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One Tough Flower by SophieMae0

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made by SophieMae0 for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

DOWNLOAD HERE hello.png Screenshot from 2020-04-20 21-06-49.png

CHOOSE YOUR HERO: Carrot1.pngFront Wind Sneezy1.pngIce2.pngSeed Yawning1.png

Press S to Start

Press A to Speed Up the Lava

See how long you can survive in this flower placing game. Each flower has a different ability but the name of the game is to protect the green seedlings. If they all die then it is GAME OVER. The seedlings also produce seeds at the end of each wave so plant more seedlings to seed more plants. The lava comes in waves where you can see the cracks before the volcano erupts so use that time strategically to plant defenses. If lava touches a plant it does insane damage!! Windmill flowers blow any lava that lands on them in the direction they are facing, tough carrots can take a buttload of damage and mistletoes explode into an icy blizzard when they die. Use these flowers to protect the sleepy seedlings that die instantly when touched by the lava. Happy planting!

Youtube https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uAfi7ZhdmmHG4HR2uYqUQClLA4dN0Xym
Youtube https://drive.google.com/open?id=127jOX0nNumYi0uhpZfS8bjbG5CBvmRFz
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/one-tough-flower

Ratings

Overall 1724th 3.274⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1849th 3⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1205th 3.297⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 961th 3.774⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1297th 3.576⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Humor 497th 3.516⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1682th 3.113⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 38🗳️ 40🗨️

Feedback

Blue Pin Studio
21. Apr 2020 · 04:59 UTC
Had fun, nice little game :) Had a bit of trouble figuring out how to place the towers then realized theres mouse controls haha my bad. My favorite part are the sounds
mcprog
21. Apr 2020 · 05:04 UTC
The music doesn't seem to fit very well with the theme. I had trouble figuring out the point of the game
Erik Jans
21. Apr 2020 · 05:10 UTC
Too bad the sounds are taken from undertale (or might be some other game).
William Derksen
21. Apr 2020 · 17:38 UTC
At first, I wasn't entirely sure the how to best approach surviving. But over the course of exploring the different plant options, I came to understand the depth of potential strategy in the game haha! I still don't know what's best! Made it to round 15 by first spreading seed boys all over the screen, and then trying to make little seed bunkers with carrot and flower guys in the corners. I feel like the strategy could be made better somehow by utilizing the blizzard guy!

I loved it! I only wish there had been further explanations for what each flower does as it took a while to understand how they and the lava worked.

Especially loved the sound recordings haha! <3

Also great job with the variance in how the lava works over time! Made it necessary to switch strategies of the course of the game.
automatonvx
21. Apr 2020 · 22:56 UTC
I'm sorry i was just confused about this was meant to work i place down some flowers and random lava may or may not spawn and kill them? Shame because the art was cute and i liked the set up of the story and I have the feeling there is an interesting game there if i could figure it out.
rkhadder
22. Apr 2020 · 01:54 UTC
Sound effects were the best part - they were hilarious.

The game took awhile to learn and once learned took played slow. I think if you increased the game speed a little it would be more fun and if you included some sort of in game tutorial it would have been helpful.

This is one of the most innovative games I've played. Awesome work!

Ba bada ba!
🎤 SophieMae0
22. Apr 2020 · 05:05 UTC
@rkhadder thanks for the feedback! If we had more time we would have definitely liked to add a tutorial (and if this quarantine goes on much longer maybe we will just for fun). We are so glad you enjoyed our first ludemdare game!
davision
22. Apr 2020 · 12:00 UTC
Interesting concept and nice style. I feel the gameplay could do with less RNG, like you get some idea where lava appears or that some lava stays and then grows each round. Well, somehow that there is more strategy to it.
curleysam
22. Apr 2020 · 17:46 UTC
Took me a minute to understand how it worked but had surprising depth once I did! The sounds made me laugh out loud 😂 Very cool idea!
AdrianKrawczyk
22. Apr 2020 · 17:47 UTC
my game is also about plant, check it out if you want!
Jofish
22. Apr 2020 · 18:07 UTC
You have my eternal respect for making such a playable game in pygame, of all things. I think the pixel art is wonderful and the voices are hilarious. My only trouble is that I didn't really understand how I was supposed to be strategic about my placement, partly because I wasn't totally clear on the actual effects of each plant. I think a little more feedback to the player might be helpful, like an effect every time a plant performs its particular action, or a number popping up each time more seeds are produced. It's still a very impressive thing though, and I found the story aspect strangely compelling. Thanks!
Maskrosen
22. Apr 2020 · 18:12 UTC
Interesting puzzle mixed with some reacting time gameplay. The graphics are super cute as well as the sound effects. Good job!
🎤 SophieMae0
22. Apr 2020 · 18:26 UTC
@jofish thanks for the feedback! If we add anything in the future for fun, responses would be a great feature to add for sure
MZA
22. Apr 2020 · 18:33 UTC
I haven't seen a good game made with pygame until now (no disrespect to pygame). This game is soo damn fun and you managed to explain everything so clearly, which is important for such a game. Congrats on the 20+ ratings too.
RexGame
22. Apr 2020 · 19:21 UTC
i like but i'm bad ^^' xD
NSwift
22. Apr 2020 · 20:03 UTC
RIP headphone users...) Interesting concept nonetheless.
Bisvilla
22. Apr 2020 · 21:50 UTC
Really pretty and personnal :)
Neat !
Paul Nadan
22. Apr 2020 · 22:48 UTC
The art and sound effects were awesome! The gameplay had some nice strategy once I got into it, but my first run it took me a while to figure things out. It would have been nice to start with a kind of tutorial where you introduce each plant type one at a time and demonstrate how it can be useful for some specific situation, just to help with the learning curve. Overall though this was a lot of fun, nice work!
MrsTari
23. Apr 2020 · 11:39 UTC
this is really cool :heart: the sounds are funny <3 i love it =)
CosmicCrystalGames
25. Apr 2020 · 12:58 UTC
Good use of the theme and great sounds effects. I feel if you guys had a bit more time to fit in a tutorial, that would of made the experience a little less frustrating at the start. This was fun to play around with, good job for your first ludum jam :)
khaoz-fang
28. Apr 2020 · 15:57 UTC
The plants and their sound effects are cute. I still don't understand how does the lava and the plants works...