Bonsai Growth Simulator

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.25
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.29
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.38
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★39%
Bonsai Growth Simulator is a relaxing game meant to simulate the experience of growing a bonsai tree over many years.

Made by @Cjacobwade

Genres: simulation

Comments17

SvenFrankson14 Dec 2015, 04:13
Smooth ! Love procedural generation, nice enry :)
cxsquared
cxsquared14 Dec 2015, 05:27
I really enjoyed this. It was a nice experience.
StarchyPancakes14 Dec 2015, 05:36
Wow, just lovely, really really well done. My hat is off to you
JohnGalt14 Dec 2015, 05:47
It captures a really unique feeling. Relaxing and interesting. I enjoy it. Giving more control on growing and adjust camera to make it always focus on the top may help.
zybit14 Dec 2015, 05:55
Lol mine all look like snakes. Cool concept though. Definitely need the relaxing pace and sound of this after the Compo.
walaber
walaber14 Dec 2015, 05:56
nice job! indeed relaxing... although perhaps so relaxing I had a hard time understanding what my input was actually doing :P
Bemmu14 Dec 2015, 06:11
Why is there balls of pulsating beef growing on our bonsai? :D

It's peaceful, but we couldn't quite figure out how to use it. When I click on a beef it starts bouncing around. I can rotate, but clicking on the camera and bonsai buttons didn't seem to do anything.

Graphically very pretty and seems innovative.
cjacobwade
cjacobwadeauthor14 Dec 2015, 06:31
@bemmu Thanks for playing! Clicking the camera and tree buttons export screenshots and the tree's mesh/textures respectively. Check the folder where you unzipped the game!
OddballDave
OddballDave14 Dec 2015, 13:29
Great entry. How I was affecting the growth was confusing at first, but I got the hang of it. We had very similar ideas. My entry is about growing bonsai too.
dvdfu
dvdfu15 Dec 2015, 04:07
Very relaxing. I only manage to drive my branches into the ground, though. Still, love it!
elliottd
elliottd15 Dec 2015, 21:19
it seemed to grow upwards too fast for me. I wonder if that is a frame dependency problem. really nice entry
randomhuman
randomhuman17 Dec 2015, 17:07
Pretty cool idea, nice chilled out mood.
M a r o o v a n
M a r o o v a n3 Jan 2016, 17:20
Very clever and unique idea! Thank you for such an experience!
Fadobo3 Jan 2016, 18:48
Very pretty. It's a bit hard to control the growth with the ever changing camera angle, but it makes for nice organic trees.

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