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Really satisfying when getting all the shooting shrooms surrounding the ship. Great job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":906517,"author_name":"DrawRunner","author_uid":"drawrunner","epoch":1673356829,"text":"I realy liked the principe of collecting mushrooms improve your spaceship\nHowever, the game is maybe a bit boring during the first phase, when you only have to collect and use mushrooms","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":909340,"author_name":"LDJam user 315038","author_uid":"315038","epoch":1673385404,"text":"oh god a mushroom planet, how cool <3 but I agree that the pacing could be faster at the beginning","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":910039,"author_name":"RaynaldDantigny","author_uid":"raynalddantigny","epoch":1673392772,"text":"First I thought the slugs were chillin neat my ship, then I understood the were eating it : some extra anim\/audio \/visual feedback to understand that you are taking damages, as I'm not always checking the size of the shwoom-ship. Nice game overall, I hate that damn slugs haha! Well done","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":911392,"author_name":"D3kryption","author_uid":"d3kryption","epoch":1673421318,"text":"You did a good job.\nI like the mushrooms! :D\n\nThe affect of the mushrooms around the ship is really well done.\nAnd the gameplay does pickup.\n\nNice work :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":925197,"author_name":"moi93101","author_uid":"moi93101","epoch":1674003292,"text":"I liked the discovery of the mushroom types. Also, I found the mood really well done. The choices of the light, the fact you are in center of a crater and the music, all of this contribute to do strong atmosphere.\n\nMaybe the shooting sound is too much present (especially when you have a lot of turrets).\nI think you can add more international binding for moving and add controls to mouse !","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld52\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/CaseyCarlin\/Shroom2Grow\/releases\/download\/v1\/Shroom2GrowV1.11.zip","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/CaseyCarlin\/Shroom2Grow","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"86634","g_author":"1284009","g_event":"LD52","g_eventkey":"116","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"398332","g_title":"Shroom To Grow","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"754","g_commentcount":"7","g_site2_node_id":"316975","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"316975","n_urlkey":"398332","n_parent":"313060","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/shroom-to-grow","n_slug":"shroom-to-grow","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"284009","n_created":"1672985047","n_modified":"1777279043","n_version":"1000091","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":284009,"body":"You've spent far too many years on this damned mushroom planet and it's nearly time to blast off into the freedom of the stars. You've engineered a rocket-shroom (patent pending) to take you away, but first you need to charge it up with an appropriate fuel. Feed enough fuel mushrooms to the rocket-shroom so you can blast off, but watch out for the hungry neighbors.\n\n- Your ship emits a mushroom-friendly light that seems to promote growth, bringing the wild mushrooms closer will help those grow too.\n- The bigger your ship is, the brighter its light will shine.\n- The brighter the ship light shines, the more attention you'll draw from invading slugs.\n- Use 'E' to harvest mushrooms, and 'E' again to re-plant them or fuel your ship (Use the wrong fuel and it will have the opposite of the intended effect)\n- Use 'V' to push away the slugs from invading. \n- Fuel mushrooms can double as distractions for slugs if you leave them in the ground\n- Wild mushrooms have adapted to defend themselves from the slugs\n- Build your defenses strong enough to survive until you are ready to flee the planet\n\n\n![Screenie 1.png](\/\/\/raw\/965\/54\/z\/55240.png)\n\n\nGood luck!","comments":7,"comments-timestamp":"2023-01-18T00:54:52Z","created":"2023-01-06T06:04:07Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":22,"grade-02":22,"grade-03":21,"grade-04":21,"grade-05":21,"grade-08":20},"id":316975,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":117.39468729479,"feedback":16,"given":20.5,"grade":21.166666666667,"grade-01-average":2.8,"grade-01-result":754,"grade-02-average":2.5,"grade-02-result":757,"grade-03-average":2.447,"grade-03-result":769,"grade-04-average":3.526,"grade-04-result":508,"grade-05-average":2.842,"grade-05-result":660,"grade-08-average":3.194,"grade-08-result":547,"smart":4.240787277742},"meta":{"author":[284009,279376,319507,319539,319783,319508],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/965\/54\/z\/551e5.png","grade-06-out":"1","grade-07-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/CaseyCarlin\/Shroom2Grow\/releases\/download\/v1\/Shroom2GrowV1.11.zip","link-01-tag":[42337],"link-02":"https:\/\/github.com\/CaseyCarlin\/Shroom2Grow","link-02-tag":[42332]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-04-27T08:37:23Z","modified":"2026-04-27T08:37:23Z","name":"Shroom To Grow","node-timestamp":"2023-01-09T22:30:03Z","parent":313060,"parents":[1,5,9,313060],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/shroom-to-grow","published":"2023-01-09T19:13:11Z","scope":"public","slug":"shroom-to-grow","subsubtype":"jam","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":1000091},"text":"You've spent far too many years on this damned mushroom planet and it's nearly time to blast off into the freedom of the stars. You've engineered a rocket-shroom (patent pending) to take you away, but first you need to charge it up with an appropriate fuel. 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