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A jam submission

UppergrowthView game page

Play as a seed and grow the tallest plant you can!
Submitted by waterlemon (@waterlemon0) — 38 minutes before the deadline

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Uppergrowth's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#1944.0834.083
Overall#12073.2503.250
Presentation#18993.0833.083
Fun#19482.8332.833

Ranked from 24 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 plant is going out of control, due to how its growing and expanding rapidly. As you play further you will soon realise that you have to think about how where you plant to not let things get too out of control.

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

(1 edit) (+1)

I genuinely feel like this is the sort of thing game jam games should aspire to be. A really unique and cool core mechanic, presented simply but effectively. Was a little hard to get the hang of but this is definitely one of the games I've enjoyed the most from this jam, brilliant work! (just make it so the music volume doesn't reset to 0 when you restart from high up, and perhaps increase the amount that you can bent the plant)

(+1)

It's good. An original idea, but it's a little difficult to really get going (I agree with remco below, that you can make a mistake, and after that it's difficult to recover back to where you were), though I will say that when you do get the momentum going, it's quite fun to bounce, water, plant, bounce.

A quick side note, it's hard to see how the game could scale if it were made into a full release. Perhaps there could be puzzle aspects, if the controls weren't so difficult?

Great interpretation of "out of control" though (in terms of the out-of-control plant, not in terms of the difficulty with using the controls themselves; that seemed incidental and not an intentional aspect of the theme). And I love how the character changes colors when it has water - that was a smart idea!

Submitted(+1)

This is really clever!

I found it a bit hard though... you can mess up a bit too easily and it'll take a long time before recovery. (Also I accidentally started using arrow keys at some point as they do _almost_ the same ... except move the plant when growing.)

Submitted(+1)

The growth mechanic is really awesome! Really clever and satisfying.

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted(+1)

I love the idea of growing a plant with platformer movement, clever mechanic!
Though the viewport was tiny in browser, making it hard to play.

Developer

Yeah sorry about that im trying to get rid of a nasty bug that is affecting players with low fps so I thought I could squeeze some fps back, I'll turn it back on