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Hiya Haystack

By commanderstitch

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor643.72
Innovation6382.94
Fun6802.88
Graphics7852.81
Mood8362.67
Audio8492.16
Overall9412.78
Theme11182.31
Coolness140947

Comments

mrexcessive 2014-04-28 05:02

Those are some nasty farmers! I like the mechanic for varying movement speed of the farmers depending on where you are.

marcus_siactro 2014-04-28 13:14

Very nice! Had a lot of fun playing.

elstevo 2014-05-01 02:29

Wow that's a wierd game ! I got a hard time getting the keys, but it was fun ! Good job !

tomvert 2014-05-01 19:18

What did I just play ? Mad game ! Thumbs up for craziness.

hanoth 2014-05-02 01:43

That's really bizarre but fun.

curiousexpedition 2014-05-03 01:06

The funniest game I've seen so far in the compo. The animations and interactions are hilarious! Gameplay was a bit confusing. I wasn't sure where to go. Do I need to shoot all the farmers? Grats on the game!

borrismoose 2014-05-03 01:22

A well presented game, plenty of graphical variation. It took me a while to figure out I needed to get the keys in order. However, I would die for seemingly no reason after collecting a couple of keys, even if my bar was up high.

zdonkeyx 2014-05-03 01:23

The farmers' animations were so damn funny. I was laughing so much while running around. This game is confusing but I think that just added to the humor xD

noom 2014-05-03 02:21

hahaahah pretty funny, the audio was a bit grating and it took me far too long to figure out that the game had actually started and that I was the hay O.O

cardboard 2014-05-04 20:30

What a weird and awesome game, once again. After I beat the game I was unable to move and the farmers killed me, and then when I clicked try again I was playing as the farmer I saved. Unfortunately I couldn't attack or move after leaving the first room so I was killed quickly. I like how the attack changes depending on how much hay you have left. I like the game's graphics, and the fact I get to play as hay is pretty dang unique (and cool).

gfm 2014-05-05 22:08

This was an interesting take on the theme (got the two endings)... but it isn't expressed so well in the game. I was able to get the overall idea, but... what was really happening? Why were you hiding in a haystack (ok, this one I can think of an answer XD)? Why did the event take place at the beginning? Why defeating the boss one way leads to another ending (damage should be the same... the second form would be better, maybe, because then you would have [spoiler]eaten the boss robe[/spoiler].

Kudos for the recorded audio, that was nice! :)
Also, switching the attack as you lose health was a nice idea, but the jump would get glitchy, sometimes (going forward and backward before stomping).

Still, nice game! :)

actionremix 2014-05-06 05:34

The farmers are just trying to find their needle.

voxel 2014-05-15 08:00

An inspiration to the vegetable rights movement. Those farmer sprites are awesome. Good, sensible fun.

ltpats 2014-05-15 23:09

Pretty neat game, but I got a lot of weird bugs playing it. Often my player would get stuck on a wall and couldn't move and I had to restart.

After getting what I assumed was going to be the good ending (guy in the chair spawned) my sprite changed into a human briefly and then back into the haystack, and I couldn't move so the farmers ended up killing me and I had to restart. After restarting I turned into the human every time I moved and back into the stack every time I stopped. Once I went into the next screen I turned into the haystack and couldn't move again. Restarting again fixed this but every time I was about to get the good ending it happened again :/.

Other than that it was a fun game, a bit confusing at first without in-game instructions (took me a while to realize my size / meter determined my attack), but I got the hang of it eventually!