My Reaper Garden by ThiefViolinist
You did your daily job, visited a gym and just returned to your home in the Reaperviel. You wanted to spend time in the garden but noticed some filthy weed here and there ruining your beautiful garden. Time to harvest!
You need to cut all weeds on level but beware to hurt your precious daisies.
Scythe will harvest plant only after reaching enough speed.

| Link | shorturl.at/bhR49 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/my-reaper-garden |
Ratings
| Overall | 129th | 3.925⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 55th | 4.05⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 3th | 4.65⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 30th | 4.4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 458th | 3.5⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 275th | 3.237⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 475th | 3.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 42🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
Difficult at the beginning, but quickly get the hang of it
I loved that your take on the theme is a reaper taking care of its flowers. Makes it so cute :)
The visuals are pretty good, with the little cutscenes and everything! The only thing that bothered me was the flowers when the scene contains to many of them. The fact that their animations are synchronized made it look like the background was moving while I was trying to focus on the gameplay, which made it very disturbing. I think it would be ok if all flowers were moving at different speeds or asynchronously.
Would have loved a nice little music with it!
Good job!
Good job, keep it up, and I'll see you next jam! :wave:
- I played a game this jam called "Shred a bunch" and it was about a combine with which you harvest things avoiding zombies. I tried to hard to spin around as much as possible to do the scythe move from this game just for fun lol. Sadly it wasnt very supported to do so in that game...
- I dont know if you have fast food thin pancakes where you live, and if they are made the same way so this might sound strange. But i felt like i was making one! xD Likes smoothing over in circles, ah it was so satisfactory!
- I want more out of this, route A add a timer, so we see beautiful compilations of people cleaning the levels in one ballet like dance... Or B make a Vampire Survivor game like this... Or C both! Or D, tell me if you wont do it so i can steal the idea and not feel guilty about it! Im not joking please tell me... :3
- I really hope you get to your 20 ratings, since this is a really amazing small mechanic that i would love to see being further worked on. Good luck! :heart:
PS. your link doesnt work!

However, I felt the smoothing of the character when you moved really took away some of the fine control you need to swing the scythe and avoid the flowers. It made the game difficult and frustrating to play.
I struggled a bit on level 5, but eventually realised there were flowers off the edge of the screen. Resolved by not using fullscreen mode and resizing the browser window to get the whole thing in.
My mouse also took the opportunity to run out of battery half way through which didn't help. Got to the end eventually.
I really like the trails the scythe makes. All the flowers switching to the next frame at once like that is quite jarring when there is a lot of them though.