{"author_link":"\/author\/retrogradeorbit\/","author_name":"retrogradeorbit","author_uid":"40126","comments":[{"author_name":"Darek Greenly","author_uid":"38590","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1450112700,"text":"This is one of those game I could spend lots of time playing. Love it :)"},{"author_name":"chr15m","author_uid":"1719","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:46am","epoch":1450150860,"text":"Great balance! Love it. XD"},{"author_name":"Frenchie","author_uid":"43979","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:00am","epoch":1450166100,"text":"Really well done. The music, art, and gameplay all fit really well together!"},{"author_name":"Maxi and The Gang","author_uid":"3968","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:16am","epoch":1450167060,"text":"made me play for a long time~! pretty fun!! very balanced"},{"author_name":"TomenLuca","author_uid":"66261","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:42am","epoch":1450179420,"text":"The graphics work really well with the gameplay. I love how this game shows that you don't need detailed art to create engaging gameplay. As a matter of fact, I think this game works best with the simplistic graphics it has. Great stuff!"},{"author_name":"danthedev","author_uid":"64055","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:49am","epoch":1450179840,"text":"One of the best games I've come across from LD2015. Very balanced base that could become a great exploration\/settling game. Also enjoyed reading your code &mdash; love cljs and had not heard of infinitelevels before."},{"author_name":"prymidion","author_uid":"47070","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:50am","epoch":1450179900,"text":"Stylish and addicting."},{"author_name":"tyrants.not.found.team","author_uid":"66002","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:53am","epoch":1450180080,"text":"Ok this is now one of my favorites.\r<br\/>Nice execution, really zen, art is good, growing theme is captured, well done!\r<br\/>And I played a while with it, more than with other games, so yeah, that's good\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Cheers,\r<br\/>Ionut(Tyrants.not.found team)"},{"author_name":"Jakob37","author_uid":"50156","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:58am","epoch":1450180380,"text":"Interesting idea! I like the lo-fi graphics, especially the hippy sprite :D, though the buttons were a bit hard to understand. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good work!"},{"author_name":"maunovaha","author_uid":"41499","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1450193040,"text":"Pretty cool entry. Maybe one of the bests I have played so far. The simple graphics style fits the game &amp; audio etc. :) well done."},{"author_name":"sonelliot","author_uid":"55213","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:04am","epoch":1450234740,"text":"I really enjoyed playing this game. I like the style and atmosphere. It would be nice to have some way of scaring off the hippies haha. I just left one of my bushes as bait for them to crowd around and smoke, so that they would leave the others in peace."},{"author_name":"publicidadeba","author_uid":"63879","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 1:20am","epoch":1450314900,"text":"Moody, Really liked the music."},{"author_name":"tantumgames","author_uid":"60654","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 1:04pm","epoch":1450357140,"text":"Nice graphics. Well done."},{"author_name":"samsquanch9","author_uid":"64436","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1450453680,"text":"Very fun jam game. Excellent work."},{"author_name":"lucentbeam","author_uid":"25522","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 3:59am","epoch":1450497240,"text":"Damn hippies! They need to get a job and leave my plants alone. What kind of berries am I growing, anyway, that they're so intent on smoking them?"},{"author_name":"Shide","author_uid":"29081","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 9:51am","epoch":1450604760,"text":"Somehow the major issue with this game was also the thing that hooked me. Didn't read the description and went right to the game, ended not understanding what's going on, so it was fun to actually try and understand what should I do and how to earn money. That's because UI is not obvious at all, which is bad, but then you can fix UI and make understanding the players functionality to a core gameplay. That would be cool. Still nice entry :)"},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 1:54pm","epoch":1450705740,"text":"It's quite slow pace, which feels nice. I mostly just planted stuff and wondered for a bit, and harvested what I grew."},{"author_name":"Skywilly","author_uid":"4255","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 1:25am","epoch":1451265600,"text":"A great idea &amp; a Two Buttons challenge really fine accepted ;)"},{"author_name":"Fadobo","author_uid":"15165","time":"Jan 3, 2016 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1451848920,"text":"Pretty cool. Tickles my Harvest Moon bone."},{"author_name":"SinclairStrange","author_uid":"44332","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 5:52pm","epoch":1451929620,"text":"Very nice and relaxing game I felt, even if you're taking down flies! I really like the art and audio, really captures the feeling! Great stuff overall!"}],"images":["ld34\/40126-a3f6e6aa8829fed82363ce2498520253.jpg","ld34\/40126-fda13e598358261c34cb012fb90ff8e3.jpg","ld34\/40126-315a50eab3f13fecd951d0bc7e2cef80.jpg","ld34\/40126-18fc0c0b408f1b4ddf5780e3077754a5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ld34.procrustes.net","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/retrogradeorbit\/ld34","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6062","g_author":"40126","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"6052","g_title":"Let It Grow!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"306","g_commentcount":"20","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/40126-shot0-1450102399.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/40126-shot1-1450143442.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/40126-shot2-1450102901.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/40126-shot3-1450143442.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"*** Runs Best In Chrome ***\r\n\r\nWho said money doesn't grow on trees?\r\n\r\nGrow your way to a million dollars!\r\n\r\nInstructions\r\n------------\r\n\r\nMouse and two mouse buttons.\r\n\r\nLeft button interact with game. Right button, hold down and drag to scroll.\r\n\r\nTo move the player, click on a damp spot on the ground as a destination.\r\n\r\nTo plant a seed, click on the player and then click the top 'plant seed' icon. Wait for the seed planting to complete.\r\n\r\nTo harvest a bush, move the player right on top of the bush. Then click 'harvest' icon. The bush must be fully mature to harvest.\r\n\r\nOnce you have some money you can use bug spray. Click the player and then the 'spray' icon when you are near bugs.\r\n\r\nBugs stunt plant growth. \r\n\r\nHippies smoke the plant and hurt your final yield.\r\n\r\nPowerups:\r\n\r\nClick the caravan. Top power up is 'level up player'. Makes them chop and plant faster. (cost 1000, then 2000, 4000, 8000 etc)\r\n\r\nThe bottom right icon, arrow up, is 'level up fertiliser'. Doubles the growth rate of future plants. (cost 5000, then 10000, 20000, 30000 etc)\r\n\r\nThe bottom left icon, a little seed, is 'level up seeding'. Doing this increases the possible maxium seeds that a plant will give you when harvested by one. (cost 10000, then 30000, 90000)\r\n\r\nTo win:\r\n\r\nEarn a million dollars!\r\n\r\n\r\nBugs:\r\n\r\nSometimes you can spend more than you have and your money goes negative.\r\nCant move player to light green grass.\r\nNo win condition detected.\r\nNeeds tool tips and on boarding.\r\nHippies and Flies need AI tuning to scale game difficulty.\r\nVarious other bugs, too.\r\n\r\nTools:\r\n\r\nDeveloped in clojurescript using infinitelives library.\r\n\r\ngrafx2 for graphics\r\n\r\njsfxr for sfx\r\n\r\nBy:\r\n\r\nEverything from scratch over 72 hours by Crispin Wellington.\r\n\r\nNever implemented a winning screen and was going to make hippies avoid you so you could chase them away, but ran out of time.","title":"Let It Grow!"}