Greenception by AVAVT

You are a world-reknowned botanist!
Your dreams are to greenify the world!
No, not that dream. Real dreams.
A relax'n'chill game. Just plant the seeds and watch them grows.
Fill the area in each dream with greenery then go to bed to descend into deeper levels, where the environment are harsher.
Lot of objects are still placeholders due to time pressure. But you can click on some of them for gameplay tips.
Controls
Mainly mouse clicks. Some keyboard hotkeys supported (B,P and H).
| Link | https://avavt.itch.io/greenception |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/greenception |
Ratings
| Given | 8🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
I didn't understand dreams very well and then it gets very repetitive

The groundworks are also laid here, as the graphics are very nice with the beautiful trees and them moving in the wind, along to the calm and friendly music. What's a bit lacking to me is the gene feature. I can understand the trees have different needs, but i'm missing a way to satisfy this. For example, i'd like to see areas that are drier or wetter, hotter or colder, more or less fertile, so i can have a "plan". The seeds also felt a bit random, as in harvesting a mushroom and getting 3 types of different trees out of it. I opted to just harvest everything and replant, which worked well but was a waste for the cool genetic system. Ah, and i'm missing a hotkey for plant/plant all.
The idea is really good and the groundworks are there. If you manage to make the genetics somewhat predicatable and find room to give them meaning, this could be a great game. Another path could be to strip the genetics from explicit display and focus on building something nice - i don't think there is a gardening game yet, but i'd love to see one. Congratulations on finishing and for daring something new and complex!
It would be nice if there was an option to tone down the particle effects, because when I was planting 100+ plants, it would start to lag.
I was super engaged and tried my best to play it to the end, well done.