Feast Thine Eyes On Flowers by Hempuli

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made by Hempuli for Ludum Dare 57 (COMPO)

dtududrt.gif Plant flowers! You can either plant random flowers or pick ones you've planted to use their stats as the basis for new plants. You can even splice together the stats of two different plants. Can you find the hidden gem? I went 2 minutes overtime; Windows only.

Ratings

Overall 76th 3.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 222th 2.974⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 38th 3.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 281th 2.4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 23th 4.275⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 141th 3.278⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 197th 2.429⭐ 16🧑‍⚖️
Mood 28th 4.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 10🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

LukyStudios
07. Apr 2025 · 13:30 UTC
A really pretty game, loved watching the flowers sprout up from the ground! I seems like you could combine flowers but I was unable due to my mouse not having a middle button, so there wasn't a lot interaction I could experience outside plant & weeding flowers. Overall, a quick calming experience of gardening!
BarnabeWild
07. Apr 2025 · 18:59 UTC
Comfy game!
fusionnist
08. Apr 2025 · 01:08 UTC
Very cool and pretty! Beats my attempts at making flower games :)
OddballDave
08. Apr 2025 · 20:49 UTC
I liked it. Interesting idea. It's like an experiment in selective breeding. There's not a lot to it interactivity-wise, but what is there is good, and I suspect there's a lot more going on under the hood than is evident from a simple playthrough. Good stuff :8ball:
floppynub
09. Apr 2025 · 21:55 UTC
Super cool idea, can't even imagine how you put this together. I haven't found the gem yet but I am determined. Super unique idea, great take on the theme. I could see myself just keeping this up on my computer constantly and fiddling with it when I get bored.
henk
09. Apr 2025 · 22:03 UTC
Mine eyes hath feasted on flowers.

Not sure what the goal was, but I enjoyed myself (found the gem, too!).
Kamuniaft
09. Apr 2025 · 22:30 UTC
Very peaceful and calming experience - thank you! It was lovely to play around with the flowers, listen to the wind, and watch them sway. And stumbling upon that gem after all :D
baknik
10. Apr 2025 · 03:44 UTC
I love how dynamic this is. All the flowers seem to grow so naturally. Thanks for the game!
Cammin
10. Apr 2025 · 08:07 UTC
Neat little toybox of flower growing. Happy to see a new game from the almighty creator of baba (and keke too)
woe
10. Apr 2025 · 14:38 UTC
That's very pretty! i like how the roots get deeper if you drop the seeds from higher up :)
Euler Moises
11. Apr 2025 · 03:59 UTC
A very interesting and relaxing experience.

Thank you and congratulations!
jk5000
13. Apr 2025 · 15:30 UTC
I don't understand much of the game, but I did make a lot pretty flowers.
Verbante
13. Apr 2025 · 15:53 UTC
It looks cool when you plant a lot of flowers of the same kind. Also hidden gem wasn't what I thought it was :D
Remco
14. Apr 2025 · 16:39 UTC
I'm not sure there is 'more to this than meets the eye' or whatever, but when I looked up --- from my attempts to furiously figure out what the gem is (center of the earth? ... there's more sky down below there), and why I can't go down further, by crossbreeding flowers for length (maybe if I go up more, I can go _down_ more) or 'hardiness' (maybe surviving lower down is a breedable skill) ... etc etc...

...

when I looked up again, I saw I had accidentally created a beautiful garden, petals and leaves swaying in the wind.

Maybe sometimes a flower-planting game with neat procedurally generated flowers and a harmonious pastel color scheme really _is_ just a flower-planting game with neat procedurally generated flowers and a harmonious pastel color scheme.