Faire L'Amour aux Plantes by Jenny Bourke

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made by Jenny Bourke for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Germinate plants and keep them alive with your delicious kisses! Half plant clicker game, half dating sim, half cottage core, and half Eraserhead, this game supports your wildest dreams. Water, kiss, grow, and keep alive, and maybe one day you will finally get that exquisite smooch from Niel DeGrass Tyson that you've always dreamed of!!!

Instructions

Click on your plants to kiss them, keeping them alive. If they die, you lose! If you kiss them enough, they will grow! Maybe one day, Niel DeGrass Tyson will give you the kisses you desire.

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Ratings

Overall 1147th 3.528⭐ 144🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1844th 3.014⭐ 141🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1421th 3.192⭐ 140🧑‍⚖️
Theme 530th 3.989⭐ 144🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 454th 4.157⭐ 145🧑‍⚖️
Audio 525th 3.648⭐ 137🧑‍⚖️
Humor 149th 3.989⭐ 140🧑‍⚖️
Mood 582th 3.739⭐ 140🧑‍⚖️
Given 140🗳️ 149🗨️

Feedback

X-c
21. Apr 2020 · 01:25 UTC
Great and strange game)
HendrikBoom3
21. Apr 2020 · 01:40 UTC
That was fun. A lot depends on being able to move the mouse fast.
LocksmithArmy
21. Apr 2020 · 01:42 UTC
What is happening in my life that I feel like kissing plants...
SnowyCocoon
21. Apr 2020 · 01:45 UTC
Love the artwork!
bjl
21. Apr 2020 · 01:46 UTC
Jeu amusant. Je ne m'attendais pas à en trouver un comme ça, mais j'ai bien aimé. Bon travail. Et j'ai pu garder toutes mes plantes en vie.
Peet Klecha
21. Apr 2020 · 01:47 UTC
trop mignon!
Effarek
21. Apr 2020 · 01:47 UTC
Strange game indeed but quite funny. I had some difficulties with hitboxes but I made it till the end !
Izokia
21. Apr 2020 · 01:47 UTC
Really nailed the theme here. Game was fun. I TRIED TO KEEP THEM ALIVE BUT WHO KNEW JUGGLING BETWEEN 5 PLANTS WERE HARD!! A little on the stranger side, but made for some laughs. Art was enjoyable and seemed polished. Great game simple concept :thumbsup:
Kristian Kurktchiev
21. Apr 2020 · 01:51 UTC
I enjoyed the game! Fun little thing, aesthetically pleasing to boot!
mike09123
21. Apr 2020 · 01:52 UTC
Great art!
Billnotic
21. Apr 2020 · 01:52 UTC
I mean the gameplay is literally just clicking, but the art was cute and the idea was fun. Fits the theme quite well too because it does feel like you are frantically trying to keep the plants alive.
giraffesareburning
21. Apr 2020 · 01:58 UTC
When I lost the first time... I wanted to try again because I wanted to see what new plants there could be... but then I didn't want to try again because I would have to do all that clicking again while listening to the kiss sound. Great visuals and interesting creatures!
Persimmons
21. Apr 2020 · 01:58 UTC
This is so beautiful in every possible way! Plants Do need lots of love, and the art and color palette is just beautiful!
Mishoulin
21. Apr 2020 · 01:58 UTC
It really hurts to play this without a mouse, but props for the funny/slightly uncomfortable theme!
orlandobatista
21. Apr 2020 · 02:00 UTC
The art style is amazing and the theme is really suitable. The concept is strange but quite funny.
Technically speaking, the hitboxes seems a little off. I guess it is due to the screen resolution that is not fitting the web view size.
weil
21. Apr 2020 · 02:01 UTC
i really liked it even though it's a little perverted!
relixes
21. Apr 2020 · 02:02 UTC
The art and the sounds are pretty funny and great. The font on the game makes it really hard to read the texts. After I completed the game I skipped the final screen because I was clicking furiously on the plants to keep them alive. ):
Maybe you could make the final screen "unskipable" for at least 2~3 seconds so people won't skeep it unitentionally like me.
Hueson
21. Apr 2020 · 02:03 UTC
The pot on the far right was a bit hard to click as it was partly behind the pot in front of it. This had a nice frantic pace. You constantly have to bounce around the screen and be on the lookout for what's about to bite it.
Ezra Szanton
21. Apr 2020 · 02:04 UTC
Ahhh this is great, love the art, love the genre subversion. Warms my heart (and creeps me out a little) complicated emotions! I'd love to see this built out into a bigger game with a couple other mechanics, like maybe rubbing them with oil or shining sunshine on them - perhaps explore holding down the mouse and dragging over them? Either way, fantastic game! Thanks for making it :)
croze
21. Apr 2020 · 02:07 UTC
What on Earth did I just play lmao, is this what polyamory is like? I didn't want to kiss that weird looking carrot tbh, but my wish kind of came true, because through my hectic clicking I must have clicked whatever button brings you past the "You win!" screen, so sadly I didn't get to see what happens at the very end :(
Briibot
21. Apr 2020 · 02:11 UTC
A really cute art style for this!!☆
willjardine
21. Apr 2020 · 02:11 UTC
It was a bit slow with the first, one plant level but really ramped up after that. I really love the art!
willjardine
21. Apr 2020 · 02:11 UTC
It was a bit slow with the first, one plant level but really ramped up after that. I really love the art!
Purrseus
21. Apr 2020 · 02:24 UTC
Very dreamlike, totally absorbing in it's beautiful weirdness.
mmason
21. Apr 2020 · 02:24 UTC
Very pretty game, I wish there was a little bit more to do
Jack Kaloger
21. Apr 2020 · 02:50 UTC
amazing artwork and music. can get very intense towards the end
Los
21. Apr 2020 · 03:10 UTC
amazing and strange :)
Rebecca Harrison
21. Apr 2020 · 03:11 UTC
Hilarious game! So much fun to play it on stream! I don't want to talk about what happened at the end though... >_>
Sarok
21. Apr 2020 · 06:54 UTC
Great art! Makes me want to take of some plants, although I may not go as far as kissing them ;)
Andre Fremaux
21. Apr 2020 · 09:35 UTC
Loved the art for this game! Each plants design was a little creepy yet strangely pleasing haha.
Quite basic in gameplay but still a fun and whimsical experience! Great job guys!
Artyom Volkov
21. Apr 2020 · 20:00 UTC
After playing this game it's hard to go pass a plant without kissing...
leafthief
22. Apr 2020 · 06:53 UTC
I enjoyed the closeups when *going in for the smooch* :kiss:
Bongooo
22. Apr 2020 · 07:05 UTC
Just played! very nice! Probably I will tweet about this in the next day on this page https://twitter.com/Free_IndieGames !
Junebug
22. Apr 2020 · 07:49 UTC
For the first 4/5ths of the game I was thinking "wow, I love these plant designs" and then you made me kiss a naked Neil deGrasse Tyson plant and for that I can never forgive you.
DemKimos
22. Apr 2020 · 10:20 UTC
Quite the weird game. The gameplay sure could be improved, I think there could be more interesting challenges than adding more plants. The premise is ridiculous and funny, though. Quand même, j'ai eu plaisir avec votre jeu. Bon travail et merci beacoup
Qazikol
22. Apr 2020 · 11:50 UTC
I am unashamed of my lust for plants. Really wonderful all-round, especially the gorgeous music and illustration!
Actyl
22. Apr 2020 · 15:36 UTC
Hey! Lovely project, hope you're all doing well. Missing RPI a bit these days.
PrimalShadow
22. Apr 2020 · 16:47 UTC
Very nice simple game. The artwork is fantastic, the game is humorous and the gameplay is fun with a decent progression of difficulty as the game goes on. Well done!
NoamRaz
22. Apr 2020 · 17:50 UTC
Cool Game! Like It
Meme_310
22. Apr 2020 · 17:51 UTC
I liked graphics and font a lot. The game was weird xD. Simple and nice.
Pandanym
22. Apr 2020 · 18:33 UTC
Absolutely gorgeous art style, you nailed the cute/weird balance perfectly. Thank you for your entry !
Omiya Games
23. Apr 2020 · 01:59 UTC
Well, that was an unexpected ending.

Some feedback:
Given how often I clicked each plant, the kissing sound effect got annoying very fast. It would have been nice if variations of the kissing sound effect were selected randomly and played. It would have probably been interesting if mid-way through the game, more than one new plant were introduced.

Also, the cutscene where the protag and plant kiss was a little confusing, because one could still click on the plants at get the kissing sound effect. This made me think the plants were still dying in the background, though careful observation revealed time pauses during these moments. I feel these pauses could have been better communicated visually and interactively, e.g. by plopping a full screen background like the ending, and preventing interactivity with prior plants.
JuanJ7
23. Apr 2020 · 09:29 UTC
The art was good but the game size doesn't scale so it crops if the screen is small. The kiss concept was a bit strange.
Rongefilet
23. Apr 2020 · 16:53 UTC
Not sure how you came up with that concept but I'm grad you did. I especially liked how it rapidly transition to almost a rhythm game with mouse precision involved, but those cutscenes though, each time I was wondering if I shouldn't just let those disgusting things die ^^". Great game, congrats!
WhenYouCantFindAFriend
23. Apr 2020 · 17:25 UTC
I really love the art style and the color palette! Kinda reminds me of the book "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett where Crowley scares his plants to remain healthy. I know I have cried over a dead plant before so I can relate to this game! Sometimes they need a bit of extra love! Ha Ha! kinda creepy and cute at the same time.
Apandso
23. Apr 2020 · 19:46 UTC
A very unique game :D Graphics style was pretty cool!
imod
23. Apr 2020 · 22:27 UTC
Strange and interesting game :) I very liked art.
AdamCYounis
24. Apr 2020 · 06:25 UTC
Très Adorable! I thought the concept, art and music were very charming on this one (if, at times somewhat disturbing). The gameplay was, sadly, just a little bit on the thin side. I would have really like some extra dynamic that changed the interaction somewhat, as the game is pretty much solved once you can cycle through the plants, which is easy enough. A very short but sweet entry. Thanks for the game!
marcusnystrand
24. Apr 2020 · 13:26 UTC
Really weird yet lovely game. Beautiful and unique art style and nice music. For me it plays fine in full screen but non-full screen looks cropped.

Great job!
Edalbung
24. Apr 2020 · 15:14 UTC
Magnifique jeu ! I really liked the concept, and the fast paced gameplay to keep the plants alives !
The graphic style, the music, the feedback sounds are very nice !

Overall, very good work on your game !
thebreakfast
24. Apr 2020 · 20:45 UTC
The music and art give this a very unique cute atmosphere. The plants were a little creepy which made a strange contrast (in a good way). The concept is pretty funny! Mechanically it is missing a bit I think. Some variation to add challenge, maybe needing to click on specific leaves on the plant or something. I also missed the final cutscene because I was still clicking when it appeared, and it skipped the ending picture. Thank you for putting those pictures in your description here!
pee-thief
25. Apr 2020 · 04:06 UTC
@whenyoucantfindafriend Love Good Omens!
ursagames
25. Apr 2020 · 05:29 UTC
Hello! Your game was played during my stream!

If you want to know the timestamp of when your game was played you can see it in this spreadsheet:
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And then look in my latest videos and find your game being play (after the current stream ends)
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hwaet
25. Apr 2020 · 05:45 UTC
haha oh my, this was an unexpected submission. A very unique take on the theme! And it was suitably challenging to get to our favorite Neil. It's okay though, there's other... plants... in the sea...
davekingcool
25. Apr 2020 · 08:04 UTC
Neil is finally mine.
MuchoBestoStudio
25. Apr 2020 · 16:30 UTC
Strange game with a beautiful art style. 😘🌱
AbsoluteDS
25. Apr 2020 · 17:31 UTC
I like the art design. But unfortunately, you just have to click. Maybe had more interaction, like give water and something else.

But still good job
yangying
25. Apr 2020 · 18:04 UTC
It's a funny game even though the title actually is really easy to misunderstand to some weird things😂. I like the sound effect and the girl graphics. It should reflect so quickly at the end of game and I actually cannot cover all the planets in the end, that's so hard.
FarBeyond Studio
25. Apr 2020 · 18:12 UTC
That was so hilarious and so creepy :smile: It can happen that you accidently skip the final cutscene when you're clicking in raging love :sweat_smile: And I think it isn't displayed correctly on 1600x900. But I loved this. So creative, and such a lovely art style!
freakoftheyear
25. Apr 2020 · 18:18 UTC
Very weird but amusing :)
PicusBGames
25. Apr 2020 · 18:21 UTC
Interesting choices and game :) I don't know who Neil is but I will google that lol :)
legavroche
25. Apr 2020 · 20:40 UTC
Hilarious concept, and I loved the visuals and art style. I think I found a way to cheese the game though. If you just click the new plant, it'll eventually grow and then you get the cutscene and can reset all their timers. Also I would've liked some other button or key to restart the game, since players are already clicking the mouse like mad and it was very easy to skip the ending screen with a unintended click.
Historymaker118
25. Apr 2020 · 20:50 UTC
This was the weirdest game I've played this LD. Not sure how to really respond to this as it's so 'out there' as a concept. I guess the art and music were well done, and the game didn't have any bugs that I could find. Perhaps my only complaint is that it's perhaps too easy and too short.
peterfiftyfour
26. Apr 2020 · 06:02 UTC
A fleshy baby came out of neil degrasse tyson puckered lips thanks i hate it. Cool entry tho very original haha. My only comment is the font is a bit hard to read. Needs more nightmarish plants to smooch
TheKingBarry
26. Apr 2020 · 08:50 UTC
What a strange experience, yet fascinating with the help of the nice DA and nice cello score. The idea is very original, nice entry in the Ludum Dare !
tweedle
26. Apr 2020 · 11:26 UTC
was clicking n smoochin like a madman at the end and clicked thru my big moment with Neil RIP my heart, one of my favorite games so far! nice job to all!
Mircea123
26. Apr 2020 · 14:09 UTC
Well.... Now I will receive notifications about this...

Yeah.. Let's say that the reason I am not asking you out is this fetish of yours.
Mulberg
27. Apr 2020 · 05:15 UTC
That. Was. Weird. =) I kissed to the win!
Vesper
28. Apr 2020 · 10:49 UTC
So bizarre, but I loved those plant designs (the skull plant has my heart). Definitely second that comment on mixing up the sound effects a little, as repetitive noises can become annoying. Sometimes the clicking was not as specific as I would have liked, and that lead to a brief moment of panic where I thought my plants were going to die - but, that's what it's all about, so things were good on the engagement front. A strange but diverting little game. Well done!
zondarg
28. Apr 2020 · 23:10 UTC
That was strange but fun. It was a bit hard to hit the correct plant after a while, so I clicked (kissed) but the second from the right kept losing energy and died. Nice music by the way! Good game! :thumbsup:
Skyeward
29. Apr 2020 · 02:29 UTC
I love the organic feel of this game! The painted art style and the real recorded music both work wonders for a game about growing plants. This game has a really strong mood, and a lot of humour.

I'd love to see a longer version of this game, perhaps with some more plant varieties and something to spice up the gameplay. I can't get enough of the strange, scary yet cute art style. Merci pour le jeu!
Lexyvil
29. Apr 2020 · 03:40 UTC
The gameplay was somewhat repetitive and simple, but the presentation was quite charming.
Scott Steffes
29. Apr 2020 · 17:16 UTC
OMG so many kisses!
The hand-drawn looking art style really set the mood.
Convg
30. Apr 2020 · 18:39 UTC
Cool game. Pretty funny and unexpected. Nice job
PoshDan
01. May 2020 · 11:57 UTC
Those who would say video games aren't a form of art need to play this. It certainly made me feel... something. I didn't expect to step out of my comfort zone in such a fashion today
Thibaud Ligneul
01. May 2020 · 16:09 UTC
Weird concept and title, but cute execution ;)
KC_Shiftyyy
01. May 2020 · 18:07 UTC
great game but im gonna have nightmares
Trexxak
02. May 2020 · 02:03 UTC
I'm so in love with the ~~monst~~ plant design! The colourscheme, artstyle and music are so in sync! Weird and wonderful!
minnka
03. May 2020 · 15:12 UTC
Very fun to play on a touchscreen pc, nice graphics.
TheAidency
04. May 2020 · 07:02 UTC
Oh god that was wild! Loved it!
Thanks for rating my game!
ArtemFTW
04. May 2020 · 23:07 UTC
Great game, the graphics and audio is very good, and it fits in with the theme pretty well. Nicely done!
pee-thief
05. May 2020 · 03:56 UTC
@ursagames thanks so much for streaming! Made me smile watching you play
Rik_Thunder
06. May 2020 · 12:29 UTC
So...I kept playing because I was curious what new plant designs you came up with...despite being really unconfortable~
good music and the art style is nice.

...but...I think my stomach is turning after the end...
Iak
07. May 2020 · 08:45 UTC
Yo! Thanks for linking your game for my stream!

So this was... different :D Definitely one of the weirder Jam games I've seen. Nice, mildly creepy art.
Gameplay was simple but fitting to the theme, I guess.
Doritolord
07. May 2020 · 10:50 UTC
i actually liked it a lot. It wasn't the gameplay that sold it, but the weird feel, yet nice aesthetic of the game. Peculiar, but relaxing (...sort of cause i had to click a lot).
arkinrev
07. May 2020 · 21:03 UTC
Nice job, and I really liked the consistent art style throughout the whole thing. There were a few plants I'm not sure I would have kissed. Nice job!
GameOverMexico
07. May 2020 · 21:23 UTC
NiceJob!
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fabula_rasa
07. May 2020 · 21:37 UTC
I really adored the oil/dry pastel drawing style. Each plant is different and definitely unique, which gave me something nice to look at to compensate for a very simple gameplay :smile:

It is a very nice jam job!

One thing I noticed is that the plant on the right in the second row can be a bit hard to target when it's tiny (as so much of it is hidden behind the plant in the front. It's completely fine when it grows up though.
elysiagriffin
09. May 2020 · 19:24 UTC
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615928274?t=8h39m03s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

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marcmagus
10. May 2020 · 19:15 UTC
Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113685

And thanks again for not breaking my bot!
Dane Tesla
11. May 2020 · 12:08 UTC
Wow, that was cute and weird xD A good entry, definitely a surprising one!
Narudgi
11. May 2020 · 14:15 UTC
Awwww. He smoochy
Hybitous
11. May 2020 · 23:28 UTC
Cute and oddly bizzare game. I like the vibe the graphics and music create in the beginning and the divergence with each additional plant into the bizzare :smile:
Tony_Artz
12. May 2020 · 05:21 UTC
Really funny and odd game. Love the art and the music. It's really weird and quirky, I love it. Great work.
garygreen
12. May 2020 · 21:07 UTC
That was unique, and quirky. Great graphics. I didn't last long though - just not enough clicking speed.