Grow Apart
Battle your friends for the ultimate highest tree in this local multiplayer game. Each player must use the acorns to grow their tree higher and higher to try and reach the goal first.
Gamepad controls (recommended):
Left joystick - Move
A - Jump
B - tap to pickup/drop/punch, hold to use item
Keyboard controls:
wasd / arrow keys - move & jump
Left shift / Right shift - tap to pickup/drop/punch, hold to use item
Made in less than 48 hours in the Global Game Jam 2023
The theme was "Roots"
Art by Ido Leshem
Programming by Danny Marcowitz & Dor Nevo
Music & Sound by Ilai Schwebel
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Game is rad af, and I love the look, sound, and feel of it.
That said, unless both players try to avoid each other, there's really no way for a player to gain advantage until the treeline is really close to the finish line. It's impossible to build your tree all the way up before your opponent connects their tree to yours, at which point it's no longer your tree.
Might be cool if the game kept track of which player planted which branches, and gave players a speed debuff when on their opponent's branches. Or maybe players shouldn't be able to walk on their opponent's branches, they immediately bounce off, so they can still use them to gain altitude, but they have less control and make easier knockdown targets?
heya, thanks for the kind words and feedback!
I agree that as of now there is little advantage to be had by just being faster, we hope to address this in future updates :)