Growing Close
A downloadable game for Windows
Growing Close is a game about keeping a small garden in your back yard. Over the course of a season, you will obtain and plant seeds, harvest crops, and learn to embrace the natural relationships between different plants to produce as much good food as possible for you and your community.
Using a technique known as companion planting, where friendly plants can produce helpful conditions for their neighbors, you can enhance the health and resilience of your crops to ensure you will get lots of good-quality fruits and vegetables. But be careful, because not all plants are on good terms with one another!
The growing season only lasts for about 4 minutes of real time, so plan your crop rotation well.
This game was made over 10 days for VimJam 3.
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Install instructions
If you are on Windows, you can download GrowingClose-windows.zip, extract it, and then run GrowingClose.exe.
On other platforms, you will need to install the LÖVE engine, then use it to open the GrowingClose.love file.
This game is open source. If you want to see the code and assets, you can extract the .love file - it's just a renamed .zip file!
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A suggestion would be to allow the player to re-click the plot when they have already selected the seed. Going back and forth strained my wrist a little.
Also knowing how to "optimize" the crops/score would have been nice to know. It wasn't clear if the goal was to get money or keep planting crops.
10/10
You're spot on, the most common comment I got was that the planting UI should be the other way around (seed then plot, not plot then seed). Communicating the scoring system was hard to figure out as well, definitely could do better on that part.
Thank you for playing! <3
You're so welcome! I'd be happy to try out future iterations. :)