Nurturer

How to play:

The goal of the game is to plant trees and get to the highest difficulty level possible and there is no real end condition. The game gets more difficult as you play, in the form of faster decreasing health, as well as slightly more sparse energy further from the center. The world blossom's health deteriorates as its protector golem expends energy to create life in a newly forming world.

Controls:
E to deposit energy
WASD to move
Scroll wheel or keyboard 1-3 to select an object
Click to place a structure (on an indicator)

Objects:

Energy:

Picked up by walking into, you can bring energy to the world blossom or connected trees to the world blossom. Press E to deposit energy. Energy can also be generated by plants.

Trees: 

Trees make connections to the world blossom in a straight line, which act as additional deposit zones for energy. Additionally, the golem can move efficiently between connections to the world blossom, so the world blossom's health does not decrease on these tiles.

Plants:

Plants are an expensive structure that generate 1 energy over the course of almost 1 difficulty stage. To produce energy, they must have a free space in one of the four cardinal directions. Priority is left, up, right, then down.

Rocks: 

Rocks obstruct pathing, as well as connections between trees. They don't have any function at this time, but were planned to be used to trap enemies.

Changelog:

Within the first hour after submission I submitted a bug fix to the game (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules). Included in this fix was stopping a bug where the player could turn in energy even if they weren't holding any, indicators not updating on object place, and an issue with indicators at the edge of the world. You can view the code changes I made on the github page.

4/21/20 added a post game screen to view your world and share scores. Fixed a bug where difficulty was calculated based on all steps instead of just time ticking steps (off of red paths)

Made with unity/c#