Skeleton Gardens by nka

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made by nka for LD33 (JAM)
This game is about a guy with a styche who carries seeds of death and plants trees to grow skeletons who will kill humans.

Bones attacks will consume seeds. Skeleton trees will drop seeds so you can recover.

--- Controls ---
X - attack
C - plant tree
Z - death claw
DOWN - plant wall
M - mute

Made with FlashPunk

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1268
Overall(Jam) 4.17 21
Audio(Jam) 4.05 45
Fun(Jam) 4.04 29
Graphics(Jam) 4.46 54
Humor(Jam) 2.65 609
Innovation(Jam) 3.87 62
Mood(Jam) 3.77 127
Theme(Jam) 3.96 145

Feedback

Orni
24. Aug 2015 · 07:21 UTC
wow, I loved this!
the art and overall style of this game is amazing

controls and gameplay are nicely done, too
great game!
Yrr
26. Aug 2015 · 16:10 UTC
Fun, innovative and beautiful!
Maramasa
26. Aug 2015 · 16:11 UTC
Well executed, great graphics and interesting gameplay. Great work! :)
Crimpox
26. Aug 2015 · 16:12 UTC
Looks great, game play was really fun as well
bitdecaygames
26. Aug 2015 · 16:14 UTC
Art is awesome. I personally would have liked the attack buttons mapped to different keys as I found myself wanting 3 more fingers on my left hand. Great game though. This would be a fun one to develop further.
P.T.A
26. Aug 2015 · 16:25 UTC
amazing! the pixel art is very beatiful and the gameplay mechanics are solid! very addicting well done!
HappyHour
27. Aug 2015 · 05:02 UTC
The controls are very satisfying. Couldn't get enough of hacking away and planting death seeds. :)
HolyBlackCat
27. Aug 2015 · 05:35 UTC
Nice game and good graphics!
mklee
27. Aug 2015 · 05:40 UTC
Very cool game! The graphics (especially the branches and lines with the skeleton tree/death claw) are very well done and the game plays very smoothly! The difficulty is a bit too easy, it's really hard to die as long as you keep moving. Awesome job!
CheesyRamen
27. Aug 2015 · 18:40 UTC
I really liked the art style, plus hacking away at soldiers =) Great job!
Cake_Catastrophe
27. Aug 2015 · 18:54 UTC
Nice work, the mechanics were very interesting though I wasn't very good at it!
roaringcatgames
30. Aug 2015 · 20:34 UTC
You can't kill me! I am Skeletor!!

Great job with the art and music! Love it!

-Loi LeMix
crucknuk
02. Sep 2015 · 16:49 UTC
Very unique. I liked your arts and the gameplay is effective
6DownStudios
04. Sep 2015 · 07:35 UTC
Great entry! Elegant design that's simple to learn but hectic and quite fun as the difficulty ramps up.

Graphics are excellent! Seemingly sloppy and chaotic sprites are designed quite well in terms of overlapping foresight. Once the screen fills up you can really appreciate the variations of trees, distinct shapes but with strict compositional rules--evenly spaced "joints" to tie together the bone-branches, skull-fruit at every altitude--all really comes together when they fall down.
Seemingly minor graphical decisions like color choices and the subtle hilliness of the ground are demonstrated nicely with grouped units and number pop-ups; even on a crowded screen with only a dozen colors, everything is easy to parse.

What impresses me the most is the animation. Still images don't do justice to the gesture and fluidity achieved with just a few finely-crafted frames.
Bravo.