Ethereal Fruits by Manan

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made by Manan for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Ethereal fruits with mystical properties blossom on this lone tree, suspended against a majestic blushing sunscape. Harvest them to grow your tree to greater and greater heights.

I recommend you play on itch.io for the fullscreen experience.

Ratings

Overall 114th 3.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 393th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 168th 3.684⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 200th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 181th 4.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 85th 3.921⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 449th 2.781⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Mood 31th 4.263⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 11🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

lord_blackheart
09. Jan 2023 · 23:05 UTC
very good game! catched me, was very nice to play!
+music
+the random tree
HFSEvans
09. Jan 2023 · 23:10 UTC
Nice. I think this would be perfect for mobile, just sinking into my couch, harvesting berries. Love that it forces you to play slow and punches spamming.
Ben Toosey
09. Jan 2023 · 23:16 UTC
Probably one of my favourites so far! Aesthetic is great, music is great, face fruit is great!
ahintoflime
09. Jan 2023 · 23:17 UTC
What a unique game and such a vibe. I love the odd fruits and their kind of mini-games. And procedural tree building in godot?? I love it. Also if you made the skybox you must tell me how it's gorgeous.
owca
09. Jan 2023 · 23:25 UTC
Such a relaxing game. After some time I realized I maxed out all the upgrades but I still kept playing. This is a really unique game. Congratulations and thanks for this game. It was a pleasure playing it.
Fluburbio
09. Jan 2023 · 23:29 UTC
Wow, great game! I love the chill, no-stress experience combined with the elegant simplicity of a single button gameplay... very contemplative and original, great work! Is there an end? I got to tree 21 and purchased every possible upgrade but the game kept going... In any case, this is one of my favorites.
🎤 Manan
09. Jan 2023 · 23:33 UTC
@ahintoflime I wish I knew how to make skyboxes like that, its from AllSky Free. And thanks, I spent most of the time trying to figure out how to do the random tree generation.
🎤 Manan
09. Jan 2023 · 23:35 UTC
@owca Thank you! Your feedback means a lot.
terylangosh
09. Jan 2023 · 23:35 UTC
I really wanted to see the tree get bigger. I don't understand why this was fun, but it definately was :D Loved the sound effect of face-fruit. And the graphics are cool, I liked that I could rotate the tree and look at it from different angles. Also - I feel skull fruits should give me more points, because they are harder to click right.
Dawnreaver
10. Jan 2023 · 18:04 UTC
Such a cool little game! Loved the random tree and the quite excentric range of fruit! Well done indeed!
YoungArtifact
20. Jan 2023 · 09:51 UTC
Forgot the time whilst playing it. Great game!
Hoichael
20. Jan 2023 · 10:11 UTC
Great game, particularly the presentation - clean, high fidelity rendering meets surreal design. The gameplay is minimalist but fits perfectly with the presentation and ties everything together nicely.

Congrats on this coherently designed and well realized entry!
Local Minimum
21. Jan 2023 · 20:57 UTC
I played it until everything was maxed out. As a biologist, I must say it felt a bit odd that the fruits came before the leaves and it was a bit confusing too in the beginning that the progression meant I had to start the tree over and over. I thought I did something wrong the first handful of trees. But then I enjoyed it, had a good feeling to it, but a bit sad that each tree had to die as soon as it got beautiful.
jk5000
21. Jan 2023 · 21:19 UTC
A very calm and relaxing little game. I really liked it. Well done.
Matt Rix
22. Jan 2023 · 05:36 UTC
Why is this so good? It's so weird and chill and I love it.
ASilvers
22. Jan 2023 · 06:29 UTC
Really unique game, I really enjoyed it! The ambiance was great and I really liked watching the different trees get generated though they had a tendency to clump up in the middle. The text could be difficult to see against the background at times and I was also playing for a bit trying to get the upgrades to level 10 before I realized they only went up to 7. Overall fantastic job though!
PoshDan
22. Jan 2023 · 06:47 UTC
I really like the combination of no lose condition and a mechanic based on timing!
Despite how simplistic it was, I had fun just pumping those numbers up.
The fruits are taken straight out of a fever dream, but in a good way, it gave things a bit of flavor.

I was particularly impressed with the shape of the trees, they seemed physically believable (they're randomly generated, right?)
Schmalex
22. Jan 2023 · 14:29 UTC
Fantastic little game that i think with a little polishing would make a really soothing mobile game. Not 100% sure about the fruit growing on it (the faces and stuff didn't really fit with the main vibe i feel) but nevertheless very nice!