A Hell Of A Hole Garden by MarinePLB

made by MarinePLB for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

[EN] As you're about to delicately place your nose upon your beautiful tulips to inhale their fragrance, a giant worm-spouting hole has decided to join you . What a mess! It's even devouring your magnificent petunias. Take back control of your garden and restore its full splendor!

[FR] Alors que vous vous apprêtez a poser délicatement votre nez sur vos belles tulipes pour en humer l’odeur, un trou géant cracheur de ver de terre a décidé de vous tenir compagnie. Mais quel saccage ! Voila qu’il dévore vos magnifique pétunia. Reprenez en main votre jardin et redonnez lui tout son panache !!

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04/16/2024 NEW VERSION Fix the animations of the portal and added support for mobile touchscreen

Itch	https://jaybee1996.itch.io/a-hell-of-a-hole-garden
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/a-hell-of-a-hole-garden

Ratings

Overall	156^th	4.017⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Fun	378^th	3.672⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	264^th	3.741⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Theme	715^th	3.5⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	15^th	4.69⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Audio	303^th	3.667⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Humor	879^th	2.5⭐	27🧑‍⚖️
Mood	247^th	3.946⭐	30🧑‍⚖️
Given		17🗳️	39🗨️

Feedback

mrVentures

15. Apr 2024 · 02:35 UTC

I really enjoyed this game. It’s a fun mechanic and the artwork is beautiful!

Liu Pa Yueh

15. Apr 2024 · 05:10 UTC

Wow, this game is challenging. I can barely stop playing :D

LDJam user 391120

15. Apr 2024 · 11:28 UTC

Nice game ! I really liked the artworks and the mood, it's stressfull and peacefull at the same time ^^ The mechanics are great, maybe more tips can help on how to grow the plant ;)

LDJam user 296265

15. Apr 2024 · 20:14 UTC

I love it! This is exactly as games should be: you learn by experimentation and get more and more used to the mechanics. The game is fast, but not punishing, so you can have some fun and figure everything out by yourself. Very satisfying. The art looks super cool and fitting to a game like this, same for audio.

mrVentures

16. Apr 2024 · 02:20 UTC

I wish that there were maybe only three cards and one recipe in the beginning so that it would be a sort of implicit tutorial to help me understand what to do. It kind of drops me into the deep end and can be hard to take it all in at once. Amazing art!

koro.games

16. Apr 2024 · 13:51 UTC

Hello from sokpop fan!

I dragged the world to the left and got lost...
![WhereAmI.png](///raw/ef8/d2/z/63a61.png)

0x0961h

16. Apr 2024 · 13:53 UTC

I ***absolutely*** love the idea. Combining cards in some way to grow a seed into a flower from the limited selection of cards is pretty great! Was a bit underwhelmed by the lack of needed cards though and, to be frank, I would prefer some kind of mode with less "pressure", more "cosy" and "casual" so to say. But other than that little thing, I really enjoyed the game. Great job!

jb106

16. Apr 2024 · 17:01 UTC

Thank's to everyone for the feedbacks, that's lovely ! We planned on improving the game and make a polish version of it very soon :)
It definitely miss some tutorial at start, we will try to take into account the feedbacks !

ShinSam

16. Apr 2024 · 17:26 UTC

**Must feed the hole.**
I loved the game and the aesthetic (it seem like mouse scrolling crash my game)

jb106

16. Apr 2024 · 17:32 UTC

@shinsam oh love this title idea ! Oh I will try to fix this bug :/

RoughSkin

16. Apr 2024 · 17:32 UTC

This combination idea is super fun! I don't know if I really see the summon thingy but the game is great! Very polished (althought the screen size and card movement was a little bit chaotic at a times). Loved the dune sand worm in the middle. I have a problem with the requests from the worm, sometimes they feel impossible to comply and it feels pretty bad, nonetheless, great entry and i loved it!

Jean-Francois

16. Apr 2024 · 17:35 UTC

Les assets graphiques, les FX et la musique sont vraiment bons, le jeu est vraiment bien poli, c'est vraiment une super proposition, mon seul bémol c'est que je trouve le thème assez éloigné mais pas complètement hors propos. Voilà :) vraiment bien joué !

The graphical assets, FX and music are really good, the game is really well polished, it's really a great proposition, my only downside is that I find the theme quite distant but not completely irrelevant. Voilà :) really well done!

bittripbrit

16. Apr 2024 · 17:36 UTC

Really REALLY cool idea. It gives Cultist Simulator vibes in the best possible way. It's very chaotic and hard to keep up with at times, but once you know what you're doing it's very fun to grow things. I agree with others, a more "cosy" version would have me invested way longer, as it became very difficult to keep up with everything going on. Can't wait to see what you do with it! Amazing job.

prcastro

16. Apr 2024 · 17:55 UTC

Way too chaotic from the get go, but other than that? Amazing! Really fun to discover how it works, experiment with possibilities, find new cards. Also the art is stunning. Really good.

MadelineF

16. Apr 2024 · 18:01 UTC

Very nice idea, the animation and card movement are nicely done. The stress level / fun is very well calibrated

I would have loved a tutorial to better understand the transformation mechanism !

Kirass

16. Apr 2024 · 23:10 UTC

You are really great! The game turned out great!

Justine Olshan

17. Apr 2024 · 01:30 UTC

I have to admit I was sucked into the game trying to get all the flowers. Very addictive :) I had to play until the end.

One small thing that I think could make the gameplay better is making the symbols on the cards a little larger. Sometimes it was hard to see what things I needed to combine.

It could be cool to have a mechanic to request certain types of cards. Maybe it is in the game but I couldn't figure it out.

TavEVIl

17. Apr 2024 · 02:01 UTC

I love your overall aesthetic of the game. It`s very satisfying to combine things together and discover new things. Awesome stuff!

Shyoko Ghost

17. Apr 2024 · 02:08 UTC

very nice game！！I really like works with natural themes, and the images are also very beautiful

Capreola

18. Apr 2024 · 08:01 UTC

LOVED the concept! I can see this as something I could spend a lot of time playing. I do wish it was a bit more clear what to do at the beginning, as it gets overwhelming pretty fast. And also it would be good to be able to zoom in on cards to see them more clearly. The graphics is beautiful, I wish I could appreciate all the detail! Overall great game with a lot of potential, would love to see a full version some day.

Chiara Sanviti

18. Apr 2024 · 20:41 UTC

Nice game. The hole in the center reminded me of the worm from Dune. The underlying mechanics aren't original, but the sense of timing the game and theming it around nature is, so great job. The graphics are also very nice and clean.

Ani

18. Apr 2024 · 22:09 UTC

So pretty! It was quite overwhelming at the start for me too - trying to learn what to do while managing new cards was chaotic. I think a slower paced version of this game would be great since the concept and illustrations are so good!

MaxguN

19. Apr 2024 · 08:13 UTC

I love the art and vibe. The SFX gets a bit repetitive when the garden gets crowded and I couln't find how to get to grow a rose :(. However, I enjoyed my time playing your game, very well done to you, you did a good job! Congrats for your game :)

Skyeward

21. Apr 2024 · 12:12 UTC

This game is so beautiful, makes it really enjoyable to play. Definitely a bit addictive too, I kept playing until I'd made all the flowers.

Rowdy3

22. Apr 2024 · 22:58 UTC

A little too stressful for me, but man, the art is absolutely beautiful!

One thing that was quite bothersome, but I don't know if there is an actual fix for it, other than a static immoveable screen: A lot of times when trying to pick up a card I'd misclick and drag the screen instead, which resulted in too much time wasted to feed the hole. I think if that hadn't constantly happened, I wouldn't have found the game so stressful. ^^;

Utopia

29. Apr 2024 · 00:45 UTC

can't understand how to play it, but even so, trying to combine every cards and feed whatever possible cards into the void is super fun. Love the art!