This is my first Pico-8 game. It follows both on growing and 2 keys themes. You are growy the flowy, a growing plant that tries to reach the skies and avoid all danger above and below. Left and Right to control plant direction.
p.s. The source is inserted in the PNG cartidge link, then you have to use Pico-8 framework to load the cartidge and edit the code. Or maybe I'll try to upload the P8 somewhere.
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Erlend Aakre14 Dec 2015, 01:06
That's a really nice game. Love the graphics and adherence to the themes. A score (plant height) would have been a good addition.
I just loved this game. Missing a highscore to give it some replay perspective. I love the art style and the way that the plant is handled. Beautiful job!
very neat! Certainly not the only "growing vine" entry into this compo, but definitely one of the more polished ones. The pixel art and color pallet is clean and pretty, and the burning effect when you fail is very well done. Overall, an excellent submission!
Very pretty game. It's probably not doable with Pico-8 but it'd be kind of neat if you could export the final version of Growy you made. Sometimes I just 'wandered' around making circles for fun.
Very nice growing algorithm, and graphics are fitting. I like the how the vine handles too. Couple of powerups (which you'd need to entangle to get), more kinds of obstacles, scores - this game have the potential to grow =)
I can tell you're an artist so I'm going to go hard on you, the boxes are awful! Hideous texture. However the plant is orgasmic, although if it had a bud at the end I would get less long :P But good job overall.
Nice game. My favorite part is the vine growing animation. Looks really nice. I think the game could be greatly improved by one simple addition: a score. I can't see how far I've come. I can't compare my runs and I can't progress or compete so there is very little reason to play more often.
After seeing your game on a lets play I came here to come check out the source because I found some of the things you did cool but by submitting it the way you have you putting it behind a $15 paywall. I know within in the rules of the compo it's allowed but it doesn't seem within the spirit of why the source is there in the first place
Nice and simple! I was just getting the hang of it and saying it was too easy when I lost horribly, so that's moot. A "high score" and music is all you need to publish this!
@cynicalmonkey: You are right. At the day of the release I wanted to upload and go to sleep. I had an FTP which is still down. Later the next days I thought to upload to bitbucket, which I forgot. I did it now, updated the source button.
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Couple of powerups (which you'd need to entangle to get), more kinds of obstacles, scores - this game have the potential to grow =)
Excellent idea, beautiful visualization!
the control was nice and tight, and I could easily spin the plant around, avoiding obstacles, and forming some really pretty formations.
overall, this is an excellent entry, nice job! :)
I think the game could be greatly improved by one simple addition: a score. I can't see how far I've come. I can't compare my runs and I can't progress or compete so there is very little reason to play more often.
Neat entry !
At the day of the release I wanted to upload and go to sleep. I had an FTP which is still down. Later the next days I thought to upload to bitbucket, which I forgot. I did it now, updated the source button.