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Review by push32 all reviews by push32

Planting Flowers welcomes you visually with a girl character on a green meadow and musically with a snappy old-school chiptune. You steer the character on the yet void meadow and plant as many various colorful flowers as you want to fill the meadow. In full screen mode there is also a floral wallpaper background. The art style with neat pixel graphics and euphoric chiptune matches very well and encourage you to explore the game. But unfortunately, regarding gameplay you cannot do more from there on. I'm curious to see how the planting and plucking of flowers described in the readme will turn into gameplay. Technically, the game uses a large hexagonal grid for planting, which also scrolls as you move too far from the center. A text scroller is absent however. The source code makes use of allegro and compiles without any problem.

Overall: 2 (interactive tech demo, but no game)
Artistical: 2 (no fun of old fashioned or inverse, but nice chiptune music and pixel graphics)
Technical: 2 (no text scroller, no procedural content, but hexagonal grid, below 400kb size limit, compiles flawlessly)
Genre: 3 (many colourful flowers and floral wallpaper)

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 2 Technical 2 Genre 3

Review by push32 all reviews by push32

The title FlowerShower suggests a gardening simulation game. It starts promising with beautiful comic style pixel art in the title screen showing clouds and meadows with a picturesque narcissus flower. The title screen also features a a basic text scroller asking to press enter. If you do, the game unfortunately shows nothing more than a blue background. Sadly there is no game after all and no indication how it should have been. I'm curious to see how this game was intended to be. From a technical point of view FlowerShower's source code is very clean and readable, uses allegro, and compiling it was straight forward.

Overall: 1 (no game after all)
Artistical: 2 (pixel art could be considered old fashioned)
Technical: 2 (scroller is there, but no procedural content, code is clean, below 400kb)
Genre: 2 (only one beautiful flower on title screen)

Scores: Overall 1 Artistical 2 Technical 2 Genre 2