Forest Grow by James Leib

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made by James Leib for LD 41 (COMPO)

Forest Grow is a puzzle game, where you try to populate a map with trees... by shooting them down.

What I Did

Wrote the movement, shooting, destruction and menu scripts

Modelled the trees

Wrote an algorithm for creating low-poly land

What I Didn't Do

The music

Tools

Unity

Blender

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Ratings

Overall 176th 3.659⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 133th 3.682⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 244th 3.568⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 479th 3.295⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 176th 3.659⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 86th 3.619⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

RAFFE
23. Apr 2018 · 03:08 UTC
Nice design!! (Trees) Good job dude!
Bryan Coen
23. Apr 2018 · 03:14 UTC
Great job on your game! I feel like its a good challenge and I enjoyed playing it a lot. I like the low poly style a lot as well. I did the same with my game for the compo. Excellent tutorial as well!

Here is my game if you get a chance!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/robot-vs-you
Cryovr
23. Apr 2018 · 03:40 UTC
i love your aesthetics!
Pahlsoftware
23. Apr 2018 · 05:07 UTC
I enjoyed the game a lot, one of the few I will keep.
Kusaihana
23. Apr 2018 · 06:28 UTC
Good job and great introductory tutorial! One thing: you may want to include a quit game option or at least an in-game menu, if you already have I am sorry I could not find.
JavaSaurus
23. Apr 2018 · 10:46 UTC
Nice game ! I love the style and it is very Zen ! :)
L14 Game Studio
23. Apr 2018 · 12:54 UTC
Very good game. No way to quit? Next step for me would be to add different plants.
Shoj92
23. Apr 2018 · 12:56 UTC
Trackpad acceleration was a little slow on mac laptop, but it was very enjoyable!
🎤 James Leib
23. Apr 2018 · 13:00 UTC
@Shoj92 Yeah I knew about this problem since Day 1, but I couldn't increase trackpad sensitivity (easily) without making mouse sensitivity too fast.
Shoj92
23. Apr 2018 · 13:05 UTC
@James Leib Gotcha! An options menu next time so the user could adjust it themselves would be awesome to keep in mind then ^^
🎤 James Leib
23. Apr 2018 · 13:06 UTC
@Shoj92 Yeah, I definitely should have added a menu for sound/sensitivity/quitting.
Memel06
23. Apr 2018 · 13:24 UTC
I followed your work throught blogpost, and.. woah! This is an awesome colorful ambient!
Loved the game concept also, shooting at trees is damn fun XD
I noticed that there isn't a menu for pause-quit, but is ok, just a jam entry! You have plenty of time to improve and polish it.

Thinking about this in a VR enviroment... and WHOA... killer game!

Thanks for your work!
Nash
23. Apr 2018 · 14:26 UTC
Just to note, the Windows exe-version got hammered by Symantec Virus Proctection. I was still able to run the game from the source in Unity.

This was very calming game. Even though you did not do the music, at least you chose a good tune. There could be some real potential with the idea. This game with actual animations etc. could have real potential.

The only major nitpick I have is that it was occasionally hard to hit the target I wanted to hit. I think this might have something to do with Windows but the bullet did not always go where I expected it to go.
EddyNeave
23. Apr 2018 · 14:27 UTC
Really cool game game. Overall really good. Intesting concept. I only have i think 2 minor bits of feedback. The mouse moved alot faster horizontally so was a little difficult to control. And the bullet collisions wasn't perfect but still managed to get quite far and had fun doing it :) Thanks for sharing.
🎤 James Leib
23. Apr 2018 · 14:34 UTC
@Nash thanks for the info on virus protection.
DarkAnice
23. Apr 2018 · 14:46 UTC
nice game, very innovative puzzles, would love to see this as a full game!
🎤 James Leib
23. Apr 2018 · 15:35 UTC
@Nash can you do me a big favour and just check if the new windows version works?
BenPeterson
23. Apr 2018 · 15:38 UTC
i think the hitboxes are a tiny bit off on the trees

nice job on the modeling and land
Connor McGrory
23. Apr 2018 · 17:56 UTC
I noticed that I couldn't shoot through the branches to target other trees.

Nice low-poly models and cool particles! (I'm a sucker for particle explosions)
MrSchlag2
23. Apr 2018 · 20:40 UTC
Such a relaxing game ! Nice graphics. It's a cool combination of genre from which result a unexpectedly fun gameplay.
GregK
24. Apr 2018 · 01:18 UTC
Cool fun relaxing game, and the sound track is just amazing lol
EkkoEkko
24. Apr 2018 · 04:48 UTC
Simple but Cool Graphics. Nice2
change
24. Apr 2018 · 12:33 UTC
beautiful lowploy style art,very good casual game