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First run: "Displacement (move the bugs) is useless" Every single time his scarab wasn't in range: *mad he can't move the scarab*

i'm only at half the video but i'm screaming cos he doesn't realize the green blocks in the soil give food, hopefully he will understand by the end

I was silently screaming the whole time in the beginning. Brother was not paying attention to food and even when the realization that he was probably going to lose if he kept playing the way he did he continued... 😭😭

Doesn’t play the card that gets you sun Doesn’t take the card that gets you sun “Sun is our biggest issue right now” I wonder why

The trick is to let the birds kill the top of the tree and protect the roots. Then you don’t need as much food afterwards.

This game started so nice and then turned into a comedy P.S: Still really cool idea and hopefully they make it great in the future

39:10 had me in stitches!! that bug and your reaction were too funny :D

I remember I've played a flash game just like this on Kongregate years ago, which you can choose to be wild plants or farmed crops. Forgot its name though.

39:10 the game really said : Fuck you *takes your photosynthesis away* Oh man, this game is funny as fuck and needs so much polish, I hope the devs keep working on it tho

"We don't need sun, we don't need to relocate units" Famous last words

I'm missing a fighting farming game and a strategy farming game, maybe a music farming game? Since it seems we are doing all genres mixed with farming (PD: I love it)

There was an old flash game that was kinda like the base concept of this game. I can't remember the name, but basically you had to grow a plant either in the wild or in a farm, and regulate your energy and growth to maximize your chances of either the farmer choosing to plant you again next year, or spreading enough fruits in the wild to grow more offspring for the next year. It was one of my favorite old games and I'm glad it's spirit lived on in newer games like this

It's an interesting idea, but several problems. So little explanation, like what the stuff underground means. It's not too hard to figure it out, but it would be helpful to know stuff like how much water you absorb, the difference between water and the water with dirt, how much health each plant parts have during the invasions. Then there's the pest defense part. It's buggy and very one sided from my experience. Birds sometimes fall to the ground when sprayed and get stunned, sometimes they teleport. But the worms just have a massive health pool and chow through everything unless you have scarabs down there. It's crazy. The cards don't feel all that balanced, and you can be pretty screwed by the opening hand. And my god was the volume so loud for me, with the option to adjust it not working well enough to save my ears, had to manually turn it down with sound manager outside the game. But at least the demo is free.

I played an educational game like this but it was all real time click on the bees click on worms grow the flower, dead simple. It's nice to see the idea spring into a proper game, even if it's not for me.

On the first run, there's food under the ground. You grew a straight root in to nothing instead of food right before you lost... Because you ran out of food.

when i first clicked on the video, i thought it wouldnt be possible, but the seed is really growing. im surprised.

First time watching. This guy sounds like he watches alot of northern lion. He's got alot of his mannerisms, great video!

I always imagined Olexa would make a good tree.

Tyler: The beetle is the worst! Also Tyler: 🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲

I played it myself on seeing your video, I loved the beetle, but it needs to be near the end of the root to be effective

Good concept, but it needs to be refined more. The "defense" doesn't do anything. Also, while deck builders require luck, this is insane. You get one specific card, and then you win, if you don't get that one card, you might as well just restart.

Yeah. The tutorial seems to dump too much info at once. They should be spread out across the game instead all at the start. That was a rough read.

Even if it has an slow pacing, it seems kinda goated

Damn fertile ground is so op, you basically need that card to survive

20 minutes in the video. Okay, okay, kind hard to a farming game, but it's reasonable 40 minutes in the video, laughing my ass off because the game became a fucking hardcore tower defense against't whole swarm of worms and murder of crows

Honestly the best tech to protect the tree is to give the Scarab a MF BOOM SNIPER

That fertile ground card saved his ass

Never thought being a tree could be so entertaining😂

this one's interesting, might try it out some time

I'm still laughing about 43:34 definitely the GOAT moment

As a content creator you’re amazing. As a gamer?? Questionable choices xD Starting with the y on the second run?? What monstrosity is this

“Harvest a ripping fruit” I’ve never heard anyone say ripe that way before, interesting. 7:05

Starts with: That is how trees work! Middle: How do I get food without Photosynthesis?! Me: Wait... You just said you know how it works, but then you just fail at the basics of plants? XD (maybe the roots can absorb the minerals from the ground, like plants do? ;) ) End game: ROOTS SOLVES EVERYTHING! Me: Yeah... They do! XD

I’m so excited to see more of this game!!

Fertilise ground + double absorption is the mushrooms strategy... bro.

Damn, being a tree is hard, huh?

🤦‍♀️ Why did you put a root in water, when you need food? Here's a good tip, grow 1 stem, decorate it, then grow another stem. But don't do more than 3 stems until you have over 20+ of each resource. You keep growing too big before creating a steady supply of food/water/sunlight. I imagine eventually you can ban cards or find more food cards to increase your odds of having useful things to do during your turn, then you can grow as big as you want. If you aren't producing, or decorating, I would just skip turn.

its interesting how a misconception of a tree root system is depicted in books, that people make games like this.... making more people have even more misconceptions about the said theme.

Don’t know this channel but rouge like is always a reason to klick a video

If there was a Wasp hive that made 2 wasps and decreased original bird number because scawy and a yellow yacket nest for the ground roots to rock

Its a nice idea but there could have much more be done with it. Like a step by step tutorial, bette explenation what exactly you are looking for underground, chemical war against pests (instead of akwardly wielding a human tool around in a game about being a tree) and more organic growth )select what you want but it takes a few hours/days and you can see it growing.

Ah yes. A wholesome break from the Ring of Pain comments section

This video was hilarious, thanks for that😂

This game is giving competition to Isaac in making the player say strange things that they wouldn't say in any other context lol.

This game seems so unbalanced. Like there seems to only be one actually good strategy since fertile ground costs the same as both sun absorb and photosynthesize and only takes one card rather than 2 it is significantly more effective to use that for food than what should be the primary expected method of food production. Also the birds attacking above ground pretty much forces you to take caterpillar or wasp cards since that’s the only way to get more defence than the weak af spray bottle. Then there’s the miracles that just permanently give you more mana which also seem almost entirely necessary in order to grow enough to win. Also fruits seem relatively weak since they accomplish a similar effect to fertile ground but take multiple cards over multiple rounds which is the same problem as photosynthesize, and in the demo there doesn’t appear to be any benefit to harvesting fruits either so having that card even exist in the game further unbalances it. Balance isn’t super necessary if their goal is to just be funny but it looks like they want to make a serious game rather than a meme, so I hope they rebalance it as it progresses because it looks like it could be interesting if properly balanced.

was it made at Global Game Jam? This year's theme was "Roots"

the battle of 35:00 killed me

Game that you are a plant and have to grow are my favorite type of games

Olexa constantly making stupid decisions and then complaining when his own actions bite him in the ass is so infuriating. this game has a lot of cool potential so i’m still glad Olexa made the vid

I swear to god, I had a game idea exactly like this one like 5 or more years ago, to bad I'm not a programmer

kinda reminds me of heliotropism

Dont put the insects u spawn at the front lines put them at the center or smth so the tree will protect the root/branch its on so that the insect wont die

Definitely one of the games of all time

Now you're a branch manager.

Reminds me a lot of Heliotropism!

grow-gue like

Inspired by Heliotropism, nice

I stopped watching halfway through to play and the goats were so op for me CX my roots were intact but the tree GONE in seconds almost and it was shocking because my wasps were acting like your beetles did at the beginning 🤭all that to say your tree turned out lovely

How long until he realizes what the green recourse is?

Stop complaining even after you have read the tutorial and learn the mechanics of the game at least for the basics Great videos by the way keep it up

This man watches way too much Northernlion. I can tell because I too watch way too much Northernlion.

Hopefully this doesn't come across rude, but your speech mannerisms are 1-to-1 with NL. It's kinda crazy.

After just watching a report on seed lobbying and privatization, one I had opened beside this without even realizing, I don't think I can make it through this without my brain making washing machine noises... imma leave this tab open and hope I forget about world problems with time, sigh silly brain

Hmmm a game where you spread your seed

This looks like super mother load but as a strategy/rogue like

great vid, but why do you sound so high?

I think you should play godlike burger

Life eh finds a way.

Given what we have seen so far, I have a lot of faith they will figure out any balancing issues before release.

How did you not figure out you can root for food too not just photosynthesis for it halfway into the video lol

I thought you played this like a month ago? or were that someone else-

FIRST, i love this videos

Love these vids for showing mew new games, but holy it feels like this guy has never played videogames before. The GREEN TILES ARE FOOD. STOP AVOIDING THEM.

Should i watch a TWO HOUR ad? Y/N

Stop building unnecessary branches and ficus on roots early. Be sure to balance the water and nutrients root paths. Just stop with the excessive stems.

Bro you get food from the yellow tiles, you are just avoiding them 🤦🏼

This is the WRONG way to do a Tutorial, why not have a more "on rails" pre-determined play-through that teaches you the mechanics by doing them...

Your pest control is useless because you don’t use it right

😒 Naah, I watched it for a minute and then I had to stop, because I did not want someone else to have all the fun playing it. Bye. I go to the Steam.

I swear, this guy plays all these games wrong on purpose just so he can get rage replies for the algorithm

No hate here but my man. The first 20 mins made me feel like u missed basic biology

This guy is a bit slow isn't he.

Day 1 of thinking that he sucks but makes good content

Would watch more of this game for sure

Those pests definitely need some balancing lmao