{"author_link":"\/author\/cjacobwade\/","author_name":"cjacobwade","author_uid":"21238","comments":[{"author_name":"SvenFrankson","author_uid":"56473","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:13am","epoch":1450066080,"text":"Smooth ! Love procedural generation, nice enry :)"},{"author_name":"cxsquared","author_uid":"23711","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:27am","epoch":1450070520,"text":"I really enjoyed this. It was a nice experience."},{"author_name":"StarchyPancakes","author_uid":"51062","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:36am","epoch":1450071060,"text":"Wow, just lovely, really really well done. My hat is off to you"},{"author_name":"JohnGalt","author_uid":"43656","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:47am","epoch":1450071720,"text":"It captures a really unique feeling. Relaxing and interesting. I enjoy it. Giving more control on growing and adjust camera to make it always focus on the top may help."},{"author_name":"SgtBursk","author_uid":"14965","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:52am","epoch":1450072020,"text":"Sublime."},{"author_name":"ranmaru90","author_uid":"21122","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:54am","epoch":1450072140,"text":"I love it!"},{"author_name":"zybit","author_uid":"51396","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:55am","epoch":1450072200,"text":"Lol mine all look like snakes. Cool concept though. Definitely need the relaxing pace and sound of this after the Compo."},{"author_name":"walaber","author_uid":"31888","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:56am","epoch":1450072260,"text":"nice job! indeed relaxing... although perhaps so relaxing I had a hard time understanding what my input was actually doing :P"},{"author_name":"Bemmu","author_uid":"13321","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:11am","epoch":1450073160,"text":"Why is there balls of pulsating beef growing on our bonsai? :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It's peaceful, but we couldn't quite figure out how to use it. When I click on a beef it starts bouncing around. I can rotate, but clicking on the camera and bonsai buttons didn't seem to do anything.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Graphically very pretty and seems innovative."},{"author_name":"nucleartide","author_uid":"12773","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:12am","epoch":1450073220,"text":"Wow, beautiful!"},{"author_name":"cjacobwade","author_uid":"21238","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:31am","epoch":1450074360,"text":"@bemmu Thanks for playing! Clicking the camera and tree buttons export screenshots and the tree's mesh\/textures respectively. Check the folder where you unzipped the game!"},{"author_name":"OddballDave","author_uid":"11892","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1450099440,"text":"Great entry. How I was affecting the growth was confusing at first, but I got the hang of it. We had very similar ideas. My entry is about growing bonsai too."},{"author_name":"dvdfu","author_uid":"51259","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:07am","epoch":1450152120,"text":"Very relaxing. I only manage to drive my branches into the ground, though. Still, love it!"},{"author_name":"elliottd","author_uid":"27074","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1450214040,"text":"it seemed to grow upwards too fast for me. I wonder if that is a frame dependency problem. really nice entry"},{"author_name":"randomhuman","author_uid":"56477","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 5:07pm","epoch":1450371720,"text":"Pretty cool idea, nice chilled out mood."},{"author_name":"M a r o o v a n","author_uid":"60701","time":"Jan 3, 2016 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1451841300,"text":"Very clever and unique idea! Thank you for such an experience!"},{"author_name":"Fadobo","author_uid":"15165","time":"Jan 3, 2016 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1451846580,"text":"Very pretty. It's a bit hard to control the growth with the ever changing camera angle, but it makes for nice organic trees."}],"images":["ld34\/21238-1430aed283a56fcbdcd8d147f6fc54c7.jpg","ld34\/21238-8dfa251935701641aa0b665efd1fbc90.jpg","ld34\/21238-e0b1f4b35c5c5c5a3148c7ae0632fa4e.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cjacobwade.itch.io\/bonsaigrowthsimulator","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/cjacobwade.itch.io\/bonsaigrowthsimulator","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B7eaOlhNPi0bZWlnak1GV0paNUU\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"4731","g_author":"21238","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"4815","g_title":"Bonsai Growth Simulator","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"206","g_commentcount":"17","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/21238-shot0-1450065334.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/21238-shot1-1450065334.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/21238-shot2-1450065334.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Bonsai Growth Simulator is a relaxing game meant to simulate the experience of growing a bonsai tree over many years.\r\n\r\nMade by @Cjacobwade","title":"Bonsai Growth Simulator"}