Bugs in My Garden

co-authored: @frederika
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.45
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.85
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Aunt Patty has been raving about gardening after moving into her new home. She's always been a fan of bugs, but now she's trying out gardening and apparently some bugs are good for gardens and some are bad.

You probably should have paid a little more attention when she was telling you all about it last month...since she's now in the hospital and you are the only one who she trusts to watch over her beloved garden.

There is good news, however! She’s going to be just fine and out of the hospital in a 3 days AND she wrote up a quick guide as a reminder of which bugs are good and which are bad. The notebook is in the garden. All you have to do is make sure that you read it and pay attention...

CREDITS

Concept- Frederika Edgington-Giordano and Amy Flaherty

Code- Frederika Edgington-Giordano and Amy Flaherty

Art-
Pixel art bugs and bucket- Frederika Edgington-Giordano

Background images- Amy Flaherty

Comments5

A Priori7 Oct 2024, 21:41
Pretty fun game - felt very tactile! My only gripe is that you can't move the hand diagonally - I thought there was some weird collision stuff going on until I figured it out.
Thesunless8 Oct 2024, 21:57
The idea is cute but you should really be able to move the hand with the mouse instead of the sluggish WASD controls
Alchemic
Alchemic10 Oct 2024, 07:53
Cute game! I love the concept of learning about how different bugs affect the garden.

The controls felt a little weird though, the hand feels like it has too much momentum or something. I also think dropping bugs while moving the hand should kind of "throw" the bugs instead of always dropping them straight down.

I liked the garden artwork! Although the menus and text were a little difficult to read.

Also, when dealing with the "good" bugs, there's kind of nothing to do? I would have expected some bad bugs to get mixed in, and have to sort them out.
scott.redrup11 Oct 2024, 17:54
A nice game with some lovely graphics! I actually found moving the arm to be fine and slick generally. I didn't spot any of the bad bugs for some reason? Is that normal? Anyway great work :)

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