Maggie the Gardener released

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I agree with Indiepath and Snarty - this isn't technically a "game" but more like a construction set or toy (which isn't a bad thing). There are differing sets of definitions; here's one possible set from Chris Crawford on Game Design:




will add online garden gallery and ability to show your gardens to others and vote for the best. So it is a community thing.

That should indeed make it a possible competition (for anyone who chooses to submit their gardens to be voted on).

Regardless of what it is exactly, your team has done a nice job on it. I did notice a few things that you might want to look into, though:

During installation, the graphics converter gives the message, "procesing file <x> successed." That should be "processing" and either "succeeded" or "successful" (but your English is infinitely better than my Polish!).

This may be the intended behavior, but pressing the spacebar during the Anawiki logo display at the start of the game restarts the logo display rather than skipping it and going on to the game.

I created my first garden and saved it, but there was no preview of it under "My Gardens" (it was saved, and could be loaded, but the preview was transparent). On my second garden, there was a preview. And when I loaded my first one and resaved with the same name, it had a preview.

When the game is started, if you load an existing garden, select Back to Menu, and answer "Yes" to "Do you want to save?", the name entry is blank (it doesn't know what the loaded garden was previously named). This seems related to naming in general: if you save a garden as "test," then load one called "fred," when you return to the menu and save, the default name is "test" rather than "fred." Perhaps that's intentional, but it seems a little strange to me.