Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD41 → FaSi FiGa
By oneplusone
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 586 | 2.95 | 32 | |
| Fun | 661 | 2.41 | 31 | |
| Innovation | 516 | 3.00 | 30 | |
| Theme | 369 | 3.55 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 140 | 3.78 | 32 | |
| Humor | 457 | 2.28 | 28 | |
| Mood | 547 | 2.60 | 30 |
Took me some time to realize I have to plant something first, otherwise the water button wouldn't do anything.
Also, I can't seem to pickup the items I dropped. And the plants suddenly disappeared. I don't know if they were full grown or not. I got them watered 5 or 6 times when they suddenly were gone.
I like the assets you did for the game. In my opinion though mouse sensitivity is too damn high and walking speed is too slow. Also if I'm honest I didn't really get what do to in the game. Still very nice effort.
@KayZ thanks for pointing this out. I will have a look into it. Basically upon fully growing a plant (stage 4) you should be able to harvest it using the shovel, they should not randomly disappear. Currently there is also a bug where the player only harvests a single seed back, which results in never winning. I might get a fix out there so its actually doable.
@Vinterskog yea you are right its not very clear right of the start. I just added a small description for the gameplay, this might help you and hopefully others who come across this game.
Everything look smooth. But there are some issues: As soon as I dropped something, I can not pick it up anymore. The water button does not work for me. Can you write a tutorial section?
@ditzel I added a "What To Do?" aka "Gameplay" section around the time you commented. Does this help you? If not I will look into making a more tutorial style description on how to play.
The mood was pretty fitting, I think this is one of those genre-mixes that really need a proper tutorial on how to play. It does work out after a while but that while is too long. The graphics were good, a real world scenario that sets the player in a recognizable place.
@OnePlusOne Hmm. Seems that I am too stupid. I grabed the showel, ran to the green particle effects and hit F. After that I run to the water and hit F.
I didn't realize at first that the little green dots were seeds that I needed to pick up. For the first level, a very simple tutorial that placed arrows above the thing you need to do would be great. The assets are really well done.
pros: I really liked the environment and the core mechanics. I've done a few VR games and instantly started to think how this could be implemented.
cons: The mouse movement was a bit sensitive, and the game froze(?) just asI was about to poke the green dude
All in all, good work!
great graphics! but to move around the world the game is a little uncomfortable, somehow the heavy hero moves. but overall - an excellent job!
unfortunately i couldn't get the water button to work, but it looked really nice!
I picked up some seeds, planted them. Then I tried the water button and sure enough, it watered the crops. So I thought, the developer says bad guys are coming, let's see - and sure enough here comes this claymation looking green dude with a smiley on his back. Unfortunately left click did nothing to him and he destroyed my crops!! Nice game and great job submitting.
Oh man this is a proper LD submission! It got everything - clever idea, clunky controls (the touchpad on my MacBook Air was really super sensitive), out of the world game mechanics ("hey, let's just.. you know, let's just place the seeds here, in the air, and get back to them later, they will wait floating")... thanks a lot for the submission and well done! OH and also I forgot the touch with DENSE WOODS! Brilliant!
really impressive for the compo, nice graphics. i managed to make something similar but couldnt make the compo, check it out! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/scarecrow-farming-fps-wave-survival
The mouse sensitivity makes the game very tough to play. I actually gave up quickly, as I had to be soooo careful with my mouse to look around. Is there a way you could fix that ? I would really love to play more, as this little 3D world looks pretty fun to explore.
@Elmeri thanks for trying it out. I just had some time and since small "fixes" are allowed I uploaded a new iteration with just the sensitivity changed. I would make a small settings menu, or some kind of control to increase or decrease sensitivity, but I think that would be against the rules at this point. If you want you can give it another try.
@keravcin hey, looking nice! I will give it a try some time today! :)
@gyfis much appreciate the feedback. Especially to hear that it ticks the boxes of a proper LD submission is nice to hear! :D
@morphine Spot on! :D But weird that left click did not work.
@nilstastic Mouse sensitivity should now be a lot lower. If you want give it another try.
@Ben Hopkins & @Krystof Klestil Yea a tutorial would have been great. I noticed from all the comments that the entry into the game is one of the main issues. Written down for the next Compo/Jam. :P
Thanks again to everyone commenting and rating!
Goes well with the theme! Graphics are decent. Quite fun to play! (But there is that annoying bug where you can't pick up dropped items)