Potion Commotion: Heart Edition
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
Grow plants, brew potions, maybe even solve a mystery
"Today marks the first day I was supposed to start as an apprentice for the esteemed magical botanist Arden Silvera. I arrived yesterday and I have yet to see any signs of them. I've found a couple of torn out pages of what seems to be their journal. Maybe they will be happy that I found them. Until then, this garden looks a bit run down, maybe I should get to work."
About the game
Potion Commotion is a cute farming game where you grow plants to gather resources and using those resources to brew magical potions with unique abilities. On the way, you will find torn out pages from your master Ardon Silvera that provide more details on the plants, the potion, the garden and what happened to them.
The game is quite straight forward. You click on seeds from your inventory and place them on a watered field. Fields can be watered with the Potion of Hydration, which can be made in the cauldron with 5 pieces of a Hydroangea flower. If you're ever confused, simply refer to the game's journal.
This is just the basics. The game has a 'How to play' section in the menu and the game will guide you along the way.
Features
- 10 different plants to grow
- 15 unique potions to brew
- 3 unique background music loops
- 30 pages in an in-game journal
- Almost 50 different sound effects
- Achievements
- Day/night cycle
- Movable barrels for your items
- A small storyline
Heart edition?
This is the Heart Edition of Potion Commotion made by Jas 💖 as part of a game jam with my gf Kamilla's Rainbow. We used the same idea and collaborated on the art, but there are still numerous differences in the two games. Check out her version of the game too: Potion Commotion: Rainbow Edition.
Credits
Most assets (incl. art, music, sound effects) are made by Kamilla's Rainbow but a few of them are made by me.
The code is all written by me using the Godot game engine.
The bird flapping noise is by nicStage, and the night ambience is by Yolande180138.
Note: No MacOSX version as I have no mac computer available for testing.
Note2: You probably want the 64bit versions (windows64 or linux64) unless you're sure you need a 32 bit version.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- v0.2.0 - Prettier plants, sounds effects and a ton of fixes!Aug 09, 2020
- v0.1.3 AKA first public release!Nov 09, 2019
Comments
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there seems to be an error. i can´t seem to use the ingredient for brewing no matter how much i click
I am having this same issue as you can see in my comment as well. Just doesn't seem to want to work for me sadly.
The game is very cute but for some reason I wasn't able to brew potions. When trying to pick up and use the items I have as ingredients, they just turn red and the pool that seems to be for brewing has no indication on how to move items into it. I've read through all the journal pages and help multiple times and have had no luck trying anything. Some clearer direction on how to use the brewing section might be helpful, since it doesn't seem to be in the game as it is now.
Withdrawing my comment about the seed prices/potion costs bc I scrolled down and saw you can right click plants to get seeds :/ my bad for not reading the how to play!
i want a spaghetti plant and ketchup plant
This game is really cute!! My girlfriend and I played it together (for about an hour so far, but I can see someone getting a lot more play time out of it).
I appear to have broken something! I have infinite hydroangea flowers in my inventory and the game treats it like I have 0 for the purposes of things like "make that potion again", and I'm unsure how I managed this.
(I've chosen to start over at this point but I'm wondering if I messed something up wrt making potions and ended up with some sort of underflow or negative.)
I'm enjoying this game. It gets me "in the zone" in a way not many games do, and more continuously than something like Mini Metro. There's always something to do (even if it's just making a dozen potions of hydration to get rid of all this hydrangea), and that makes it hard to put down.
Speaking of which, one major complaint I have is the lack of an apparent "Exit Game" button, which makes it hard to put down in a good way. And apparently the task manager didn't end all of it, because I came back the next morning and saw that it was still technically running. Somehow.
Another criticism I have is the lack of a few quality of life features, such as some way to queue up a bunch of identical potions at once instead of just clicking the icon every few seconds. (I had a lot of hydrangea at one point, and it was really annoying to make all those hydration potions, which stuck with me whenever .) It would also be nice if weeds were more obvious on plants with a lot of green in the palette.
(But not having to drag the ingredients to the cauldron every time was nice, once I noticed it. And the fact that you can click-and-drag to mass sow/reap.)
I realize that I have two paragraphs of criticism and only one of praise, but my overall impression is definitely positive. It's a simple game, but engaging and surprisingly cerebral. The problem with being a simple, enjoyable game is that you can't say much about why it's engaging. Unless maybe you're a game designer, but I just watch some on YouTube. Um...flow? The flow is good?
You could just like... plant less hydrangeas..? :P
If you press ESC to go to the menu, you should see this icon. Clicking it should exit the game :) As for the game keeping running even when shut down in task manager, that is not something I've ever seen happen. The game runs as a single process, so killing it should definitely shut it down.
When closing the game it does ask for confirmation, "Would you like to save", so maybe closing it from the non-process view (not on windows right now, can't check actual name), it may still open this popup instead of closing the game. - anyways, click the button seen below, or simply the X in the corner as for any other program and make sure to choose to either save then exit or exit without saving, then it should exit properly.
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Hmm, I kinda wanted it so that the player has to manually make each potion - just like the player manually has to craft every single potion. But i suppose this could maybe be a nice feature to have.
You're saying it's too hard to see if a field has weeds on it or not? that the whole field should have more green on it? If so, that's a good suggestion, the field should probably look a bit more overgrown. I just wasn't totally sure how to do it without making it clash with the plants.
Hehe, yea, i understand. thank you so much for your comment. The more people i see enjoying the game, definitely makes me more likely to want to update the game in the future (possibly with some of your improvements!) ^^
But then all those unused plots would go to waste! :O
I kinda guessed that was the case, and most of the time it was fine. It does add to the texture of the game...but it only takes a couple of instances where you've let 100+ hydrangeas pile up and need to turn them into potions to make every batch of more than a few potions feel like a chore.
Kind of? It's not a problem with all plants, but the plants (and phases of plants) that already look like a bunch of little green lines sprouting from the ground are great at hiding little green weeds also sprouting from the ground. Maybe weeds just need a more distinctive shade of green? I dunno, I'm not an artist. I'm just a guy who grows a lot of hydrangeas. And also other stuff—at this point I've only got two or three hydrangea plots, plus ones I grow in other spots when the timing isn't quite right for their intended plant.
I'm glad you enjoyed my comment! And also that you made this game.
Hello! How do I finish the game? Not sure how/if I need to jump in cauldron or what... also achievement says brew 20 different potions but there are only 15 that I can find, little lost.
Well the game is still kinda in development so currently there's no proper ending.
As for that achivement... that is definitely a bug. Sorry about that! There is only 15 potions in the game currently.
This issue has been fixed in the new version 0.2.0 :D Still want to add a proper ending at some point, but for now at least the achievement is correct.
Huzzah! Thank you!
Is this compatible with 32-bit computers? Because it doesn't want to run on mine for some reason.
I think it might only be compatible with 64-bit computers. Sorry about that! I'll see if i can make a 32-bit version if/when i ever get around to updating it :)
32 bit versions for windows and linux are now included as of version 0.2.0 :)
This game is really cute! I like the music and the look, and it's satisfying to grow a large garden. I noticed it had some balancing issues though and I'm not sure if they're intentional.
Might I suggest a change in the buying price of seeds and/or the selling price of potions? The cost for creating most potions is usually over double their selling price. For example, the Potion of Flames sells for $20 but requires 5 $10 Fire Flowers to create, meaning you've spent $50 making it. Growth I and II cost $100 and $300 to create, but only sell for $40 and $150, respectively. The only viable way to make money is by exclusively planting Hydroangeas (which is a clever name btw) because they're free to grow.
I enjoyed this game a lot, but it became hard to keep playing when I realized I'd have to plant a bunch of the same plant for half an hour in order to progress. Each of the plants have their own charm and I'd love to have incentive to plant a bunch of them all!
I suppose maybe the How To Play sections doesn't make this clear enough, but you're able to right click fully grown plants and instead of havesting them, they'll turn into 2x (or more if you're lucky) seeds.
This way as soon as you've bought one plant, if you're patient enough, you don't really ever have to buy more of them.
Thanks alot for the nice comment :D I'd definitely recommend giving itt a go again with this new information tho, it should make the game a lot less "grindy".
Ooh jeez yeah, I didn't realize that there were multiple ways to interact with the plants. That's on me. Thank you for the clarification! I'm excited to get to see the late-game plants :)
I came here to suggest lower prices as well, so thank you for this post, it really helped.
Fantastic, the game went from nice, to great! Now it is fun to play. Thanks for the clarification.