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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Is it related to spring and does it follow the theme? | #2 | 4.579 | 4.579 |
| How much do you like the game overall? | #9 | 3.684 | 3.684 |
| Overall | #9 | 3.763 | 3.763 |
| Gameplay / Fun | #13 | 3.684 | 3.684 |
| Graphics / Visuals | #13 | 3.947 | 3.947 |
| Audio | #27 | 2.921 | 2.921 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Pre-made sound effects. Font by MJType on Dafont.com.
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Had a blast playing this fun, chaotic tower defense game! I loved your adorable artwork and the creative concept, and how frantic everything quickly got. The upgrade system is fun too and the game runs smoothly and bug-free! My main point of critique is that my strategy based on mass-planting cacti and protecting them with cheap cannon fodder like the box-hedge kept all the enemies at bay for at least the first 20 waves, without an enemy ever even making it onto the screen before being hopelessly outgunned, causing the game to eventually become a little stale, so the balancing might need to be reworked slightly. Really impressive work though, very charming idea and execution!
And also thank you for hosting this fantastic game jam, I had so much fun!
After a few runs managed to get to wave 19! Would have loved some keyboard shortcuts for the plants as in the higher waves you really do have to spam them to survive. Great idea and take on the PVZ style. Had a blast, wonder if I can get past wave 20??
The concept was great, and I liked the expressive art! I think it was a bit too easy (or maybe just cacti are too op), which made it a bit boring to me, I cleared wave after wave without even seeing an enemy on screen. Nice work nonetheless!
Got to wave 12! Very interesting game but wave 12 is where I got mobbed lol. Nice job on this game jam!
Fun art and interesting to play. Need to improve balance a bit, as after some quantity of waves I was like unbeatable and it became a bit boring. Option to turn off music/sounds would be also great :)
Very entartaining but a bit too chaotic. It was hard to understand how to line up a shot. A bit unbalanced as well. Graphics and music are very nice
Wave 13!! Good job i really enjoyed the whacky team!
It's a great game that I've enjoyed playing again (I died at wave 11). Always a pleasure to play Tower Defense, well done to you both!
I like the plant heads, they're cute and funny at the same time. The variety between the opposing plants and our own is great!
TIPs are a good thing.
Having the calm sound of nature between two rounds is an idea worth keeping, it allows you to clear the air between two rounds where you hear a lot of gunfire, but then there's a lack of background music during the rounds!
I've often had the same upgrade 2 times out of the three offered, which is a shame because you have enough variety to offer 3 different ones!
I didn't quite manage to differentiate between the mechanics of the cactus and the carrot, so maybe there's an accessible place that explains their speciality (or a tutorial if you want to polish it up).
At one point, all my gunflowers disappeared, and it was really hard to get back up after that!
My meta is: Gunflowers at the back + Box hedges at the front in staggered rows to prevent the whip flowers from hitting all my Box hedges + bees upgrade + Box hedges cost decrease upgrade (wave 11). Still, I find that early sunflowers aren't very profitable, while box hedges are banger! I tried to use carrots and cactus, but found them too weak in early.
Maybe with upgrades it's cool (that's what I get from looking at what some people have played).
And I've seen a minor bug: when you click on one of the plant choices at the top of the screen, just before the round ends or just before you die, the mouse icon remains with the image of the plant you've just selected. I thought it was a cool bug, and a cute cactus icon!
By the way, it's a very nice game that could perhaps do with a little more readability in general (the terrain lines are a little blurred, for example).
Well done again!
Have a nice dev !
Thank you for your thorough feedback! Really appreciate it and it shows you had a good play of the game.
Just to let you know the difference between the carrot and the cactus... the carrot is a mele attack of "karate chopping" whereas the Cactus is ranged and throws his spikes as projectiles :) I definitely like the idea of adding somewhere that you can read up on the characters - however, as is always the case in game jams... time ran out!! :)
I think the stabby cactus was my favorite. I mean, they're already stabby, but then you give them a knife and are extra stabby. If real life cacti ever figure this out, we're doomed as a species. This was a fun game, and I think y'all's experience doing game jams really shows. It feels well thought out and complete for the scope of the jam. Nice work!
I really liked the part when the plants were powerful. I feel like the gunflowers were a tiny bit overpowered though, but other than that this is a pretty cool game!
PvZ without the lanes. Well done folks!
Funny game, enjoyed the differences with Plants VS Zombies!
Interesting graphics ! Has great potential 👍
Pretty decent graphics. I enjoyed this game but it really need some balancing, because i can just place a wall of this punchy bushes(i forgot the name😅) and then just spam with cacticles or gunflowers.
Very well put together. Polished for what time you had to build it. Literally add like a persistent purchasable upgrades shop in the main menu and it'd be a perfect mobile game lol.
Very entertaining, the visuals are nice and the is fiting. The only issue I have (other than the one I wrote on the page itself which was mostly a problem from my side) from time to time, it seems like the game overloads the chrome graphics, cause wierd chages to the UI. But considering the previous issue, not entirely sure if it's simply my chrome again :D
Fun game, works super well. The weeds ate so many of my hedges D:
Well I think I broke the game, I had an army of flowers which destroyed everything haha ! Funny game
my ears exploded after i lost
Fixed it - didn't want to damage anyones hearing/speakers!