My sweet garden by Kyatric

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made by Kyatric for LD30 (JAM)
Grow your garden over the course of a year.
Shop for the elements you will need and plant the flowers when they will allow you to take the most beautiful picture at the end of the year, after having matured.

You only need the mouse to play.
Should be playable on touch device as well.

Hoe a plot, so that you can plant a flower or put a decoration.
Flowers take some time to arrive to maturation and will have a finite lifetime as well.
Take that into account while growing your garden.
Plots can become pested, you'll then have to treat them with Anti Pest.
A plot occupied by a decoration or a matured flower won't become pested.


Share your final screenshots and scores on social networks using the hashtag #MySweetGarden

It's an HTML5 game made with Construct 2.
I made it all alone during the jam period.
All assets were made during that period.

Please be sure to leave some feedback/comment, I love to read those.

I hope you enjoy !

Ratings

Coolness 47% 1319
Overall(Jam) 2.75 668
Audio(Jam) 2.96 421
Fun(Jam) 2.41 680
Graphics(Jam) 2.59 660
Humor(Jam) 2.27 445
Innovation(Jam) 3.11 345
Mood(Jam) 2.63 611
Theme(Jam) 1.62 761

Feedback

Mrnewt
26. Aug 2014 · 02:46 UTC
Pretty straight forward. Would be nice to see some better graphics, more development.
gnx
26. Aug 2014 · 04:26 UTC
Gardening simulator is not what I thought I'd find in the jam :D Not much can be said about it. Everything works as you'd expect.
mutuware
26. Aug 2014 · 20:16 UTC
Well, this is different!
Inateno
27. Aug 2014 · 08:57 UTC
Wow this game was... Unexpected :D good job !
mramaizng
27. Aug 2014 · 17:28 UTC
I didn't expect to find a garden simulation here, and would have been more excited if there was some kind of connection (pun) with the theme.
zatyka
28. Aug 2014 · 00:46 UTC
This was a breath of fresh air. It was relaxing, and felt remarkably complete. I played twice, and did a far nicer garden the 2nd round.

I like how you set up a way to share gardens. I would have posted mine, but I don't really have social networking accounts.
Squidtank
28. Aug 2014 · 16:32 UTC
While it is playable and the graphics are decent, I didn't really have too much fun. I also didn't feel the theme come through at any point unless it's the part where you can share the garden?
🎤 Kyatric
28. Aug 2014 · 17:26 UTC
@Squidtank, @mramaizng : The theme is diluted across the whole game.

First, as it happens, any games are connected world. The player does an action on the game world, in return the game world challenges the player in his mind, so in our world, "reality".

Moreover in the game, the garden depends on the available tools/seeds/decoration from the shop as well as the choices of the player.

Finally, there is connexion through the social feature at the end indeed.

I wanted to make a game and the theme did not inspired me that much.

@all: thanks for the comments and feedback.
🎤 Kyatric
28. Aug 2014 · 17:27 UTC
any games are connected worlds*
McFunkypants
29. Aug 2014 · 00:04 UTC
I like it! I'd like to see the mechanics made even more PUZZLE like, with perhaps more info on the gui about hydration levels and P/N/K and Ph etc. Keep up the great work!
SeriouslyCrunchy
29. Aug 2014 · 14:34 UTC
Nice relaxing little feel to this one, sort of like a garden sandbox in a way, pretty good stuff.
EndingChaos
30. Aug 2014 · 14:14 UTC
Regardless of how you said it does connect, I couldn't see how it truly connected to the theme. and it was a bit difficult to figure out how to play the game but nice idea.
pjimmy
31. Aug 2014 · 22:14 UTC
cool, the only complaint would be the relation with the theme
vividhelix
02. Sep 2014 · 03:18 UTC
Interesting premise, not sure how it's related to the theme...
SecondDimension
02. Sep 2014 · 21:08 UTC
As always I can rely on your games for something a bit different and more peaceful. I think there is something satisfying about virtual gardens, and I like the time limit to make you plan when you plant things.
I would have liked the ability to undo planting something, within the same turn at least, and perhaps the ability to re-do plots if I made a mistake. I think putting a pond or water feature in would have been cool too. Good job on getting something so complete