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Review by Tharro all reviews by Tharro

Orchid Adventure is a side scroller that features a purple flower as the main flower. There is some imminent doom quickly after the start of the game but the character will survive and continue its adventure.

Played the game for a while, unfortunately there is not much to it. It has a nice RPG style mini map. While walking around I discovered a new terrain (mountains) but a bit later I walked of the edge of the world (mini map disappeared). Wasn't able to find out how the game completely works (the source had a reference to a narcissus that I couldn't find in the game itself, also navigation over the nodes in the mini map seemed impossible or I couldn't figure it out anyway).

All rules have been implemented in a way. The bonus rule was applied to the artistic requirement and it was featured as one of the technical requirements. If that isn't a very efficient way in implementing the rules! Also the source featured some efficiency I hadn't seen in a while (heavy use of bit logic & optimized the use of screen space).

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 2 Technical 3 Genre 2

Review by Tharro all reviews by Tharro

Flower Life ended up being (the most famous) simulation game. While we were teased with screenshots of a nice shoot-em-up sadly an to date unknown bug ruined these plans.

The simulation is a recreation of the Conway's Game of Life but this time with colorful flowers as "cells". Given the limited time there is a few bugs (performance, flowers are not always not rendered) but I've checked the source and it is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life. It's impressive as well to deliver something in only a couple of hours (guess the RAD promise of Lazarus is true).

Hope you can finish something in a next competition (or continue on your shoot-em-up because it looked promising).

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 1 Technical 1 Genre 4