I Am Tree by AthenaOfDelphi

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made by AthenaOfDelphi for LD34 (COMPO)
I Am Tree!

You play tree... an apple tree as it happens. The aim of the game is to grow apples. To do this, you must feed tree using a beetle army to collect food and water (be careful, they don't like munching the wrong thing).

When you are healthy (your leaves are green), you may sprout a flower or two.

In the spring and summer, bees come along. They can pollinate the flowers in the spring. In the summer and autumn, wasps come along. They can eat your apples.

You have some tricks up your sleeve to help.

Enjoy... I have enjoyed making it.

Ratings

Coolness 69% 3
Overall 2.60 898
Fun 2.46 864
Theme 3.35 746

Feedback

Catblocker
14. Dec 2015 路 16:18 UTC
I don't know if im dumb... But i don't know how to play the game. I only see bugs running around in the dirt. :/
Evannex
14. Dec 2015 路 22:54 UTC
Interesting concept, and I get that you use the bugs to bring food and water to the plant, but I'm not sure how to win :D I failed the game lol.
MicroMacro
14. Dec 2015 路 23:04 UTC
Fun. Took a moment to understand how the game works, but it was a fun game. Good job!
馃帳 AthenaOfDelphi
14. Dec 2015 路 23:22 UTC
Thanks for the comments.

The idea is to grow apples... feed the tree using the bugs and in the spring, flowers will grow. The bees fly past and pollinate them. There should be more to that but right now you just let them fly past them. Then when the season changes to summer, the pollinated flowers turn into apples. You click the apple to hide it (they only stay hidden a while, so get your timing right) when a wasp flies by. If you don't, the wasp eats it. At the end of autumn, if you've got apples left on the tree, it levels up to grow more apples.

Hope that helps :)
RARoadkill
15. Dec 2015 路 01:06 UTC
Took me a moment to figure it out, but had lots of fun getting the bugs to gather supplies for me. Good job
SpiritJZL
15. Dec 2015 路 01:56 UTC
I think it's better if the beetles are more accurate
Silvio
15. Dec 2015 路 10:53 UTC
my pc makes weird noises when I play this :D (I guess you call some expensive functions every frame)
and then it crashed after some time.
it still was a fun little idea
tyrants.not.found.team
15. Dec 2015 路 11:37 UTC
I don't get it either, I can't click the mouse beneath the ground since it freezes at floor level?

But, what is the name of the font on the intro screen please, it's gorgeous?
馃帳 AthenaOfDelphi
15. Dec 2015 路 12:06 UTC
@SpiritJZL - Yes, collision detection is somewhat bad at the moment and there seems to be a glitch that fills beetles up even if there is nothing there.

@Silvio - I'd be interested if you could send me the log file (check out my blog for my contact details or message me on Twitter).

@tyrants.not.found.team - The font is '8-bit limit' and it's available free for commercial use from 1001fonts.com. If the cursor moved underground it would be too easy to line up your beetles... keeping it above ground makes it a little trickier. If the control hints at the bottom of the screen show beetles, you can click to create them.

Thanks for all the feedback thus far :)
Auroz
17. Dec 2015 路 19:25 UTC
Fun idea, took a while to work out how the controls worked.
VersatileBox
17. Dec 2015 路 19:28 UTC
I don't know how to win neither, but I loved playing it!
berkano
03. Jan 2016 路 11:45 UTC
Really enjoyed this relaxing little game, nice job!