Madness in Square Garden

Arrow keys ← → ↑ ↓ to arrange blocks, Space/Enter/X to place them

Madness in Square Garden A compact block puzzle with a twissst 🐍

Arrange a random set of blocks to get the most out of your garden in 30 days and rack up a high score. Till, plant, water, harvest…but keep an eye out for snakes!

Typical play time per run: a few minutes, with high replayability.

📈 Post your high scores in the comments!
📉 For an additional challenge: what's the lowest score you can get? :)

Made for the LOWREZJAM 2022 game jam in 14 days.

Gameplay & controls

The game plays in turns, and one turn equals one day. You have 30 days to collect as many fruit and mushrooms as you can to maximize your score. The starting board, as well as actions you receive each turn are randomly selected.

• Rotate action blocks — ←→ Left and right arrow keys
• Swap top/bottom action blocks — ↑↓ Up and down arrow keys
• Place action blocks — Space, enter, or X key

To get the most fun out of the game, I recommend playing it a few times to learn the rules from experience. These are the most important board interactions:

To get fruit

1. Grass + Till = Tilled ground
2. Tilled ground + Seed = Sapling
3. Sapling + Water = Watered sapling
4. Watered sapling + Time = Fruiting plant
5. Fruiting plant + Harvest = Collect fruit

To get mushrooms

1. Grass + Water = Wet grass
2. Wet grass + Time = Mushroom
3. Mushroom + Harvest = Collect mushroom

What about those pesky snakes?

1. Grass + Time = Snake

• Snake + Water = Wet grass
• Snake + Till = Grass
• Snake + Hand = Lose health

Contact

Follow me on Twitter @hellobalint

Credits

• Game design, programming, art, sound, and music by Bálint Magyar
• Frameworks, libraries, tools used: LÖVE, love.js, Aseprite, 30log, bfxr, Ableton
• Special thanks: Adri, Bebe, Ati, Ariel, Ildi, Pete

Known issues

• On certain Macs and browser versions there's dithered (checkerboard) artifacting (likely due to compatibility issues regarding particular GPUs)