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Grown with the Flow by Skywilly

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made by Skywilly for LD34 (JAM)
Hello ! I'm William (Skywilly), the editor in chief of french website "Game Side Story" and like always, i have no skill to make a game but i try, because it's very fun ! This time, Kathleen (Leenuyth) helped me with some graphics.

For this Ludum Dare, i tried to make a simple gameplay... You have to collect pollen with the left click. But it's pretty hard sometimes.

The goal is to let appear flowers by the end of the music. More pollen you collect, more flowers will appear. There is six flowers, six different colours, in total.

Good luck ! And enjoy the beautiful music of David Rampillon.

Music : "Petite Douceur" from "23.14" by David Rampillon

http://www.davidrampillon.com/
Web http://www.gamesidestory.com/soon/LD34/LD34_EASY/
Web (Hardcore Version) http://www.gamesidestory.com/soon/LD34/
Kongregate (Hardcore Version) http://www.kongregate.com/games/Skywilly/grown-with-the-flow-ludum-dare-34
Source (.Rar) http://www.gamesidestory.com/soon/LD34.rar
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=4255

Ratings

Coolness 92% 2
Overall(Jam) 2.65 1016
Audio(Jam) 3.84 105
Fun(Jam) 2.00 1076
Graphics(Jam) 3.00 741
Innovation(Jam) 2.40 929
Mood(Jam) 3.33 411
Theme(Jam) 3.09 899

Feedback

fishbrain
14. Dec 2015 · 07:52 UTC
Nice mood... but yeah, found it quite difficult to click the pollen.
ChristianBraun
14. Dec 2015 · 10:35 UTC
The athmosphere is great. Liked the graphics and the sound. But as already mentioned its a bit hard to get the pollen.
_benhumphries
14. Dec 2015 · 10:45 UTC
It's hard to collect the pollen. Small hitboxes I guess... Despite this it only took me a couple of seconds to figure out that you can kind of spam left mouse and hit them. I got to the night level, but I think I paid the price of my wrist! I really liked both the music and the game's idea, but because of the hitboxes it was hard to play.
Pikace
14. Dec 2015 · 12:07 UTC
The non hardcore is still hardcore :D
Allergic people clicking on ninja pollen. Done.
Ithildin
14. Dec 2015 · 15:38 UTC
I like the movement of the polen particles (it works wonderfully with the music to create a melancholic vibe), but boy it's hard to click on them! :S
aamatniekss
14. Dec 2015 · 16:19 UTC
Interesting.. but yeah sometimes it's impossible to collect the pollen, while at other times it's super simple.
Darkhaul
14. Dec 2015 · 16:19 UTC
Hitbox on the pollen is too small for it to feel good... music only seemed to work on the kongregate version (could be just me though) but was really nice! And it was quite pretty in all... just the small hitboxes make it kinda awkward to play.
🎤 Skywilly
14. Dec 2015 · 16:28 UTC
Darkhaul -> Oh, for the music, it's a real problem if it's not just for you. I hope it's ok for other players.

Sorry for the hitbox :\
Ildfuglen
14. Dec 2015 · 17:25 UTC
The collision detection was very off, but the flowers looked okay :)
Ghen
14. Dec 2015 · 17:26 UTC
dude....its sooo soothing....
the music, gameplay and visual style fit very very well!
this is an example of maximum effort

i didn't have anything to complain about except, its really hard to gather those pollen D:
Cyranh
14. Dec 2015 · 17:54 UTC
Nice mood, but it's incredibly hard to click those pollen...
Frank_Hiroma
14. Dec 2015 · 17:56 UTC
It's a really comfy game to play. The pollen is hard to click but maybe that's the point. Good job!
MrDave
14. Dec 2015 · 18:04 UTC
A great mood caused by a combination of the music and the way the pollen flowed.
RikkyPikki
14. Dec 2015 · 18:05 UTC
Nice music!
nosfer
15. Dec 2015 · 02:38 UTC
Nice music, hard to catch anything :) I also made a game about flowers :)
xaedes
16. Dec 2015 · 08:46 UTC
The music adds a lot to this games experience. The game is very simple, but, like others said, it is surprisingly hard to click the pollen. I think the theme "Growing" is very obvious with this one. Had a nice few minutes, mostly enjoying the music^^ We absolutely need something similar for our game :P
TomenLuca
16. Dec 2015 · 17:49 UTC
This game sets a great mood.
puppetmaster
19. Dec 2015 · 19:46 UTC
Mood is amazing! Click area from the flower pollen are to small. Great little game!!
XenosNS
22. Dec 2015 · 17:10 UTC
Very pretty game, excellent mood. Pollen need a bigger collision map though, felt I should of hit pollen but didn't.
hyperscope
28. Dec 2015 · 02:45 UTC
Particularly good job on the mood of the game! Unfortunately the gameplay it self doesn't live up to the mood, as the other posters mentioned it is far to hard to click pollen. Also it might be small but I found the flashing "start" to be rather annoying and tacky.
terryg
28. Dec 2015 · 03:23 UTC
The mood is nicely created and the graphics are very relaxing. Like the other posters I had a difficult time clicking the pollen and it didn't quite feel rewarding enough. The second scene was confusing.
ChiPassGames
28. Dec 2015 · 05:03 UTC
Awesome art and music. Not sure if I was doing something wrong, as only a small percentage of clicks collected the pollen.