Pixel Garden

A gardening and cooking game made for LowRezJam 2022.
Your plants are your tools - you use them to tend to your farm, cook and ward off nasty predators.

Made using Godot Engine
Art by Mary Greenapple
Game Design, Code, Sound and Music by Alghost (more music)

Controls

Function	Keyboard	Controller (PS)	Controller (Xbox)
Walk	WASD	Left Joystick	Left Joystick
Pick up items/ interact	E	L2 or X	LT or A
Use items	Space	R2 or Square	RT or X
Throw	Q	Triangle	Y
Pause/ Play	Escape	Options	Start

Items

Item	Function
Watering can	Use on dry soil to water it and make plants grow. Can be filled up again by using it on water tiles.
Hoe	Use on grass tiles to turn them into soil tiles. Breaks after 4 uses. Can be grown using Hoeplant seeds.
Pot	Use grown plants on it to add them to the cooked recipe. Can be placed next to a fire to make it cook. Take it off the fire when the exclaimating mark appears, otherwise it will start to burn after a while and the ingredients are gone! Can be grown using Potted Plant seeds.
Fire	Can be started by using a grown Jalaburno plant on the floor. Can heat up pots and other items. Increase the heat (and duration) by placing another Jalaburno next to it.
Vending machine	Interact with it to pay the price shown above it and receive a seed for the plant shown in its window. The offered plants change from time to time, make sure to come back regularly.
Guest	Guests will ask for a specific recipe. Cook it for them and interact with them while holding the pot/ plate with it to get the amount of coins they are offering.
Snail	Will try to eat your precious plants! It doesn't like being hit by a thrown Chilly or Jalaburno. Also you can push it away temporarily to prevent it from finishing to eat a plant.

More information

Status	Prototype
Platforms	HTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Authors	Alghost, Mary Greenapple
Genre	Simulation
Made with	Godot
Tags	Cooking, Gardening, LOWREZJAM, Pixel Art, Singleplayer
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller, Joy-Con
Accessibility	Textless

Download

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PixelGarden_0.1.7_Windows.exe 41 MB

PixelGarden_0.1.7_Linux.x86_64 43 MB

PixelGarden_0.1.7_Mac.zip 30 MB

PixelGarden_0.1.7_Android.apk 25 MB

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Development log

Post-jam update
Aug 23, 2022
Game Jam Release
Aug 15, 2022

Comments

Darenn Keller2 years ago(+1)

Congratulations on making this game !

I've played your game during a live that you can watch here :

The live is timestamped so you can go directly to your game.

I hope the feedback and live reactions will be useful. Keep it up !

dwhiffing2 years ago(+1)

Wasn't able to get very far, but it was fun experimenting and figuring out the game systems. I like the use of shaders to implement the day night system and some pretty nice water reflections! I've often thought about making a minimal harvest moon clone, and this is an awesome implementation of that! Great work

Spooneystone2 years ago(+1)

Great music! A little confusing but still fun

Val Hutchins2 years ago(+1)

I really like the design and idea of the game, but it would be helpful to have some more directions as I wasn't sure what some of the items were.

Alghost2 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks!

We have now implemented item names in the top left corner, that should help already. We have also added some item and mechanic descriptions to this page.