The Crystallographer

Published 2023-06-12



Created in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 52

-how to play-

Plant crystals on wet ground using x. Planting a new crystal costs money. Water droplets will fall on the crystal causing it to grow. Once fully grown the crystal can be harvested for money. Alternatively you can break the crystal, spreading its fragments to neighboring wet ground tiles. Finding the right balance between harvesting and breaking is the key to getting a high score.

-tips-

Shattering a crystal will always drop the same number of shards as long as there are enough open wet ground tiles for them.

You can know how close a crystal is to its next growth stage by counting how many water droplets landed on it.

updates:

v1.0.1: Fixed an off-by-one error which prevented crystals from spreading into the leftmost and topmost tiles.