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Unfortunately, game does not open on Mac OS 10.10.5 (Yosemite). Cannot verify with newer versions of the operating system. Check to see if there is a "development build" option like there is on Unity (not sure what you used, though).

Would love for you to check out our game, though, and let us know what you think:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/super-natural-defense

(did not rate as I could not open)

Very cool game! I love games like this where you have to combine items to get new ones. I tried for a while figuring things out on my own but didn't get very far.

I feel like getting new seeds is unnecessarily difficult. once you lose your only seed, you basically can't continue because you can't get any more corn. (unless the monsters drop corn and i just got unlucky). if you made it not require corn i think it would be pretty good!

My high score was 50.

Also I couldn't figure out what the oil did. hm. The only thing I didn't try was using it on a plant.

Good job! :smile:

@torcado You can make new seeds by combining a monster bottle and a oil bottle or a food bottle. Or if you get lucky you can get new seeds from breaking up trash. I do feel that monsters come a bit to fast for you to understand what is happening before they ruin your poor seed.

@tacomabert It was made with love2d, I will try to get some help on the forums to compile it as doing so is really odd.

EDIT: Okay new mac link is up.

Game doesn't work for me on Windows, says it's missing OpenAl32.dll. Coincidentally I tried copying over that file from another love game I had downloaded from ldjam, but that still didn't make the game work.

@aeveis That's odd it is working fine for me with that download link, can you send me a screenshot of the error?

EDIT: This .dll file is found in system32 btw.

Quite a simplistic little game, was strangely addictive... could do with some music but other than that this is a pretty fun game. Good job, I hope you continue work on this after the jam. :)

I have the same problem aeveis had, can't open the game because of the missing file =(

@lefaygames You will need to find a trusted source to get 'OpenAL32.dll' and put it in system32, or you can download it from me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rwsxvjouevby9aw/OpenAL32.zip?dl=0 but that is really up to you.

@aeveis

@rucoon Thanks that fixed it for me (your link). I think it's in your system32 because when you install Love it puts it in there. After struggling with the game I decided to install Love and look at the source. I also noticed the sounds didn't work in the Windows build but it worked with the Love build.

Overall the crafting is pretty cool - but in all of my initial playthroughs my seeds never grew. I figured out how to make monster seeds, oil, monster in a bottle, fire, and pebbles.

After diving in the source I realized that it was supposed to rain, but in this case it never rained for me. Since there's only 1/5 chance for it to rain, that means if it doesn't rain first thing I have to wait 250 secs counting up, then (250 counting down to -50)/2, so that's in total 6.66 min until there's another 1/5 chance for it to rain, which is probably too long.

So I just set it to true just to see the progression with the plants. I liked that the monster plants could act like a defense for the regular plants so that was pretty cool. Dropping off the corn was an interesting mechanic. I eventually got the trophy. I didn't figure out how to build the well in the screenshot though. I do like the trash system, it helps get rid of unnecessary stuff while also getting new stuff. Good job!

@aeveis The well is made with a rock and pebbles. :o

Rain was not meant to be relied on, but more of a random food frenzy and the only way of repairing monster seeds. But I do feel it was a bit too rare as you can beat the game without ever seeing it sometimes.

Thank you for taking the time to come back and play it!

When I downloaded the mac version it also wouldn't launch, because the executable permission bit was not set on the contained binary. After setting it, the game ran, but I had other problems; specifically, right-click does nothing, so it's impossible to plant seeds. The only mechanic I could engage with was dropping rocks on things.

All that said, from the other comments it sounds like a pretty cool game. I hope you do a bugfix release in the future!

EDIT: Also, I really like the graphics!

@philomory Sorry need to make a better tutorial, while holding an item with left click press right click on a item. (Also you do not need to plant the seeds only water them.)

Couldn't open the game on macOS Sierra :(

I managed to make a fire and a bottle, but otherwise I pretty much had no idea what I was doing. Smashed some seeds but couldn't seem to otherwise plant them. I like being able to figure things out on my own, but unfortunately this game seems to be a bit too cryptic.

I have no idea what I'm doing. I think I broke the planting system because nothing seems to be growing nor being planted. I think it badly needs a tutorial that more fully explains the systems you're introducing and how to use them.

"Couldn't start because OpenAL32.dll is missing from your computer" :(

Unable to start because OpenAL32.dll is missing.

I was never able to make my seed grow. I heard about rain on the comments but it never rains in my version of the game. I was able to build few stuff only, I would love to make it rain so I can progress further.