Plant + Birds by TerraCottaFrog
***this game was made in 48 hours, despite entry to the jam***
You breed plants.
You are the planets only hope.
The bird king rules the skies with an iron claw, and it is up to you to stop him.
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Build up your plant with new sections and turrets, selected from the bottom left.
Collect fruit from your plant to pay for these sections and turrets.
You have a limited inventory. **Manage it and don't get stuck without green fruit!**
Kill all the birds. Click to Kill.
If they take 7 or more pieces away, then you lose.
The king lives at 500m in the air. Beat him to win. (use the flamethrowers, they work wonders)
Collect sunshine with your plant to clear a miss (represented by birds in the upper left of the play area)
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Use right click to place, left click to kill birds and collect fruit.
1,2,3,4,5 switch what you are building.
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Music by Ben Powell, my brother.
You breed plants.
You are the planets only hope.
The bird king rules the skies with an iron claw, and it is up to you to stop him.
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Build up your plant with new sections and turrets, selected from the bottom left.
Collect fruit from your plant to pay for these sections and turrets.
You have a limited inventory. **Manage it and don't get stuck without green fruit!**
Kill all the birds. Click to Kill.
If they take 7 or more pieces away, then you lose.
The king lives at 500m in the air. Beat him to win. (use the flamethrowers, they work wonders)
Collect sunshine with your plant to clear a miss (represented by birds in the upper left of the play area)
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Use right click to place, left click to kill birds and collect fruit.
1,2,3,4,5 switch what you are building.
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Music by Ben Powell, my brother.
| Windows | https://terracottafrog.itch.io/plant-and-birds |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=55226 |
I really enjoyed it
Very nice music & art
I've plenty of fun playing Pant + Birds, and I think I will share it one with some of my friends.
I also I had a bug that it did not transition from the intro text to the actual gameplay or is the waiting time really long?
also, the plant placing cursor will be more transparent in areas where you cannot place. You can't build solid blocks of plant. The rules are hard to explain, so experimentation is necessary.
About the building rules, that's what I have recognised while playing. I tried to go 2 blocks left/right to get the sunshine, but that was not allowed. So next time I have to plan better:)
I love how on one hand, it's almost like a zen plant and seed management sim but then, on the other hand, you have evil birds getting sniped out of the sky by turret plants.
This game was great - I think this could actually be an example of a pretty innovative tower defense game, I don't think I've played a tower defense game that has such a focus on user expression and creativity like this one - great job!
Once I got it though I had fun. I like the growing mechanic. However I do not see the connection to the theme.
The game did not shut down properly after game over, had to kill it in the task manager.
The game was inspired by it, though.
(and I do realize that it was better suited to growth than Ancient Technology :P)
I'm assuming you read the description first.
Is there any way you think I could do to improve the instructions in it?
Took me a while to figure out how to grow the plant. Cute art style.
The birds a a little to fast for me taste.
Congrats, for your cool entry!