Theme: Yes, absolutely. The gorgeous graphics is one thing, and the watery sound effect is the other.
Fun: Um, I gotta tell ya, it's a grind. The 4th plant, which you place in a new tank, takes sooo many clicks to grow. I didn't even know that it grows passively, until reading the game page's "how to play." The bar never even moves for me. Maybe that's not intentional? So, the game is an insane clicker-game with very little reward to incentivize all that clicking.
Mechanics: It's mechanically sound, as in there's no noticable bugs. But there is a lot of room for growth.
Music & Sounds: Sounds great!
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thank you for the feedback! Super awesome to here the kind words. The graphics were so much fun to work on since Kibo_Bea was on programming I got to give the art my all!
We have alot of ideas to add on to it, maybe fertalizer? I plan to poll to see what sort of features people would like to see next! Its a hard balancing act because I see the theme as "patience is rewarding" but sometimes you just want to make a pretty display tank now... I worry adding to many clicker elements may start taking away from the idle game aspect? Polls and beta testing will definitely help decide the direction!
The amazon sword is a toughy, definitely going to be a more of a "final boss" in future updates when there are more plants... It takes weeks to show signs of growth and months to get to full size, you wont see progress in the bar till its left for quite some time.... But I heard of how popular of a plant this was and it looks so pretty I had to still include it!
I believe that plan grows so slow (espescially in comparison to some of the fastest aquarium plants I could find to include for the early jam stages) that there is no visual progress for a while. Unless you leave it for a few weeks and the progreess bar hasnt moved at all? IF it's left for a month if there is still no change though it's definitely broken... If its not to much trouble we would really appreciate an update in a few weeks time to confirm if its a bug or not! No preasure though the feedback you gave was already awesome!
Thank you so much for taking the time and energy to leave such a thoughtfull comment it means the world!