Decay (Ludum Dare 46)

Place flowers to redirect bolts of light into plants.

Plants will protect a 3x3 area around themselves from decay, so spread them out as far as you can.

The more tiles you protect from decay, the longer the area will survive.

Once you have enough green areas you can research upgrades to improve your plants and slow the decay.

Instructions on how to play: 

Use the plants in your inventory to help redirect the bolts of light that come from the emitter plant. Any plants or debris that is on the map at the start of the level can not be moved or picked up. Once you have placed your plant’s press space and it will ask if you are ready and when you accept the bolts of light will emit from the emitter flower. All areas on the map are randomly generated so some plants may be difficult or impossible to revive. You don’t have to revive every plant on a level, you just have to revive as many as you can to slow the decay in that area.

Plants functions: 

Emitter flower - fires bolts of light in all four directions. 

Sunflower - has no abilities. 

Splitter flower - when revived it will fire bolts of light in all four directions. 

Mirrors - when hit with bolts of light they will bounce off and redirect. 

Sunflower rock - same as sunflower but cannot be moved. 

Large rock and tall stumps - will stop beams of light. 

Small rocks and short stumps - cannot be moved.

Programming - Andrew Roulst

Art - Zoey Gorsuch (Formerly Casey)