Aquaculture by quadtree

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made by quadtree for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

Grow tasty aquatic plants in Aquaculture. Click the buttons on the left, then click and drag to place stuff. Pump water and green to plants to make them grow. Right click to deselect and delete things. Click plants on the right and click to place them. When the plants are ripe, click Harvest and drag over them to harvest them. Try to complete the levels as quickly as possible!

Ratings

Overall 127th 3.575⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 238th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 41th 3.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 28th 4.3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 252th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 191th 3.028⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 232th 2.237⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 250th 2.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

Dev_314
10. Jan 2023 · 23:54 UTC
What a game! I spent way too long getting too few plants to grow and getting ranked last on the high scores board. The graphics are nice, though too intensive for my lappytop apparently. The gameplay was good, though I was often confused about some of the rules, but eventually think I got it all sorted out. Great job!
Jezzamon
16. Jan 2023 · 18:01 UTC
Fun game! I tried creating a logical system in most levels, but sort of ended up making a mess and solving things by just putting everything together and filtering everything.

Apparently I am one of the worst people at this game but I had fun playing it! I think the 3D art style was well suited to this simulation style game.
Tod Semple
23. Jan 2023 · 06:16 UTC
Nice! I like how the pipes connect and you are feeding the plants. I got a bit confused about what was going on. I think the visuals of the fluid could have been a bit clearer. I couldn't figure out the rules for the filter.
KekkoDude
23. Jan 2023 · 13:32 UTC
Prety neat, there seems to be leakage where there should not be any, but i cant pinpoint what's causing this. Happens only with water so it's manageable.. i shrugged it off as condensation "it's not a bug, but a feature"
other than that it seems to be working as intended. Pretty fun and a bit challenging, especially when you get to the Muckroots, enjoyed the Oxygen not included referance btw.

The leaderboards are a bonus, but since it's only the scores themself being tracked it looses some meaning and competative incentive, i mean, who's beating me and who have i buried in dust lol. allowing a name to be submitted before the score is submitted would do this a favour imho
Mephistase
23. Jan 2023 · 13:54 UTC
My god, it works so well!

And it is fun!

I especially loved the way the liquids are named by their color and the mechanics around the red!

Polishing the liquids aspect and having the plants directly in some soil are the only things I would suggest.
OadT
23. Jan 2023 · 18:51 UTC
Very cool idea and implementation. I liked the idea of the red with the filters. Maybe there should be a bit more wiggle room, because of some leaking that seems unintended and because generally the player can only guess values based on what he sees. Really liked this one!
francoisvn
23. Jan 2023 · 21:11 UTC
It's an interesting concept! It felt like I didn't get much feedback whether things were working or not for a while, and once they were working it took a little while for them to finish.
blubberquark
24. Jan 2023 · 14:50 UTC
This was surprisingly good, given the slow start!
Mcnuttys
24. Jan 2023 · 22:01 UTC
I thought this game was very cool! Only odd thing is if water is pumped in on one side then the first plant immediately following it (if your pump rate is low enough) will consume it all. While I would imagine the water would spread evenly and was anticipating that. Once I figured what was causing it though it made sense. Regardless cool game!