{"author_link":"\/author\/aaronflippo\/","author_name":"Aaron San Filippo","author_uid":"12401","comments":[{"author_name":"Tony Coculuzzi","author_uid":"8692","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:08am","epoch":1346029380,"text":"Cool concept, pretty interesting gameplay once you understand it."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:36am","epoch":1346038260,"text":"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 :)"},{"author_name":"mariscal","author_uid":"14673","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1346087160,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"bvanschooten","author_uid":"14520","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:19pm","epoch":1346087640,"text":"Really good puzzle game.  I'd like to play more levels!"},{"author_name":"Thurig","author_uid":"14830","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1346088180,"text":"Solid puzzle game! I enjoyed playing this. Really fun."},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1346089080,"text":"Simple, well polished up and a good optimization exercise! Awesome!"},{"author_name":"Jeremy1080","author_uid":"15093","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 2:08am","epoch":1346119380,"text":"Wow that was actually fun! Make some more levels please!"},{"author_name":"Glamdring","author_uid":"16477","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 2:13am","epoch":1346119680,"text":"interesting concept, but not real exciting as-is.  I love the audio though, very chill."},{"author_name":"pjchardt","author_uid":"13158","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 2:17am","epoch":1346119920,"text":"Very nice puzzle game.  I wish there were more levels, or procedural levels, because I could play that for awhile.  Nice job."},{"author_name":"Aaron San Filippo","author_uid":"12401","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1346161200,"text":"I knew I should've made more levels, darnit!"},{"author_name":"BumpkinRich","author_uid":"14256","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1346197440,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"nseward","author_uid":"15218","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 2:13pm","epoch":1346249280,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Aaron San Filippo","author_uid":"12401","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1346253060,"text":"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.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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 :)"},{"author_name":"dick_claus","author_uid":"11148","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 2:43pm","epoch":1346423880,"text":"I was not moving plants at first. But after I read top scores I replayed it and solve all puzzles with the highest score.\r<br\/>Good game."},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1346609160,"text":"Solid puzzler, nice work. Good thing you were able to continue to next level even if you didn't get high score."},{"author_name":"Skypeians","author_uid":"16399","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 11:25pm","epoch":1346714400,"text":"great game!"},{"author_name":"hamster_mk_4","author_uid":"4265","time":"Sep 4, 2012 @ 4:03am","epoch":1346731080,"text":"Posting the high scores is a great way to get your players to put more effort into this simple puzzle."},{"author_name":"TheRealJefe","author_uid":"14423","time":"Sep 5, 2012 @ 3:12am","epoch":1346814420,"text":"Awesome!"}],"images":["ld24\/12401-4c29d68e56b0e58871cc8ab8fbbe81b0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/flippfly.com\/hexarden-ludemdare\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/flippfly.com\/Hexarden\/SourceScripts.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28835","g_author":"12401","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28865","g_title":"Hexarden","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"104","g_commentcount":"18","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/12401-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Start with a bare space, and evolve it into a fully grown garden! (see what I did there?)\r\n\r\nHexarden 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. \r\n\r\nEach plant is worth one point for each adjacent water piece.\r\n\r\nIf you feel so inclined, post pics of your best layouts to Twitter with the #hexarden tag!<\/p>","title":"Hexarden"}