Growing a Garden

Buy seeds. Grow flowers. Sell your harvest, and maybe keep one or two flowers you like along the way.

How to Play:

- TLDR; Left click to interact. Right click to cancel holding something. Right click items in your inventory while in the shop to sell them. Hold shift and right click to sell all of the items in a slot at once. Place harvested flowers in your garden to show them off (to yourself) and make it look pretty. Grow flowers; get payed; use your money to grow a garden in whatever arrangement you like.

- The Map: This will help you get around this small forest clearing. It can be accessed in the top left corner of the screen most of the time. It's the icon that looks like a map (mostly).

- The Inventory: It will usually be there on the right side of the screen. This is where all of your items are stored. If you need to use one, just left click on it to pick it up and left click again on whatever you need to use it on. If your holding an Item and quickly want to get rid of it, just press right click to cancel (This works for anything your holding!!);

- The Shed: This is where your growing operation will take place. Left click on seeds in your inventory if you have any to pick them up and left click on any empty pots to plant them. Left click on you tools to pick them up and use them; the Watering Can is used to water your flowers by holding down left click (Careful not to overwater your flowers!!); The Clippers are used to cut dead leaves and flowers off your plants (careful not to let them grow too thick); The shovel is used to harvest your flowers once they are fully grown; Fertilizer is used to speed up the growth of your plants; The Composter composts dead leaves, give it enough dead leaves and it will create a fertilizer ready to use.

- The Shop: This is where you'll purchase any of the seeds you need. You can also purchase fertilizer as well as more pots to expand your growing operation. This is also where you'll sell off anything you need to (yes anything). Just right click on items in the inventory to sell them one by one, or hold shift and right click to sell all the items in a single slot. The shop will get new seeds with every level up, se be sure to check back often (you can check your level in the top right corner under your money)

- The Garden: A purely aesthetic place, bring harvested plants to the garden to replant them. Create new garden arrangements as you unlock the ability to buy more flowers. If you ever need a flower back, just use the shovel at the left of the screen to dig them up.  They'll return to your inventory same as when you replanted them. (This technically makes this a collecting game now, right?)

Credits:

Programming - me

Art - me

Music - me

Sound Effects - freesound_community, DOBCommunications, DRAGON-STUDIO, and yuliana-yurukova on PixaBay

Stats:

Engine: Gamemaker

Time Spent on Project: ~ 83 hours over the course of 10 days. (Time provided by Gamemaker)

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(Skip if you don't want to read me ramble)

I actually finished a project (Well... finished enough). That shouldn't feel like an achievement but it does. This is only my second completed game jam and I'm pumped. There's a lot about this project that I wish I had more time to improve, but I'm just proud I was able to get as much done as I did. I really wanted to focus on art for this one and make certain there was sound and music since my last jam almost completely lacked audio. I'm not sure I'd call myself an artist, but it's definitely my best work so far. I'll take better than yesterday.