Orchid by Dining Philosopher
Orchid

Grow your orchid to reach the sun (if you can find it). Every level requires you to grow to a certain surface area, but you will have more time and petals as your goal increases. Beware the tiny creatures, if they touch your growing petal you need to start over.
Controls
- Tap Left/Right or A/D: select an edge to grow from.
- Hold Space/Up/Down/W/S: grow a petal.
- Click the audio-icon in the browser tab to mute all audio.
| itch.io | https://dining-philosopher.itch.io/orchid |
| source | https://gitlab.com/DiningPhilosopher/ld56 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/orchid |
Ratings
| Given | 6🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
But also quite confusing at first, because it's such a new mechanic.
Some more visual clues about what the goal is and why the attempt failed would be nice, for example by highlighting the symbol of the hour glass, the goal or piece count in red or shaking it.
At first I thought the tiny creatures would also attack the white edge even if it wasn't growing, so I was frantically moving the white edge around to avoid them, until I found at that this was not the case. :sweat_smile:
I had to get used to the gameplay, but the it really grew on me, and I enjoyed finding the space between the creatures to grow. I liked the shapes I was making. I would of course try to wait till the very last moment to stop growing a piece, but often I continued a little bit too long :wink:
I found the sun! :sunny:
Nice game!