Gweeble Garden by atumemot

made by atumemot for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

Welcome To Your Gweeble Garden!

Raise your Gweebles, and connect them together to keep them happy. Each Gweeble has a word, so chain them together to form sentences. Tell a story, write a poem, Gweebles Gon Gweebers.

Controls:

Spam click Gweeble piles to harvest more Gweebles.

Connect Gweebles to form sentences.

Connected Gweebles are happy and will produce Gwee-Gwees.

Double-click Gweebles to plant as a Gweeble pile.

Feed Gweeble piles with Gwee-Gwees to increase their Gweeble output.

Right click and drag to move the camera.

Scroll to zoom in and out.

Itch.io	https://atumemot.itch.io/gweeble-garden
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/gweeble-garden

Ratings

Overall	634^th	3.455⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Fun	589^th	3.341⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	75^th	4⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Theme	406^th	3.841⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	437^th	3.818⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Audio	166^th	3.841⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Humor	294^th	3.5⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Mood	472^th	3.591⭐	24🧑‍⚖️
Given		37🗳️	20🗨️

Feedback

HangoverGames

07. Oct 2024 · 12:37 UTC

awesome concept, and it is very interesting how this idea can evolve. maybe some pokemon stuff where you an collect different gweebles or smth like that

Mashas

07. Oct 2024 · 17:59 UTC

I started playing without reading the instructions and was a bit confused for a while but after clicking around a bit I got the hang of things and started assembling some absolutely beautiful poetry! What a novel concept. Very enjoyable. Great work!![gweebs.png](///raw/8d2/3/z/6666e.png)

RascarCapackDev

07. Oct 2024 · 18:45 UTC

Cool concept and cute characters!

Vipaka

08. Oct 2024 · 04:29 UTC

This game is definitely unique! I made some silly word combinations, but they seemed to make the tiny creatures happy! Good job!

Doridie

08. Oct 2024 · 20:30 UTC

Very cute and very fun. The sounds fit so well! I played longer than expected, i got really inspired while playing. Like it a lot :)

goodwincek

08. Oct 2024 · 23:20 UTC

https://youtu.be/NRmCDkVV_-w

Interesting concept! I didn't really know what I was doing but the sound effects were funny :)

oliver_day

12. Oct 2024 · 03:30 UTC

Very interesting graphics, just wondering how you made sure they were valid words (did you list nouns, verbs, e.c.t.,). It was very satisfying to get them into chains. the only problem I had was some of the words were really long and unreadable at that scale and sometimes I dragged across to the piles but noting happened.

MachWerx

12. Oct 2024 · 04:52 UTC

Lovely experience! I didn't quite understand the points or numbers but I had fun moving the little gweebles around and forming sentences. It felt like the refrigerator magnet poem words. I loved the little animations.

I had some technical issues where the game would crash when I clicked too many times on a gweeble. I'm running on Safari on a Mac laptop (Apple M1) so that may have been an issue.

Talia

12. Oct 2024 · 20:49 UTC

![firefox_hYHemtVGZg.png](///raw/c86/c/z/68b74.png)

Lussard Studio

14. Oct 2024 · 12:34 UTC

I played much longer than I expected haha, I enjoyed a lot!

GreenPig

14. Oct 2024 · 17:59 UTC

Awesome concept! I can really see this evolving—imagine adding Pokémon-style elements where you can collect different gweebles! Great job on this unique game!

Roulyo

14. Oct 2024 · 18:19 UTC

Such a unique game! It felt a bit random at first but once you embrace the idea, create some nonsense and get gwee-gwees to create more nonsense, you just want even more. I had much fun tending over my Gweeble garden.
The art is lovely, the sound FX are awesome and so is the whole vibe. A real refreshing Jam!
![Screenshot 2024-10-14 201234.png](///raw/5a1/f1/z/68d1c.png)
(an attempted haiku)

🎤 atumemot

15. Oct 2024 · 03:02 UTC

It's awesome seeing peoples' gardens. Players sharing what they made was exactly what we were hoping for!

Tharinda Kodikara

15. Oct 2024 · 15:04 UTC

Innovative idea, well done!

DesiBragg

16. Oct 2024 · 01:49 UTC

😍 huge word library which makes for plenty gameplay. ✅ extra points for having the ability to create nice statements about doggos! 🐶💖