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Chaos Gardens

by fudge

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.33

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Fight a badly designed jetpack to collect fruit from crazy plants before they explode!

Controls:

- A/D (or arrows) to walk.
- W (or up) to jump.
- Space (while jumping) to fire jetpack.
- Shift to prune nearby branches or harvest nearby fruit.

Harvesting fruit (not branches) when ripe gives you points.

Controllers are also supported, although not actually tested.

There's no audio and I haven't had time for a Linux build (I'll add one if/when I can).

More screenshots:

Tags: #funny, #physics

Genres: action, platformer

Comments6

Lugdumdare Team5 Dec 2017, 17:48

It was quite fun to play with the jetpack.. the controls are very smooth :)
But it's too bad there's no objective.

Graphics are nice. Good job :)

Poorwill5 Dec 2017, 17:49

I liked the random nature of how the plants grew and the jumping itself felt nice.

I would have maybe preferred some other buttons than space and shift for those actions.

Syrapt0r5 Dec 2017, 18:00

Movement feels very cool in this game. The way you have to carefully steer the jetpack just to float around is really nice. Of course, there is no real goal (I could make out) so it eventually became stale, but it was fun to harvest for some time. Good entry! :D

imod5 Dec 2017, 18:46

Interesting system generation of plants

paulhocker7 Dec 2017, 03:41

wow - what a really interesting game - i really like how you made the plants grow and

Fudgeauthor9 Dec 2017, 10:05

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm pleasantly surprised to hear positive responses to the jetpack, I honestly thought people were just going to find it annoying!
I'll maybe see if I can expand on it in some future project.

The plants worked about how I wanted, so I'm glad other people like them too!
I hope I get the chance to revisit them sometime, I really want to see how they'd look with physics.