Witch of the Grove

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.65
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.94
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.86
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★58%
----| Witch of the Grove |----

Living in the forest can be a tough deal! Your goal in "Witch of the Grove" is to fend off waves of natures wild critters. Luckily you have your witch powers to help you protect your garden. Plant your magical seeds to grow and harvest various beneficial fruits!

----| Gameplay |----

Defeat the enemies to progress through waves and earn the highest score possible!
The waves will get increasingly difficult.

To grow stronger, plant your seeds in the soil. Different seeds grow different fruits.

* Red: Heals some of your missing health
* Yellow: Grants you experience points - Level Up to increase maximum HP and power
* Blue: Restores Magical power, fill your bar to perform a powerful attack!

Combine 2 different seeds by planting them in the same soil to grow more advanced fruits!

To get more seeds, use your charged attack on stunned enemies before they disappear!

Enemies will try to eat your plants so watch out!

----| Controls |----

Arrow Keys - Movement
Space - Jump
S - Toggle Seeds
D - Plant Seed
F - Attack - Hold to charge your swing for more damage!
Press Up when attack is fully charged to perform a powerful magical attack (requires you magic gauge to be full)

F11/Alt+Return to toggle fullscreen.
F1-F8 changes window size in windowed mode.

----| Made by Tangram |----

Programming - Simon Jonas Larsen (@SimonLarsen)
Art - Lukas Erritsø Hansen (@Lukaserritsoe)

----| Music by stinkbug |----

Track: Citadel Bufonidae from STAFFcirc vol. 1
https://ubiktune.bandcamp.com/album/staffcirc-vol-1
(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license)

Comments21

CaptainRed_15 Dec 2015, 04:02
cool game, needs something to replay at the end though, I have to close and reopen the window to play again
fluidvolt
fluidvolt15 Dec 2015, 10:04
Wow! This is fun. Slashing wild boars and planting my crops -- nice. Overall this is super-duper polished. The artwork specifically is stunning and great music. Good stuff!
Todnut
Todnut15 Dec 2015, 17:55
Awesome art and sound!
Meta-link
Meta-link15 Dec 2015, 20:26
A nice game !
I'm totally in love with your character, the game's graphics are so cute !
Tapehead
Tapehead16 Dec 2015, 18:44
nice game! great graphics!
domo_demo16 Dec 2015, 20:44
sweet ! a little too tricky with the keyboard, but i'm also a bad gamer ;)
puddelipip17 Dec 2015, 12:44
unabel to open on my mac :( looks cool though!
rzuf
rzuf17 Dec 2015, 16:41
Gorgeous graphics and great level of polish. Controls are tricky to get used to and slashing mid-air is difficult (possibly because the games tries to charge the attack and I'm just not timing my inputs very well)
I would add some more sounds and screenshakes when hitting enemies or when being hit to make more satisfying. :3
Awesome entry!
Taldius17 Dec 2015, 16:59
Awesome game! The graphics and animations look very good, the concept is really nice and the gameplay is well balanced.
Excellent work! :D
CatOnMars
CatOnMars17 Dec 2015, 22:53
Wow! Really nice looking pixel arts!
It's a good game, altough I think you could put more description to your control inside the game, I started the game without reading your description, got dead because of not knowing the control.
Anyway, well done :)
SimonLarsen
SimonLarsenauthor18 Dec 2015, 11:59
* UPDATE *
There was an issue with the packaging of the OS/X version.
It should be fixed now.
FrederickK19 Dec 2015, 02:47
Amanzing!
I thing that I really disliked are the command scheme. Why SDF? Is hard to select the seed that you need only going to the right.
Other than, I loved everything on it.
Ulydev
Ulydev20 Dec 2015, 10:15
Amazing entry! Good job, fellow Löver! :)
Jod20 Dec 2015, 10:18
Gorgeous arcade-style feel! Loved the graphics and sounds.
ssodelta
ssodelta20 Dec 2015, 12:55
Sweet game! :D liked playing it!
Elit3dGaming21 Dec 2015, 18:10
Nice game, love the visuals and audio too
Drauthius
Drauthius23 Dec 2015, 23:10
Nice game! Love the graphics. It was a bit hard with all the different things happening at the same time. Would have been nice with a short ramp-up of seeds and attacks being added and things happening. Some things, like having to have a powered attack to get a seed, seem a bit misplaced and just add more complexity. Simply put, just a bit too many controls, especially right off the bat. It's a fun game nonetheless, with a lot of depth.
teeth28 Dec 2015, 04:45
I wish it had "built up" a little more slowly, it was hard to keep track of health/plants/controls, but overall it was cool to grow your own powerups!
Docjekyll
Docjekyll29 Dec 2015, 04:42
Nice art. A bit hard to control but quite fun once I got used to it.
ciaodavinci
ciaodavinci3 Jan 2016, 23:17
This is super charming! My main obstacle was figuring out how to get new seeds, reading the description helped with that : )

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