bumberbee 2022-04-05 01:13
charming little game! I particularly enjoy farming games so I made sure to try it out. One question - how do I get seeds of the other types of plants? I only managed to get the wheat seed
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → My happy weedy farm
By marin0104
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 790 | 3.46 | 131 | |
| Fun | 828 | 3.25 | 132 | |
| Innovation | 1011 | 2.95 | 129 | |
| Theme | 1149 | 3.17 | 132 | |
| Graphics | 580 | 3.79 | 24 | |
| Audio | 272 | 3.78 | 130 | |
| Humor | 796 | 2.77 | 114 | |
| Mood | 329 | 3.82 | 127 |
charming little game! I particularly enjoy farming games so I made sure to try it out. One question - how do I get seeds of the other types of plants? I only managed to get the wheat seed
Very cute game! I see you used some premade assets but I think this game is a great example of asset packs used properly. The gameplay and visual fit together well! The controls were challenging for me (I'm not too good at game) but I still enjoyed!
Hey @bumberbee and @swidge! Thank you guys for your kind words. @bumberbee you get new seeds if you deliver crops at the chest on top :smiley:
Very cute game! Especially charming character and intuitive controls (Although mine stopped working after about 5 minutes, not sure why)
Nice to have a clear objective as well. THOSE WEEDS GROW SO FAST THO!
Lovely little farming simulator. Graphics are very appealing and the music is very chill. You added multiple keys for standard actions, I like that!
Can I remove the weed while a plant is growing though? I would have expected that
I was captivated by the graphics of your game! She is charming! The gameplay and music is also very enjoyable! Resources are not infinite, it's challenging and cool!
Cool game
A cute little gardening game! I love the graphics and the music works really well. One thing I had trouble with is the grid targeting. It seemed to me like the target sometimes appeared slightly diagonally behind my character which made it really difficult to interract with the environment. I also encountered a softlock bug when I harvested and then quickly pressed a movment key. It would prevent me from moving at all after that.
So aside from those two issues I enjoyed my time with the game. Good job!
very cute take on a farming simulator
this game is cute and quite fun to play! I love these kinds of games, just one thing I would recommend is that you disable the "Graphics" vote because you're using an external art that you didn't create during the jam, other than that it's a really cool consept
Hey, we are farm pals, I made a farm game too :) Just yours looks and plays waaay better - great job! Love the atmosphere of it, even though the weed gets in the way it's an overall positive experience.
So cute and calm :)
The game is very cute! I loved the art especially, though I'll try not to factor that in too much since it is from an asset pack. I do think that it would be good to have separate inputs for the planting/watering/weeding so it feels like the player has a little more agency. All in all though I love gardening games, and this one turned out quite nice.
Really cute game! I like the choice controls. It was a little hard at first to get the character to do the right action since all actions share a button, but I got a little better at it after a while. The one thing I miss is some kind of score counter to keep track of how well I'm doing (if there was one I must have missed it), but overall a cute little game.
As much as I love the graphics, I agree with @0x-void-x0 avoid the graphics vote, though (and any other categories that may not apply).
Cute games, I loved the graphics. But didn't really managed to understand how to play 😂. But really pleasant to just walk around and do stuff even tho I didn't know what to do. Well played !
This was a really fun and calm experience! Thanks for this game :)
Very good. These are the best grades I've given so far.
Suuuuper cute game and idea. The gameplay itself could have used some work, but that's my only issue. It was super frustrating trying to weed something and just watering a spot that didn't need water, so having different buttons for weed, water and plant could have been a big improvement for me. Also I'm not sure if it's a bug but I found I stopped moving randomly and this made me so sad cause I was enjoying it so much. ;-; If it's supposed to happen, an end scene would be nice. I just ended up staring at myself for a couple minutes wondering if that's the end game or not.
If this was made less hectic (less, inevitable) and mobile friendly I could see it becoming the most addictive mobile game the universe has ever seen. Or, with a bit of story, an adorable Steam game that would warm the heart.
Thank you for making this!
Thank you very much for your nice and constructive feedback and of course: playing! :heart:
@reronin, @linnet5, @otterfaelure i will have a look into that bug! Thanks for noticing, i hope it is not against the rules to upload a fix later.
@joscco you can only remove the weed, if the plant is not growing anymore because of too much weed. I thought it would help the player to focus on other, more important stuff. But i agree, in the beginning it might be a thing that the player might want to do!
@linnet5 yeah i struggled with figuring out how to determine the next selected grid. I know that other games use the mouse for that, but as i think that game can work out as a couch co-op or versus game, i need some controls that fits the input devices. If motivation and time is there, i consider to build something like Overcooked from it.
@0x-void-x0, @csdoescs yeah you guys are right. The big majority of art is from that asset pack, although i had to adjust some stuff :smile:. I am going to deactivate the graphics category!
@marc-grabow thank's! I am going to have a look at yours today!
@anaxie-studio actually i implemented seperate buttons for each action! But during playtesting i figured, it might be just too challenging and confusing. Then i switched over to an inventory style system like Stardew Valley or Core Hunter. I noticed that i had to switch my tools way too often and it wasn't that pleasant. Then i implemented this priority based solution. Some years ago, i have implemented way to complicated controls and thought that i need to scale them down to the bare minimum, as you guys might play this game just for a couple of minutes. If i work on this project in the future, i will consider your feedback for sure!
@fruit-du-dragbane hehe, would a little tutorial help you? Otherwhise have a look at the gif on top, hope it helps a little :smiley:
@andrey-zhukov i feel honored, thank you! I am going to play and rate your's as well today.
@otterfaelure There is only a game over screen :sweat_smile: I am really sorry for that bug. It just didn't happen during my playtesting sessions... I hope i can reproduce it soon! I will consider your feedback if i will work further on this project. It may works as well, but the scope can't be as sth like Stardew Valley :smile: So i think it can be like couch co-op with story (like overcooked) or it is something like a farm builder game, but way more active with buying gadgets that helps you farming. I think that can work out as well. Thank's for your detailed feedback!
@marin0104 thanks for doing that, I appreciate the honesty
I definitely, DEFINITELY, think turning it into something similar to Overcooked but farm style would be AMAZING.
I'm now picturing dashing to the workbench to try and get some weed killer to buy me a minute to "drag" the harvest to the bin, oh my gosh.
Love the way your brain works! Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff!
I was a bit confused on how things work, but it was quite a relaxing game, stardew valley vibes
So cool, reminds me of stardew valley, extra-fast version. Without getting bored, I played for 10 min straight !
Looks and sounds great, sadly i kept getting stuck on growing wheat early on and had to restart.
i love how this game approaches the given theme in this jam with hectic gameplay in a relaxing farming-setting! i also didn't get bored quickly like the others who commented here :)
Music & Graphics are superb! <3 I love farm games.
soooooo cute. its realy fun and chilling to play, graphics are great. But iam not sure if i fight against the inevitable :D
I think right now the game as it is is incredibly cool, with awesome graphics, SFXs and Keybinds placements
I would love to see a bigger version of this game, with more things to do ( and possibly different keybinds for planting/watering ), kinda like a 16-bit top down version of Hay Day; It would probably be one of these games that i spend days just because they're incredibly pleasing to the mind and the eyes
Lovely relaxing experience this was. Found two bugs, which is that you can plant on the water, and that spamming interact made you unable to move afterwards. Either way, the game was super cute and very enjoyable
A nice game with awesome graphics and music. There are some bugs though, like others have already mentioned, but they do not make the gameplay worse in any way
Looks like I'm not the first one who found the bugs. Maybe next time XD It was fun, tho I was terrible at it. But it's an original take on the theme.
Very cute looking little game. Drew me in right away from the pleasant graphics (and as someone who likes farming sims!) but I couldn't really figure out how to play, even after reading the instructions several times and trying different ways. It felt like I had very little control over what action my player took, if they would water weeds or cut them or plant something. Really nice work, though!
Very cute game, i like the farm theme. I had a little trouble with carrying out actions but other than that I had fun. Also I think a score counter would be a cool way to show the player's progress. Great job !!
Cute game, really easy to understand and played well.
A few things that bugged me The place where your action takes place is very hard to aim. Maybe have it be aimable using a mouse or determine the direction of the action with arrow keys. The indicator images that show that your crop is ready can block the crop 1 tile above them, making for a visual mess.
Other than that, good job!
Its very sweet - at some time the controls froze, but I'm kinda familiar with these bugs myself. Music is beautiful.
Hahaha it's super cute, I really like the atmosphere. It’s a lot harder than it sounds, but these pastel colors and this sweet little music make it really nice. I had a little bug on my first play, I was digging and I moved at the same time and my character just couldn’t move at all after that. I had to restart the game. But anyway, I had a great time!
Really cute game, feels really chill until the weeds start getting out of control! Found it a bit hard to hit the exact square I wanted, felt like i was always one off. Great work!
Nice game, quite stressfull. Love the music and the artstyle. Hitting the correct tile was abit hard.
Cute and fun game to play, but gets kinda chaotic because of how fast the weeds grow.
The graphics are so lovely and cozy! It's so cute. I like it how you interpret the theme, it fits this game really well.
super cute!
That's a really cute game but heck those weeds :D
Absolutely adorable game! I love everything about it, the only thing I have to say is the weeds kinda spawn too much but overall it's one of my favourites <3
Really, really cute! I mostly walked around and spammed plant/hoe and hoped things worked out, I didn't understand fully what I was doing. Ams a dumb gobbo though!
That was fun! Really cute, I enjoyed the missions - I want this on my phone! Great job on submitting and please give me this on my phone :D
Chill farming sims are my jam, so I quite enjoyed it. I wish I could have weeded the hoed beds. Very cozy.
it's cute and has a zen vibe. the mechanism is simple but it's additive to play for many rounds. I enjoy the art design, it suits the farming theme pretty well. Good job!
I really like the art of this game, which is what pulled me in. I think the weeds came into the hoed beds too fast. It was really hard to keep up on
I love this so much, it was a bit hard to tell whether I was removing the weeds or not but it's fun! music really suits the game well too ^^
Amazing art and audio. Better instructions needed to understand gameplay though! Excellent entry nonetheless
This is incredible!! The art and animations have a great vibe
Hey guys, i am overwhelmed by all of your comments. Thank you so much for playing, rating and giving me feedback :heart:
@otterfaelure exactly! :smile:
@yello the inevitable is that the weed is taking over your farm. And this will happen as the time it takes to produce weed decreases during the game.
@amberfall92 alright, so what i get from your feedback is that the automation of the next action was confusing you? I'd like to turn this into a couch co-op/vs game, but the controls needs to fit the input devices (keyboard or gamepad), but i didn't come up with a really great solution yet...
@valentines yes a score counter is missing. Totally forgot this to add last minute :smile: Thank you for noticing!
@bangthewall about the block of the crop above, yes and it sometimes blends in with the action above the players head. There is room for improvement, i am going to add this on my board for future me. Thank's for your feedback!
@heiach does the gif on top helps you? Should i provide another one about the deliver process?
@phillip-scott it's made with Godot, so it is possible - or i will add some mobile friendly controls to the web build. I add it on my dev board :smiley:
@jamesolivermusic i think i need to add a little tutorial level in the beginning, to teach the core mechanics. Thank's for your feedback!
very nice game! looks and gameplay match really good!
Another farming type game, so cute too! The theming and all was really really nice, the music really fitting as well. My only real complaint is it was kind of hard to get the game to do the action I wanted. I wanted to weed and it wanted me to water! If I could manually select "weed" I think I'd have a lot more fun with the game. Good job overall though. The moving trees were especially a nice touch!
The perfect combination of colors! Amazing graphics, everything is very cute!
Awww, this was a very sweet and endearing entry! Would have appreciated a tutorial so I wasn't stumbling around at first, but it's nicely polished and overall a relaxing, fun little experience. Great job!
Well, perhaps this is the cutest and most comfortable game in which I have played. Very nice gameplay with nice music. The graphics are also very attractive. In general, a very good job.
It's a very cute game and a nice take on the theme! It really does give a feeling of 'delaying the inevitable.' It was a little hard to select the weeds sometimes, which made it a bit hard to keep up. I think with more polish and some refinement of the controls this could turn into a really fun full game!
What a cute game! Loved the theme (gardening!), loved the artstyle. A bit too easy, so I had to try really hard to see the lose screen :D
Awesome graphics, realy cute.
10/10 cute. Lovely tunes. Well done! :)
Cute game. The gameplay goes well with the mood to create a chill experience. I feel like there were a bit too much of weed, takes away a bit of the calming mood tho.
Fantastic entry, graphics and music are great. A lot of space smashing to get the job done quick.
I had a hard time getting rid of the weeds. Seems like picking plants and weeds uses same icon or something? Or the icon would be above my head of get rid of weeds, but then I'd just end up making a new plot? I think remove weeds should have been a different interaction button because that was the one thing I was having trouble getting the lil guy to do instead of the other tasks. Although, in general it was a bit troublesome. I want to water this plant, not build a new patch to the left and plant seeds there, etc. I think having a way to toggle tools would be better than one or two interaction buttons that do everything between them. I liked the vibes though, good music, good use of an asset pack! (Although it looked weird when I'd accidentally water a weed and the watering sprite went on top of the weeds.)
Really cute game! I do wish I could pick what tool I'm using manually sometimes, and I feel like clicking would be a bit more intuitive to the controls than the options you gave. But as I said, it's super cute and I really enjoyed it!
Cute farming game. The otherwise relaxing atmosphere is stirred with intense weed picking and deliveries to fulfill. Maybe the pace could be slow at first to get a hold of the mechanics and slowly pick up the pace as the farm grows.
Really cute, I love the overcooked/stardew valley mashup :)
Two of my favorite games mashed up together? Of course I loved it! Overcooked and Stardew Valley, that's just amazing stuff. Loved the art, gameplay was smooth and great audio created pretty peaceful and relaxing experience. One of my favorite games this LD :)
Such a cute bunny! Had a bit of Overcooked vibes, the music was chill. Great lil game!
Very fun and well made game. My only complaint is that it's hard to aim well when trying to deal with weeds so it gets frustrating when you can't get rid of the weeds and you lose a crop.
The graphics are as everyone else has said are lovely :) I appreciated the context sensitive actions all mapped to a single button which makes things very intuitive. Such a nice relaxing island to farm :3
This game grabbed my attention by being very eye catching and cute so I decided to play it on stream a few days ago. While I did read the instructions I was still very confused on what to do. Then I gave it another try today and had a much better run! By now I realize the UI is what confused me the most. For instance: at first I didn't realize the soil is marked with transparent icons to show a tile is in need of planting, weeding, watering or harvesting. Paying attention to these icons makes the game much easier! I was also confused by the big buttons at the bottom of the screen, thinking they were showing the amount of seeds I possessed. Apart from the UI, I also noticed the weeds become a little unforgiving as the game progresses. At some point I confined myself to grow crops on a single tile which got a little boring. I guess it also shouldn't be possible to grow crop in the water haha. That being said, the idea is nice and the game mechanics work very nicely. I really enjoyed the SFX and choice of music too. Did you make them yourself by chance?
At the risk of repeating what a lot of the other comments say... SO CUTE. Love the art, and the crunchy, low bit sound effects gelled perfectly with the lovely pixel art aesthetic. I wasn't entirely sure I was doing what I was supposed to do since the interaction points didn't seem to exactly line up with where the little box highlight was, but honestly, it was so chill on that little island I didn't really care if I was playing 'correctly.' Fun little jam gem!
Wholesome art and a very competent farming game! Could totally see this being escalated to a full release o:
Hi guys! I feel very lucky and overwhelmed by all of your feedback. Again, thank you very much for playing, rating and giving feedback!
@whirlguy the music was a choice of a library i bought some weeks ago, but the sound effects were done all by myself. It took me a couple of hours to find the sweet spot of everything.
Such a well made game! It's really cute and a great mood! Amazing work for compo! Love it!
Super cool game, the art and the music are **cute** and **neat**. The gameplay is quite fun and really clear thanks to all of the animation and icons showed to understand when we can harvest or we need to add water or to remove weeds.
The only downside of this, is that during my session I was "farming" on max 5 spot at the same time so you kinda stay at the same place all the time (except when you go deliver) but that's ok. You did a really good job given the time of that game jam ! Keep it up !
(if you can try and rate my game it would be wonderful, we are looking for some ratings and comment :smile: )
Very cute game! I feel like the game is getting harder over time ? After some times, it was very challenging to plant and grow one crop because they were attacked by weeds and needed more water :) The abbiance and atmosphere are very cool. I would have loved to be able to unlock upgrades to delay the weeds from growing for example
Love the cute graphics and gameplay to match!
Very cute little game! In terms of graphics, the icons above the crops can be a bit confusing because it's exactly on top of the crop above it; and controls aren't fully explained. But eventually you will figure everything out. One other thing, is that because there's no goal, the game just kind of goes on, it's not easy enough to be fully relaxing, but it's not hard enough to be really challenging. If there was a goal, there would be a reason to keep playing, but there isn't enough variety as is to keep playing. But it is a very cute little game! And sorry if my criticisms seem harsh, but I really do see potential in this game, good job!
@skript-kitty thank you very much for your detailed and constructive critics. Your insights about the unclear goal actually help me a lot! After a short break of making this game to let your feedback sink in (the result is my YouTube Post Mortem, link above), i think this is something i need to work out first. As in my Post Mortem, i am going to think about the two different directions of the game and will work on one in the next weeks. :smiley:
Really unique way of looking at the theme and even the "farming sim" genre in general as usually they feel a lot more relaxed while here I felt more frantic trying to stop the weeds. Can absolutely see myself playing something like this on the bus on my way to work. Lovely little experience
Great take on the theme! The graphics are great and the gameplay is fun, although it felt that the weeds grew a little too quickly to get a proper handle on it, and I personally would have preferred a separate button for each interaction (i.e. different buttons for planting a seed, watering, and weeding). Overall though very well done!
Increadible twist for the theme, i like the art, and the soundtrack, the mechanic its fresh and fun. I like a lot this game, i wait the publish.
Man, that's truly hilarious! I played for a couple of minutes, and I have to tell you it's truly great, especially when you're high. I played it after smoking two blunts with my little brother, and we were laughing our asses off. The little punk is truly addicted to weed, as he even started to grow it at home, and he is smoking daily! However, I must admit that he found one of the best methods of growing it. I mean, there is no smell in his entire home! He told me that he used the methods from https://topgrows.com/best-stealth-grow-box/. Well, now I want to try it as well.