Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Poverty Farmer
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 434 | 2.85 | 23 | |
| Fun | 392 | 2.83 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 343 | 2.95 | 23 | |
| Theme | 340 | 3.19 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 456 | 2.42 | 23 | |
| Mood | 423 | 2.54 | 23 |
You have an amazing concept here! A resource management/business game with different ways of making income, where you start with virtually nothing. I am in love with it. Although, the mechanics are not obvious and the game is pretty unpolished. I would love to see you develop this further!
I couldn't get past turn 1. Idk if the build you uploaded for windows is bugged or not? I love the idea of it.
A promising concept; it seems that the turn counter doesn't advance and the game can sometimes suddenly reset. Adherence to the theme is definitely unique and quite innovative nonetheless.
@jackson-makes-games Thank you very much! Unfortunately, Ludum Dare wasn't on my calendar, so my friend told me about it after Day 1 was over. That should explain it being unpolished. I tried to explain the mechanics in the description here, but I agree that it would be better to have something in the game. I think I'll add that in a later build, when I polish it some more.
@pandan The game may be bugged, but it IS meant to be hard. I'm glad you love the idea of it!
@carlpilot Thank you for letting me know of the bugs! I didn't have much time to extensively test this. Ludum Dare wasn't on my calendar, so I found out it was going on after Day 1 was over. This was a pretty rushed game.
you should finish it for the Jam deadline if possible!
Great effort, especially if you did it in a day (makes me sort of ashamed of what I did in two). I'd love to spend more time figuring out the best way to run my farm but I've got other games to rate.
@slashee-the-cow Thank you! And don't be ashamed. I've been programming with Unity for years, so I kinda got used to time crunches and knowing how to program some stuff. Though, I'm sure your game was great anyways! In fact, I just downloaded it.
Multiple times while playing I would click on the "Continue" button, and briefly see a flash of another menu and then the game would reset.
I suspect that after I got my report telling me that I had survived the year, it was popping up a 'failure' menu behind it, and since the "Continue" and "Start over" buttons are in the same place, my click on the "Continue" was also clicking on "Start over" in the instant that the success window disapeared.
Between that and the several legitimate first-year losses, I wasn't able to play the 2nd year despite quite a lot of attempts.
Made me sad, because I love the idea and I'm a sucker for punishing games.
This Game was very fitting of the theme but unfortunetly the ui was a bit lacking I do like the idwa though its just the game felt very unpolished
UI and UX is not good, but the idea is :-)
i like the idea, and the mechanics are great. but there is a minor lag in the visuals :)
The game looks fun but unfortunately I cant play it because the mac os version does not work it crashes on launch.
@erasmus-crowley Thank you very much for the feedback! I'm working on the solution to the failure bug. I'm glad you liked the idea, though!
@sargonius Thank you for the feedback! Unfortunately, I'm not an artist, so UI and UX weren't too high of a priority. Especially since I found out this started at the end of Day 1 and only had 24 hours to make it.
@jannick-larsen I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed the idea and mechanics! I'll continue testing and finding what caused the lag.
@bj-pucci Thank you for letting me know! I don't know what could be causing the crash, but I'll be sure to look into it.
I can see this being a game I'd get addicted to with more work. Was a little sad that the money kept reseting every other year for some reason. would of loved to see how long I could keep my family alive. XD
For what its worth, I pastebinned the error messages I get for the Linux version https://pastebin.com/raw/yVScFXBZ
A promising concept. Unfortunately, it kept restarting after first 2 turns.
@jessicawall @Zanagi Thank you both for your feedback. I've been working on fixing the game and that constant reset bug. It's apparently harder to fix than I initially thought. Then again, that's what happens when you try to code a game in 24 hours (I found out about the game jam late by a day). Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.
@samuel-porter Thank you for posting the error code. I'll be sure to fix it at some point, once I get the rest of the game to work.
thanks @mightymaster99 i also had a nightmare getting my game "ritual sacrifice" to work on any platform other then my own, hopefully at least the windows version is fixed now :)
Really nice idea, but it is hard to see which actions have which result. For example, you cannot see which crop or animal earned you how much money. Also, I think there is a bug that after clicking "Try again" once, the "Next turn" button will always reset the game.
An interesting game with a kind of mechanics. I put a rating) Please rating and me, thanks in advance)
Enjoyed playing. Difficult game, fits theme, good potential.
@peter-maxwell Thank you! I'm glad yo enjoyed the game! It's supposed to be difficult ;)
Your game was played on my stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on the fourth day of Ludum Dare streams. Thank you for sharing your game with us! You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8
Hmm, I can't seem to get past Day 1 - I get a summary, says I get income, then back to Day 1 / $50 :(. Generally like this kind of game though!
@jimbly Hey, I'm glad you like this kind of game! I've actually been working on it. Per rules of the Ludum Dare (I think), I'm keeping the original (broken) game up. But I made a post linking an improved version of the game! Here it is: https://mightymaster99.itch.io/poverty-farmer
By the [rules](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules), you're allowed to fix minor "bugs" - being unable to advance the day seems like a bug, not a failure in design (although maybe I was just misunderstanding something in the game), so I think it'd be fine to fix that. > Certain Bug Fixes are allowed. You can’t add new features, but if something broke or didn’t work correctly as you were finishing up, you can fix this after the deadline. You are asked to highlight the changes you make in your submission (a short change log).
When I've got some time, I'll try to check out your new one =).