It’s midnight. Time for a status update.

Pretty much sucks.

So the trees grow, branch, grow flowers, flowers stop branches from growing, and wilt and die after a while, the butterfly floats around and zooms in on flowers, and the AI tree blathers around ineffectually. But we still don’t have a game.

The idea is that butterflies that visit your flowers will lay caterpillars on the other tree, which will stunt its growth. Birds will eat caterpillars, but only if they also get fruit from your tree. Coolest tree wins (or something. I really haven’t given it much thought).

So we’re missing a great deal of functionality here, but I think the plan is to plunge on.

I’ve been working on the AI tree just now, but having laid out the problem like that, I think it’s time to get on with the caterpillars and stuff. Hopefully I can finish that and it will be at least mildly interesting, but I’m not sure of either of those.

Screenshot:

Still no backgrounds, but that’s last minute afterthought-material.