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Great work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Fengol","author_uid":"1003116","time":"2020-04-21T19:51:17Z","epoch":1587498677,"modified":1587498677,"text":"It felt so bonsai!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dark Dungeon Studio","author_uid":"1188041","time":"2020-04-22T13:27:21Z","epoch":1587562041,"modified":1587562041,"text":"I feel like I can meditate and reflect of life playing this game.\nWould be cool to see different levels or themed plants.\n\nwell done","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Quarter Up Studios","author_uid":"1007070","time":"2020-04-23T20:18:21Z","epoch":1587673101,"modified":1587673101,"text":"This was really neat, a little difficult to get it to reach the goal but it didn't feel frustrating at all, just took patience.  Very meditative game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"curleysam","author_uid":"1186487","time":"2020-04-23T20:19:55Z","epoch":1587673195,"modified":1587673195,"text":"Very zen. \ud83d\ude0a the art was spot on. Put me in a very relaxed and content state whilst playing. Well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"nsadie","author_uid":"1160810","time":"2020-04-23T20:23:41Z","epoch":1587673421,"modified":1587673421,"text":"Wow, gorgeous visuals, I especially loved the rain drops! This was very relaxing!\n\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jrf","author_uid":"1073889","time":"2020-04-23T20:24:11Z","epoch":1587673451,"modified":1587673451,"text":"Very nice compo entry! The atmosphere was good and I cannot even imagine what it would have been with some nice ambient music in the background. The mechanics very nice and simple. A very relaxing game, good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Keith Wang","author_uid":"1166922","time":"2020-04-23T20:25:33Z","epoch":1587673533,"modified":1587673533,"text":"One of my favourite so far. Never played a game quite like this before and it fits the theme perfectly. Great graphics as well.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Teto","author_uid":"1186511","time":"2020-04-23T20:27:24Z","epoch":1587673644,"modified":1587673644,"text":"A really great entry and a very impressive compo game! Loved the atmosphere created especially by the rain and the way it fell on the leaves was beautiful and realistic. The rotating camera did frustrate me a little since I am playing on my laptop so it made it difficult to click some of the smaller branches that I wanted to. Maybe have the option to turn it off rather than resuming rotation after having not manually moved the camera in a while. Other than that, it was great!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Fractal","author_uid":"1143275","time":"2020-04-23T20:34:46Z","epoch":1587674086,"modified":1587674086,"text":"Very nice atmosphere! It was not easy but satisfying to reach the goal. I felt it a bit annoying that the camera keeps turning around, it made it hard to figure out where the plant is going.\nBut very nice game overall.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"picross","author_uid":"1181925","time":"2020-04-25T09:30:30Z","epoch":1587807030,"modified":1587807030,"text":"Wow, amazing game! Very charming and relaxing. I loved growing unique plants each time. I think you should have the rain be continuous or toggleable, as holding down left click puts a lot of strain on the hand and breaks the relaxation. Also, having to continuously click to add more rain made me accidentally prune my entire plant a few times, which was discouraging. Fantastic work here, seriously.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BilbyCoder","author_uid":"1034137","time":"2020-04-25T10:53:11Z","epoch":1587811991,"modified":1587811991,"text":"I am blown away by this entry.  It's just really nice and relaxing.  Growing and pruning the plant became almost meditative as I worked my way up.  I really want to thank you for not including music as I actually think that would have detracted from this entry.\n\nGraphics, controls and mood were all there aplenty.  The only criticism  I would have is with the turn table, leaving it up tot he player to turn and perhaps a button to start\/stop it moving?  But that is the minorest of quibbles.  ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Cyberwiz","author_uid":"1002190","time":"2020-04-26T12:59:16Z","epoch":1587905956,"modified":1587905956,"text":"This was absolutely delightful. I really enjoyed this and the only frustration was the auto turn-table would kick in just as I would try and prune something. I'm not completely sure what purpose the manual control over the \"water shower\" was serving. I understand the need to control when the next growth stint should happen, but the positionality of it doesn't seem like it really adds anything.\n\nLastly it does seem like there isn't a \"lose\" condition, which would have me argue this doesn't quite fit into the them. My actions aren't quite keeping the plant alive, but rather encouraging it to grow.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Elyaradine","author_uid":"1079179","time":"2020-04-26T19:31:58Z","epoch":1587929518,"modified":1587929518,"text":"Thank you for the kind comments everyone! <3\n\n@picross, @teto, @bilbycoder : I completely agree about the turntable. The initial problem was that the plant grows randomly, and sometimes grows in a way that isn't flattering to the camera at all. Stems might overlap and look very flat. I figured I'd force the auto-rotation, hoping it'd show the player that they could rotate the camera themselves. When they move the camera manually, there's a 3 second delay before the autorotation begins again, but what should actually happen is that any pruning, any highlighting, and anything else that needs precision should also reset that counter. I think it feels much better now, but I've got awful internet and have been struggling to upload a post-jam build. Thank you for sharing your experiences!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"vfqd","author_uid":"1074404","time":"2020-05-06T09:45:37Z","epoch":1588758337,"modified":1588758337,"text":"Great work! I loved the mood you managed to evoke and the visuals are sublime. If you wanted to take this further and maybe \"gamify\" it a little more, you could make a plant have a finite of overall biomass, and pruning a particular branch would allow a different branch to grow further","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/196550-2bc5484cb6dd64552b951beb5e957714.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/elyaradine.itch.io\/seek-the-sun","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/elyaradine.itch.io\/seek-the-sun","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/elyaradine.itch.io\/seek-the-sun","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Elyaradine\/seekthesun","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"64070","g_author":"1079179","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"280052","g_title":"Seek the Sun","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"107","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"196550","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"196550","n_urlkey":"280052","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/seek-the-sun","n_slug":"seek-the-sun","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"79179","n_created":"1587223297","n_modified":"1587371652","n_version":"582172","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":196550,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":79179,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2020-04-20T00:31:39Z","created":"2020-04-18T15:21:37Z","modified":"2020-04-20T08:34:12Z","version":582172,"slug":"seek-the-sun","name":"Seek the Sun","body":"An ambient game about growing a procedurally generated plant to reach beams of light.\n\n\n\n![screen1.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/b45\/31\/z\/2c5bc.jpg)","meta":{"author":[79179],"grade-07-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/elyaradine.itch.io\/seek-the-sun","link-01-tag":[42337],"link-02":"https:\/\/elyaradine.itch.io\/seek-the-sun","link-02-tag":[42339],"link-03":"https:\/\/elyaradine.itch.io\/seek-the-sun","link-03-tag":[42341],"link-04":"https:\/\/github.com\/Elyaradine\/seekthesun","link-04-tag":[42332],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/b45\/31\/z\/2d289.jpg"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/seek-the-sun","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":15,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-06T09:45:37Z","grade":{"grade-01":23,"grade-02":23,"grade-03":23,"grade-04":23,"grade-05":23,"grade-06":22,"grade-08":23},"magic":{"cool":50.653622512948,"feedback":6,"given":4.875,"grade":22.857142857143,"grade-01-average":3.929,"grade-01-result":107,"grade-02-average":3.286,"grade-02-result":524,"grade-03-average":3.833,"grade-03-result":151,"grade-04-average":3.524,"grade-04-result":659,"grade-05-average":4.524,"grade-05-result":11,"grade-06-average":2.925,"grade-06-result":589,"grade-08-average":4.119,"grade-08-result":43,"smart":-41.303215590631}},"text":"An ambient game about growing a procedurally generated plant to reach beams of light.\n\n\n\n![screen1.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/b45\/31\/z\/2c5bc.jpg)","title":"Seek the Sun"}