That's a very unique way of interpreting it hahaha XD

Though the plants are quite trustworthy in my opinion! Their behaviors are extremely consistent with their traits, except for survival choices (which is totally predictable). I once thought if it's better to give them some random choices that would be more realistic and more fun but then I decided to let them stick to their traits because of the theme. In this case, as long as you know the plants enough, you can always trust them growing and blooming in the end, even for those with the "trust no one" trait.

Thanks so much for your feedback, we're thinking about making the sunlight level of direct sunlight place and behind the thin curtain place visually different, and maybe add some direct hints, both visually and in text. Animation for polishing is a good idea, though time-wise it might be a little bit not that cost-effective for a two person team like us. Yet I think animation could be a great idea when there's some visual element we'd like to emphasize, visual clues that will be easily missed when they're static images. Thank you so much for bringing up this idea.

A semi professional house plant killer got a flower? That's really realistic! XD 

Welcome back at any time when you are in the mood of some flowers :D

Congrats! And thank you so much for your feedback. It's great to hear you really enjoy this game.

There're seven colors of flowers in total, from the warmest red to the coldest blue, based on the places with different sunlight value you put them. More time under the direct sunlight, the warmer, more time in the shadow, the colder. For a while I was thinking of making it twenty-one so that each and every choice one made would make a difference. But then it occured to me that downsize it to seven would be better, 'cause in this case, some survival choices one have to make won't inevitably change their preferable color of the flowers.

It's not you doing anything wrong, but the game's lack of instructions. I'm horrible at writing instructions cause I rarely read instructions myself. I just try out things with intuition (which turn out to be wrong many times though T_T). So when it comes to write one, I always have no idea where to start. I wish I can make the infos to be received intuitively by people without having to read instructions, but I always fail. However, a very good thing about games and game prototype making is, there's no real price to be paid, no real cutting gets hurt when doing trials and errors, we can try as many rounds as we like, think as longer as we need, to figure things out. 

Really apprieciate your feedback, wish you can find your favorate flower :D

Thank you so much for your detailed feedback, that's exactly what I needed to know. I'm the kind of person who don't quite read instructions myself, instead, I like testing things out. So when it comes to me to write a manual, I always have no idea where to start. (T_T) 

It's a great idea to start from one info, and then one by one more. Actually that's something I was trying to do (and failed). If we choose the default beginner friendly plastic pot, and then the default soil fomula which gets dry in a moderate rate, then the only thing that would determin a cutting's life or death in the first 5 turns' summer is only the different places with different sunlight levels. After that, in the 6th turn when autumn comes, we'll meet the second factor, the weather. It will affect the soil moisture as well, but that can also be adjusting through simply place the plant at a different place with a different sunlight level. And after sucessfully survive to the first winter, and maybe see one or two colors of flowers. If we'd like to see more flowers in certain colors, and we know in order to achieve that, we'll have to put them in certain sunlight level without killing them, we need now begin to try out the combinations of different pots and different soils that can make them both survive and thrive, in a certain color, at a certain place of a certain sunlight level.

The tricky part for me is, I just don't know how to write it simple and clear in the manual, or even better, make it intuitively known by people without having to read a manual. I tried but it just dosen't seem to work. Thank you so much for your suggestions, I think I'll probablly try start with a vague instruction about places and sunlight levels, how they would affect the soil moisture, and how too dry or too wet soil would kill a plant. Maybe start with certain numbers of sun icons and water icons on each place to put the plant. And make soil moisture level be seen through both visual clue and some text descriptions using the magnifying glass tool. And maybe some warning tips about how too dry or too wet soil may make a plant sick and wilt move it to some place else through a popup when the leaves turn yellow for the first time. We may think it through during the rating period and try update the game after that to see how it works. Thank you so much for your constructive advices, would be very appreciated if there's more feedbacks in future.

Really appreciate your love to this game. And thank you so much for your words, that's something I never expected. 

I was quite sentimental before making this game. Then I put myself in this busy busy game making week. I thought I made a calm game, I felt calm designing mechanics and writing codes, like I always do. Never thought someone would see it, and felt the same sentimental while playing. You yourself trully have a very beautiful soul, incredibly empathetic, and incredibly good. I did't even realise I was still sentimental myself, not after the jam began, I thought it was over, but that's not true. Now with your words, it's all back, washing over me. 

I'm so lucky to have you playing this game, and your words really means a lot to me. It's a fortune to have a chance to know myself better, knowing what's deep in my heart, knowing that I still care.

Thank you very much for your reply. The issues you mentioned—such as the user manual and the text color on the pot selection screen—are things we have been discussing recently and hope to improve. We will continue working hard to optimize the experience.

Yeah, the artist I work with is extremely talented, I adore her art as well. And thank you so much for your feedback about the instructions, would definitely add some in future. 

And also thank you for the feedback about text color, I didn't realise it untill submit, maybe it's because I always turn the the system's night light on. XD We have changed the text color now, and would update if after the rating period.

Thank you for your feedback. Should really add hints and tutorials in future. 

I personally love the trial and error mechaniques in games though. Maybe it's because I'm the explorer kind of gamer, and explore the unknowns through experiments is great fun to me. Of course, as long as the experiments require me think instead of using brute force.

The trait is completely random so you're very lucky to meet one same trait for three times. Possibility for that is below 5%. Time for lottery! XD Maybe we should consider make it less random so that these kind of things won't happen.

Both too dry and too wet soil will cause plant sick and dead, the best time to water it is when it's half wet, and the best place to place it is where the soil can be half wet. 

Thank you so much for your feedback. I think we really need to have a hint system.

Thank you!

Thanks! Really appreciate that you enjoy the trial phases where the nos become the knows.

Thank you! I think we'd add some hints and tips on tools in future.

At the start of each round, players receive branches with different preferences—there are three types in total. When starting a new round after a failure, players can use a magnifying glass to examine the branches and unlock their specific traits.

Thank you so much for appreciating our art style!

We also appreciate your time and your feedback; we will strive to make improvements!

After losing or winning and unlock a plant trait, if you meet a plant with that same trait in later rounds, you can see that trait with the magnifying glass tool. Just click the magnifying glass, hover over the plant, and see the popup.

That's also where to know if it's a plant that have never seen before. If the traits are locked, then yes. If you can see the trait, then it's someong you met before.

Thank you so much for your feedback! Guess we should really add a lot more functions to that magnifying glass, hints, tips, soil status and all.