Your flower stalk is endlessly growing and various enemies are trying to stop you, defeat enemies by casting flower spells, every 800 meters your flower blooms, granting you an upgrade point, try to reach 2400 meters for a big surprise! Can be played with one or two local players, shared life, shared upgrades.

Controls


Game Content

Powerups

Powerups occasionally drop from stalk buds.


High Jump: Jump higher than normal for 10 seconds.

Floral Bomb: Spits out lots of flower projectiles in every direction, hurting enemies hit.

Invincibility: Makes the player recieve no damage and hurt all enemies contacted for 12 seconds.

Extra Life: Players gain an extra life.

Enemies

Enemies are introduced one by one every 800 meters, after 3200 meters enemies start attacking together, after that point every 2400 meters a beehive will spawn.


Bird: Flies from the left or the right, goes down when it gets near a player. (0+ meters)


Fly: When the stalk buds, (creates a leaf) one to three flies may spawn, they slowly move towards the player. (800+ meters)


Worm: The head of the stalk sometimes spawns one or two worms, they land on leaves and make their way to the root of the leaf they land on, eating it. (1600+ meters.)


Bee: Acts the same as a fly, will only be spawned from a beehive or queen bee. Attacks after (2400+ meters)


Queen Bee: Spawns after cracking her beehive. Takes 10 hits to kill, wanders around spawning bees for some time then drills down to hit a player. Listens to metal music. (2400+ meters)

Credits & Links

Wikipedia: In cell biology, the meristem is a structure composed of specialized tissue found in plants, consisting of stem cells, known as meristematic cells, which are undifferentiated cells capable of continuous cellular division. These meristematic cells play a fundamental role in plant growth, regeneration, and acclimatization, as they serve as the source of all differentiated plant tissues and organs.

The game is completely done by me. No pre-made assets or code. No AI used anywhere. This is my first attempt at composing music.

Used Programs: GodotAsepriteBeepBox
Made for the B1T Jam 2

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Comments

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cute

(he got flustered)

Great stuff! I love the way the stem grows and looks cohesive, the whole visual style is pulled together well. The music is decent, I wish the plant would grow a bit faster though! It's all a bit slow paced.

Thank you! Originally the plan was that the plant grew faster as time goes on but I kinda forgor 💀