Bonsai Growth Simulator by cjacobwade

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made by cjacobwade for LD34 (COMPO)
Bonsai Growth Simulator is a relaxing game meant to simulate the experience of growing a bonsai tree over many years.

Made by @Cjacobwade

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1766
Overall 3.61 206
Fun 2.79 726
Graphics 4.29 46
Innovation 3.61 211
Mood 4.38 7
Theme 4.25 73

Feedback

SvenFrankson
14. Dec 2015 · 04:08 UTC
Smooth ! Love procedural generation, nice enry :)
cxsquared
14. Dec 2015 · 05:22 UTC
I really enjoyed this. It was a nice experience.
StarchyPancakes
14. Dec 2015 · 05:31 UTC
Wow, just lovely, really really well done. My hat is off to you
JohnGalt
14. Dec 2015 · 05:42 UTC
It captures a really unique feeling. Relaxing and interesting. I enjoy it. Giving more control on growing and adjust camera to make it always focus on the top may help.
SgtBursk
14. Dec 2015 · 05:47 UTC
Sublime.
ranmaru90
14. Dec 2015 · 05:49 UTC
I love it!
zybit
14. Dec 2015 · 05:50 UTC
Lol mine all look like snakes. Cool concept though. Definitely need the relaxing pace and sound of this after the Compo.
walaber
14. Dec 2015 · 05:51 UTC
nice job! indeed relaxing... although perhaps so relaxing I had a hard time understanding what my input was actually doing :P
Bemmu
14. Dec 2015 · 06:06 UTC
Why is there balls of pulsating beef growing on our bonsai? :D

It's peaceful, but we couldn't quite figure out how to use it. When I click on a beef it starts bouncing around. I can rotate, but clicking on the camera and bonsai buttons didn't seem to do anything.

Graphically very pretty and seems innovative.
nucleartide
14. Dec 2015 · 06:07 UTC
Wow, beautiful!
🎤 cjacobwade
14. Dec 2015 · 06:26 UTC
@bemmu Thanks for playing! Clicking the camera and tree buttons export screenshots and the tree's mesh/textures respectively. Check the folder where you unzipped the game!
OddballDave
14. Dec 2015 · 13:24 UTC
Great entry. How I was affecting the growth was confusing at first, but I got the hang of it. We had very similar ideas. My entry is about growing bonsai too.
dvdfu
15. Dec 2015 · 04:02 UTC
Very relaxing. I only manage to drive my branches into the ground, though. Still, love it!
elliottd
15. Dec 2015 · 21:14 UTC
it seemed to grow upwards too fast for me. I wonder if that is a frame dependency problem. really nice entry
randomhuman
17. Dec 2015 · 17:02 UTC
Pretty cool idea, nice chilled out mood.
M a r o o v a n
03. Jan 2016 · 17:15 UTC
Very clever and unique idea! Thank you for such an experience!
Fadobo
03. Jan 2016 · 18:43 UTC
Very pretty. It's a bit hard to control the growth with the ever changing camera angle, but it makes for nice organic trees.