Overgrown by travm

made by travm for LD 42 (JAM)

The gameplay is simple and fast paced. Your goal is to destroy all of the weeds before they destroy your flowers. The problem is - as you kill weeds, more will spawn off of the weeds you have yet to kill.

The weed growth limits your mobility by reducing the space you can move around in and it also forces you to cut paths as fast as you can so can reach flowers in order to protect them.

If a weed grows on the base of a flower, the flower will warn you that it is under attack. If that weed reaches maturity, it will kill the flower. So, you must race to flowers that are under attack and destroy those invading weeds.

To win the game, you must save as many flowers as you can, and destroy all of the weeds to prevent them from growing back. If all of the flowers die, you will lose.

Enjoy!

Controls

Controller:

Left Stick/Directional Pad to Move.
Right Action Buttons (eg. A/B/X/Y) to Aim and Attack.
Alternatively: Right Stick to Aim and R1 to Attack.

Keyboard:

WASD to Move.
Arrow Keys to Aim and Attack.

macOS	https://travm.itch.io/overgrown
Windows	https://travm.itch.io/overgrown
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/overgrown

Ratings

Overall	348^th	3.614⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Fun	276^th	3.571⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	445^th	3.329⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Theme	115^th	4.086⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	162^th	4.139⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Audio	236^th	3.5⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Humor	357^th	3.045⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Mood	389^th	3.348⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Given		42🗳️	5🗨️

Feedback

Ruimex

14. Aug 2018 · 01:45 UTC

The graphics look very cute! i like it!

Djibess

14. Aug 2018 · 12:47 UTC

Great graphics! i hope that you give my game a try

ZoltanCoccyx

14. Aug 2018 · 12:54 UTC

Your game is pretty cool! I liked the art and music a lot. Since I couldn't win :cry: I was wondering if there are more levels or ways to plant more flowers, I think it would be cool to also let the player decide which arrange of flowers is the most efficient in order to win. The player could win seeds everytime he kills enough weeds. :smile:

Inworks

14. Aug 2018 · 12:59 UTC

The grahpics are very good and the sound effects are great.

panurge

14. Aug 2018 · 13:01 UTC

Nice pixel stylings and a fun mechanic, really enjoyed playing it. If I had one suggestion, it would be to make the arrow keys chop at the same time as they change the knife direction, eliminating the need to also hammer space. Maybe it's just my old fingers but I found it tricky to control as it is! I still kept coming back for one more go though...

matzetoni

14. Aug 2018 · 13:10 UTC

Very good graphics indeed. It felt like playing some old Legend of Zelda game where one has focused on just keeping the 'cutting weeds'-feature :)

Bro404

14. Aug 2018 · 13:41 UTC

I didn't quite understand the goal of the game but it is pretty indeed.

Bro404

14. Aug 2018 · 13:41 UTC

I didn't quite understand the goal of the game but it is pretty indeed.

rexpeppers

14. Aug 2018 · 23:01 UTC

Cool game!

My Sweet Whomp

15. Aug 2018 · 07:33 UTC

This game is pretty :hugging:

guladam

15. Aug 2018 · 10:30 UTC

An absolutely beautiful game, the concept is simple yet fun! :)
The artwork is just wooow, I'm impressed.

Amazing job! :)

zlou_kote

15. Aug 2018 · 11:21 UTC

Cute graphics, good gameplay, but game become so easy when 1 flower left
Good job)

blearn

15. Aug 2018 · 15:14 UTC

As everyone seems to agree, very cute graphics! I think this game is very fitting for the theme. Trying to keep all flowers alive made me feel kind of overwhelmed but the more I played the easier it became to manage.

Definitely better with a controller. Mouse controls might make the keyboard option easier.

Great job!

Eoku

15. Aug 2018 · 22:31 UTC

not bad. I love the way it sounds!

Noah Beckman

16. Aug 2018 · 01:12 UTC

This game is very cool. It is fast paced and its animations are simple, but give the player a visual response to their inputs. It also goes very well with the theme. While i really like the concept of the game, i found it very obsolete to even move around when i could just stand by a flower spamming all the arrow keys and not die. However, i Think this game has a lot of potential and can be improved into something great in the future if you decide to keep developing it. Overall, Great Job on your entry!

dsqowl

16. Aug 2018 · 02:01 UTC

Love the pixel art on the title screen and I enjoy the graphics overall. I found the controls a little difficult, I didn't read the instructions on this page that specified how to aim the weed killer knife so I died the first time not realizing I could change directions. I was playing on keyboard and found it difficult to switch between moving and aiming. I think it would have been easier if the direction I moved it was also where I was aiming and I only had to focus on moving and killing weeds. Overall though I really liked it!

squabbler

16. Aug 2018 · 02:57 UTC

Clean shading on your pixel art. Well done. It's pretty difficult, but good.

Also, nice screen shake :D

G4MR

16. Aug 2018 · 03:16 UTC

haha, i played using a controller and pretty much instantly failed. cool game.

Timbelion

17. Aug 2018 · 12:18 UTC

Nice effects. I really like that pixel art graphic. Nice job!

ijskar

17. Aug 2018 · 12:24 UTC

I won with 2 remaining flowers! :D Game feels really good when using the controller. I like the decision of having the cutting-direction seperate from the facing-direction, at least when using twin-sticks. Graphics are cool! Music was kind of lacking, would do the game good to put some in! :) Sound-effects were nice though. All in all: a lot of fun!

mediyaz

17. Aug 2018 · 12:25 UTC

HACKHACKHACKHACKHACKHACKHACKHACKHACK

Gorgeous graphics - really good audio feedback and I love the little procedural 'bong bing bng bnng' sounds of the weeds growing!

My winner strat in the end was to just figure-of-eight around two flowers and mash the attack direction keys as fast as I could forever. Murdered over 500 weeds and I had to stop because my fingers got tired 😅Would be nice if it wasn't just an relentless assault and there was some other meaningful interaction the player make with the game other than just running around and chopping?

🎤 travm

17. Aug 2018 · 13:07 UTC

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'm glad you're enjoying the game. I definitely plan to expand on a lot of the features that you've mentioned, some of which were in-progress and unfortunately cut for time. Hope to get some more features and levels added soon! Thanks for playing and reviewing the game!

Lumpy

17. Aug 2018 · 18:21 UTC

I think I laughed harder playing your game than any other. The knife animations are ultra fantastic. While I was able to just camp one flower and play indefinitely, I see the potential. Weedwacker powerup!

Raivk

19. Aug 2018 · 14:19 UTC

Nice audio, cool game overall :)

GreenAndSubmarine

22. Aug 2018 · 23:55 UTC

I was never so stressed about keeping flowers alive in my life (and even cactuses keep dying on me IRL)! Loved the art and sounds, animations made me grin. Great job!

ursagames

29. Aug 2018 · 13:01 UTC

Love the sprite work here! Had a lot of fun playing it! Thanks for sharing it with my stream awhile back. Here's a link to the vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297569760?t=01h27m37s

paulhocker

01. Sep 2018 · 23:54 UTC

this was really a lot of fun to play - you could have introduced some more things like more flowers growing, as it did get easy with one flower left - thanks for making it

Jupiter_Hadley

08. Sep 2018 · 15:34 UTC

Cute graphics. I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 42 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/F8Gtbi3loPc