made survival difficult through randomness (which I don't imagine a player finds very comforting). A bit of tweaking in the chaotic aspect would be preferable. A bit more time on the timers would be nice too. I felt like my trees didn't get nearly as large as I wanted them to be (not a large amount extra but another second or two would be great).

Really nice and beautiful presentation. Not much of a game, though.

Very nice! Simple concept, good presentation. I think you could definitely take it further and add a little bit more in terms of either different experiences (different types of trees?) or something else that would encourage people to spend a little more time with it. But I think it stands well as it is too. Adding too much would only distract from the core spirit of the game.

My only nitpick is that the intersection of the branches causes a jarring effect which seems a bit antithetical to the otherwise calming nature of the game, especially with the camera zoom (which itself doesn't always make it 100% obvious where exactly the intersect happened) and the sound effect. I think something more subtle would have been nice for that part.

Great job overall!

Nice, relaxing game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_cfsd64xFk

https://youtu.be/A62u8Zhtkyg

This game has the sweetest concept I've ever played from a LD entry! It's really simple but it's still so refreshing and the replay value is so high. Congratulations for real guys, you made an outstanding job without having to make much effort (I might be wrong about that tho).

I love this kind of games, and particularly this one is very well made. I would like the gameplay to be slower, though. You have to be pretty quick clicking branch points, or they'll disappear (at least playing with mouse, maybe on a touch device feels more natural). It could be a nice game to relax, but in the end it's kind of fast-paced gameplay.

Anyway, it's a very good work and I enjoyed a lot :) I'm glad that you've made this wonderful piece, different from anything that we're used to. Congratulations!

Simple and beautiful game. I do agree that it would be nice for it to be slower since it feels like a very relaxing game.

That was very beautiful and a nice break in the reviews from all of the violence, to find something focusing more on beauty and rest.


This game is so beautiful and simple. I love the blossoms, and the process of the tree growing seems very well made. I wish you cold make bigger trees and perhaps have an option to slow down the pace a bit, so you can either challenge yourself to grow all the branches, or relax. I loved it, great job!

Wow, this is lovely. Enjoyed a lot playing around and making trees. Super cool. I got a "out of memory" error once but that didn't happen again.

I think I'd like the game even more if it was a bit slower, I felt too rushed sometimes.

Really solid entry. Well done guys! :-)