Candle Garden

Candle Garden is the fourth game of The Lampshade Anthology, made for the LowRez Jam 2022, which idea was create a game at 64x64 resolution or lower, and I used the optional theme "Kill it with fire".

------------CONTROLS AND TUTORIALS------------

ARROWS: Move and Jump

Z: Burn / Confirm

ESC: Return to Menu

Your Bases: You have to protect than, if you have less than 2 you lose

Simple Mushroom: 1HP / Mid Speed

Fast Mushroom: 1HP / Fast Speed

Tank Mushroom: 2HP / Slow Speed

Grass: 1HP / Mid Speed / Target a base in a line different from the origin

Garlic: 3HP / Slow Speed / Divide itself

Garlic Jr: 1HP / Mid Speed / Target a base in a line different from the origin

Cactus: 3HP / Slow Speed / Blocks the way

The UI elements: Indicates which base is being target by how many plants

-----------LORE----------

You are one of the Gardener Candles of the Emperor, and you have to stop an infestation of overgrown plants that are invading the Royal Greenhouses.

In this Greenhouse you can see the history of the empire pictured in its mosaics, some  history that the Emperor is so proud of, and he will assure that everyone in the realm know the real truth of this events, no matter what.

This obsession for this events, and its mosaics, is one of the reasons that the Royal Greenhouses has to be taken care 24/7 to secure that the plants does't riot against the truth.

----------THE LAMPSHADE ANTHOLOGY----------

The Lampshade Anthology is an anthology of games that I develop, during game jams, that is part of the same universe, and in the future soon, I want to release a full game based in this universe, so if you want, when this game is already released you can check all of the games of this anthology to know even more of this world and its characters!

-----------JAM NOTES-----------

In the beginning I was absolutely scared with the jam limitation, since I have no idea how to make pixel art... After freaking out a little in the start trying to learn it from scratch, I decided to use my hand-drawn art style in the super low resolution, and it fits so well that I thought "I can make the whole game this way!" and I loved it!

After this jam I think that the limitation may has been the best thing that happened to me in some time, because it made me have more confidence with my work, and encourage me to try new things, now I think I not only have a new art-style to work with (that is batter to work in some aspects) but I'm more secure to start new projects! I really LOVED THIS JAM!

Browser version notes: Maybe the performance on the browser version is worse than the downloadable versions. The Browser version is 192x192 (using pixel perfect camera to maintain the fidelity of the sprites), but if you want the true 64x64 pixels experience (or a bigger screen), download the game, it allows resizable window and it maintain the pixel fidelity :D

-------------SOFTWARES USED-----------

Engine: Unity

Coding: Visual Studio (C#)

Art: Procreate

Music: Garage Band for Mac (using apple loops)

Sound Effects: Audacity