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Hi,

I threw this game together last weekend, and have struggled with the UI for the remainer of this week (clearly not my primary competency :) ). The game is 100% HTML/JS, where the only HTML5-feature used is really the "font-face" functionality. Technically it is entirely based on jquery and some of its plug-ins. Would love all kinds of comments!

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This game is awesome. I gave up on a similar HTML/JS game I was making because I could not think of the gameplay/goal/prize: https://zetabee.com/games/bee - I love your 'find pattern' goal. I think with these kind of puzzle games, the hardest part is coming up with a good effort/reward system that makes gameplay fun instead of tedious and you did an awesome job with Garden Madness!

Thanks Chime! Looking at "Bee in the garden" right now thinking it looks awesome! What have you used to build it?

Mostly http://raphaeljs.com/ and jQuery.

Its nice, some sounds would be really cool, for instance a background music, a click sound and a boom sound for the chain combos :)

Nice work!

Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely add sounds in an upcoming version. You do now happen to know any good JS libraries for working with sounds?

SoundManager looks pretty good, I havent tried it yet.

http://www.html5place.com/2011/01/how-to-use-audio-with-html...

Thanks, will try it out in a couple of hours!

And yes, the backdrop is updated according to the time-of-day :)

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