Hexarden by Aaron San Filippo

made by Aaron San Filippo for LD24 (COMPO)

Start with a bare space, and evolve it into a fully grown garden! (see what I did there?)

Hexarden is a gardening puzzle game played on a hexagon grid. Try to maximize your points for each of the five levels, by connecting water to plants.

Each plant is worth one point for each adjacent water piece.

If you feel so inclined, post pics of your best layouts to Twitter with the #hexarden tag!

Web	http://flippfly.com/hexarden-ludemdare/
Source	http://flippfly.com/Hexarden/SourceScripts.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=12401

Ratings

Coolness	42%	691
Overall	3.52	104

Audio	3.46	68
Fun	3.50	79
Graphics	3.62	133
Humor	2.23	311
Innovation	3.54	107
Mood	3.14	136
Theme	2.69	452

Feedback

Tony Coculuzzi

27. Aug 2012 · 01:03 UTC

Cool concept, pretty interesting gameplay once you understand it.

matthias_zarzecki

27. Aug 2012 · 03:31 UTC

Great idea for a puzzle! Graphics are nice too, on a good fidelity-level. It'll take me some time to figure the perfect system out :)

mariscal

27. Aug 2012 · 17:06 UTC

I liked the game even though I'm not a really fan on this puzzle games. Was interesting playing with my friend to see who scored more points! Great work man!

bvanschooten

27. Aug 2012 · 17:14 UTC

Really good puzzle game. I'd like to play more levels!

Thurig

27. Aug 2012 · 17:23 UTC

Solid puzzle game! I enjoyed playing this. Really fun.

Datw

27. Aug 2012 · 17:38 UTC

Simple, well polished up and a good optimization exercise! Awesome!

Jeremy1080

28. Aug 2012 · 02:03 UTC

Wow that was actually fun! Make some more levels please!

Glamdring

28. Aug 2012 · 02:08 UTC

interesting concept, but not real exciting as-is. I love the audio though, very chill.

pjchardt

28. Aug 2012 · 02:12 UTC

Very nice puzzle game. I wish there were more levels, or procedural levels, because I could play that for awhile. Nice job.

🎤 Aaron San Filippo

28. Aug 2012 · 13:40 UTC

I knew I should've made more levels, darnit!

BumpkinRich

28. Aug 2012 · 23:44 UTC

Very nice idea. I'd like some feedback on how I'm doing. It's hard for me not just to skip forward and just click everywhere. Maybe a target score or reward system.

nseward

29. Aug 2012 · 14:08 UTC

I wanted to pull out python and run through all the possible plays to figure out the real maxes. I love this game. It took me a while to figure out that water can expand too. Click and drag would be more intuitive for me and would lend itself to mobile platforms. Great work.

🎤 Aaron San Filippo

29. Aug 2012 · 15:11 UTC

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I realized after the fact (and a couple people saying it) that the tutorial didn't cover moving the water.

I'm totally going to write a search algorithm to find the best solution for each puzzle - I'm trying to resist putting more time into instead of finishing other projects :)

dick_claus

31. Aug 2012 · 14:38 UTC

I was not moving plants at first. But after I read top scores I replayed it and solve all puzzles with the highest score.
Good game.

AdventureIslands

02. Sep 2012 · 18:06 UTC

Solid puzzler, nice work. Good thing you were able to continue to next level even if you didn't get high score.

Skypeians

03. Sep 2012 · 23:20 UTC

great game!

hamster_mk_4

04. Sep 2012 · 03:58 UTC

Posting the high scores is a great way to get your players to put more effort into this simple puzzle.

TheRealJefe

05. Sep 2012 · 03:07 UTC

Awesome!