Growth Needs Balance

by v01pe

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It's important to keep the balance
Otherwise everything will break apart!

Growing will cause everything to totter
Balance can never be restored, but striven for!

Greed causes the equilibrium to collapse
Always maintain reasonability!

The game was made in ~8 hours, have fun!
Use arrow keys…

I made a small hotfix after the jam that prevents the physic to freak out causing an early end of the round.
The original submission can be found here: https://github.com/v01pe/LD34/releases/tag/originalSubmission

Comments16

Elenesski14 Dec 2015, 07:43

Great idea. Grow slow :) Minimalistic graphics, but still looks good.

v01peauthor14 Dec 2015, 13:37

Thanks!

AwesomeAlliterationAlliance15 Dec 2015, 02:38

Really nice idea, but still very minimalistic

Ingon15 Dec 2015, 04:14

Minimalistic, but full of possibilities. Good job.

David Cookie15 Dec 2015, 17:03

Hey, I didn't fall and the game over showed up anyway! I was killing... ^^
Otherwhise the idea is pretty good and the theme is respected. Well done :)

v01peauthor15 Dec 2015, 17:11

Thanks everyone :)

As I was pinched for time, I only jammed for ~8 hours, thus decided for something minimalistic, doable in the short time.

@David: There's a bug, that the new branches sometimes don't spawn in place and when one of them collides with the floor, is's game over…

demogorgon15 Dec 2015, 20:08

I don't know why I enjoyed this so much but I did. I really like the concept.

DeanoC16 Dec 2015, 09:57

Really liked it, though the exploding tree bug meant it was over too randomly a lot of the time but still very fun!

v01peauthor16 Dec 2015, 10:45

Thanks, I might even fix that collision bug… does anyone know if that's "against the rules"?

zedutchgandalf16 Dec 2015, 12:34

My highscore is 4349. Neat little game! A simple yet very fun concept. Performance isn't the best in Firefox 42, though...
Fixing big bugs (or platform-specific bugs) isn't against the rules, but it is recommended to disclose it in the description or something if you do, and to also still include the original version as a download :)

Knowledge16 Dec 2015, 22:28

Nice little game! But soon becomes boring.

OrangeeZ17 Dec 2015, 14:36

Hard but I like it.

v01peauthor19 Dec 2015, 18:59

THanks for the feedback! I made a little hotfix today fixing the physics problem that caused the game to end early… will post the original version in the description.

v01peauthor19 Dec 2015, 19:11

…if you played it before you may have to empty your cache first (for the web version) in order to play the fixed version!