Flower Dome 3001

Hello world

My first completed game jam in almost 20 years! Didn't get around to adding any story or in-game instruction  - but hopefully you can at least have fun for 5 minutes! Future updates will introduce storyline, more tools/mechanics, as well as fix any lingering bugs ;) 

Synopsis

You are a long forgotten FlowerBot android on a distant mining planet.

You grow flowers... in a dome.... in the year 3001. 

Relax and tend to beautiful flowers... just don't screw it up, ok? All they really need is a little water ;)

 

Controls

- Left trigger to teleport

- Left joystick to walk, right joystick to look around

- Grab trigger to pick up seeds from the table 

- Grab trigger to retrieve watering can from belt holster

- Hold seeds near your hand to see a preview of the flower

- You can pick up the rake but it doesn't do anything yet (FYI)

- Keep plants watered to make sure they stay happy

- Pick up flowers to replant them in a different pot

Bugs

- Will be added in a future update (hopefully mostly the living, flower-eating kind)

- Every time you teleport, your camera is rotated to the left. If anyone can help me figure out why this is happening it would be greatly appreciated!

- I didn't quite get time to fix the animations for the fully grown state and "unhappy"/dying state. The game looked even better with them so keep an eye out for a fix! For now, flowers just darken when they need more water. 

Time Spent

Not sure exactly, but I worked on it every day this week... at least 40 hours. A lot of that was spent learning new skills in blender, as well as familiarising with the XR toolkit and Godot in general. This jam was a very rewarding experience!

Platform Support

Tested on Meta Quest 3, with PCVR. 

Also runs on Meta, however the frame rate is poor. Unfortunately didn't have time to optimise for Android/native build quite yet so run via PC for the best experience. Will update soon with the experience tailored for native devices!