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You captured my attention and I wanted to play more!\n\nThe game has a hands off tutorial approach where you discover the mechanics by exploring and clicking through things. Once you've figured out the mechanics of growing\/selling and then placing your first plant, it will then send the first wave of critters. This is a great non-intrusive way to teach players if they didn't read the description.\n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":904604,"author_name":"Jovanden","author_uid":"jovanden","epoch":1673327430,"text":"The art and audio are really nice. My only complaint is that it goes from pretty easy to losing really quickly. Pretty fun!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":904628,"author_name":"huozhedexiaoc","author_uid":"huozhedexiaoc","epoch":1673327741,"text":"I like TD game and I like this game.good bgm and nice pixel art.\n\nIt would be better if I could see the monster's health and the wave number of the level","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":911612,"author_name":"Swayam2004","author_uid":"swayam2004","epoch":1673425600,"text":"Wow, this game is so good.\nReally liked the visual of the game and so many cool animations.\nReally good background track and sound effects.\nCan't believe this is done in 2 days","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":913805,"author_name":"exofrenon","author_uid":"exofrenon","epoch":1673470140,"text":"An excellent entry and a very complete one at that. The gameplay is addictive and fun. I liked that addition of the plucking mechanic, it adds an extra rush to the TD genre. The graphics are solid. Polished overall. I only encountered one bug that a plant stayed selected and I couldn't deselect it. \n\nBut I lost immediately on the first boss. Normally in TD games once a monster passes the boundaries and damages you, they come again back to the start, and you can readjust your tower placement. I didn't even have a chance for that. Also it would be nice if I could rearrange the plants, or at least remove them to place a new stronger one. I would also like to see the stats of each plant somehow to know how strong they are.\n\nGreat job overall, congrats!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":913960,"author_name":"Calzone407","author_uid":"calzone407","epoch":1673472315,"text":"Can you add a way to play it that isn't in the browser? (Bad phrasing, but I use windows, so that would be awesome :pray:)Mine doesn't want to load it lol","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":914920,"author_name":"anoushcat","author_uid":"anoushcat","epoch":1673493473,"text":"Really nice project! \nIt's one of the best games I've played so far, love the tower defense mechanics and I really like that you have to manage your plants in real time while dealing with enemies. Great job!\nBonus points for the biology pun in the title..","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":917288,"author_name":"Chum Chum","author_uid":"chum-chum","epoch":1673562163,"text":"Really great game! I think the difficulty spike between the basic enemies and the big spider is a bit much, but it's not too bad. Loved the pixel art.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":917841,"author_name":"Langotriel","author_uid":"langotriel","epoch":1673579852,"text":"Wonderful pixel art, soothing audio and a easy to understand and interesting gameplay loop :eyes: There's a lot to love here! Really well done on the entry!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":918859,"author_name":"bobo_oh","author_uid":"bobo-oh","epoch":1673622009,"text":"At first, I had a lot of struggle without knowing how to play. I think a tutorial would have helped a lot, or just writing the instructions more clearly in the description. But once I knew how to play, it was a lot of fun! I loved the music, and wish there was more levels and various plants :)\nCongrats, great entry!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":918880,"author_name":"BurnsDesigns","author_uid":"burnsdesigns","epoch":1673623020,"text":"Wow, lots of polish in this game! Even a cool parallaxing menu!\n\nI really got into the vibe of building and selling and trying new plants. Excellent work. I just adore tower defense games.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":919234,"author_name":"Richard Vollebregt","author_uid":"richard-vollebregt","epoch":1673635568,"text":"Love this game! The art is really nice. And there's lots of different gameplay and content. Well done!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":919408,"author_name":"TomatoOmelet","author_uid":"tomatoomelet","epoch":1673640350,"text":"I won! A nice combination of farming sim and tower defense. Art music design are all so good! (The sound effects are not stupid at all!) Later in the game I feel I earn resource faster than I could use them, but maybe its just because Ima too good at this game! Noice job.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":919435,"author_name":"pepnou","author_uid":"pepnou","epoch":1673640946,"text":"One of the best game for me so far. Feels very polished, the main menu is awesome, the art is great, music and sfx go well with the game. The tower defense part works really well.\n\nGreat entry!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":920172,"author_name":"Moosey","author_uid":"moosey","epoch":1673668080,"text":"For anyone that is interested, I just published the full OST on Youtube! Please consider checking it out!\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z7MpzqF4RzA\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":920237,"author_name":"GrunkGrunk","author_uid":"grunkgrunk","epoch":1673671728,"text":"This was a neat game. I love P.v.s.Z style games so this was my favourite so far. Great art and a vibing soundtrack as well. Great job! ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":922684,"author_name":"ChevalBancal","author_uid":"chevalbancal","epoch":1673804533,"text":"The Pixel art and the music is so cute ! This is such a neat concept and game ! Congratulations","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":922776,"author_name":"Rocktavious","author_uid":"rocktavious","epoch":1673808283,"text":"The Art and music are really really good.  I couldn't understand the gameplay though.  I keep running out of pollen and money and couldn't figure out how to progress it seemed to easy to get stuck with nothing for the player to do to generate resources and get \"unstuck\".  But maybe this is because i never got to the tower defense part.  Nothing would spawn and the game wouldn't change into that mode for me. (I played in the embedded browser)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":922909,"author_name":"Starlight Glimmer is best poney","author_uid":"starlight-glimmer-is-best-poney","epoch":1673814943,"text":"You should consider linking to itch because the LD embed didn't work for me. \n\nYou made lot of nice pixel art and great audio. You say it's \"stupid homemade sound effects\" but it's actually some of the best sound design I've seen this event; very \"snappy\" and satisfying. \n\nThe game itself is just your standard Flash-era tower defense, with a lot of extra clicking which I'm not a fan of. I like how plants have to grow for some time before you can use them, but click-mashing them just didn't feel good. Part of the appeal of TDs is getting to watch the sea of particles, and this game doesn't give you a lot of time and opportunity to do that, because your eyes are fixed at the flowerpots and there is hardly any rest time in between waves (a mistake I'm also guilty of).\n\nThe game is also too easy with every single wave failing to pass through the first meander, except for Godzilla who survived for a few seconds longer. I made an entire second line of defense and it ended up unused. There's way too much pollen (I had 1k+ at the end), so my APM and the flowerpots were my only bottlenecks. But balancing jam games is next to impossible so it's not a big deal. Those are just some caveats I had, but overall I had a good time playing the game, great job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":923768,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1673882871,"text":"The game really needs a tutorial, but else a really well made and fun game. 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