Karl Åke

lavendaggers 2022-10-04 01:09

Cute chill game but I got stuck in the sheep pen :(

quinn-patrick 2022-10-04 01:48

Very cute and very appealing game. It actually grew on me as I played it and I discovered more and more stuff about it. That being said, there are what I consider some pretty big issues here. First off, the cow minigame, while hilarious, is also completely befuddling. I got the bucket to fill on accident once and I had no idea what I did. I also found pretty quickly that touch typing egg collecting is by far the fastest way to get money, which is strange since it's the only one you don't have to unlock. Also, I got to 10,000 way before the year was up, but I couldn't figure out how to repay my loan. I'm assuming that you have to wait until the year is over, which would require waiting for over an hour, which is surely longer than I've spent on any LD game in the past besides my own.

All that said, I love the visuals in this game, and the music and voices are very charming. Maybe I'm just too impatient for it.

coda-highland 2022-10-04 03:24

Moo. Moo! MOOOO!

coda-highland 2022-10-04 03:25

In all seriousness, there's a pretty good game in here, but interacting with the cow locked the game and I couldn't do anything. Hilarious audio though. XD

msplanlos 2022-10-04 22:15

Very sweet game with nice graphics! Was a bit strange to change from only keyboard to mouse in some minigames tho. :D

phoenixofforce 2022-10-04 22:19

Very fun game with just the best sounds. Good job!

wfmg 2022-10-05 00:09

Jo, nu har jag varit på bonnegårda en god lång stund, men ingenting händer. Koa är helt från vettet och fåret alldeles löjligt. Hönsen trodde jag dessutom skulle börja bokstavera ut ena riktigt läbbiga ord. Jag samlade iallafall ihop 12471 riksdaler, men inte kom banken. Måste jag bara vänta? Känns som dåligt planerat. Blev lite långtråkigt efter ett tag, även om kons galna dans och långa spene var underhållande.

wfmg 2022-10-05 03:41

@coda-highland You need to wait for the cow to get bigger, then pull its teet into the bucket and click again.

tatawanda 2022-10-07 06:01

Hello! As specified before, it took me a while to figure how to get the cow milk, it needs better feedback. Indeed, the egg are the fastest way to get money and there does not seems to have a limit? I mean, I first supposed I could collect egg every 10 seconds but I could spam chain them. Is it because you accumulate the number of eggs? Last thing, about the egg minigame, you mapped the key based on the map of the english keyboard which does not do well on other type of keyboard, and it's a bit disturbing to have a cooldown between taken into account keystrokes: if you type too fast you fail. Voilà, good job guys i liked the human-made noise, those always makes for great soud effect :D

mandy858 2022-10-08 23:12

Really great sounds effects. But I got locked in the sheep pen so I couldn't play long. Cute game though!

jeremy-ryan 2022-10-11 00:19

Nice entry!

For starters, the premise is enjoyable, and the art and sounds are charming. It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun with the cow sounds ("MOOOOOOOOO") and the sheep sounds (I think the voice actor started laughing at the end of one of the sounds).

There were a couple things that were hard to figure out: - The eggs care about key **up**, not keydown (probably nicer to have it do keydown, since that's how people are used to typing) - The cow gets milked by dragging its teat into the bucket (which is hilarious, but could be expressed better with the instructions) - The plants need to be pulled up (at first, I wasn't sure what the objective was, so I was just petting them and hoping they'd sprout. Some instructions would clear this up too.)

All the parts of the overworld were really well designed and intuitive, since they all had the controls over the objects that you could interact with.

I will say you aren't super incentivized to do different activities. The ten-second day isn't a very long cycle, so you can just sit at one station and wait for it to reset. That said, the theme this time around was pretty restrictive in that way, so you didn't really have an option to extend the day cycle if you wanted to.

I'm really impressed that you managed to make a cohesive game with this many people! It obviously has a bunch of parts, but everything "feels" like part of the same game, which is often hard to do with large groups. It seems like you had effective direction/project management.

I drew your farmer (and a little friend) and added him to the fan art compilation on [my profile.](https://ldjam.com/users/jeremy-ryan/)

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Thanks for making this, it was a fun little jam entry.

jimter 2022-10-11 19:54

@jeremy-ryan thank you so much for the kind words and fan art!! It made our evening when we found this ☺️☺️

persikan 2022-10-11 20:21

@jeremy-ryan Thanks so much, your art looks really cool :O Your game looks interesting too, excited play it tomorrow.

I definitely agree that the controls could've been more clear for the minigames, I think that was an area we didn't discuss that much unfortunately.

jk5000 2022-10-16 08:52

A sweet and pretty friendly little game. The mini games is fun, but they could have used a bit of gameplay introduction. Sadly I ended up getting caught inside a sheep enclosure. Overall is this a good little jam game. Well done.

resacagames 2022-10-17 16:17

Very fun game!! I LOVED the animal and farmer SFX, so funny. Sadly I got stuck in the cow minigame, when bringing the tit to the bucket I would get sound effects but nothing else would happen, never figured out how to fill the bucket, also never found a key to quit the minigame. So I just stayed there for a long time pinching and dragging some cow's tit. Besides that it was great!! Good job :thumbsup:

chartle 2022-10-17 18:24

Fun game, great music and sound effects. I was a little confused at where the theme was implemented but I guess the day increased every 10 seconds? It wasn't made very clear to me at least. I would have liked to see the egg minigame care about key down instead of up, now I was making mistakes because I hadn't let go of the previous key. It was also unclear to me what I should be doing in the cow minigame, and couldn't get out of the minigame so that's where my playthrough ended. All in all a good game with a few minor polish points. Well done!