Grow by Dimitri0xFF

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made by Dimitri0xFF for LD34 (COMPO)
You are a plant and you have to feed as many lice as possible.

Hold G to grow
Press S to spawn lice
Press T to toggle time speed
Scoring: number of lice you have by the end of the timer

Now the Post-Compo version has a Leaderboard!

Tools: Eclipse, libgdx, flixel-gdx

Ratings

Coolness 77% 2
Overall 2.85 787
Fun 2.51 851
Graphics 2.26 838
Innovation 2.90 629
Mood 2.31 814
Theme 3.69 514

Feedback

bushmango
14. Dec 2015 · 03:21 UTC
Why are the lice eating my beautiful plant?!
KBF123
14. Dec 2015 · 03:23 UTC
Cool idea.
graceavery
14. Dec 2015 · 03:23 UTC
Great first entry! Nice work on the music, as well. :)
Mixer
14. Dec 2015 · 03:25 UTC
Nice game! My top score wasn't very good, I got a top of 23. (Actually, that might be good, just saw your screenshots.) Anyway, cool game. Good idea putting the T in though, as waiting wasn't very interesting :)
XbooperxdX
14. Dec 2015 · 04:06 UTC
Pretty interesting concept, and fun. Wish it had audio though. Good game though
ProgramYourFace
14. Dec 2015 · 04:13 UTC
It was Ok. But I was kind of confused with what all the bars and stuff where for.
Dooskington
14. Dec 2015 · 04:15 UTC
I didn't really know what was going on. Also, why are lice eating a plant?
BoUnDtOtHeEaRtH
14. Dec 2015 · 04:17 UTC
Interesting idea and pretty well executed. I think the life bar and regeneration on your UI could be explained better but it was easy enough to understand once I played for a while. Nice job!

Highest score was 26 gonna go for 30+.
🎤 Dimitri0xFF
14. Dec 2015 · 04:17 UTC
@graceavery It's my 3rd entry and the game has no music/audio at all.
irwatts
14. Dec 2015 · 04:33 UTC
This is by far the best plantlice sim I've tried.
torcado194
14. Dec 2015 · 19:31 UTC
I'm not sure I fully understand this game. Is it not most efficient to hold the 'g' button for a little less than 5 minutes then spam the 's' key? interesting, none the less
🎤 Dimitri0xFF
14. Dec 2015 · 21:31 UTC
Well, try it..
Japes
16. Dec 2015 · 12:01 UTC
Interesting idea - was a bit unclear what was going on with the red/green arrows and what affected my health, at first. But after a while I figured it out.
retrogradeorbit
17. Dec 2015 · 12:43 UTC
do too many lice kill the plant? I had trouble finding the sweet spot.
philipp
17. Dec 2015 · 13:11 UTC
Good take on the theme.

The system is interesting. Played it three times and I clearly was getting better. It was a bit bothering that the growing stopped even when you were holding the "G"-Button, didn't get this the first time.
zenmumbler
21. Dec 2015 · 16:22 UTC
Interesting idea, will need some time to get to a good score.
miwuc
23. Dec 2015 · 23:52 UTC
Interesting idea. A bit hard to understand what's going on but I guess it's part of the game. I got a highscore of 21.
Muel
29. Dec 2015 · 20:04 UTC
Nice concept.

You use the same life energy to grow and feed the lice.
It's the balance between having some to live with and some to give. Give too much and you die. Give too few and you don't score.
LeReveur
30. Dec 2015 · 22:58 UTC
I had to retry a little until I find the better way to grow the highest amount of lice I can get, and then retry again with the post-compo to score in the leaderboard. :P
🎤 Dimitri0xFF
31. Dec 2015 · 00:00 UTC
nice score :P
Stuntddude
31. Dec 2015 · 10:38 UTC
This is a cool concept, having to balance your growth rate with the time you have remaining and the cost to add lice, and it's straightforward enough to figure out, but after a few rounds I'm still not sure if the strategy makes itself clear. Is it just a matter of growing as much as you can, figuring out the optimal time to start placing lice, and then placing lice until the game ends, or is there something more to the strategy that I'm missing? An interesting challenge, none the less.

Also, a small thing, I'm not sure why anyone would play without fast-forward, so it would make more sense to me for that to be the default.