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Sugarcane

By bobismijnnaam

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness354
Innovation4563.19
Humor5222.29
Graphics5812.92
Fun6272.96
Mood6442.74
Overall6733.00
Theme7353.37

Comments

mcrewind 2015-12-14 08:33

Fun little game, could've used sound but overall I enjoyed it.

yinyin 2015-12-14 16:59

I'm missing MSVCP130.dll it seems.

Lucariatias 2015-12-14 17:03

It's missing VCRUNTIME140D.dll, even though I have vcredist installed (and the installers provided only give "uninstall" and "repair" options)
Might try running on my linux side in a bit.

kakureta 2015-12-14 17:04

It's a nice game. Not a fan of the graphics but I guess this appeals to some people. Otherwise it'S great!

reggianito 2015-12-14 17:08

As usual, even when the Vc++ installers are included, installing stuff is a huge turn-off for most voters.

I loved what you did with such simple graphics. The game started fun, but became kinda tedious after a while. Kudos for making your own engine, that stuff is always some extra points from me.

gene-z 2015-12-14 17:10

Fun game

et1337 2015-12-14 17:16

Picked this one due to the nice minimalist graphics. Very relaxing. Impressive entry.

a333 2015-12-14 17:27

Hi man. It seems that your program's dependent on vcruntime140D.dll, which is a debug version lib. AFAIK it doesn't distribute with common packages. Are you sure you've built a Release config?

bobismijnnaam 2015-12-14 17:29

@YinYin, @alyphen, ugh, damn dll's. Next time I'm just going to link everything statically. Thanks for the effort though.

Thanks for the comments everyone :-)

bobismijnnaam 2015-12-14 17:36

@A333: Yeah, I did built it in release, but I also built SDL2 myself and it seems that's were the debug part slipped it -.-

r-t-sonneveld 2015-12-14 17:57

This game was kinda confusing, I maxed out the game in a few minutes by buying a regeneration upgrade or something? Also I didn't know that you could exit the shop by clicking the top-right button at first, the interface could have been clearer.

gemberkoekje 2015-12-14 18:47

I like the minimalism, though I would've preferred some text... I still have no real idea what I'm doing and why :P

bobismijnnaam 2015-12-14 18:49

@Gemberkoekje: I made my own engine and didn't have time to implement text/texture functionality, so I just tried to convey the instructions with... Rectangles. I know, not my brightest idea ever. Thanks for playing :-)

antonuklein 2015-12-14 19:09

A fairly good and simple game, although a bit confusing at first.

bazkur98 2015-12-14 19:21

I guess I just don't get it maybe? There is a block that moves around but doesn't collide with anything. The motion is fluid so points for that but if it wasn't for my virus scanner telling me it was safe I might be concerned that it was a trojan. Sorry, just didn't get it. Points for simple graphics that are colored in a pleasing way.

kmakai 2015-12-15 10:51

Congrats on using your own engine!

I liked the color choices, they made the simple/abstract art style shine. I wasn't entirely clear what all of the shop items did (though some I understood like growing time / area.) If there was an end state I didn't see it unfortunately, because when touching the purple squares at the bottom of the screen it took me to the shop -- I found that I could keep buying the furthest right item, which I did until it was full. This seemed to grow the purple, and when I exited the shop I was in the midst of a purple area and unable to move, as any movement would trigger the shop again. Nevertheless I enjoyed it beforehand.

bobismijnnaam 2015-12-15 11:16

@kmakai: It seems like you've figured out the most up until now, good job :) The purple blocks are kinda like "ambient generators", like the items you can buy in cookie clicker. First I wanted to make them placeable by the player, but I ran out of time and just spawned them in the field. You discovered an edge case that got you stuck in the purple blocks (: The other two items are movement speed and planting behaviour, would be useful to have if not the improper balancing of the game '-'

plasterphantom 2015-12-15 11:30

The game really doesn't show you how to play the game nor are the controls / ui / shops / etc obvious.. :(

reccy 2015-12-15 11:34

I enjoyed playing it, liked the minimalistic art style. Sound effects would be a great addition though!

red_fan-games 2015-12-16 22:53

Nice, simple and fun.

nirabazgames 2015-12-16 23:01

pretty colours)

candlesan 2015-12-18 09:50

The store was a bit hard to understand :(