Bargain Bonsai by Rscar

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made by Rscar for LD34 (COMPO)
Bargain Bonsai!

As the Bargain Bonsai shop owner, it is your quest to have the BEST DAY EVER.

Help your customers prune their bonsai trees to perfection! Use the left/right arrow keys to guide your clippers for tree trimming. Satisfy as many customers as possible. Your business day will end after 3 angry customers.

4th LD compo entry, great time as always! This time I picked an idea that was a little more narrow in scope, and felt like my scheduling was much better this time around. I also tried to take the game art in a direction that's uncomfortable to me. Not happy with it yet, but there is improvement I believe. Overall happy with the way things turned out, the polygon math is working as expected (mostly, bugfixed a bug that I was not able to reproduce, best type), I feel like I was able to "finish" within reason, and enjoyed doing a style of game that was new to me. If I had more time, I would have liked to make a more cohesive "end" to the game, like some results screen, or anything other than a game restart...

Talk to you all soon!

Tools:
Unity (c#, Visual Studio)
Photoshop
sfxr
www.fakemusicgenerator.com
ClipperLib (polygon math library)


Note: I felt weird using the music that I didn't make myself, it was made using a generator (which the rules advised was allowed/"encouraged"). From my research, this generator is legitimate. Info found here: http://www.jacoballred.com/free-stuff/fake-music-generator/ If I actually am somehow violating any rules, someone please let me know so I can take necessary actions.

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall 3.72 144
Audio 3.11 263
Fun 3.20 446
Graphics 4.00 108
Humor 3.26 142
Innovation 3.93 72
Mood 3.22 316
Theme 3.90 338

Feedback

Todnut
14. Dec 2015 · 16:01 UTC
Neat idea! The art and style are super cute. I'm not sure how many customers are in a day - they just kept coming.
Dooskington
14. Dec 2015 · 19:13 UTC
Your windows download is broken. You have to package the .exe and the data folder together.
mrjorts
14. Dec 2015 · 19:19 UTC
Neat little game. I hit a wall at some point and wasn't able to get any stars, but I wasn't sure exactly why I was failing. Feedback would make it a little less frustrating.
gv1351
14. Dec 2015 · 19:21 UTC
Great idea for a game
Adolf Jong Un
14. Dec 2015 · 19:21 UTC
What a great game! the art is good, so is the music. i love the gamplay even tho i suck at it. good job!
davesoft
14. Dec 2015 · 19:21 UTC
Awesome game, innovative use of 'top down driving' mechanics :D
MattThePie
14. Dec 2015 · 19:22 UTC
Really original idea, I like it. Love your art style too! It did get repetitive pretty quickly though
dusho
14. Dec 2015 · 19:25 UTC
amazing idea :)
really hard when getting faster
music was really annoying after some time
bazkur98
14. Dec 2015 · 19:27 UTC
A great idea executed pretty well. Haven't ever planned something like before. Not sure I'd call it fun, but worthwhile for a few minutes anyway. Graphics are done extremely well. I think some tutorial would have been nice, the first couple time playing I just let the scissors run straight up ;)
laFunk
14. Dec 2015 · 19:38 UTC
Very very good in all aspects! <3 the expressions on the customers; the music is beautiful and fits nicely. Cheers!
MrDave
14. Dec 2015 · 19:47 UTC
Loads of really nice graphical touches in this game. And I really love the mix of 2D and 3D.

The music fits in really well to bring this whole game together. Love it.
🎤 Rscar
14. Dec 2015 · 20:00 UTC
@Dooskington Thank you! Windows standalone should now be functional
Piode
14. Dec 2015 · 22:56 UTC
A really interesting, weird game. It's relaxing and fun on the one hand, quite tricky and amusing on the other. I laughed when I got my first angry customer; their angry expression and sudden music stop was well done.
TomenLuca
15. Dec 2015 · 22:57 UTC
The artstyle is amazingly well done. The gameplay gets repetitive rather quickly however.
Max Amaden
16. Dec 2015 · 10:38 UTC
Nice game! Good job!
Drtizzle
16. Dec 2015 · 20:01 UTC
Nice little game! Reminded me of the frog-dissecting in the game Bully(Canis Canem Edit). It works well, the graphics are pretty decent, but the game gets a bit boring after a while.
Good job!