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A Life in a Year by anissen

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made by anissen for LD34 (COMPO)
A small game about life and death.

You guide a young tree in its first year of life. Each season is more demanding that the last. Collect items to grow and prosper.

Controls: Mouse.

Gameplay GIF: http://gfycat.com/KlutzyBouncyGoat

Tools used:
· Code: Haxe
· Game engine: Luxe
· Editor: Atom
· Graphics: Affinity Designer
· Music: Jukedeck
· Sounds: Generated from the MIDI standard
Web http://andersnissen.com/ld34/web/
Source https://github.com/anissen/ld34
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=30512

Ratings

Coolness 32% 1952
Overall 3.52 263
Audio 3.83 63
Fun 3.35 330
Graphics 3.48 282
Humor 2.32 513
Innovation 3.68 182
Mood 4.13 28
Theme 4.27 68

Feedback

Deity
13. Dec 2015 · 23:36 UTC
Really well done anissen! Love the effects/animations/concept.
rosden shadow
14. Dec 2015 · 21:02 UTC
good game well done
Martin Vilcans
14. Dec 2015 · 21:10 UTC
Moody and arty! I like the visuals and the inverse kinematics. At first I thought I had to touch objects (or avoid touching) with the white part of the tree, but after I realized that I had to touch with the tip of the tree to grow or get poisoned, it got a bit too easy. It's a nice relaxing experience though. Shame about the graphics glitches when switching seasons that take away from the mood.
Red_Fan games
14. Dec 2015 · 21:26 UTC
Great game play and mood. The music complimented both.
Drtizzle
14. Dec 2015 · 21:33 UTC
Very indie/artsy, i like that :)
The parallax effects were really good, and the music really helped building the mood.

I got stuck for 2 seasons because there were no suns falling on my tree, so I just watched my tree getting obliterated by skulls, so that was'nt much fun.
Next time try not to take complete control away from the player, but give the player a solution to the problem.

Good job!
Borodar
14. Dec 2015 · 21:41 UTC
Fun little game.
dj_pale
15. Dec 2015 · 10:59 UTC
Great mood and graphic style! Also got stuck at one point - with no choices, should maybe check for this state and restart or similar.
LittleThor
15. Dec 2015 · 12:26 UTC
Well made! And interesting approach of the theme, quite arty. I liked the mood. Try to improve your art style and you make build very great games!
I was a little bit frustrated when I lost and the level was still running though
Anshul Goyal
15. Dec 2015 · 16:55 UTC
very moving. The soundtrack is wonderful.
RoseNinja
16. Dec 2015 · 03:53 UTC
really liked the art style and mood of the game. nice work
blackmagic
16. Dec 2015 · 09:23 UTC
Very nice.
DrFallos
18. Dec 2015 · 08:30 UTC
Good idea and realization of growing! Had lot of fun playing!
wilbefast
19. Dec 2015 · 13:57 UTC
Always nice to see Luxe games :) It's a lot of fun, strangely meditative.

The sound and music are great, brilliant job!

I think there a few little things that could really improve polish, like removing the scroll bar on the side or hiding the cursor. There's one bug that can kind of break the game: I got poison at the beginning of winter before I could see what was going on and then couldn't move at all any more. Up until then I was really enjoying the game joy :)
Eduardo
20. Dec 2015 · 14:33 UTC
Nice effects!
Imagos Softworks
21. Dec 2015 · 23:45 UTC
The controls were nice and fluid. It was relaxing to collect the powerups and see my little sprout grow into something more.
psychonull
25. Dec 2015 · 23:15 UTC
I liked the mood and the experience overall. Good job.