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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #399 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Overall | #1349 | 3.198 | 3.198 |
| Presentation | #1604 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Fun | #1895 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
Ranked from 126 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You are at the mercy of the wind. You can give your seedling a slight nudge but ejecting one of your seeds but that's it.
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Comments
It's fun being a seed just drifting in the wind~ Congrats on submitting a unique game to the jam, please check out my game if you haven't :D
Nice relaxing within a theme that quickly could have suggested other wise. Nice job! For this type of game, would have loves to see more work on the sound side of this:))
This was such a lovely game! I like how surrendering control here is a relaxing and calming matter of acceptance -- I also like how my puff ball shoots up into the sky when I fire my seeds.
I will say that it felt counter-intuitive that the place where the last seed falls would be where the game ends -- I had expected it to be the puff ball, but I suppose that the seed makes more sense. There may be a way to convey this to the player by having the puff-ball decay with every seed you fire, until you just have one seed drifting down to the ground.
Overall, well done! One of my favorites! Keep up the good work!
OOOOHHHH I definitely like this. Up until 20m before I published my final version the puffball was a white circle. 20m with Gimp got me that puff ball and it's the most artistic thing I have ever done, but I definitely wasn't creating a sprite sheet. In the final release I am looking at real assets so that will be a great add on.
Thanks for the idea.
This was a calming game lol, I liked it! The mechanics of this was interesting, good job on everything!
Nice, relaxing, and extremely original game. I think some more feedback/polish (screenshake on launch, sfx, music) would go a long way though. I found a really funny exploit where spamming space spawns a bunch more cottons, and i managed to get 300+ score using that. Never saw the eagle mentioned by some others here, maybe put it a bit earlier. Congratulations!
The game has a good starting concept and interesting visuals. The only gripes I have with it are that there isn't enough "juice"/feedback to what is going on in the game.
The game seemed to lag a lot for me, idk if anyone else had the same issue. I liked the art and the feel of it and it fits the theme well. I don't have any complaints but I will throw out the idea of maybe playing around with threats to the seedling? Like perhaps whilst you're trying to float away you also have birds that are trying to eat you or gardeners trying to eliminate weeds. Just a thought. But overall, well done!
Sorry to hear about the lag, I definitely had a similar issue in one of the earlier builds, I thought I had eliminated it by just rebuilding, I think this will work best on a mobile platform so hopefully won't be an issue in the future.
There is a bird, but it is on a pretty low chance because it will also carry you (forward or backward) for a potentially huge distance. My plan for future was to have that eat at least 1 seed as well. I really like the farmers idea, it can definitely come into play once I implement the tracking farthest dropped, right now it's just last seed, but I want to switch that to farthest seed, which would suck if you farthest seed got torn up by a farmer while you were being blown backwards.
Thanks for the feedback.
The game could have really done with a more constant atmospheric feel (music and SFX). The gameplay was a bit too slow for my taste I must say, it could maybe be spiced up a little, especially because the wind predictions are a little hard to understand (maybe drawing some sort of vector field could be more understandable?). It does fit the theme though, which isnt true of many submissions.
Nice job! The game was simple yet satisfying I enjoyed the graphics and the environment. Well done! :D
A really simple but fun game which requires more strategy than you'd think! I liked your lack of control but maybe a few more environmental hazards or advantages would be nice to make the game a bit more engaging. Some calm music would also improve the game quite a lot, but I think it's still relaxing as it is. Overall a neat little game which takes the theme in a creative way, great job!
I liked this! It's deceptively simple, but there's a lot to consider, like if you're about to hit a cloud, or trying to hit a bird. It really makes you appreciate the little control you have.
All right, scored 57 meters for now, it's not much, there could be strategies I haven't put my fingers on it yet.
It's a neat little game, I'm fond of how you transposed the seeding process into a nice gameplay mechanic !
Very relaxing. Fun game play. I din't encounter the eagle once, after playing 3 times. This would be great on mobile.
This is exactly my thought, I want to clean up the art and revamp it for a more flexible screen size. I also need to make the music and sound a little more leveled and controlled (not that anyone knows it is there right now lol). Thanks for playing!
Quite relaxing, though the tutorial was a bit slow and kinda tedious to get through. Other than that, good quaint and relaxing game!
This is by far the most relaxing game I've encountered so far. I'm super impressed you could still fit the theme of out of control but still provide a relaxing experience.
Not too much to say about this game that others haven't mentioned already! It's a nice simple chill game where you watch the seedling go flying and occasionally give it a little nudge to see if you can go just that much further.
This is a really cool idea, I could see this being a fun game where you get to upgrade your seedling to have more seeds or even specialized seeds that let you get more thrust, change wind, or interact with your environment in other ways. This game has a lot of potential! Good work!
Hey, I got to 119!, a fun game to relax, it’s only lacking some relaxing tunes.
High score 176.47 meters! Nice chill game, it really makes you think about if you really want to interact at all. Interesting idea!
Clean game ! Neat little concept, it makes for a great toy