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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #35 | 4.519 | 4.519 |
| Originality | #36 | 4.370 | 4.370 |
| Overall | #78 | 4.074 | 4.074 |
| Fun | #286 | 3.741 | 3.741 |
Ranked from 27 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?
The plants are growing out of control! Trim them down and bend them to match drawn patterns!
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all audio during the game jam
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Comments
Amazing feeling for this game, and the idea is really original, well done !
One of the most original takes on the jam's theme I've seen around. Amazing polish for just 48 hours! I think the song is a little bit too energetic for a game that's supposed to be calm.
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Wow, I enjoyed playing this game a lot. Very relaxing and innovative! The music and the aesthetic made for a calming experience. I haven't seen a lot of game about tree related, but this game definitely risen above all. The only gripe I have is that the tree didn't match with the drawing sometime and I still past; minor issue. Other than that, this is a solid entry and deserved a high rating. Great job!
This is the cutest game I've played so far! I really like the art, and I have no idea how you got the game to look and sound this good during 48 hours! The gameplay itself is also a cool novel concept, and getting the game to recognize the patterns is impressive as well! I don't really have anything critical to say here, nice job!
I really want to try it, but I have a 32-bit system. Very sorry(
Beautiful game, it sounds and looks amazing! Really creative take on the theme too, I really enjoyed how different it was from the other games I've played so far. My one suggestion is that while I enjoy the puzzles, I sometimes found it hard to cut everything in time, maybe a way to start and pause when the plant grows would be useful but that may go against your design intentions. All in all, great submission!
Great looking game, and a very different idea from most of what I'm seeing.
Best Rate Criteria: ...All!
Best game I tested so far, it's well designed and it's some fresh idea among other jam's entries, and a clever take on the theme. I think you managed well the "what's out of control" pretty well, since the player can still enjoy a sense of control in the gameplay-side of the experience. Discerning experience, clean execution and, congrats for the total experience (the ending was unexpected but a really breathing suprpise)!
Thanks so much! This really made my day!
The game is so cute, and has such a wonderful concept! I was afraid it would be delicate to control, but it is quickly intuitive. The fairy is a great idea: the game could have work with just a cursor, but having a character following it instead give it so much personnality!
I'm only confused by the game's rating system. Most of the time I didn't ealize why I had won. Sometimes I didn't felt it look like the drawing, some other time I wasn't understanding why I was at 0. Plus, since winning is automatic when reaching 100%, it felt sometimes like I was interrupted in what I was doing.
But it still work most of the time! Playing this game was a pure delight. Well done!
Hi, I should have made it clearer in the game, but the dotted borders are supposed to be aligned with the borders of the drawing! That usually makes it much easier to control the rating.
I've learned 2 valuable things from this. Firstly, bonsai is a difficult and delicate and Secondly, that fairy is super cute. Good Job.
This game looks super cute! I really enjoyed the visuals of the game. I was not very good at controlling the fairy or the growth of the bonsai, but that's just the theme of the jam isn't it, haha.
I liked it, calm and fun… and kinda poetic ! Great visuals, good concept, overall really great quality. Good job ^^ !
I really love the art style and central mechanic at play here. Unfortunately, I found the controls far too floaty. The fairy lags behind the mouse by a fair margin and whenever I use the right click the plant seems to instantly turn into a tangled mess - at which point the slightest trim brings the entire plant down. But who knows, maybe I just suck at it? : p
Great work either way, congrats on shipping something that looks and sounds so polished!
Super adorable, compliments to your artist! The fairy is just so cute with her little victory dance, and it was genuinely fun to try to match the patterns. SFX and the tree bits falling made it pretty satisfying too. Nicely done :)
Saw this a couple of times in the discord channel! I am happy that I found the page, such an amazing vibe love it! Great game! Keep it up guys!:)
Very innovative concept. I loved the music! Super chill game. My only complaint is I wish that the fairy could fly past the bonsai. Pretty annoying when I want to cut the other side.
Very pretty and satisfying gameplay! I wish there was sound to go with it, but I really enjoyed myself. It's a clever concept, yet difficult to master.
[Edit: There was sound after all - maybe it just glitched out on me? Regardless, the sound was pleasant and complimented the gameplay nicely.]
Hi, there is music and sound! Maybe your volume was muted?
I was trying a bunch of the game jam games last night, so I know it wasn't muted. I tried it again this morning and it worked fine! I updated the score I gave to reflect that. :)
This game was stunning, I HAD to get through my queue so I could rate it. By far one of the most atmospheric games I've played so far, I could loose so much time to a game like this.
Nice game, i had to say that sometime the tree where too simple to complete but is a cute concept, i would think that is possible to make shapes rather than lines
Really nice game. Simple controls and an imaginative way to proceed to the next levels by containing the spread of the flower. Art looks amazing too