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A jam submission

100 Days until I retire as a Gardener and leave behind My LegacyView game page

A Horticultural Love-Letter to Integer Sequences.
Submitted by dotwogames, Himerius — 2 days, 21 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#2684.4554.455
Audio#7593.6633.663
Creativity#8074.0894.089
Narrative#18253.1293.129
Enjoyment#20783.4753.475

Ranked from 101 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You play as a gardener counting down their last days until retirement, making the best garden you can.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for full credits

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Will, Paul and Anna-Marie

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Submitted

There really wasn't any purpose other than to have a cozy time decorating. I'm not much of a decorator, but the vibes were amazing and i actually really liked your way of implementing the theme. Like a celebration of life in both ways, lives coming to an end and lives starting to bloom! very cute.

Submitted(+2)

The art is fantastic and the vibes are immaculate. Great job!

Submitted(+2)

Wow! Very relaxing and very pretty!

Submitted (1 edit)

This is more like an art.

There is no certain intention, just planting and having the cozy life and listening to an old song.

Guess I'm not good at designing a garden though.

Developer(+1)

Hope you enjoyed the experience!

Your garden looks lush :)

Submitted(+2)

We really love the concept of the game. The art is great, the music and sfx are spot on - really, it feels so satisfying. We can also learn facts about flowers in the game.

Really cozy game, amazing atmosphere, great job!

Submitted(+1)

This was really cozy, I liked it! I got really invested in planting my garden.

I would've liked some clearer feedback on the watering bucket, it was hard to tell where exactly to hold it to water the flowers, but besides that, it's a lovely game!

Great job!

Developer

Thank-you for playing :) Yeah, we had wanted to add the collision to the particles of water but had to whack it onto a bit under the watering can due to time restraints...

Submitted(+1)

So cozy

Submitted(+1)

Lovely, cozy theme! I like the mathematical nature of all the plants' requirements, so I could plan around, for example, being able to place a lot of fibonacci sunflowers right at the end.

Some slightly clearer visual feedback could help. At first, I was just single-clicking on the plants and wasn't sure why anything was happening. It's also pretty hard to tell when a plant has been sufficiently watered, especially when the sprout is covered up by other plants.

My end-game screenshot ended up being too big to upload in a comment (>3MB). But rest-assured it looked sweet!

Submitted(+1)

Such a relaxing experience - can’t not love a Vera Lynn soundtrack and the artwork is so pretty!

Submitted(+1)

Some of my thoughts as I played the game:

"Oh, clicking advances a day. Oh no, I wasted 15 days already!"
"Nice, I can just plant whatever I want almost anywhere!"
"I should stop planting dandelions"
"I should stop planting stuff randomly, I'm running out of space for the pretty plants"

Anyway, here's my wild garden:


Love the look of this game! And it has an excellent vibe with the music. It was fun for a single playthrough but I would have preferred a little more depth to it to keep things interesting.

Good job overall!

Developer

Thank-you for playing :)

Great to see your thoughts as you went through XD I definitely got a bit bloom blind in play testing...

Submitted(+2)

Very cute and relaxing game! The art and background music makes this a very chill game, the countdown doesn't make it feel rushed and instead gives the game some structure of paying attention to the choices you are making.

It did take me a little bit to get the hang of placing the plants where I wanted as it didn't always seem to line up correctly and watering seemed a little hit or miss as well. Thankfully you can just make it rain across everything to make sure you hit all of the seeds hiding lol



Developer

Oh damn! That is the tidiest garden we've seen so far!

Very impressive, you certainly left a legacy and earned a cuppa :D

Submitted(+1)

Very calming experience after a long day at work, thank you. I wish you good luck!

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Love the feel of it, however the cozy feel is lost when I try to place a plant, fail, and then the day is gone, the rare sequence is missed and I can't plant that plant again for a bit! I would really love a confirm of some kind on placing plants, or perhaps if you are holding a plant and fail to place it, it doesn't roll the day ticker over?

Aesthetically it's fantastic and I love the music choice setting that nostalgic tone. Great work!

Submitted(+1)

Genuinely a really calming experience this one.

The lovely art style and the choice of the soundtracks make it a really soothing playing experience. 

The gameplay mechanic though simple is still fun to play with. there's a decent variety of sequenced flowers and they all look lovely.  And I think I managed to make the garden look nice enough.

The name is really funny to me but it also for some reason inspires horror in me, which is really cool  I think.

There are a couple of bugs that I encountered, mainly the English rose and clematis are not able to be placed for me even while on their turn. And I also do not understand how exactly the watering mechanics work, because sometimes the seedling goes green immediately and sometimes it takes a while.

And one more thing I had which is more a personal preference than anything else, is that the panel text that contains info on the flower is slightly too transparent for me - Weak eyesight might be the cause of that though.

Apart from all that I enjoyed this one a lot, and probably am going to return to it to maybe calm my nerves. Amazing Work!

Developer(+1)

You still managed to make a beautiful garden!

The rose and clematis are trellis (over on the fence on the left) plants only. This was signposted in the info text box but I agree that it was a bit tricky to read.

Thank-you for taking the time for such an in-depth review, it is both helpful and appreciated :)

Submitted(+1)

the artwork is so pleasing! decorating the garden can be enough of a motivation for some, but i'd have liked for there to be some sort of puzzle elements around the integer sequences.

Submitted(+1)

This was super relaxing to play, and really stunning visually. Loved the audio and really enjoyed the variety on offer in the game. Really liked the premise, and genuinely just lovely to play a game where I wasn't panicking every time the clock ticked down!

Great work from the whole team!

Submitted

Serene atmosphere, the art is fantastic and the audio goes well with it. The title makes the gameplay feel meaningful even though it's not elaborated on in the game. I'm curious about what that animation in the shed window is.

Developer

Cheers! Hope you managed to sit back and enjoy your garden at the end :)

It is a little cat (wanted to tidy it up but we ran out of time so it's a very basic sprite).

The name premise of this game are wild and yet it is completely understandable and simple to grasp. The asethetic is gorgeous, the artwork, the way the flowers layer on top of each other in the gerden, it is so peaceful and so absorbing. 

There is a visual error where you can see the bottom of the tree trunk and the flowers behind the shaft of the well but you can't even see it once you get some flowers put down. Well done to the whole team this is an awesome experience to play.

Developer

Thank-you! It was very much a group effort (ie the coder absolutely sweated and the rest of us just sorted ambled through the jam asking for more and more ridiculous updates :p)

Submitted(+1)

Nice comfy relaxing game. Kinda wish there was some kind of puzzle to go along with the flower day numbers, but otherwise very nice.

Submitted(+1)

I was astonishingly beautiful artwork and like that screenshot from the last and it was too short it should have been long it felt very peaceful

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