Hell's Garden

Controls

WASD - move

space - plant

q - stop planting

i - inventory

You can speed up time and change the camera with the sliders.

Description

Speed up time, make stuff grow! More life means more seed! Some plants give you seed upon death, some seeds require sacrifice. Since you're the grim reaper, you might kill some plants if you touch them.

This game has no win condition. Just make a pretty garden and look at the interesting behaviour of the in-game ecosystem. The bamboo likes to take over the entire map like a decease. I did not intend for that but it's an interesting result. It does this because it reproduces very efficiently, has no predators and there's no pressure put on it by its environment.

This is a bit experimental; I didn't know what to expect of this.
If I were to remake this game, I'd put some logic in to simulate light, mineral and water consumption to put more pressure on 'weeds' like bamboo.

Please leave some feedback :-)

Tools used

Art
- Cheetah 3D
- Clip Studio Paint

Development
- Unity
- MonoDevelop

Audio
- Mulab
- Audacity

Time lapse
- Screenflow

Post compo additions

- Balancing (tweaked variables)
- Changed logo

https://youtu.be/xQvgPacQ8rk