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Harvest Doom

By sparrowson and Schlock

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1853.8320
Fun2003.7220
Innovation514.0520
Theme114.5520
Humor1473.5520
Mood4163.4420

Comments

mistagiggles 2023-01-09 20:52

I am the winner!

Fun, but slightly confusing. Got shot by the first person I found. Second person helped me grow crops

jackypark9852 2023-01-09 20:52

It is a very cool idea, but I'm not sure how to find my friend in the server. This is how I imagine Ohio to be like. Friendless, farms, and guns.

rogerw 2023-01-09 20:54

This is a great take on a farming + combat game! The controls can be a bit fiddly to work with when getting started.

seagoingmanatee 2023-01-09 20:56

Was Fairly Confused by the controls but still fun

surfa 2023-01-09 20:56

Pretty interesting idea to do a multiplayer game for a game jam. Was quite funny playing with our teams members and some other random people in the server. We all won with a score of 0 on the first play through. Think the premise is good but could do with a little more QOL features and the controls felt a little awkward/sluggish.

tommo120 2023-01-09 21:05

Incredibly ambitious, very impressed you guys pulled this off! Had fun doing the 2 playthroughs I did. First one we all won because we didn't know what was happening, second one I cracked on farming and luckily only got shot once so I managed to win :P

zyrconium 2023-01-09 21:19

I went through 2 and a bit games, the first one ended about the same time I worked out the controls. The second one I tried being aggressive, but there's not a lot of value to be had in killing people. (I guess I should be stealing things instead.) The third one I just farmed melons and got to like $800.

It's an incredible idea, I don't know how well it's going to fare through the rating process due to its required player count(where even 2/3 seems too low to really get the full experience.) and the fact that it takes a few tries to see how the whole thing comes together.

If you wanted to continue this you might need to look into the control scheme a little, it gets in the way of the sort-of fast paced game you're going for.

Nicely done.

schlock 2023-01-10 19:26

@zyrconium thanks for the nice feedback! We don't really expect to get a lot of ratings, to really make it fun you probably need 8 Players. Im curious if we will ever see that number in the next few days. Probably not, but that is OK. The control sheme is actually a result of our design process. We first wanted to make a turn based game and then later decided to set the turn timer to 1 tick to make it "real-time" instead. I don't think we will do anything further with it but if we did I think we would change it to wasd instead.

rickylee 2023-01-10 20:03

Very ambitious project! ^^ great work, I only played by myself though but I'm sure if i could have found someone they would have just shot me, or I'd shoot them haha

xparker 2023-01-10 20:24

Very innovative with the Multiplayer, though I didn't see anyone. Really need to read the description to get the hang of the game.

evilscotsman 2023-01-13 03:05

Me and my friends played this and I initially dismissed it as being barebones and unfinished but once we got into it we actually had a lot of fun. Thanks for allowing other players to hear a shotgun cocking, it's great for comedic effect.

tweekstudios 2023-01-13 03:16

Me and my friends played this for a good 10 mins at least! It was pretty fun!

keichits 2023-01-16 02:04

Very interesting idea and solid gameplay. I can see a lot of work on this work.

I wish I could test this game with someone.

Congrats for the great entry!

animawish 2023-01-17 04:18

The most misbehaved farmers I've ever seen! Really ambitious game, and you did a great job with it.

dom-de-re 2023-01-18 12:55

This is a cool idea, unfortunately there weren't a lot of people on the server when i hopped on, but i saw a lot of promise in the idea, amazing thing to do in 72 hrs, awesome work!

picttarge 2023-01-19 00:37

There's a lot of work in this, and I would have given you an extra half point in humour if we could blow away the scarecrow :) Nice that there's better seeds hidden elsewhere - this is fun to play! My only gripes would be: - the control scheme wasn't that intuitive, but hours of Skyrim has me convinced 'use' is 'E' not space so I found myself switching between the two - I can carry 8 melons and one shotgun but not one shotgun and one tiny seed packet (I know, I know)

Good game I spent a fair bit of time in though - well done indeed :)