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A jam submission

Let's Build a TreeView game page

Calm, relaxing, Tree-building Simulator.
Submitted by Jay 'Yarheeguy' Miles (@Yarheeguy) — 6 hours, 15 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Interpretation of the Theme(s)#93.2313.231
Overall#272.4362.436
Game Mechanics#292.2312.231
Design#401.8461.846

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Host

A really unique interpretation of the theme and enjoyed figuring out what to attach next. Thank you so much for participating in the jam!

Developer

Thank you for playing my game, and happy to be part of it, sure, the chance of getting money out of it is what got me interested in participating in this Jam, but feedback and responses are more than worth being part of the jam.

Submitted (1 edit)

Comfort, chill,  and good!! And what a great idea!

Submitted

To be honest, I couldn't place anything on the tree. I don't know why; I tried all the buttons.

Developer

You have to place the trunk and then the branches

though you can only place things when they are green, if they are red, then that means it's overlapping. 

Submitted

Weird and fun idea for a game, the vibe set by the music and visuals is a mix of strange and chill and i'm here for it! Things I would change:
- The hand writing looks clunky. The rest of the hand drawn sprites are great but the writing lowers the overall polishof the game. I get it that it might be tough to find a font that matches the estethic but I would recommend it next time.
- I would rather have all the components on screen HUD rather than in separate popups. Less windows player has to open to do something is allways better. You have a lot of components - true, but you could get away with some kind of scrollable sellect at the bottom of the screen. Or less parts maybe. 

Great submission overall! :),  Plese checkout our game :).

Submitted

Really clever use of the theme. Love how the tree runs on a dedicated solar power.

Submitted

I very chill tree building game! I liked the main mechanic, and the unlock mechanism. It's a shame there is a cap on the height of tree, I was aiming to build something massive and ran out of space.

Developer

I didn't know there was a cap, I'd aimed to have no limits and you can build as high as you want, but I guess the amount of objects being placed would give its limits, technicalities and all that.

Submitted

I found that I couldn't scroll any further up after a certain point, but maybe I was misunderstanding something.

Submitted

Cool idea. The "expand concept" is really creative and it's kinda relaxing

Submitted

lets build  a tree! nice idea, concept. relaxing game! good luck on jam! (can you rate me?

Submitted

Very nice idea, with a nice incremental/idle game concept too, and quite relaxing too (also thanks to the music, great choice).

I have a couple of suggestions for polishing if you want to "expand" the game further:

  1. Zoom out (to see the tree fully)
  2. Make it clear that you can't add branches to the main trunk (it took me a while to understand where I could place a branch when I had no S-T or R-T trunk, and I actually couldn't place it anywhere): maybe change the color of the ball of the trunk with another color to indicate that only trunk go there, and also add some instructions.
  3. Add tooltips or tutorial texts appearing when you click somewhere to place something but you can't place it, with instructions explaining why you can't.
  4. Add an "energy per second" and "oxygen per second" indication or maybe progress bars filling up gradually over time and giving you resources based on the solar panel and branches you have.

Overall, the concept is nice for an idler game, or an incremental game, with a little bit of polish it could be a cool game to leave in the background while I do other stuff on my PC, good job :D

Submitted (1 edit)

Relaxing game with lots of content! Took me quite a while to figure out what to do though. pretty impressive for a game done in 7 days. Be sure to check out my game too!

Submitted

Hey, Yarheeguy! I thought that the game had a great interpretation of the theme, but could definitely do with a tutorial. The first thing I did was open the 'attach branch' tab and I was confused as to how to actually build the tree for a while before figuring it out. I think that being able to see your energy while in the shop would also be a nice addition. Other than that, I found the game to be pretty relaxing and enjoyable. If you find the time, please check out my game!

Submitted(+1)

Hi! I don't personally like the drawn UI but it's very original nonetheless! Try our game!