Ludum Dare #34compo
One Day I'll Be A Flower
In "One Day I'll be A Flower" you take control of a fresh young seedling growing in a flower pot in the alps that tries to grow a beautiful Flower.
Collect sun orbs in a snake-esque action game, grow leaves and manage your sugar-resources in order to gain all 7 difficult achievements!
The game was made using the *awesome* Love2d (aka LÖVE) framework. Sound effects were generated using bfxr (http://www.bfxr.net/) and the "music" was made using Bosca Ceoil (http://boscaceoil.net/)
Collect sun orbs in a snake-esque action game, grow leaves and manage your sugar-resources in order to gain all 7 difficult achievements!
The game was made using the *awesome* Love2d (aka LÖVE) framework. Sound effects were generated using bfxr (http://www.bfxr.net/) and the "music" was made using Bosca Ceoil (http://boscaceoil.net/)
Genres: action
Comments20

George14 Dec 2015, 12:56
Nicely made - I really like the art! :) Works perfectly with the Growing theme
Chewie14 Dec 2015, 18:14
Nice little plant simulator, simple yet has additional mechanics in it. Good job ;)

eerongal14 Dec 2015, 18:18
Interesting little game, but a bit difficult...kept dying before i could connect enough sun for leaves!

bobismijnnaam14 Dec 2015, 18:25
Really interesting take on snake! I think there could be more suns, but maybe I'm just bad at snake. Also, it would be nice if there would be some kind of way to enhance your "sun-catching skill", as it gets almost impossible very quickly to grab sun at all once you get higher. Very good game, loved it!

EthanWebster14 Dec 2015, 18:25
Fun game and fits both themes! Great work, well done :)

mlepage14 Dec 2015, 18:46
Nice! Some feedback...
I like the game, it's fun!
Tooltips are hard to read over other text, less transparency maybe.
Press any button to continue doesn't accept mouse button.
When playing, it interrupts to show some more tutorial text, but I immediately hit a button (I was playing) so I didn't get to read it. I had to do the tutorial four times to read it, before I could see how to grow a leaf.
There are times when the white text is on the white (right) half of the screen so it is unreadable. Actually, maybe that's a bug, or my LOVE is slightly incompatible? Because my screen looks different.
I like the game, it's fun!
Tooltips are hard to read over other text, less transparency maybe.
Press any button to continue doesn't accept mouse button.
When playing, it interrupts to show some more tutorial text, but I immediately hit a button (I was playing) so I didn't get to read it. I had to do the tutorial four times to read it, before I could see how to grow a leaf.
There are times when the white text is on the white (right) half of the screen so it is unreadable. Actually, maybe that's a bug, or my LOVE is slightly incompatible? Because my screen looks different.
Reggianito14 Dec 2015, 20:19
Super cute. Music is nice, gameplay is fun. It lagged like a motherfucker for some reason (which is odd, considering I use Löve all the time and never had that much slowdown)

josefnpat15 Dec 2015, 02:56
I suddenly know so much more about plants ... I think. Nice job! The tutorial was really good!
KaiseanGames16 Dec 2015, 07:16
That was great. I suck at this game, but I had loads of fun. I don't get the formula. It seems I'm always to short on sun. :)
Anyway, gonna try again after work.
Very well done.
Anyway, gonna try again after work.
Very well done.

jonnopon300016 Dec 2015, 13:55
This is a great entry, simple as that! You covered all bases; the only gripe is that maybe the player starts with just too little sugar to make the game as accessible as it could be. I had lots of fun
simon.parzer18 Dec 2015, 10:36
Great. Sugar production could be a bit easier but other than that it's a good game.

oz2mura18 Dec 2015, 10:45
The use of achievements was a really good idea, it kept me going. Music fits really well, art adds to the relaxing vibe, theme is definitely accomplished well. Challenge is pretty satisfying, still playing it! :D
speciesUnknown20 Dec 2015, 17:46
Great job, was quite fun, and included both mechanics so gets my "double mechanic" bonus.

Aaranos20 Dec 2015, 19:24
The sound is a bit odd but good game. Follows the theme and is a clever mutation of the classic Snake game. I would be scared however if flowers grew that way.
MercuryXGames27 Dec 2015, 22:50
The sound is a bit repedetive, but nice. The rest of the game is extremly well done, even achievements

synthetic-entropy27 Dec 2015, 23:00
Good idea, mechanics were all there and seemed to be working. Balance is really harsh, and it's far too easy to die right away. I feel like the suns in particular were often simply impossible to grab, and the early game was too unforgiving as a result.
Good job though, nailed the theme, and great to see a fellow lovecraftian. <3
Good job though, nailed the theme, and great to see a fellow lovecraftian. <3

HUMANICS28 Dec 2015, 18:32
Really addicting game! Good job ;)

Ludipe30 Dec 2015, 22:48
Hey! Liked this game quite a lot :-)
Had to restart the tutorial a few times because I kept skipping the help tips, those should have a retard.
But the game itself was a very nice mix of skill and management.
great job!
Had to restart the tutorial a few times because I kept skipping the help tips, those should have a retard.
But the game itself was a very nice mix of skill and management.
great job!

ciaodavinci4 Jan 2016, 00:07
I kept losing before getting instructions on how to grow leaves, it also seems a little random when sunbeams come down and when they don't






maybe make the first leaf only 3 sun to get going, i had died half a dozen times before actually getting to the tutorial screen about leaves.
I would also consider speeding up the plant, getting the sun can be really difficult especially with the randmomness of the games I played 90% I died before reaching 4 suns and got every one i would be capable of getting without some sort of precognition about where it would drop next