Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → CABBAGE DEFENSE
By frozenfire92 and Underlig
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1267 | 2.95 | 35 | |
| Fun | 1193 | 2.84 | 35 | |
| Innovation | 1234 | 2.63 | 35 | |
| Theme | 1150 | 3.16 | 35 | |
| Graphics | 968 | 3.28 | 35 | |
| Humor | 841 | 2.68 | 35 | |
| Mood | 1208 | 2.89 | 35 |
YO, nice to see another like-minded team made a cabbage themed game!
I enjoyed your game, with the thing I liked most being the artwork (especially the backgrounds as you move look really nice).
If given more time I'd like to see the combat fleshed out a little more - but other than that great work!
How rude of those HUMES to come steal my cabbages!! The art is super cute and I really liked the animation when the goblin was planting or harvesting something!
The market of the game seems a bit rigged against the Goblin haha the amount of time it takes me to grow enough crops to afford to fix one tower, takes about the same amount of the time as it takes the Humes to knock one of my towers down. BUT its my own fault because I'm terrible at fighting them xD
however, when they steal you crops and run away, it's kind of hilarious haha
overall, really well done :3 its got great graphics, underlig did amazing!!! And the coding feels pretty solid too, nice job to both of you <3
Very cute little game, I agree that it seemed a bit unbalanced. I had a hard time progressing very far as the mean knights kept trying to kill me!
At first I thought this would be nice and relaxing game and then all of the sudden I get attacked by evil knights! My cabbages! Really cool game, took me by surprise!
I never got a cabbage :,( only wheat. I couldn't figure out how to get a cabbage. Or maybe I didn't play long enough. Cute game, though! I always like games that involve growing stuff.
I like the backgrounds and the day-night cycle. The gameplay reminds me of kingdom two crowns. I couldn't figure out how to get any crops other than wheat but other than that it's a very well made game.
There's a lot of detail for such a small game! I love the cracks on the tower when it's low in health. Part of me felt like I wanted to jump, but I understand there's no use for it. Overall, good job!
Nice concept and backstory about Humes stealing cabbages. I love the mechanics as well, combining the economy of farming sim with tower defense is a great idea. Great work!
Like the combination of growing and tower defense, but it felt like the growing took too long and the waves were really repetitive and when the enemy locked onto me he even went past the tower making it impossible to escape (also because his speed was the same as mine). But overall nice concept and lovely art. Good job.
Cool game, I liked the touch of the time cycle. Defending my crops against evil always sounds like a good idea! Would've added some kind of edge or obstacle at the sides, I just got "stuck" when I walked to much right and it seemed a bit wired at start. that was only a small part, the rest was enjoyable! nice submission
@mar3k Thanks, and yeah we are aware, the mob spawnrate, the mobs targeting AI, and its speed is all things we had put down on the todo list, but there just wasnt time for it, we hit some annoying bugs in the last hours and had to deal with them first, and at that point there was to little time left sadly.
@guy-girmonsky Thanks to you aswell =) we had more assets created, we had traps of different kinds, more resource types, mines, bigger area, building more towers, plots, set out traps and obstacles. But... Just not enough time to implement all the stuff we wanted and had available.
Oh man, it's super well made! And it also looks really cool, i love these low pixel count artstyle. The multitasking of planting and defending is cool and makes for a very tight, very complete gameplay loop, amazing and fun to play very solid! My suggestions would be 1.Let me have more crop space, only 3 makes it so i fill them up and can focus on defending a bit too fast. 2.Make it so the crops grow at different speeds, it looks like they both take 3 nights to grow, so even when i change what i'm planting it doesn't desync the growing loop of the crops. And 3. let me interact with the turrets a bit more, either by upgrades or at least letting me pay to heal them before they get fully broken, so it adds something more to do with the money. But as i said, the gameplay experience is very solid and complete and i've spent more time playing than i'd like to admit XD it was an amazing entry, and i think my favorite that used the tower defense design in some way, very very fun to play, thanks for making it!
@vitor-milioni Thanks for the praise =) to answer on your suggestions, 1: We made the assets for both buying more plots, and a bulk cabbage storage to sell bulk for a larger quantity of money if you filled it up 2: We had that in mind, aswell as making the mobs spawn more irregularly. 3: Also in the ideas, but before that we had already made assets for traps to be placed, and ability to build more towers to defend the more crop plots you where to build. Alas all of this was abit to timeconsuming to do unfortunately, we think with 2 more days we would have implemented all of those suggestions, but we had to settle at the point we got it to, aswell as tweak itin the alst hour to function as a game with what we where able to put in. Thanks again for the feedback =)
@underlig ah, i figured as much, these thing do end up taking a lot of time, sometimes even more than we expect. Glad to hear you were planning big as well! I still think the end product ended up amazing, great job by you guys!
The parallax was on point, the graphics were wonderful and super cute. But I wonder... was there a way to heal that I missed? Those Humes were RUTHELESS!!! Always trying to take MY CABBAGES!!! Great job!
@flyingkaida Thanks the parallax did so much @frozenfire92 did amazing work, and you can repair a destroyed tower for 10 or 12 coins =)
Nice game. Was a bit confused at first because I didn't notice that the one area was the plot of land to put seeds. Maybe make it a bit more obvious. I had a lot more fun when I got past that though!
I really like your game! It's very original. I think being able to regenerate faster would be good becaus I died a lot :smiley: image1-2.png
It is a fun game, reminds me of Stardew Valley with enemies haha
Nice and beautiful game. Graphics and sounds are well-polished.
I agree with all the points said by @vitor-milioni : more crop spaces (we could have to buy them in the game), repairable and upgradable turrets, more crop types.
I did not understand the heal calculation. It occurs at each new day, but the quantity of HP healed is never the same. Is it just random ? It seems I heal more if I do not move during the night, but I am totally not sure of it. Some explanation on healing would have been appreciated.
Growing a special crop that would heal you when you use it would be really cool. So that you would have to do a choice between money and HP.
Complete randomness on the seeds you get when a crop has grown is not a good idea. I was frustrated not to be able to plant cabbage after my first harvest. Maybe a seed market, where you would exchange two wheat seed for one cabbage seed ?
I never saw the knights stealing my plants, I just read it in the comments. I suppose it could be a strategy to not harvest one plant and let a knight go away with it, in order to save some hero HP and turret HP. I did not took time to test it.
Thank you for this nice game !
@recher Thanks for feedback, and yeah, we have the assets made for all of that an abit more, but the time to put it in just wasnt there for us to get it into the game on time unfortunately. The health regen is a constant 5 hp pr night, the health bar might be abit wonky, 5 health can look different on the healthbar depending on the amount you have, the healthbar came in late, so we didnt get much time to check to much on how it looked.
The wheat should have a low percentage chance to drop cabbage seeds and guaranteed wheat seed, and the cabbage should have a guaranteed chance of cabbage seeds, and a low percent chance of double cabbage seed drop. The knights will only grab a fully grown crop.
And yeah, there are lots of stuff we could further do with it, what we DID have in mind, was bulk storage for cabbages, that could be sold for double price if you filled the storage pen for it, aswell as blocking walls, damage spike traps, and "no knights allowed" signs (the knights would stand and look at them confused for abit before ignoring it XD) which basically would be delay the knight traps, and some other stuff was also on the notepad. But... we are three people, and this was all we had time to do =) Thanks again for feedback, and happy you enjoyed what we managed to slap together X)
Nice game
Really nice tower defence and farming combo, would be great expanded with more land and maybe being able to hire some goblin farm-hands to help!
Cool game
I think it's a bit buggy, I hear the enemy dying several times when there is none. The graphics are impressive, on the same level as Terraria, really. It seems incredible to me that this whole game has been made in 72 hours, congratulations!
Your game has a good gameplay and a good art style, I wish it had more content but I get it's a Game Jam so congrats for everything you done, and I think you did all by yourself right?
This is a charming game with cute 2D pixel art and great parallax scrolling. The game is deceiving in that it looks relaxing, but instead requires you to stay on your toes looking out for the enemy and protecting your scops and towers. Well done!
That's a really cool minimalistic tower defense game, with cute graphics and good gameplay ! The only thing I think it lacks to make it fun to play for longer sessions is upgrade, but the base is here to make something great !
Nice game! I felt like it lacked a bit of additional mechanics, like towers upgrage, character armor ect. Also tini in-game tutorial would help to get the objective. Nevertheless, graphics are nice, sounds are cute, the background tune is pretty catchy. Great job!
Nice idea, Terraria like tower defence! The pixel art is awesome!