ZenBox by anstabo
Chill and Zen diorama of procedural bonzaï-building, take your time building your bonzaïs or try and complete the whishing well quest.
This game is about observing an environmental change, you can help guide it by choosing which buds to hatch. You can use this technique to break twigs and gift them to the wishing well.
You will be able to seed new bonzaïs and transform the landscape by harvesting their flowers.
Have fun designing your own bonzaï from a single seed:
The wishing well will reward you with cosmetic items and a final secret:
Keyboard:
Use WASD/ZQSD for camera movement
Mouse:
press right click to spin the camera
Left click to interact and to grab objects
If your game crashes it means that you've won!
You can reload from the game if you're stuck
64 bits-only and a pc that's at least 6 years old
HAVE FUN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clj1U0Cr_8Y
| Link | https://anstabo.itch.io/zenbox |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/zenbox |
Ratings
| Overall | 200th | 3.804⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 507th | 3.196⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 63th | 3.978⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 304th | 3.848⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 20th | 4.587⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 34th | 4.239⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
Any way you see, it's a fantastic creation. Congrats.
@foxwindler That's a lovely screenshot, I see you fulfilled the wishing well quest :)
Maybe it lacks a bit of gameplay (the goal here doesn't seem to be gameplay heavy which is fair), but this was a really lovely experience.
Good job!
I don't know if it's supposed to be a joke, but the game crashed alongside the entire PC. The strain becomes really hard once the tree from the well grows big.
Amazing visuals and concept, but movement in the 3D space was very uncomfortable, and a standard FPP camera would have done much better (or at least screen dragging shouldn't move the camera's XYZ).
Maybe you didn't notice but this guy also made Crumble - pretty nice NS platformer game.
Greate work! Thank you =)
It makes think about a similar kind of relaxing/creative game we made during the last LD jam ( https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/ultimate-chill-home ). We didn't figure out a nice progression mechanic, and I love the way you do it with growing, harvesting and puting stuff in the well.
Sadly, at one point my computer could not so many trees and crashed, but I could reach level 6.
So it was great! Hard to know when to end playing, I feel like it's similar to Minecraft -> stopping when you feel you have done what you wanted here. But the system of leveling kinda teases the possibility of having more content if you continue... (like new forms of trees, something like that).
Some comments I had in my head during playtime :
- would love to see some birds.
- I suspected that trees would eventualy die over time
- I would perhaps feel better just controlling the camera in a more FPS style instead of rotating on an axis.
- The leaves are just so wonderful :heart_eyes:
- Well, the trees themselves are wonderful :stuck_out_tongue:
- Oupsie, the gifts I'm given can fall into the ground!
- I would love to be able to just place the "gifts" more easily, and why not in the trees, but this looks like another technical challenge to solve ^^
In any case, congrats for this nice entry!
It is fantastic, I really love it.
I wish there was a video or smothing where i could learn how you did everything, from skybow to branch generating !
Let me know if you do something like this one day :D