Field of Flowers by AtlasFlame
Plant. Harvest. Repeat.
Controls:
- left mouse: planting and buy/sell crops.
- right mouse: harvesting and purchasing plots.
- 1-7: selects crop to plant.
- space: advances cycle.
Goal
- Starting with the provided basic flowers, your goal is to buy all available land, through purchasing, planting, and selling the various flowers available.
Farming Mechanics:
- All crops have a base growth and base yield stat.
- Growth affects its chance to survive to the next cycle (1.0+ is guaranteed to survive).
- Yield is how many plants you get when harvested. Its fractional part is a percent chance to yield +1.
- The above stats are modified by their stage (Stage Effects), as well as by any buffs and debuffs that are currently affecting it (Area Effects).
Tips
- Crops can be reclaimed without lost if harvested during the cycle it was planted.
- Basic crop information can be viewed by holding right click on its icon in the shop.
- A crops Current stats can be viewed by mousing over it with More Info enabled.
- You will receive a small amount of money every 100 cycles to prevent softlocking from bankruptcy. (Or you can simply refresh the page and start over).
Addendum
- Missing description: The necromancer when mature, has the effect of boosting the yield of dead plants that surround it.
Credits
- Graphics: GIMP.
- Game Engine: Macroquad.
- Font: Martian Mono.
| Link | https://stellarnebula.itch.io/field-of-flowers |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/field-of-flowers |
Ratings
| Overall | 968th | 3.075⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 838th | 3.095⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 728th | 3.167⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 532th | 3.69⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 920th | 2.775⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 880th | 2.059⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 992th | 2.75⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
I tried planting the first flower, harvesting, but after 120 cycles i didn't get any money and didn't get any other flowers.
Could you help me out here ? 
This was a really charming puzzle! At the beginning I was really confused because my plants kept dying, but soon I figured out how each plant works. Because of their unique abilities, each plant was still useful, even after I got newer ones that were more valuable!
If there is anything to improve, it's the UI. I would like to see what each plant does before I plant them, and the graphics are pretty basic.
But honestly, I don't think this game needs fancy graphics. It feels great to see the puzzle unfold!
Excellent job! ✨
Also @gorglomux try toggling the "More Info" button in the top right, so you can see the shop.
In the end the balance seems a little off, i tried getting into it but after 300 cycles i was still at the cross flower. Neat concept though!
However the slow progression paired with punitive and confusing mecanics (plants semi-randomly dying) make the game frustrating. I lost most of my progress when I though I undestood how the purple flower work but they all died.
It seems like the game has a lot of depth for a jam, though. Too bad I wasn't able to progress further.
I don't really understand the necromancer.. I have all the things it wants it seems but the yield is 0.1?
Anyways, it's pretty late now and I gotta go to bed haha. The game is really nice and simple but addicting! At first I was kinda throwing curses at the game, because I didn't understand it, but once I fifgured it out it was a lot of fun.
I think a small tutorial would help immensly
Hope you had fun in the jam and maybe check out my game if you like :)
- I got to the cross and it started to get complicated having to work out why my plants were dying
- I think the game starts a bit slow, it takes some time to get the money fro the first non-basic flower
I also think the balance of the economy is off, it takes too much time to turn profit which makes the game extremely repetitive for no real reason.
Simple tweaks can fix all these problems and the core idea is good so I'd say the most important lesson here is to playtest and tweak the game so it feels smoother.
Great job finishing and submitting a game, well done!