Garden of Brewery, Science and Malice by mortus

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made by mortus for LD31 (JAM)
Your goal is to brew a magic potion which will make you happy, but for it you need three types of ingredients.

<--- GOAL --->

Collect 30 of each ingredient to complete your potion.

<--- QUICK GUIDE --->

If you don't know what to do:
First day: just press the button.
First night: collect seeds by hovering your mouse over them.
Second day: mutate a bush with DNA, plant some seeds.
Go on, find a snowman.

<--- INSTRUCTIONS --->

Collect 30 ingredients of each type to win.

You can plant seeds only on days, click ground to plant.

You can gather resources and seeds only at night, move your mouse over something to pick it up. GREEN CUBES ARE SEEDS, blue cubes, red spheres and yellow cylinders are ingredients.

Enemies drop DNA when killed - use those to create protector-plants.

Mutated plants do not give seeds or resources. Don't forget to keep few of each kind for reproductive purposes.

<--- CHANGES --->

Fixed typo that made the game too dark.
Fixed spontaneous day/night changes bug.

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - "Happy Bee"

Ratings

Coolness 86% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.29 425
Audio(Jam) 2.87 438
Fun(Jam) 3.00 530
Graphics(Jam) 3.44 421
Humor(Jam) 2.74 416
Innovation(Jam) 3.12 449
Mood(Jam) 2.98 547
Theme(Jam) 3.57 490

Feedback

Ozcr
09. Dec 2014 · 01:11 UTC
Really cool game!

Try mine, http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=44154
Jacksendary
09. Dec 2014 · 08:44 UTC
Cool take on a tower defense game, seems to match the theme as well! Great job!
Krunoslav
09. Dec 2014 · 08:45 UTC
Nice tower defense, and good graphics. Not too innovative but fun, it is a good result.
BadPaul34
09. Dec 2014 · 08:49 UTC
Nice game! Even if main objective isn't clearly exposed in-game. I also didn't understand that you don't gather seeds on modified plants.
Im in love with the effect when you pick a resource!! Riiiight in the caldron, sweet and juicy :)
janovbyrnisson
09. Dec 2014 · 08:57 UTC
Nice one. :)
Krimble
09. Dec 2014 · 09:18 UTC
Cool game, I like the graphics and the day / night cycle shadow effect.
Iak
09. Dec 2014 · 09:39 UTC
Very nice TD game. A few times it turned night again right after day started without me clicking anything, not a gamebreaker though (it's beatable anyway).
very fun balancing seed gain with strong defense!
allurious
09. Dec 2014 · 13:25 UTC
Interesting concept, though I found it hard to plant new seeds. Liked the night to day animation!
Rocketship
09. Dec 2014 · 13:28 UTC
Very addicting game, good graphics and a nice fresh idea on tower defense genre. Enjoyed my time with this one.
SeriousDeath
09. Dec 2014 · 13:30 UTC
I like that it's a different kind of tower defense game, took me a while to understand though.
egos
09. Dec 2014 · 13:33 UTC
real nice graphics and original gameplay
LostTrainDude
09. Dec 2014 · 13:46 UTC
I like how this entry presents itself, it's a nice take on the "tower defense" genre.

It's not that easy to get the seeds production process, but still the whole game is quick and enjoyable :)

Looking forward to see a PostDare version of it!
Keep up the good work!
SelfishGenome
09. Dec 2014 · 21:03 UTC
Interesting day night switch, I could just sit and watch the light effects.
FergusonTV
10. Dec 2014 · 09:08 UTC
Didn't understood how to stop the caterpillars :/
Yet, nice game and graphics :)
Manoloko
10. Dec 2014 · 19:17 UTC
Beatiful game, I just don't know what to do exactly, the on-screen prompts don't help much, and the caterpillars are unstoppable!. But I love the day/night transitions and the general look, with more work could be something well worth playing.
Diamonde
11. Dec 2014 · 12:13 UTC
You guys really put a lot into this game, and that's impressive given the short time. I like the gameplay, however a few levels in, the seeds stop spawning for me. I may have missed some detail of how the seeds work. An improvement I would love to see for your next gamejam is to make it a little easier to understand what the user can interact with.
Thanks for making a really solid entry!
Finlal
11. Dec 2014 · 15:15 UTC
very interesting game and excellent implementation!
RadStar
11. Dec 2014 · 15:17 UTC
cool game ! a bit difficult to handle at first but become funnier with time !
HuntTheWumpus
11. Dec 2014 · 15:19 UTC
Cool little tower defense game with nice graphics.
Random Seed Games
11. Dec 2014 · 15:19 UTC
Unique looking and playing game, though sometimes that unique-ness leads to confusion. I was never really sure what each play did when I was upgrading them.
LTyrosine
11. Dec 2014 · 23:06 UTC
Nice game with its own level of uniqueness. Lot of potential on idea, cool music and nice graphic effects / models.

On bad side, interface need improvements. A closer camera view would improve this point a lot.

Hope that you keep working on it to a full featured version.
MintArcade
12. Dec 2014 · 19:34 UTC
Always wanted to take DNA :) nice tower defence game!
psychomonster
16. Dec 2014 · 14:00 UTC
Wow cool little universe. The day and night cycle has been done very well. It features the game a lot. I had some little problems with the controlls... maybe I'm to noobish. But taken all togehther: Nice job. Well done!
Dissiden7
16. Dec 2014 · 23:59 UTC
Great game.

Really liked the balance you had to strike between defence and production.
Odefus
17. Dec 2014 · 00:22 UTC
Confusing at first, but quite fun once you know what you're supposed to do. I like how you have to balance protection and resource generation. I wasn't a huge fan of the actual resource collection mechanic though. After a while I was just swinging my mouse around my plants wildly as a lot of the resources tend to end up out of sight behind the plants. At some point it started to simply feel like frustrating busywork. It was an all around enjoyable game anyway.
victorljs
21. Dec 2014 · 18:49 UTC
Nice Game.
SuperMsp10
21. Dec 2014 · 19:49 UTC
cool game
Shivur
21. Dec 2014 · 20:06 UTC
Good game.
Mekuri
25. Dec 2014 · 13:08 UTC
Great game. Nice tower Defense-ish game. The game felt very polished and I loved the graphics and the audio! Great job!
GarethIW
26. Dec 2014 · 12:31 UTC
It took me awhile to work out what i was doing but good once the penny dropped, well done.

-C