Witch of the Grove by SimonLarsen

[raw]
made by SimonLarsen for LD34 (JAM)
----| Witch of the Grove |----

Living in the forest can be a tough deal! Your goal in "Witch of the Grove" is to fend off waves of natures wild critters. Luckily you have your witch powers to help you protect your garden. Plant your magical seeds to grow and harvest various beneficial fruits!

----| Gameplay |----

Defeat the enemies to progress through waves and earn the highest score possible!
The waves will get increasingly difficult.

To grow stronger, plant your seeds in the soil. Different seeds grow different fruits.

* Red: Heals some of your missing health
* Yellow: Grants you experience points - Level Up to increase maximum HP and power
* Blue: Restores Magical power, fill your bar to perform a powerful attack!

Combine 2 different seeds by planting them in the same soil to grow more advanced fruits!

To get more seeds, use your charged attack on stunned enemies before they disappear!

Enemies will try to eat your plants so watch out!

----| Controls |----

Arrow Keys - Movement
Space - Jump
S - Toggle Seeds
D - Plant Seed
F - Attack - Hold to charge your swing for more damage!
Press Up when attack is fully charged to perform a powerful magical attack (requires you magic gauge to be full)

F11/Alt+Return to toggle fullscreen.
F1-F8 changes window size in windowed mode.

----| Made by Tangram |----

Programming - Simon Jonas Larsen (@SimonLarsen)
Art - Lukas Errits酶 Hansen (@Lukaserritsoe)

----| Music by stinkbug |----

Track: Citadel Bufonidae from STAFFcirc vol. 1
https://ubiktune.bandcamp.com/album/staffcirc-vol-1
(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license)

Ratings

Coolness 58% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.74 159
Audio(Jam) 3.94 85
Fun(Jam) 3.65 161
Graphics(Jam) 4.65 24
Humor(Jam) 3.09 284
Innovation(Jam) 3.30 397
Mood(Jam) 3.86 107
Theme(Jam) 3.80 389

Feedback

CaptainRed_
15. Dec 2015 路 03:57 UTC
cool game, needs something to replay at the end though, I have to close and reopen the window to play again
fluidvolt
15. Dec 2015 路 09:59 UTC
Wow! This is fun. Slashing wild boars and planting my crops -- nice. Overall this is super-duper polished. The artwork specifically is stunning and great music. Good stuff!
馃帳 SimonLarsen
15. Dec 2015 路 13:09 UTC
@CaptainRed_ Hitting space on the game over screen should restart the game.
Todnut
15. Dec 2015 路 17:50 UTC
Awesome art and sound!
Meta-link
15. Dec 2015 路 20:21 UTC
A nice game !
I'm totally in love with your character, the game's graphics are so cute !
Tapehead
16. Dec 2015 路 18:39 UTC
nice game! great graphics!
domo_demo
16. Dec 2015 路 20:39 UTC
sweet ! a little too tricky with the keyboard, but i'm also a bad gamer ;)
puddelipip
17. Dec 2015 路 12:39 UTC
unabel to open on my mac :( looks cool though!
rzuf
17. Dec 2015 路 16:36 UTC
Gorgeous graphics and great level of polish. Controls are tricky to get used to and slashing mid-air is difficult (possibly because the games tries to charge the attack and I'm just not timing my inputs very well)
I would add some more sounds and screenshakes when hitting enemies or when being hit to make more satisfying. :3
Awesome entry!
Taldius
17. Dec 2015 路 16:54 UTC
Awesome game! The graphics and animations look very good, the concept is really nice and the gameplay is well balanced.
Excellent work! :D
CatOnMars
17. Dec 2015 路 22:48 UTC
Wow! Really nice looking pixel arts!
It's a good game, altough I think you could put more description to your control inside the game, I started the game without reading your description, got dead because of not knowing the control.
Anyway, well done :)
馃帳 SimonLarsen
18. Dec 2015 路 11:54 UTC
*** UPDATE ***
There was an issue with the packaging of the OS/X version.
It should be fixed now.
FrederickK
19. Dec 2015 路 02:42 UTC
Amanzing!
I thing that I really disliked are the command scheme. Why SDF? Is hard to select the seed that you need only going to the right.
Other than, I loved everything on it.
Ulydev
20. Dec 2015 路 10:10 UTC
Amazing entry! Good job, fellow L枚ver! :)
Jod
20. Dec 2015 路 10:13 UTC
Gorgeous arcade-style feel! Loved the graphics and sounds.
ssodelta
20. Dec 2015 路 12:50 UTC
Sweet game! :D liked playing it!
Elit3dGaming
21. Dec 2015 路 18:05 UTC
Nice game, love the visuals and audio too
Drauthius
23. Dec 2015 路 23:05 UTC
Nice game! Love the graphics. It was a bit hard with all the different things happening at the same time. Would have been nice with a short ramp-up of seeds and attacks being added and things happening. Some things, like having to have a powered attack to get a seed, seem a bit misplaced and just add more complexity. Simply put, just a bit too many controls, especially right off the bat. It's a fun game nonetheless, with a lot of depth.
teeth
28. Dec 2015 路 04:40 UTC
I wish it had "built up" a little more slowly, it was hard to keep track of health/plants/controls, but overall it was cool to grow your own powerups!
Docjekyll
29. Dec 2015 路 04:37 UTC
Nice art. A bit hard to control but quite fun once I got used to it.
ciaodavinci
03. Jan 2016 路 23:12 UTC
This is super charming! My main obstacle was figuring out how to get new seeds, reading the description helped with that : )