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I can imagine a game with an entire garden full of different plants and this type of root management! Goog job.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":866572,"author_name":"Spice Cabinet","author_uid":"spice-cabinet","epoch":1664980993,"text":"It started off pretty slow and I was thinking ah I'll just give it a minute or two and rate but before I knew it I had a whole tree and many tangled roots. Nice job with this entry! It was surprisingly addictive!![Screenshot 2022-10-05 074254.png](\/\/\/raw\/f34\/82\/z\/52541.png) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":866580,"author_name":"adam-gould","author_uid":"adam-gould","epoch":1664981111,"text":"Agreed with the other comments, the main issue I have is at the start when you only have one end and at the end when you've only got one\/two left. There's not much to do when that's happening.\n\nOther than that, not much to say. A nice relaxing time.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":871957,"author_name":"CodeRaurus","author_uid":"coderaurus","epoch":1665053471,"text":"Lovely, relaxing game amidst other fast paced entries.\n\nWell done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":876253,"author_name":"Last Angle","author_uid":"last-angle","epoch":1665138550,"text":"It does what it says in the name, it's a relaxing game! I agree with the others, it starts a bit slow, but after a while it picks up. 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I like exploring it as a \"toy,\" and it's interesting that folks turn it into a \"game\" by adding goals (make the biggest tree!). Ten seconds feels like a long time, and I wonder if more variation in the music would be a nice reward to the player who stays longer. 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