I couldn't get the flowers to do anything. I followed the instructions on the game's page, and I couldn't interact with the flowers. Left clicking wasn't working, and right clicking moved the camera. Middle clicking did nothing either, but it was cool to be able to zoom. I really wanted to see how this concept would play out. :(
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Oh, that's really strange, especially since right click to move works. Did you make sure you are dragging the mouse and not just clicking on one flower and then on another? It's like drawing a single uninterrupted line from one flower to another, and then to the ground . If you just want to see if the left mouse is registered, try dragging across the particles in the sky, they should respond to it.
I did left click and did see things in the sky move around, but doing as you said, clicking to create a line between the different flowers doesn't seem to do anything. I think I've done as you said, left click to draw a line between flowers. But if I click outside of the flowers and drag a line through, or click on the flowers to draw a line through, holding the mouse down the whole time, does not seem to produce any changes to the flowers.
Here's a YT link of what I see. YT
Oh, I see, you should also drag to the ground after dragging from one flower to another (without releasing all the way from the first flower to the foor). The flower will spawn where you drag onto the floor. Think of it like your mouse being pollen as you drag from plant 1 to plant 2, and a seed when you drag from plant 2 to the floor. As soon as you release the mouse both the pollen and the seed data are reset.
Thanks for taking the time to show me what you did!
Like I said I know how stupid this control scheme is, but I didn't have the time to make something better, unfortunately. The final idea was to have the plants grow more slowly with an animation, and once they're mature they would shoot pollen into the air. Then you would control the wind, and blow this pollen to another flower. Dragging the mouse would create a sort of "channel" which the pollen would follow. Similarly, after a while the pollinated plant would shoot some seeds (with parachutes) into the air, which you could blow into the ground elsewhere. This would have required me to implement some floating object for the data, which I didn't have the time to do. So that's why I quickly made the backup controls for testing that is in the build now. (:
Most likely I won't, or at least not anytime soon. For now I've got some other life stuff to focus on, and after that I've got a different game idea that I'll be working on. (:
But I might finish it when I need a break from the other things at some point. Most of the framework is there, so it shouldn't be too much work to polish things.