{"author_link":"\/users\/julianmh","author_name":"JulianMH","author_uid":"1013088","comments":[{"author_name":"Landerack","author_uid":"1184990","time":"2020-04-20T00:20:09Z","epoch":1587342009,"modified":1587342009,"text":"Hey~ I tried downloading it cuz I loved the pic. Then read the requirement~ Pls send me a note when it's up. It looks super cute and I really love the music track that you included.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Landerack","author_uid":"1184990","time":"2020-04-20T17:06:03Z","epoch":1587402363,"modified":1587402363,"text":"Yeeeees! I am the ultimate gardener! \nI really liked that. 'few people know how to grow it' it's a really nice qlue that is just enough info. Really fun :) good job ^^","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Moritz14","author_uid":"1201285","time":"2020-04-20T21:55:22Z","epoch":1587419722,"modified":1587419722,"text":"Wow the sounds are crazy good! If i could earn money that fast in real life....I love that game!!!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PerfectSquare","author_uid":"1194154","time":"2020-04-20T22:12:20Z","epoch":1587420740,"modified":1587420740,"text":"That was a lot of fun. I was just going to grow one or two plants but one thing led to another and now I'm the ultimate gardener! Excellent job setting the tone with the music and art style.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Adam Clayden","author_uid":"1140340","time":"2020-04-20T22:24:12Z","epoch":1587421452,"modified":1587421452,"text":"Very nice game and fairly well polished. The water effects and sounds were well made and I had a lot of fun growing different plants!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pincushion","author_uid":"1144460","time":"2020-04-20T22:24:21Z","epoch":1587421461,"modified":1587421638,"text":"This is a really nice game. The feel reminds me of Flower (where you play leaves in the wind) - it's so calming.  The window scene and music set that tone nicely.\n\nYou really nailed the procedural plants. There were no strange plants that I encountered. They all made sense and looked nice. The plants also grew so smoothly. In general, performance wasn't an issue for me.\n\nThe mechanics were simple, but I still needed a minute to figure things out. I couldn't figure out if\/how to sell the plants at first. Small money, but I was half way through before I realized that I could sell my old pots!\n\nReally. Great job!\n\n\n\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lex","author_uid":"1058663","time":"2020-04-22T11:10:12Z","epoch":1587553812,"modified":1587553812,"text":"Got to say that I'm the ultimate gardener.\n\nNice game, great mood!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"AFlatThrasher","author_uid":"1039314","time":"2020-05-02T18:02:02Z","epoch":1588442522,"modified":1588442522,"text":"Well that was a lot of fun. Simple, but kept my attention. Audio worked very well, too. I had to keep playing until I grew that last tree!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"natpat","author_uid":"1077099","time":"2020-05-02T22:10:20Z","epoch":1588457420,"modified":1588457420,"text":"I'm really glad I played this - the game I helped make was also a plant growning\/tending game, so it's really interesting to see how others implemented it. I really love how your plants look and grow - the leaves swaying, growing up and sprouting new leaves - it's really great to watch. Having a few different plants to grow and different ways to take care of them was fun. I liked having to puzzle out how make money most efficiently and how to grow the star tree correctly! The sound effects and music were extremely fitting and worked very well with the game. Great entry!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"dcrdro","author_uid":"1005851","time":"2020-05-06T14:16:55Z","epoch":1588774615,"modified":1588774615,"text":"Technically interesting game . Liked thriving and withering effects. Generally athmospheric game. But unfortunately I'm bad garderner :(","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Voidsay","author_uid":"1191558","time":"2020-05-06T17:23:39Z","epoch":1588785819,"modified":1588785819,"text":"Had a look at your code. Was presently surprised that you actually generate the plants. I would have just scaled an image and called it a day.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Igor KinGamer","author_uid":"1000299","time":"2020-05-06T23:51:10Z","epoch":1588809070,"modified":1588809205,"text":"Pleasant game! Oh, my two startrees almost died while writing this comment XD\n\nIt would be nice to have something like costumers asking for specific plants (and sell them at higher prices), and maybe some incentive to challenge yourself to be faster. Also, it could be interesting to have fixed places where you can place the pots instead of anywhere. I also didn't figure out things like how to sell at first.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"1000209","time":"2020-05-07T06:36:44Z","epoch":1588833404,"modified":1588833404,"text":"This is overall an interesting and very relaxing game. I like both the music and visual style. The gameplay was okay, but I had a hard time earning much money. Overall is this a good compo game. Well done.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Literal Games","author_uid":"1080705","time":"2020-05-09T11:26:02Z","epoch":1589023562,"modified":1589023562,"text":"Very relaxing and impressive plant generation. Your theme is very similar to our game but has a totally different feel - I love the geometric shapes in the plants and the different growing methods. Would love to see this expanded!","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/199146-a6cc0c6e1bb784c00f4f44adcf3bae3c.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctRWj4KN_IMwIhJQQ?e=iew5WC","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctTRW6pQPpxR5YwvQ?e=bSZC2j","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctQOBVGzFLFrAYDZg?e=v4Nfcm","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctXCB7KWYksKh2yhw?e=gs0xo0","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctWQPjGKs9xLdxVwQ?e=z4KTt7","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"60080","g_author":"1013088","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"271942","g_title":"it lives and grows","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"48","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"199146","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"199146","n_urlkey":"271942","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/it-lives-and-grows","n_slug":"it-lives-and-grows","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"13088","n_created":"1587328366","n_modified":"1587508246","n_version":"620241","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":199146,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":13088,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2020-04-19T20:36:34Z","created":"2020-04-19T20:32:46Z","modified":"2020-04-21T22:30:46Z","version":620241,"slug":"it-lives-and-grows","name":"it lives and grows","body":"![1.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/023\/3\/z\/2d92f.png)\n\nThis game is about growing plants and keeping them alive.  And most of all about growing the perfect plant!\n\nIf you like plants and growing things, you might like this game. You may also like this game if you are a fan of procedural content generation and L-Systems.\n\nSince the rendering code is poorly optimized, the game needs a beefy PC to run. Sorry about that :\/\n\n### Download links explained\n\nThe original compo version is the *Windows (XNA)* version. This version requires XNA Redistributable 4.0. For this reason, I recommend downloading the *Windows* version instead. All other versions (*Windows*, *Mac OS*, *Linux*) were ported after the deadline and contain some performance optimizations, but are otherwise unchanged.\n\n### Audio category opt out\n\nAll sounds are recorded by myself within the 48 hours. All music was produced using Garage Band for iOS within the 48 hours aswell. However, the music uses way too much Garage Band autoplay to allow me to claim it is original. This is why I decided to opt out the audio category. \n\n### Tools used\n\n- **Visual Studio** & **C#** & **XNA Framework 4.0** for programming the game\n- **FNA-XNA** for porting the game to Mac OS and Linux\n- **GIMP** for the background image\n- **Speech Recorder** (iOS) & **Audacity** for the sound effects\n- **Garage Band** (iOS) for the music\n\n\n","meta":{"author":[13088],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/023\/3\/z\/2bca0.png","link-01":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctRWj4KN_IMwIhJQQ?e=iew5WC","link-01-tag":[42332],"link-02":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctTRW6pQPpxR5YwvQ?e=bSZC2j","link-02-tag":[42337],"grade-06-out":"1","link-02-name":"Windows","link-03":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctQOBVGzFLFrAYDZg?e=v4Nfcm","link-03-tag":[42337],"link-03-name":"Windows (XNA)","link-04":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctXCB7KWYksKh2yhw?e=gs0xo0","link-04-tag":[42339],"link-04-name":"Mac OS","link-05":"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/u\/s!Aiyu_Ek33-MQhctWQPjGKs9xLdxVwQ?e=z4KTt7","link-05-tag":[42341]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/it-lives-and-grows","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":14,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-09T11:26:02Z","grade":{"grade-01":21,"grade-02":21,"grade-03":21,"grade-04":21,"grade-05":21,"grade-06":8,"grade-07":16,"grade-08":20},"magic":{"cool":140.41478574829,"feedback":8,"given":34.75,"grade":21.285714285714,"grade-01-average":4.079,"grade-01-result":48,"grade-02-average":3.842,"grade-02-result":129,"grade-03-average":3.789,"grade-03-result":167,"grade-04-average":4.211,"grade-04-result":58,"grade-05-average":4.184,"grade-05-result":86,"grade-06-average":4.833,"grade-07-average":2.607,"grade-08-average":4,"grade-08-result":69,"smart":-5.521565970618}},"text":"![1.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/023\/3\/z\/2d92f.png)\n\nThis game is about growing plants and keeping them alive.  And most of all about growing the perfect plant!\n\nIf you like plants and growing things, you might like this game. You may also like this game if you are a fan of procedural content generation and L-Systems.\n\nSince the rendering code is poorly optimized, the game needs a beefy PC to run. Sorry about that :\/\n\n### Download links explained\n\nThe original compo version is the *Windows (XNA)* version. This version requires XNA Redistributable 4.0. For this reason, I recommend downloading the *Windows* version instead. All other versions (*Windows*, *Mac OS*, *Linux*) were ported after the deadline and contain some performance optimizations, but are otherwise unchanged.\n\n### Audio category opt out\n\nAll sounds are recorded by myself within the 48 hours. All music was produced using Garage Band for iOS within the 48 hours aswell. However, the music uses way too much Garage Band autoplay to allow me to claim it is original. This is why I decided to opt out the audio category. \n\n### Tools used\n\n- **Visual Studio** & **C#** & **XNA Framework 4.0** for programming the game\n- **FNA-XNA** for porting the game to Mac OS and Linux\n- **GIMP** for the background image\n- **Speech Recorder** (iOS) & **Audacity** for the sound effects\n- **Garage Band** (iOS) for the music\n\n\n","title":"it lives and grows"}