Greenfinger by paulfysh
You are the gardener. You are just trying to get to work and you lost all your tools and a bunch of hateful cows, cliffs and other such obstacles are getting in your way!
Grow plants to get through each level and see if you can unlock all 7 achievements (you need multiple play through's to get them all!)
Controls
AD or left and right arrow - left and right
ws or up and down - climb / decent a vine (up also uses the portal plants)
qe - change seed to plant
m - kill the background music
n - kill my voice
left control / right click - harvest a plant for its seed (once you unlock the ability)
space / left click - plant the selected plant (if you have enough seeds)
escape - bring up the in game menu, you can restart the level from here if needs be
Cows eat plants, but they cant see portal plants, they can just see through to the other side, so they wont eat them.
Fireballs kill you
Falling too far kills you
Its basically a "puzzle" solving platformer with 7 levels. Dont be afraid to restart the level if something goes wrong, or you die (just hit escape)
I couldnt get onefile exe working so unfortunately its a giant tar, just unpack it and run the exe it should work. If that doesn't appeal, you can clone the source and execute it that way, it works on python2.7 and 3.x the only dependency is on pygame 1.92 and above.
Theme ties - You grow plants to get through the levels, and theres two commands you can give your guy to interact with the world - plant a seed or harvest a seed (aside from movement obviously)
oh and special thanks to my girlfriend for literally acting like a cow for me :p
UPDATE: 14/12/15
After a bunch of friends playtested it, I needed to fix a few game breaking bugs, so a new version is now uploaded, with the commits made to the source tree. Everything fixed was at the very least a significant pain for completing the game making levels impossible without a level restart if they occurred, or even crashing the game. Unfortunately I still cant actually work out why the background music volume is messing with the sound effect volume on the windows build (works fine in linux), so I advise turning the background music off to hear my helpful tips!
UPDATE 15/12/15
I gave up on getting windows to lower the volume of just the pygame music like its meant to and reduced the volume of the midi file itself. Makes the voice and other game sounds audible.
Grow plants to get through each level and see if you can unlock all 7 achievements (you need multiple play through's to get them all!)
Controls
AD or left and right arrow - left and right
ws or up and down - climb / decent a vine (up also uses the portal plants)
qe - change seed to plant
m - kill the background music
n - kill my voice
left control / right click - harvest a plant for its seed (once you unlock the ability)
space / left click - plant the selected plant (if you have enough seeds)
escape - bring up the in game menu, you can restart the level from here if needs be
Cows eat plants, but they cant see portal plants, they can just see through to the other side, so they wont eat them.
Fireballs kill you
Falling too far kills you
Its basically a "puzzle" solving platformer with 7 levels. Dont be afraid to restart the level if something goes wrong, or you die (just hit escape)
I couldnt get onefile exe working so unfortunately its a giant tar, just unpack it and run the exe it should work. If that doesn't appeal, you can clone the source and execute it that way, it works on python2.7 and 3.x the only dependency is on pygame 1.92 and above.
Theme ties - You grow plants to get through the levels, and theres two commands you can give your guy to interact with the world - plant a seed or harvest a seed (aside from movement obviously)
oh and special thanks to my girlfriend for literally acting like a cow for me :p
UPDATE: 14/12/15
After a bunch of friends playtested it, I needed to fix a few game breaking bugs, so a new version is now uploaded, with the commits made to the source tree. Everything fixed was at the very least a significant pain for completing the game making levels impossible without a level restart if they occurred, or even crashing the game. Unfortunately I still cant actually work out why the background music volume is messing with the sound effect volume on the windows build (works fine in linux), so I advise turning the background music off to hear my helpful tips!
UPDATE 15/12/15
I gave up on getting windows to lower the volume of just the pygame music like its meant to and reduced the volume of the midi file itself. Makes the voice and other game sounds audible.
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/mre89q5xkhkqf16/Greenfinger3.zip?dl=0 |
| Source | https://bitbucket.org/paulfysh/ld34 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=18955 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 54% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.22 | 491 |
| Audio | 3.08 | 285 |
| Fun | 3.26 | 400 |
| Graphics | 2.85 | 624 |
| Humor | 3.29 | 137 |
| Innovation | 3.19 | 456 |
| Mood | 2.96 | 475 |
| Theme | 3.63 | 562 |
Feedback
in3orn
14. Dec 2015 · 20:48 UTC
Interesting and funny idea. Nice concept, especially the "muuu!"
Wukkopi
15. Dec 2015 · 22:01 UTC
Good little brainer. Great job!
tompudding
15. Dec 2015 · 22:35 UTC
Great little puzzler, the mechanics were introduced at a nice pace. Also good cowing :)
SpareWizard
16. Dec 2015 · 05:59 UTC
Fun puzzler with a'moo'sing elements.
Rosain_f
16. Dec 2015 · 09:21 UTC
Interesting concept, but a bit slow
Alsatian Studio
16. Dec 2015 · 10:11 UTC
Cool art style
Komradus
16. Dec 2015 · 11:51 UTC
Great audio and a fun idea. I did get a little stuck with the first portal plant level, couldn't figure out which key planted it.
🎤 paulfysh
16. Dec 2015 · 19:46 UTC
Q or E changes the selected seed, sorry I should have added that tidbit to the voiceover.
NirabazGAMES
16. Dec 2015 · 22:28 UTC
nice game)
A Flat Miner Studios
16. Dec 2015 · 22:40 UTC
Fun platformer with nice puzzles. Loved the voiceovers and the moos!
Kakureta
16. Dec 2015 · 22:42 UTC
Nice puzzles :)simple, fun and effective. I like the cow by the way!
PickleCrew
16. Dec 2015 · 22:58 UTC
This game was fun, but slow at times, the cow mooing was fun.
vicious_br
17. Dec 2015 · 01:06 UTC
Ow, Interesting concept, I like it. I would like to take this opportunity to ask a favor. You already rated my game, but I was not allowed "innovation rating." Please could you assess this item now? Take the opportunity to play with some corrections. Very thanks:http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=36629
alliel_a
26. Dec 2015 · 21:05 UTC
nice game