Protect the Plant

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.83

Use the solar shield to protect the flower from bugs swarming in!!

Controls are simple, and only a mouse (or trackpad or whatever) is needed to play.

This is my first Ludum Dare submission and my first finished game made from scratch on Godot! I hope you enjoy it :D

PS: My highscore is 158, good luck! ;p

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Game engine: GODOT
Art: Photoshop
Audio: Piano + iPhone8 VoiceMemos + Adobe Audition

Tags: #2d, #arcade, #defense, #mouse only, #pixel art, #singleplayer

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Audacity, Godot

Comments17

Sanjana21 Apr 2020, 01:05

The game is really fun but I found it a bit hard to block all the flies as some of them would approach the flower from opposite directions at the same time

Kevin H21 Apr 2020, 01:07

i loved the petal drop as life bar. Great idea.
Nice management of the difficulty as well with the energy getting lower as you lose life.

guilhermesouza21 Apr 2020, 02:45

Simple and very fun! Good entry, i love the petal drop effect! well done!

petrifiedapple21 Apr 2020, 02:45

What can I say, I enjoy a good petal

Kosmo21 Apr 2020, 02:51

Petal drop was a great idea to show health. Good job on making audio (although some fly buzzing would have really sold it for me!)

I think it would have been fun to have a few other kinds of insects come to vary the gameplay up after a while. Overall good job though.

Dizzy21 Apr 2020, 04:12

I really enjoy the concept, losing petals every hit its a good idea! And very well implemented. Loved the piano sounds :)

loginaut21 Apr 2020, 04:18

Great job finishing your first game from scratch, that's a huge achievement! I really like how the theme and mechanics are all tied together through the flower petals and recharge.

katamary23 Apr 2020, 21:11

Simple idea but fun! And by the way, I made a game about protecting a plant too.

Javad-tab24 Apr 2020, 09:54

I really enjoyed the music and sound effects created by piano! Very nice version of "Morning mood"! I found The game design choice that as you get lower health your protective shell's charge becomes limited, quite interesting.

Motley24 Apr 2020, 18:06

Petals as your health is a really cool idea! Good job!

BoxedMeatRevolution27 Apr 2020, 16:21

Having your shield tied to your health is a cool mechanic! I liked the soundtrack at the start too, but I wish there were more diverse sound effects during gameplay.

Ridderfar27 Apr 2020, 16:31

I like how the shield and life is tied up together. I would like, if the melody changed, when stopping a bug. It could create some interesting melodic patterns maybe.

sypdev27 Apr 2020, 16:31

Fun little game! I loved that you indicated health on the pedals!

Flying Dog Fish27 Apr 2020, 16:41

Simple but fun. The flies do just the opposite than in my game.

Laura del Pino27 Apr 2020, 18:31

Nice game! I miss a background audio loop and a in-game tutorial that explains how to control the mouse but it's really well done game :D Congratulations

Madbarron27 Apr 2020, 21:17

Nice simple game! The petal health representation as well as decreasing your energy bar are good ideas. It would be nice if there was maybe one more thing to do, but this is a very solid prototype and works well. Great submission :)

Almagor27 Apr 2020, 21:31

Nice and simple