Zenless Garden

Summer 2022

I decided to take part in the Kenney Jam for 2022 where the theme of the jam was "Growth". Kenney makes a lot of free game assets, so the games made in this jam may only reuse his graphical assets.

With this theme, I had the idea to make a gardening game mixed with a typing game. The player types words to switch the tools they're using and to use those tools on the plants in their garden. They have to grow enough plants to satisfy the ever increasing customer orders for fully grown crops.

Overall, I was really happy with how the game turned out! I felt it needed some more polish after the jam ended and pushed a small update to improve some of the UI, but even without that extra polish, the community was rather impressed with the game! The score page shows the game with an overall placement of 5th out of 299 entries with #1 ranking in Concept (gameplay).

I had a lot of fun with this one and look forward to participating again in the future!