overview

a game about coming of age, courage and most importantly a game about love and cute gals. this game is about you, a regular young plantkind living in your little home in the middle of an ancient jungle, which is inhabitated by your kind. the jungle is also filled with dangerous and delicious flora and fauna. so all you kids better stay safe in the village and let the adults handle going out to adventure. the game will have lore for the race and lots of information and concepts that are unique to the plantkind so don't forget to read everything if you want to learn it all!

gameplay

platformer! jump around and smack some critters to the ground who try to stop you on your path, just because a boar might find you tiny and delicious that won't stop you from stomping them to the ground! i will add an unlockable weapon which will power up as you adventure . find tasty flora that have unique abilities and use them to your advantage and don't forget to bring something back home to your mom! i will have a simple inventory system and item carrying in place that will be used to complete quest and get through obstacles.

characters

main characters will be a pair of flowerbuds Teme(the playable character) and Niki. flowerbud is their worlds name for romantic partner

art

i am going to draw all the items, flora and fauna by myself. my girlfriend will help me with cover art and just general non-pixel art i want to have. (they're just gonna draw a lot of official fanart of the game lol) the tileset is from opengameart by surt. i have done small modifications on it and will build my game scenery on this. however i wont be using it in the final version of the game (if i manage to do my own art in time lol)

music

my gf will try and make some music for me! i'm looking forward to it :>

coding

the game will be done on construct 2. i have been playing around with it for the past month but i havent done a game yet so i'm hoping to make this my first. i already feel like i'm getting too ambitious with my game but if i won't make it in time for the jam i'm just gonna continue it afterwards!

i hope you will enjoy my game!

look im rly sorry for that cursor i noticed it after uploading everything...

art by my gf!

little market place in the middle of the village

heh that big root looks a bit weird but im gonna be covering most of it with ground so hehehe

I wanted to make a comment talking about how much I love this, but then I saw this and, I LOVE THIS!! The concept is great, and the art so far is perfect. There's so much character in the little sprites!

your sprites are so cute!!!!! and i love the concept ahh this is exciting

inventory and using items: DONE

so yeah you can like collect plants and berries and everything on your journey and use them to either get a power up activation to get past obstacles, just gain back some lost health with or maybe you just really like chili :>

chili, gives you the ability to shoot fireballs to burn down plant obstacles.

rubbertree seed: makes you rubbery and lets you jump higher!

aloe vera: gives you some health back

goji berries: gives you a lot of health back!

and more to come :>

whoa be careful that boar might crush you, oh nvm u can just jump over it and punish it after it stuns itself....

Pixel art looks gorgeous! Excited to see where this goes!

oh my gosh you have so many animations and they're all so charming!! also cute art omg... i love this project so much :3c

I love this it's so cute.. gay goilfriends 10/10 :'''^) I'm def gonna play this

oh my, it's looking beautiful *w*

down the hole you go!!

i made an imgur album so i dont fill this page with all my gifs if someone has slow internet connection

click here

i actually made a quest today like the first little quest in the nature!

there are gonna be smaller ones in the town tho but yeah im gonna do those later :D

... so yeah wormspiders are totally gross, thankfully quite weak... but thats accebtable cause there are many of them

eww

omg!!!! this looks sooo incredible with the backgrounds!! i love this game so so much ;;o;; !!

jump on objects and trees and everything???

little talk with the ladycow

HOUSE ENTERING + ITEM INTERACTIONG

secret waterfall cave!!!

devlog day 5:

so yeah basically ive done the sketch and basis of the town now i just need to add npc interaction and the main quest storyline... and yeah? im gonna smooth up the graphics closer to deadline if i have free time even now i spent way too long trying to make the art look even decent lol its a lot of work to create a map with no tilesets and just draw everything lol... kinda late to change it so im just gonna go w/ it

so yeah i made a hud! i removed the extra item slots like at no part the game needs you to have even 2 item slots to beat the game so lol i made it bit easier so you dont just stock up on health things and freemode every boss lol

also like i added a boss today? remember those weird wormspiders? well yeah you find their queen.

i also added a new small platform puzzle and yeah the game is going forward pretty nicely. somehow i keep panicking that i'm about to run out of time and and like i feel like i'm never going to make it but then i realize i still have over half of the time of the jam to do the rest of the game and my game is getting already playable at this point heh!

i also did some general code changing to have global health and you can move from stage to stage w/ out resetting major game events every time lol and yeah A LOT of map drawings hehe! my game also has sounds now they remind me from good old runescape07 and my gf made a track for my game, they're going to make some more and i will hopefully have some nice simple tunes accompanying the player on the adventure.

this is such a neat gui!! it fits so well with your game's world + aesthetic!!

Ahhh this is looking so cute! Great job on the backgrounds!

Looks charmingly cute! great work with the backgrounds and sprites!

Help out a nice turtle and she will help you over the river so you can continue your adventure! :>

I've added few more bosses, made few quests, added a lot of sounds, made my inventory work differently, built the powerup system and generally just polished the code everywhere I could. I have a lot of work to do with the graphics.

I feel like I only need to do few more areas and the boss fight and my game is getting pretty close to done!

help i am running out of time lol

ive spent last few days doing minimal work because low spoons and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i have done the core of the game but im missing the most important parts which are the start of the game and end of the game lol im 100% sure im gonna be releasing this with unfinished art cause its rly unfinished rn lol

surprisingly i have not yet broken down and just given up on trying to get this on deadline!

im once again feeling positive that i can make it! tho with unpolished art but thats not that important :D

basically only thing im missing is the bunch of dialogue from villagers, one small little quest that lets us go out and start our adventure and then the very end of the game, i did the boss, so basically what happens after the boss is dead. oh yeah also music is still missing lol :D

thank you for all the nice words you all really have helped me pull through w/ this project!

Wow, I finished it!!!! Like now you can play the game from start to finish! I just need to polish the art tomorrow and yeah...! Maybe add some NPCs if I have time lol!

my game is now released cause like i have no spoons to continue with this anymore. i will make a new release in the future whenever that time is i will try and share it w/ everyone

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http://littanana.itch.io/my-special-little-flower