Un-Rooted by Denhette
Ever brought a plant to the office to cheer the whole place up? Well, if you have, you know how 'bringing a plant to the office' ties in with 'delay the inevitable'!
Jump right into the action in Un-Rooted; the game where you try to keep your precious office plant alive for as long as possible while all your colleagues just HAVE to touch the thing. (And knowing them, they WILL knock it over. I'm looking at you, Steve from HR.)
But while you keep these pesky colleagues away (by body-bludgeoning them of course, how else?) you still have to keep your plant alive and happy* by giving it water!

*plant does not care about being in its pot ****, as long as it has water and it's not on the floor** it's dandy.
**tables, the printer, and dead bodies*** of colleagues are fine
***dead bodies may or may not (read: will) explode after a certain amount of time.
****plant does, however, love its pot a lot, so it will also explode with sadness if the pot falls and breaks.

Controls: WASD/arrow keys => move, Bump into colleagues => immobilize them Touch watering can => pick up watering can
Water can: Hold left click => water Hold right click near source => fill watering can
Shortcuts: M/ESC => return to menu/character select R => restart level
Play the game in your browser here: https://mboeckx.itch.io/un-rooted
| Link | https://mboeckx.itch.io/un-rooted |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/un-rooted |
Ratings
| Overall | 807th | 3.444⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 496th | 3.57⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 542th | 3.469⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 757th | 3.602⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 691th | 3.656⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 638th | 3.25⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 71th | 4.18⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 849th | 3.349⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 84🗳️ | 114🗨️ |
This one has a lot of personality, it's great! Weird, ragdoll physics will never not be funny to me, so seeing all these little blockheads wobble all over the place was a real treat for me. :smile:
I love the whacky atmosphere and the sound effects. There was a little bit of difficulty picking up the watering can sometimes but honestly it was always my colleages that knocked over the plant before it managed to dry up anyway. :P
Great game idea, gameplay is solid and I just love character "animation" =)
The dialogue is nice too. Really funny and chaotic.
I liked the different plants, the character combinations, and the audio. They suited the game well.
The NPCs comments made me want to throw some of them out the window, while others I would let look at my plant. But if they touched it, out the window with them.
My best was 106 seconds. Great game, I had a lot of fun.

I surely could have done better, but this was my best of several tries :) Loved the character creator!!

I surely could have done better, but this was my best of several tries :) Loved the character creator!!
Solid game, I particularly enjoyed that you got *an entire character creator in*. Not sure if the amusing "ragdoll bodies under floaty heads" movement was an intentional design aesthetic or a happy accident of jam timelines but it was entertaining.
Fantastic entry! :smile:
I already had a good laugh on the title screen with the character just lying on the floor but I did not expect those kind of game physics.
Hilarious.
I really liked the dialogue bubbles of the coworkers.
Great submission!
>It is almost **inevitable** that you knock the plant over yourself.
It is, isn't it 👀
Don't forget to say hello to my new sleep paralysis demon.

10/10 Nothing will make the screams go away.
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450167991?t=03h45m21s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
Overall, the graphics are cute but the music is a bit loud, but well done!