Gaia Vine by Soron

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made by Soron for LD34 (JAM)
=== Description ===

You are the Gaia Vine, an alien being capable of spreading life to new lands.

You've drifted down to a new, barren island, and wish to spread shrubbery and trees across the land. Make your way from one shore, to the other!

=== Gameplay ===

Right-click (or any key) to throw seeds, which grow trees and rarely bushes.

Left-click to swing on trees. Note: click just _past_ the target.

The distance you throw seeds depends on whether you're swinging, stationary, or moving through the air.

Only two seeds can be thrown at a time - time your tosses strategically!

When you reach the far end of the island, a few stats will be shown. Have fun swinging around and planting seeds until then!

=== Stats ===

NUMBER OF TREES: How many trees you've planted

MAX SPEED: Maximum player velocity, in pixels per second (lag-adjusted)

MAX HEIGHT: How high you've reached relative to the bottom of the ocean, in pixels

FURTHEST FLIGHT: The maximum distance you've traveled without colliding with the ground, in pixels

=== THEME ===

We chose "Growing" as the primary theme, and limited ourselves to 2 mouse buttons (and mouse position) in order to have "Two Button Controls" as as secondary theme.

=== TEAM ===

Ethan "Soron" Kaminski: core programming

Billy Fluid: art, music, sound

James Peng: additional programming

Feedback

samreid
15. Dec 2015 · 03:10 UTC
Nice work, the tree graphics are excellent and the physics was enjoyable.
disdanes
15. Dec 2015 · 03:10 UTC
Really enjoyed the swinging, and loved some of the obstacles to get past. The seeds grew really fast which was cool. Nice original idea!
jcmonkey
15. Dec 2015 · 03:12 UTC
interesting game, i like the spider man swing thing.
walaber
15. Dec 2015 · 05:51 UTC
nice work. I like that you incorporated both themes.
fistmaker
16. Dec 2015 · 01:54 UTC
Game played well. Interesting concept. Not sure how to "win", but fun to play anyway.
CalmKai
16. Dec 2015 · 01:54 UTC
Fun!
Ghen
20. Dec 2015 · 18:50 UTC
i like the mechanic and the whole idea
but sometimes its hard to click to the plant, overall nice game
psychomonster
23. Dec 2015 · 11:17 UTC
+1 Artwork
+1 Idea
But it needs some polishing for the gameplay. I enjoey it . Good job