{"author_link":"\/users\/bradcode","author_name":"BradCode","author_uid":"1001430","comments":[{"author_name":"BlackOpsBen","author_uid":"1178809","time":"2020-04-20T03:56:01Z","epoch":1587354961,"modified":1587355021,"text":"Is this a good score? That was fun!\n![flowers.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/97a\/b2\/z\/2d04f.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BlackOpsBen","author_uid":"1178809","time":"2020-04-20T03:57:56Z","epoch":1587355076,"modified":1587355076,"text":"Site is being weird. Did my comment with screenshot show up?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"squareoctopus","author_uid":"1183564","time":"2020-04-20T03:59:26Z","epoch":1587355166,"modified":1587355166,"text":"Excellent!! Really liked it!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"maxflav","author_uid":"1182231","time":"2020-04-20T04:12:28Z","epoch":1587355948,"modified":1587355948,"text":"I got a score of 48045. I couldn't quite figure out how best to prune the plant! I even looked up guides online about how to prune real plants...","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"maxflav","author_uid":"1182231","time":"2020-04-20T04:13:14Z","epoch":1587355994,"modified":1587355994,"text":"![Screen Shot 2020-04-19 at 9.10.59 PM.png](\/\/\/raw\/7d7\/c2\/z\/2d072.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"frances","author_uid":"1186530","time":"2020-04-20T05:05:34Z","epoch":1587359134,"modified":1587359134,"text":"The sound effect from getting the flowers is so satisfying! Nice game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DarriasArt","author_uid":"1145338","time":"2020-04-20T06:28:03Z","epoch":1587364083,"modified":1587364083,"text":"I like the combo system and that you can drop flowers further down the branch by clipping lower","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"1009853","time":"2020-04-21T05:08:34Z","epoch":1587445714,"modified":1587445714,"text":"Very nice :)\n\nI tried to kill the plant by cutting above the roots but only got lots of points from it :)\n\nReally neat! Only thing, find a different sound effect for the flower collecting ;)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"rosypenguin","author_uid":"1001668","time":"2020-04-21T05:33:08Z","epoch":1587447188,"modified":1587447188,"text":"The progressively higher pitch with each flower in a combo is so satisfying, I keep waiting for 5+ flowers before cutting them all off at once! However this strategy doesn't seem optimal for the plant, haha. Tried a few other strategies and can't seem to score very high; guess my bad luck with plants travels to the virtual world, haha. \n\nAnyways I had a lot of fun, and I love the simplicity and zen-like nature of the game. Great work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Maverick95","author_uid":"1194237","time":"2020-04-21T05:35:38Z","epoch":1587447338,"modified":1587447338,"text":"I really like the idea and how it connects with the kept it alive, plus is fun to play. The only thing I would change would be the sound effects, it's really high pitch in my opinion. Great work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Strega","author_uid":"1008735","time":"2020-04-21T05:52:20Z","epoch":1587448340,"modified":1587448340,"text":"Interesting mechanic, I like the way the plant expanded and when you cut a part it collects all the flowers. The cut and collect animations and sounds were satisfying!\n\n![Score.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/f12\/2\/z\/311c3.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mikejzx","author_uid":"1139578","time":"2020-04-21T06:28:20Z","epoch":1587450500,"modified":1587450500,"text":"Well this is actually a really cool game. Certainly large amounts of satisfaction in picking the flowers.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"aeveis","author_uid":"1004834","time":"2020-04-21T06:30:19Z","epoch":1587450619,"modified":1587450628,"text":"Final Score: 54600, Flowers: 78\n\nhad fun! Played through a couple times, and tried to get a lot of leaves and snip flowers and leaves\/stems as soon as they came out. Ended up with a plant where the flowers would usually grow in the same place and i would collect them right away. Nice job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Runuchok","author_uid":"1007445","time":"2020-04-21T08:00:42Z","epoch":1587456042,"modified":1587456042,"text":"Had fun playing!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BradCode","author_uid":"1001430","time":"2020-04-21T08:06:39Z","epoch":1587456399,"modified":1587456399,"text":"@endurion I really did want a different sound for the collecting. I even spent time working on one, but had to give up due to time and fall back to bfxr just to have something at all. I don't own a nice bronze bell to record :sweat_smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BradCode","author_uid":"1001430","time":"2020-04-21T08:08:59Z","epoch":1587456539,"modified":1587456539,"text":"@maverick95 you should have heard it before I clamped the pitch increase on combos. If you scored more than 6 flowers it was ear-splitting. I tried to aim for something that ended up sounding like a chord, but maybe I needed to clamp it down even a bit more or start lower.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"brzyrt","author_uid":"1184219","time":"2020-04-21T14:01:18Z","epoch":1587477678,"modified":1587477678,"text":"Very cool game, the sound feels great, but could use some background music. The graphics are really pleasant and the way it grows feels very natural. It is satisfying to get rows of flowers and I like how there is some difficulty to chaining up combos. There really isn't much I don't like! Great Job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"zimny11","author_uid":"1177882","time":"2020-04-22T19:12:02Z","epoch":1587582722,"modified":1587582722,"text":"I had fun playing and figuring out what is the catch to get more flower! And here is my final score :)\n![example.png](\/\/\/raw\/ad6\/b2\/z\/3280d.png) ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"bereg","author_uid":"1191062","time":"2020-04-22T20:57:58Z","epoch":1587589078,"modified":1587589078,"text":"The concept is interesting, it's not clear what cutting the plant does, so maybe a simple tutorial screen could help such slow people like me.\nBut overall it's a cool looking and unique puzzle, so I enjoyed it. Great game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BradCode","author_uid":"1001430","time":"2020-04-23T03:15:58Z","epoch":1587611758,"modified":1587611758,"text":"@bereg Yeah, I had considered doing more explanation, but I thought it might spoil some of the fun of trying to figure out how it works. Maybe I could have a \"gardening book\" you can consult if you felt like you needed some extra help. Thanks for the feedback!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Somniac","author_uid":"1194756","time":"2020-04-25T05:20:13Z","epoch":1587792013,"modified":1587792013,"text":"Loved the hands grabbing all the flowers. Fun game and well executed.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ricargoes","author_uid":"1185391","time":"2020-04-25T15:11:21Z","epoch":1587827481,"modified":1587827481,"text":"Quite nice. I like the mechanics and the simple graphics. The combo sounds are very satisfying. What I like the most was how you have to figure out how to optimize your pruning, it gives a cool twist to the puzzle","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"blobo","author_uid":"1008715","time":"2020-04-25T20:20:19Z","epoch":1587846019,"modified":1587846019,"text":"A fun little game! Cool stuff, and great work.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Cadstor","author_uid":"1198181","time":"2020-04-25T21:16:25Z","epoch":1587849385,"modified":1587849385,"text":"Cool game! Btw if you put some relaxing like chillout music for the background increase the mood.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BradCode","author_uid":"1001430","time":"2020-04-25T21:59:32Z","epoch":1587851972,"modified":1587851972,"text":"@cadstor I almost busted out my guitar to try to make some kind of track, but didn't feel like I had time to get to something that wouldn't be too repetitive.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"vulpineblazeyt","author_uid":"1006201","time":"2020-04-26T23:05:25Z","epoch":1587942325,"modified":1587942325,"text":"I'm a Sunflower farmer on Stardew and absolutely loved this game.  I think I got a pattern and got a really high score despite only collecting 51 flowers.  ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Andrfw","author_uid":"1010615","time":"2020-04-30T05:07:52Z","epoch":1588223272,"modified":1588223272,"text":"I love the shamelessly emergent nature of the gameplay. I don't feel like the you, as a developer, are trying to guide the player at all, it's just man versus automata. Great time, honestly.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"davidsheadgames","author_uid":"1085047","time":"2020-05-06T02:09:48Z","epoch":1588730988,"modified":1588730988,"text":"I wasn't exactly sure how to play this one to its maximum peak. It felt a bit random as to whether a leaf\/flower\/plant piece would live or die suddenly. I did find you could trim the whole bush in one snip at the bottom, which was super satisfying.\n\nThe sounds were satisfying too.\n\nI think with an explanation of the underlying rules, or with something more predictable, you could make a great puzzle challenge from this. Someone above seemed to figure it out much better than I did, so there's a winning strategy to this.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Demandooda","author_uid":"1013977","time":"2020-05-11T03:25:13Z","epoch":1589167513,"modified":1589167513,"text":"25,200! I thought the mechanics were really cool and interesting. Very good casual game, and the sounds were really satisfying. Great game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BradCode","author_uid":"1001430","time":"2020-05-16T04:28:40Z","epoch":1589603320,"modified":1589603320,"text":"@andrfw Thank you so much for this comment. Reading this really made my day!","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/198995-386bae228def3257bc734260f6ad65ae.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bradasaurus.com\/games\/ld46\/","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bradasaurus.com\/games\/ld46\/FlowerDreamsSource.zip","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"58789","g_author":"1001430","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"269384","g_title":"Flower Dreams","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"342","g_commentcount":"30","g_site2_node_id":"198995","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"198995","n_urlkey":"269384","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/flower-dreams","n_slug":"flower-dreams","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"1430","n_created":"1587324024","n_modified":"1587612059","n_version":"625974","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":198995,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":1430,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2020-04-19T23:05:23Z","created":"2020-04-19T19:20:24Z","modified":"2020-04-23T03:20:59Z","version":625974,"slug":"flower-dreams","name":"Flower Dreams","body":"![CoverImage.png](\/\/\/raw\/695\/z\/2c171.png)\n\n:sunflower: You are a gardener keeping a flower bush happy and healthy by trimming it. \n- Click to trim the plant.\n- Harvest flowers for points.\n- Try to figure out how to best nurture the plant.\n- Do your best before Winter comes.\n\nPost your high scores along with your feedback. Thanks!\n\n:iphone: Mobile Users:\n- I've tested the site on an Android phone and an Apple iPad through Chrome browser. It worked in both cases after clicking the \"OK\" button.\n\n:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Developer Notes\n- I've had cellular automata on my mind recently and had been thinking about ways to incorporate it into a game. When the theme popped up, I had this idea of an out of control plant that you had to trim to keep it from growing into lava or being devoured by snails and things. This result ends up being a little bit more peaceful, but I may continue to build on it later.\n- One of the main challenges was passing nutrients around the cells. A cell can only manipulate itself in the current setup, so I had to make a system where the cells mark some of their energy for donation and their neighbors gain based on that value. I think a better system would have been to do a flow of nutrients outside the CA as a separate pass.\n- I wish I'd had more time to play test and tune the sim.\n- Overall, it's been a while since I've gotten to do a Ludum Dare and I'm grateful for the opportunity.\n- The audio is 1) snipping branches with a pair of pruning shears. 2) grabbing tissues with gardening gloves on. 3) bfxr \"coin\" because I couldn't get a good bell sound.","meta":{"author":[1430],"link-01-tag":[42336],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/695\/z\/2bdff.png","link-01":"http:\/\/www.bradasaurus.com\/games\/ld46\/","link-02":"http:\/\/www.bradasaurus.com\/games\/ld46\/FlowerDreamsSource.zip","link-02-tag":[42332],"link-02-name":"zip"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/flower-dreams","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":30,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-16T04:28:40Z","grade":{"grade-01":36,"grade-02":36,"grade-03":36,"grade-04":35,"grade-05":35,"grade-06":36,"grade-07":27,"grade-08":33},"magic":{"cool":76.33523216165,"feedback":36,"given":19.375,"grade":34.25,"grade-01-average":3.618,"grade-01-result":342,"grade-02-average":3.559,"grade-02-result":313,"grade-03-average":3.868,"grade-03-result":139,"grade-04-average":3.47,"grade-04-result":709,"grade-05-average":3.364,"grade-05-result":578,"grade-06-average":2.941,"grade-06-result":582,"grade-07-average":2.44,"grade-07-result":661,"grade-08-average":3.258,"grade-08-result":477,"smart":-1.8417782539314}},"text":"![CoverImage.png](\/\/\/raw\/695\/z\/2c171.png)\n\n:sunflower: You are a gardener keeping a flower bush happy and healthy by trimming it. \n- Click to trim the plant.\n- Harvest flowers for points.\n- Try to figure out how to best nurture the plant.\n- Do your best before Winter comes.\n\nPost your high scores along with your feedback. Thanks!\n\n:iphone: Mobile Users:\n- I've tested the site on an Android phone and an Apple iPad through Chrome browser. It worked in both cases after clicking the \"OK\" button.\n\n:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Developer Notes\n- I've had cellular automata on my mind recently and had been thinking about ways to incorporate it into a game. When the theme popped up, I had this idea of an out of control plant that you had to trim to keep it from growing into lava or being devoured by snails and things. This result ends up being a little bit more peaceful, but I may continue to build on it later.\n- One of the main challenges was passing nutrients around the cells. A cell can only manipulate itself in the current setup, so I had to make a system where the cells mark some of their energy for donation and their neighbors gain based on that value. I think a better system would have been to do a flow of nutrients outside the CA as a separate pass.\n- I wish I'd had more time to play test and tune the sim.\n- Overall, it's been a while since I've gotten to do a Ludum Dare and I'm grateful for the opportunity.\n- The audio is 1) snipping branches with a pair of pruning shears. 2) grabbing tissues with gardening gloves on. 3) bfxr \"coin\" because I couldn't get a good bell sound.","title":"Flower Dreams"}