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Growth Industries by SteveSalmond

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made by SteveSalmond for LD34 (JAM)
Congratulations for being accepted to your one week employment trial at Growth Industries, Incorporated. Growing better people is our business! We use the latest advances in nutrient delivery technology to ensure customers will be completely satisfied with the product. At Growth Industries we like to keep humans in the loop, so welcome aboard, and good luck!

CONTROLS
- Click buttons with mouse or use keys 1-6 to dispense nutrients.
- HINT: You can also click on the nutrient dispensers themselves (top of screen)

UPDATES
- Post-jam version with minor fixes now available!
- Mac and Linux builds now available (not tested)

TEAM NINJA THUMBS
- Moritz Schlitter (@momoschli): Art
- Steve Salmond (@stevesalmond): Code, Sound

TOOLS
- Unity
- Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
- Blender
- Garageband
- Audacity
- Photoshop

PLUGINS
- DOTween for Unity http://dotween.demigiant.com/
- LightShafts https://github.com/robertcupisz/LightShafts
Windows http://stevesalmond.itch.io/growth-industries
OS/X http://stevesalmond.itch.io/growth-industries
Linux http://stevesalmond.itch.io/growth-industries
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=24965

Ratings

Coolness 42% 1648
Overall(Jam) 4.00 52
Audio(Jam) 4.12 38
Fun(Jam) 3.65 161
Graphics(Jam) 4.54 47
Humor(Jam) 3.41 166
Innovation(Jam) 3.88 70
Mood(Jam) 3.91 87
Theme(Jam) 3.96 265

Feedback

sugarbyte
15. Dec 2015 · 01:02 UTC
Fantastic. I got fired so much and came back ready for more.
benjaml
15. Dec 2015 · 01:08 UTC
Great work, very polish, just awesome !
Chubb1337
15. Dec 2015 · 09:08 UTC
Took me a while to figure out what it was they needed, but then I saw the coloured panels on the tubes!

After that I did great! Or maybe, until I had to start multitasking, damn
RhysD
15. Dec 2015 · 09:12 UTC
Amazing audio, visuals and atmosphere! The game was fun, until it got confusing, then I got fired a few times and blamed my lack of co-ordination :)
AdamsMcCall
15. Dec 2015 · 15:14 UTC
It becomes quickly complicated at the third level, but thats what make this game really good :D
JaCkJoKeZ
16. Dec 2015 · 10:20 UTC
This game was SICK. I gave it 5/5, I got all the way to level 6 B) I would LOVE for this to be a full game. With the wages being usable for like upgrades of some sort. Or maybe adding a kinda of sci fi story element where you're a new worker in this facility and the story starts giving all these thought provoking questions like he said in the beginning of level 6; Do you ever think why we grow these people? #justathought :D
Oneiric Worlds
16. Dec 2015 · 10:21 UTC
I took me quite some time to understand the color I had to use for each specimen (I first it thought it was the colour of the tube...). But once I got it, it was pretty fun! It seems that some color sequences are impossible (yellow x 3 ?). Apart from that, great game! Good polish, good graphics, good gamefeel, good audio! Amazing!
hydancer
16. Dec 2015 · 10:26 UTC
Pretty polished game and you guys achieved a lot with the time given. I was surprised by how well balanced it seems and how it nicely it progresses and gets harder with each level. Getting this right is something that not a lot of people put thought into, especially with such a short time frame to make the game. Congrats!
Jod
18. Dec 2015 · 08:02 UTC
Gorgeous graphics. Loved the little in-between texts and the details on the desk.
Rodaja
18. Dec 2015 · 09:53 UTC
Great game! At first I didn't understand what I had to do, but I got it quickly, and then the game becomes so stressful! I lost on day 6, and it totally was my fault for not being able to press the correct buttons when needed. I think there are some combinations that you can't do, but you don't have to correctly feed ALL the clones, so it's not that bad.

Good job, keep it up!
randomhuman
19. Dec 2015 · 15:53 UTC
Oh god the stress o.O Very slick game, well done :)
thesquigglez
21. Dec 2015 · 20:08 UTC
very fun. only complaint is no way to exit game... had to close with task manager
fafastudio
21. Dec 2015 · 20:21 UTC
This game is actually pretty cool.
However, it was so much difficult at the end and in my opinion, it lacked of more musics
A Flat Miner Studios
21. Dec 2015 · 20:46 UTC
Very good. It needs to be a bit more obvious in the beginning what colors you need to feed them (easy to think it's the color of the tube or the color of the person early on).
🎤 SteveSalmond
21. Dec 2015 · 23:06 UTC
Thanks for all the feedback guys! Sounds like we needed to make it a bit clearer how the color matching works, and Escape to quit the game would have been a good thing, duh :) All good stuff, cheers.
VitasaMode
22. Dec 2015 · 10:19 UTC
Excelent entry, I didn't realize I had to see the cloning nutrients on the tubes at first and an exit button would be good. The UI, graphics and controls were all clean and the Login was a nice touch.
eruiz00
24. Dec 2015 · 09:11 UTC
Polished but somewhat simple. Had a nice time playing. Well done!
GeorgeBroussard
04. Jan 2016 · 18:17 UTC
Awesome entry as usual. Loved the background music track. Game really amped up around the 4th level? At first I didn't realize you could spam a key and drop multiple colors in at one time. Made it a lot easier. Very well done game. Fun and challenging and good theme usage.
klianc09
04. Jan 2016 · 19:04 UTC
I tried to like it, but it gets just so fast later on, you can't even use the first dispenser anymore, because until you see the first color on the pod, it's too late because the delay on the dispenser is too high. And because of the high delay you also have to press before the pod gets under the dispenser, but the speed changes every level so it messes with the timing... maybe I'm just bad at it.
Still, the graphics and mood are excellent, it just wasn't very fun for me. (Also I second the need of an exit button.)