Me likes. The short mini game concept works really well, truly “pick up and play”. And the graphics/presentation is nice too. What I missed a bit though (after playing the 5 first levels or so) is something more rewarding to get me "hooked" for longer somehow. The basic gameplay/goal with the fast action and medals makes it already fun to play, but maybe the interaction itself could feel more rewarding and responding... Similar to the flashing effects, and direct hit/miss reward in a shooter game. By adding different snappy cutting sounds maybe, and some other mini effects like moving leaves to the background rhythm, or when the cursor touches them... Generally movements, like small changes in color of the sky... Or maybe animated hedge shears. Another thing that could it make more fun is direct feedback I thought, like a progress bar (percentages), and more sounds/effects to indicate failure, like when cutting the wrong parts. - Just some ideas after playing for a couple of minutes... The idea to make the player create something under pressure totally appeals to me, and has lots of potentials... Sweet game!
thanks! You are right, this game could have had way more rewarding presentation. It's just that I'm very busy at the moment and thought this high enough quality to release.
I think direct feedback is not needed? The current short time often results in crazy moves messing up your thing, and the result is a surprise. Try playing with multiple people, it'll be fun.
Thanks again!
Like Oddball mentioned, the game reminds me a lot of Bonsai Barber on WiiWare (basically a bunch of anthropomorphized fruits and vegetables will ask you to trim their foliage into various shapes). This is a nice little game, the controls are intuitive and you can jump right into the game without having to go through tutorials or anything. I think with a few peripheral additions, the game could feel a lot better... simple things like pitch shifted scissor sound effects for when the leaves are cut, or having the player use an animated hedge clipper cursor. The only other thing, is that the game doesn't really feel like "extreme gardening" to me... it feels like regular gardening. But I think that could be fixed with a few superficial additions.
Never played bonsai barber, no wii here, sounds awesome. Thanks for the feedback: I had scissor sfx but it hurt my head so I just removed all sounds, and stayed with the beatboxed music. The name is more of a joke.
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