Your flower is withering with depression. Help her.
How to play
You write messages to your friend who becomes more and more depressed as time goes on. Depending on the positivity of the messages, you help your friend more or less.
Context
The game uses sentiment analysis software to analyze the positivity of the messages you send to your flower. This sentiment analysis is from a C# implementation of the VADER sentiment analyzer and I'm one of two people who have developed an in-review Danish sentiment analyzer, SentidaV2 along with tools for future development of the Danish sentiment analysis field. It's quite fun to use this in a game and it becomes a sort of citizen science project as well.
This is really cool! I've never shouted words of encouragement at a flower before but I quite enjoyed it. I was doing pretty well until I misspelled "beautiful" and panicked lol. Solid work!
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This is really awesome, and unique. I love what you did with the theme, and the effort is there. Mood is on point. I wasn't expecting deep meaning here.. As far as quality of life goes, keeping focus on the text box after entering something was a bit of a chore - especially as I was trying to spam out words of encouragement! Keeping it selected would be a nice improvement.
I love the idea of using sentiment analysis. Would love to see that in more games. It took me a bit to understand where I had to interact, as the screen was quite busy.
As if keeping my own plants alive was not hard enough, i am gifted a small digital friend that needs affection!
The game is presented in a way that its easy to understand what you have to do and it fits the theme very well. I was not really able to make her happy without spamming love in her face; but i guess thats just how depression works.
Nice little game, but I needed a moment to get what I need to do and then my plant was already halve done, that was sad. Music is nice and the theme is captured really good.
I really like such litte games implementing some expiremental scientific aspect, like the sentiment analyzer in this game. That alone already makes it something new and innovative.
That was refreshing. Nice done - it is really a treat to sit and write nice things to a flower. I though have to admit that this was a lesson in life for me - I have to be kinder :)!
I'm so glad for all your feedback! This was exactly some of the goals I wanted to reach with the game ^_^ And I realize that, besides the flower, the game might need a bit more love as well haha Thanks, everyone
This is a very original idea and a great use of deep learning ! Yes as you said in your last comment the game need a little more polish on the graphics but the mood is still quite nice thanks to the good audio.
Truly one of the most innovative games I have ever played in the 23 LDs I've participated in. Its a game where your words really have meaning and you can learn a lot about yourself in playing it. Truly an exceptional job!
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