Play Garden
Bloom Beyond 🌺🐝🐿's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #1293 | 3.733 | 3.733 |
| Enjoyment | #1813 | 3.233 | 3.233 |
| Overall | #1880 | 3.356 | 3.356 |
| Creativity | #3119 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
Ranked from 30 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 goal of the game is to grow the biggest flowers possible.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Code and Pixel Art by me
Music and Sound effects made for the game by guselect
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Really satisfying game, I "finished" it quickly but it's very cool to see flowers design and all the bees and squirrels working on the screen, I'm also surprised to see so many elements drawn on screen without experiencing any lags in the browser, did you use any special method to make that happen or it's just unity that's really optimized ?
Great game overall, thanks for the chill moment :)
great idle game! kinda hard to zoom in to where i plant my seed sometimes
Good art style, had fun.
Thanks
I loved the visuals and the bees flying around looked very satisifying
Thank you :)
Very Nice idle game. A quick tutorial about would be cool, but we quickly understand the purpose of every elements.
And I really like the retro GB look and sounds. Great job !
The tutorial was planned, but a bit before the end, I had to choose between adding the clouds or making the tutorial, and I chose to add the clouds and put a few explanations in the description instead ^^
Thanks for your feedback! :)
This is such a relaxing game :) I played until I felt I could cook an egg on my laptop. I really like the different color themes in the game and I loved watering my flowers with 10 bees :3
Sorry about the optimisation, or rather non-optimisation, for your laptop ^^'
Thank you for your kind comment :)
Great job, loved how you could optimize everything quite fast! I enjoyed looking at my field full of bees grow by itself once I was done with everything.
Thanks ! =)
A solid submission, congratulations. Not much to add that hasn't been said below really, although I personally missed a goal / objective such as "Grow at least one flower to X height". I wasn't a massive fan of the art style personally, though I can appreciate the time and effort put into it, and I cannot deny the bees were amazing haha.
Definite potential to develop this further if you wanted; points to consider would be balancing / game progression arc, introducing some form of disruption to the player (for example, insects that eat the plants) and slight UI improvements. Overall though, well done!
Thank you for your detailed feedback and suggestions. :)
I've already had suggestions about adding enemies, but I don't think that's right for an idle game that you're supposed to be able to leave running on the side.
If a truly idle game is the intent, then I think you're absolutely right. In that case, you need to identify the "just one more" incentive - the reason why I would switch back to the game window and pay attention to it instead of whatever else I am currently doing, otherwise it is little more than a soundtrack or a glorified interactive wallpaper haha.
:O Idk why but this is like my favorite game so far. It is SOOOO FREAKING CUTE I love the bees omg they made my day!!! And the flowers are so pretty and the clouds agghhhh really amazing aesthetic you have going on! I also feel like the balance was fun because at first I was like ok ok $20 I can get there, and then I was like OMG I CAN'T CLICK FAST ENOUGH TO SPEND MY MONIES. Anyways I had a lot of fun!
One thing is I didn't notice there were upgrades until $2000 was really insignificant to me, and by that point the upgrades weren't that effective. I mostly kept playing because of the adorable art after a certain point because I bought everything quickly, but i think given the time constraint it was super fun and the balance worked!
Thank you very much for your very kind comment, I really appreciate it <3
I had fun playing the game but unlocked all upgrades really fast. Maybe make the shop prices more expensive each time you buy? Also flowers are really colourful so why the mat colours?
Ah, I hadn't thought of that option, I was just trying to modify the curve for earning money.
I don't know, I wanted to try and limit myself to a palette of 8 colours, but you know that with the palette switcher and especially the random mode you can get very colourful flowers. ;)
Thanks for your feedback! =)
Please tell me how I can find those flower IRL
Flowers that can change colour to suit your mood?
I don't think that exists ^^
Hum, I was thinking about the money generating aspect but the colors are nice too...
Just ask a tulip farmer in the netherlands
Haha this convo is funn
Really nice clicker game, perfect for a good relaxing time, I tried to make a flower reach space, but the game started dying before I could. The only things missing in my opinion were more stuff to do with the money, and for progression to be slower so things wouldn't become redundant so fast.
Yes, I wanted to add more upgrades but I ran out of time for the optimisation too :/
Thanks for your feedback =)
really fun to watch the garden grow taller and taller after planting rows and rows of bees! i just wish i could move the camera right and left.
Thank you for your comment! I just realized I didn’t mention anywhere that you can move the camera with the right mouse button and zoom in/out with the scroll wheel ^^'
Very nice fit to the jam theme. I also thought about making some cookie clicker like, but i thought the balance can be a little overwhelming hahaha
And you were right, the balancing is the biggest flaw in my game, I think. 😅
Thanks for your comment! 🙂
Cool game! I really liked the visual style
Thank you :)
ROW OF BEE HIVES
😅
My eyes were opened when I realized I could move left and right in addition to up and down. I love the implementation of alternative color palettes- a great touch of polish!
Yes, you can create a very, very large garden! ^^
Thanks for your comment!
Something I've realized is decidedly lacking in a great number of incremental games is an ascetic change to match your world sHattering gameplay / numerical changes, and that's built into this title from the get go! It was a delight to watch my garden expand and grow, and was a welcome change of pace from the often frantic and tough default entry into most jams. I did have some performance issues, which is natural I think for a game of this type, but think it could have been prevented (partially) by having a fixed number of hives / hive locations. Would love for some optimization so I can grow MAXIUMUM garden. Adore.
That's a great idea for the hives; I hadn't thought of that.
I also wanted to create a Windows build to improve performance like you did for your game, but I forgot. 😅
Thanks for your feedback ! 😉
I dindn"t played clickers before your's, it wxas fun to start your garden, and then let it grow alone to the stars !
Music is cool too, art style and palettes are great too
Good job !
I think you might have mistaken this for another game, or maybe I misunderstood your comment ^^'
Exaclty commented on the wrong page ...
Edited it tho !
Thank you for this kind comment, it's better than the one before ;P
haha totaly different, the other one was stressfull !
https://amealky.itch.io/lunar-guardians
i'm amazed how smoothly the game runs despite the thousands of bees i had in my garden!
the game itself isn't very challenging or anything as it's an idle incremental game but the ability to change the color palette adds something unique to Bloom Beyond, well done!
Yes, the palette switch is my favorite feature too! 😊
Thank you for your comment !