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Flower Farmer by demogorgon

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made by demogorgon for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

Farm Flowers, breed flowers, buy upgrades, unlock better flowers, grow more flowers. It's flowers. I like flowers. There are flowers in this game and they are have "genetics" that can mutate when breeding them, so you can breed the coolest most money making flowers so you can make more money to buy more upgrades to grow more flowers. Harvesting included. Autosaving included. Batteries not included.

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This is kind of a mess I guess. Not sure if instructions are needed or if it is intuitive enough.

Link https://diddlydingusdu.de/games/flowerfarmer/
Link https://games.turb0.one/games/Flower%20Farmer/page.html
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/flower-farmer

Ratings

Given 9🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

Thoastbot
09. Jan 2023 · 01:14 UTC
Wow, i just got lost for an hour in this game O__O I LOVE IT!
Still trying to get the perfect value flower - getting closer :D
Would love a "sell all" button, getting into "late game" i really missed it x)

I once had an idea like this and never made it, but i cant get enough of your result!

I will keep trying to get the perfect plant, lets see if i can reach it!

EDIT - i'm done, not perfect but good enough!

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🎤 demogorgon
09. Jan 2023 · 02:32 UTC
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of QoL stuff I considered, like multisell that could be its own unlock but ran out of time/drive to implement it. Glad you enjoyed!
youjing
09. Jan 2023 · 16:36 UTC
A cool time-killing game :)

I would also like a "sell all" button (perhaps also having store tier less costy then pot tier?), but it's already good ^^
Jimbly
10. Jan 2023 · 05:03 UTC
Pretty neat! I couldn't figure out if there was much strategy in the breeding, I seemed to just combing my best flower with itself over and over and keep the best result, but that didn't seem particularly effective. I think I don't understand genetics =).

Sell all would have been _really_ nice, I had to stop playing, mouse button finger getting sore ^_^.
jaywoody
11. Jan 2023 · 14:47 UTC
This is a very addictive little game. I'm always a sucker for "numbers go up" type of game and there's many cool additional things here like the cross pollination thing which develops a new type of flower depending on the two flowers that are combined.

The one minor nitpick that I had has already been said: "sell all" -button so that you don't have to click a thousand times when playing. :) But anyways that's a minor thing. Very cool and addictive game!
hungryroy
12. Jan 2023 · 07:26 UTC
UI/presentation isn't the best, but it's a strangely enticing management game
theHerborist
12. Jan 2023 · 20:10 UTC
I liked this game. Cute and simple, and the super-stylised graphics fit it to perfection. That being said, I believe you have to be in a certain kind of mood to play it; if that's the case, it becomes really addictive.

Could very much use some love in terms of particle effects, animations, and most importantly SOUND. Some chill music, sound effects when you plant stuff in pots, and you would not feel the hours pass as you engineer the ultimate flower

Nice job!
Linus Lindberg
14. Jan 2023 · 11:36 UTC
Almosty spent two hours on this, very addictive! I'd love to see a post-compo version with the quality of life improvements other's mentioned
fmdkdd
15. Jan 2023 · 12:13 UTC
This is really nice and a bit addictive. A button to sell by 10 or 100 would be very nice indeed.
Also, maybe the sell price does not rise fast enough? My state of the art flowers only sell a few dollars more than the starting ones, even though they take longer to grow + all the upgrades costs. Meaning that it's easier to keep selling the starting flowers than develop very high tier ones.