The Garden by bendmorris
This is an incremental game about the connectedness of life. As your garden grows, more animals will come to live there. Use the tools at your disposal to try to maintain a balance and prevent anything from growing out of control or going extinct.
Like the real world, this game features indirect effects. For example, if you use pesticide on the ants, you may end up hurting the beetles. Why? Because spiders eat both ants and beetles, and with fewer ants to eat they'll start eating more beetles.
The Garden was made with HaxePunk.
Like the real world, this game features indirect effects. For example, if you use pesticide on the ants, you may end up hurting the beetles. Why? Because spiders eat both ants and beetles, and with fewer ants to eat they'll start eating more beetles.
The Garden was made with HaxePunk.
| Web | http://www.monsterfacegames.com/static/garden.swf |
| Source | https://github.com/bendmorris/thegarden |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=36156 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 51% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.13 | 638 |
| Fun | 2.87 | 717 |
| Graphics | 2.26 | 1052 |
| Humor | 2.24 | 611 |
| Innovation | 3.37 | 394 |
| Mood | 2.80 | 721 |
| Theme | 3.20 | 600 |
Everything finally died and I didn't understand how I could fix the entropy.
I seemed that everything I could click made the things worse.
It's a very good entry but some kind of explanations of how the things interact with each others (other than just percent) would be great.
Funny that when my kid brother showed my cookie clicker I thought it to be the most silly and pointless thing ever ... but it's really an archetypal game mechanic, we just dress it up in lots of logic and gfx, like this silly action rpg I've been playing for 100+ hours just to get all the last level 9 items ... Well, anyway, nice game and thanks for making it! (...and sorry for the philosophy :))
I went until cows, but they were dying. I guess I had to take care of them. All of a sudden all the insects started to die, but my actions against their predator were useless.
Hopefully a small colony of ants came back in my garden after a short period and the ecosystem had reborn.
I will be more careful this time.