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I liked your game. It's nice to water the flowers. The drawing is fantastic. It's time to take lessons from you on Krita;)

In the next game, add full-screen button.

The training is not interactive.

I think it would be better to make planting by clicking on the pot. The interactive zone is too narrow and I couldn't figure out for a long time how to plant plants.

Why do I need so many pots and what do they give? It's hard to plan the economy. The impact on profit is unclear. Why do I need additional shelves? When I reread the tutorial, I saw that watering increases income.

I can't hold seeds and a watering can at the same time very well.

The ads are funny.

I know you know about pot bugs.

It's possible that without a watering can and ads the economy is unprofitable.

Open the panel, select a plant, plant, open the panel for buying seeds, buy, close, open the panel, select a plant, plant. There are a lot of all kinds of unnecessary and untimely openings and closings of panels.

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Spawned By Sam1 year ago

Thanks for the compliments on the art! This was my first ever 2D Art project xD so it means a lot.

1. I didn't add a fullscreen button because I set the position of texts relative to screen size and anything over 1280x720 would break their positioning.

2. Yes, I'm sorry but I don't think all tutorial are supposed to be interactive. This is why I called it "How to play" rather than an actual tutorial. I was running out of time so this was all I could do.

3. Yeah, I'm aware of the wonky hitboxes, sorry :( I couldn't find a neat fix around them
4. A pot's durability increases with rarity. So the rarer ones are harder to break. I couldn't explain this clearly in the tutorial so this one's on me.

5. You CAN hold seeds and the watering can at the same time.

6. Thank you :)

7. Yeah, the pots bugs occurred really late into the jam and I didn't want to break everything by trying to fix them.

8. Not really. The sell prices and the shop prices are adjusted with your income. I spent time coding in a functional economy to make the shop fair to the player

9. Without the use of panels the area in which the player is supposed to plant would be cluttered and full. This was my fix for it. Sorry if it was repetitive.

Thank you for all the valuable feedback! It makes me so happy that someone took the time to play my game and took the time to tell me everything they thought about the game, I really appreciate it! Your game was pretty cool too :D

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epigrodel1 year ago

I am glad for your achievements.

1. Oh, this is extremely important. If the game does not adjust to the screen resolution, there is a high chance that it will not pass moderation on any web platform. (I am not even talking about the user experience.)

2. Yes, I understand that in the jam you did not have time for an interactive tutorial. It was enough for me that you had a guide "how to play" inside the game. So I will not punish you for this. I said this for the future. And no, you are wrong, all tutorials should be interactive. Otherwise, you can lose many players. The player wants to play, and not read long guides "how to play".

3. I do not understand how this problem arose at all. You definitely need to find a solution to it.

5. I did not like this. Your multi-tool works, I can plant a seed while holding a watering can in my hands. But, still, this is a questionable solution. Also, I can't open the panel with seeds while holding a watering can. Also, I can't remove the watering can with the right mouse button. Anyway, those hateful panels again.

7. And you did the right thing!

9. Yes, you've played more than me, you know better which solution is better. But still, think about making the player move the mouse as little as possible and click as little as possible. I really think that this will improve the user experience.

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