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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Playability | #255 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Artistic Style | #328 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Theme | #653 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Cleverness | #1409 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.
- Very cute! Love the peaceful vibes.
- Very good GDD, I loved seeing the whole design ideas with such complex but easy to digest details. Very cool! The ideas and foundations link nicely to the game jam, and are a great interpretation of the design brief. Thoroughly enjoyed my little play through.
- This game is visually beautiful, I love the flowers and the deer. Combine that with the music and you have youself a wonderfully ethereal experience. Unfortunately the gameplay is skin-deep. Yes the gameplay is pretty but the jumping and double jumping to hope to get more stars gets a bit old after a while with no real progression outside of bigger flowers. Also there is no hint of any sort of shadow theming in the game, and alchemy can only be loosely tied into the generating of flowers. Overall, very simple, very pretty, reminds me of an interactive art piece more than a fully fledged game
- Soooo preeeetttttttttttyyyyy. I really have no idea what to say. It's a lovely little game that just feels good to play. Maybe some flower selection? Other then that so nice and calming to play and just a cute little time sink.
Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes
Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes, but you're making me nervous now...
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes
Tell us about your game!
Stellar Bloom is a meditative infinite runner where you are a cosmic life-bringer collecting stars to seed a dark, sunless planet with new life. You transform the inert stars into a wide variety of flowers, and the number of stars collected per jump determines the size of each one. Every star-seeded planet is unique, from a chaotic forest of massive flowers to a tidy garden. All art and animations were custom-made for this jam.
How will your planet look when you're through?
Controls: Space bar for jump and double-jump
Extra Notes
I struggle with severe anxiety and panic attacks and am always looking for things to help calm me. With this game, I wanted to make something that could serve a similar function for anyone who could use some peace or needs to relax.
All the art and animations were custom made by me for the jam.
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Comments
Beautiful art; surprised by how simple yet effective it is at communicating a sense of calmness. Cool game!
Wowzers! Gorgeous game! The animation is well done. Overall a very cozy and satisfying experience. I can't wait to see more from you!
That means a lot coming from a talented animator like yourself, thank you <3
This is the kind of game I wish I had the talent to make. The art is so beautiful. I love the interpretation of shadows and alchemy. Transforming chaos into order, slowly making a beautiful garden from stars and bringing the light of life into a shadow world? It's clever, simple, accessible to all, so relaxing and addictive to play. This would be the perfect mobile game and I hope you make a port for it!
love it <3
simple but very satisfying, and what a beautiful aesthetic! The rotation feels a bit too fast for me, or maybe a bigger radius of the planet would have reduced the risk of getting dizzy, but overall very well done :)
Thank you for commenting, I will definitely look into adjusting those things after the jam. I'm so glad you enjoyed the aesthetic though!
This really was a relaxing game, I surprised myself with how long I played this for! Nice work!
Yay, thank you, I hope it put you in a nice calm mood!
I had soooooo much fun playing this game!!! It's so pretty and I feel like this is the perfect game to just play while ur in a conversation or for some braindead time I just loved it~ well done^^
I'm so glad you had fun, I wanted to make a good zone-out game. Thank you for the sweet comment ^_^
This is so pretty! If it hadn't started making me dizzy I could sit and play for a very long time haha. Perfect idea for an idle game
Aw, thank you, haha! Sorry about the dizzies, though.
i could play this for 15min straight. well, i did. amazing vibe and aesthetic. thanks for this experience
Beautiful art design.
The sounds are very fitting too, although I think more pitch variance in the star pickup sounds instead of only two could have improved that.
I really liked it.
You are spot on! There used to be a lot of pitch variation in the star sounds, all in the key of g minor. But then I had to change my music on the last day and suddenly the g minor sounds sounded awful/disharmonious. I didn't have time to redo the pitches to go with the new song so I just took out the ones that sounded the worst.
Gorgeous experience. I'd love to make something similar. Music fits the visuals really well
Ooh thank you, I'm happy you liked it!
Beautiful game! I love all of the visual effects and the variety of the flowers.
art is downright gorgeous and gameplay is so chill and fun I can't put it down
Aw thank you, a chill vibe was my main goal, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Help.... My wife is playing this game for half an hour now.... I need my pc to work. Please make it work with touch screens too.
This makes me so happy, thank you both. Tell your wife I appreciate her so much <3
So darn pretty!
Thank you!
very pretty! congrats on finishing the jam!
Thank you! It's very unlikely but if you got any screen shots I'd love to see them, I'm collecting screen shots of other people's planets <3
Very nice artwork, and the sound design is very satisfying. My only issue is the rotating made me slightly motion sick after a bit. I love the minimalist gameplay as well and it's fun to build up a forest of flowers!
Thank you so much for playing, I'm sorry it made you sick. I considered making the planet even larger to minimize spin but then it takes way too long to seed the whole planet. It was a difficult line to walk lol
No worries! One option might be to increase the radius, but when you plant a flower, plant 3 copies of it at 90 degrees around the planet, so it makes the same pattern 4 times along the surface.
I had a mechanic that planted multiple flowers instead of one, depending on how many stars you got, but my lone playtester disliked the idea so I nixed it. :x Oops!
Lovely game! Very nice art and cute gameplay!
Thank you so much for playing!
This is such a beautiful and perfect game. It feels so good, the animation and art is so lovely. The Little Prince vibes came through, I looked at your GDD to see that was an influence and I appreciate the thought you put into designing this. This is the kind of game that is so perfect it makes me wish I'd made it.
Thank you so much for this comment, it's my first comment ever on a game and it's so special to me that it came from someone who said such nice things. <3