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Minerals Planter

By found-bow-tonight

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2673.1132
Fun2373.1031
Innovation2413.0531
Theme2173.4132
Graphics2563.0831
Audio2512.6331
Humor1842.6025
Mood2043.1528

Comments

poietic-ruby 2023-01-09 03:52

Although it is a little hard,it's very cool!!!

kalebgarrett 2023-01-09 04:16

Very cool game! Love the overall concept.

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-09 05:25

This is my first Ludumdare game, I have tiny experience BUT It worked!

isaiah-f-ellis 2023-01-09 06:49

This was a really fun game! It was just really hard to harvest while enemies are after you. A few times the enemies stuck me to the top of the map and I got stuck until the enemy killed me. Overall a fun game!! :)

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-09 08:25

Maybe You can find if you don't reach 1500 coins but you are still told HARVEST. See as you failed. It's a little bug.Thank you.

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-09 13:55

@isaiah-f-ellis maybe planting first and harvest at last is a good solution.

rolly 2023-01-09 13:57

Very cool entry!

It took me a while to properly plan on how to spend the money, and I found myself without bomb or money more than once :laughing: . I would say it could be balanced a bit more. I'm not sure how your algorithm work to spawn enemies, but it felt kinda random.

Could have been nice as well to have stones that heal you instead of giving money.

The visuals are pretty cool, and the sound effects add something.

Good job on your first LD :)

coder2k 2023-01-09 15:22

I really like this game. It's quite hard, though. But the graphics are cute and the controls are smooth!

dzejpi 2023-01-09 17:47

Nice first time LD entry! I really liked the graphics and premise. Controls were pretty good and smooth. But enemies are pretty ruthless, I think one hit to kill them would be more than enough. Lizards are properly freaky, with their super fast movements, they set the mood nicely when you see them crawling in the background. :)

pincushion 2023-01-09 23:53

Great idea, but it's way too hard. The enemies are really tough. Even if I outrun the bats, those snakes kill me in no time. It would be nice to be able to kill them with the dynamite. The different stones that grew were pretty cool. I especially liked the snake's animation, when it comes out of the ground.

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-10 00:46

@rolly As you said, the enemy is spwaned randomly. Thank you!

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-10 02:06

@pincushion In fact, if you hit a enemy for 2or3 times,they will die.

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-10 02:07

@dzejpi Thanks, I think hard games are more interesting.

iminsoftware 2023-01-10 06:39

Congrats on your first LD game! I like the challenge and the lighting and particle effects look nice!

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-10 06:42

@iminsoftware Thanks a lot!

wolfraam1974 2023-01-10 06:43

Great work for 1 developer!

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-10 06:44

@wolfraam1974 Thanks!

bowen 2023-01-10 07:13

Good idea, but your design is bad, it's impossible to dodge the attack of snake, and my bomb is too expensive.

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-10 07:58

@bowen Maybe you are right, but I like Challenging games!

wolkp 2023-01-10 18:10

A bit hard at start but after a few restarts I got better and it became more satisfying. Goob job overall!

danmerey 2023-01-10 23:44

I'd really suggest you to leave the real link to a Windows build instead of instructions to download one of the zips from the github. You will lose a lot of potential players because of it, and it's not that hard to add the actual link – here it is https://github.com/FoundBowTonight/LD52Codes/raw/main/MineralsPlanter(Windows).zip

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veridis 2023-01-11 00:22

The snakes are terrifyingly hard! Some indicator would be good when they come flying from off screen. I like the balancing act of having to plant far apart to properly harvest with the bombs!

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-11 06:37

@danmerey oh,Thanks for your advice.I’ve do what you said.

cievers 2023-01-11 12:38

The same tool being used for harvesting and defense was nice, but I seemed to be unable to buy more dynamite by pressing R (and having 15 coins), so I couldn't do anything else anymore

bcmpinc 2023-01-11 13:10

Without a way to kill enemies this game is unplayable. I know I can use bombs, but it costs 3 bombs to kill one enemy and they spawn every 5 seconds. So after killing the first two enemies, I'm out of bombs and cash. Then a third enemy spawns and 15 seconds in its already game over for me. If death didn't reset everything it might have been playable.

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-11 13:47

@cievers Oh,so it requires you to balance the money to buy bomb or seed.Good luck and thank you!

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-11 13:51

@bcmpinc Oh, don’t try to kill the enemies. Save your bombs to harvest and buy seeds and plant them as much as you can.You will have much wealth at last.

bcmpinc 2023-01-11 14:13

@found-bow-tonight First time I played it seemed like dodging enemies wouldn't work out. Tried it again an it sort of works. My strategy now was to plant as much as possible, then die, then plant some more, until the last minute. But harvesting then didn't work out as I kept killing myself with the bombs. The dozen snakes and bats around did not help either. For balancing I think it would help if the game limited the number of enemies on screen to about three and maybe some mechanic where you heal over time or harvesting heals.

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-11 14:33

@bcmpinc Thanks for your patient playing. I will take your advice. In fact, the limit of the enemies’num is 100...

mstrp 2023-01-11 18:32

Nice game! I laughed when I got carried by the "taxi snakes" across the map to where I needed to go. Took a while to figure out how to play, but when I finally did the game was solid enough. Good job over all!

jazzathefoss 2023-01-12 17:03

Nice job overall, The enemies felt a little overpowered and in some cases I got swarmed by 5+ enemies on round start. I do like the visuals and the bomb mechanic though. Good job on your first Ludum dare!

ironhandmd 2023-01-13 03:57

I like the art and the lighting which gives depth and overall claustrophobic feel of working in a mine. The controls are responsive, it took a bit to get the hang of it, the enemies really pushed me back and lost track of my direction. Overall great game! keep it up!

lintfordpickle 2023-01-14 13:50

the overall feels were good, but wow i found it difficult. The first time a snake jumped on me made me jump.

echo-gameworks 2023-01-15 22:24

The enemies are relentless and the dynamite effect is super satisfying! I'd suggest toning down the enemies at the very beginning so the player can get their footing. Great work on the game!

found-bow-tonight 2023-01-16 11:40

@echo-gameworks Thanks for your advice!

kuggenhoffen 2023-01-16 17:13

The snakes are crazy fast, graphics look cool. Good job! Btw the info has typo that left mouse throws seed.

commanderstitch 2023-01-21 02:31

Crisp clean graphics! Movement! things to see, things to do! Clearly enemies are murdering my little cave miner. I figured out how to plant, but not to harvest No worries. I used that dynamite to kill all enemies!

philstrahl 2023-01-25 20:43

Very hard, the snakes just bounced me around if I didn't kill myself with the dynamite first 😅 I didn't understand what the seeds did as I couldn't plant them anywhere, my guess is that it's just the number of minerals that spawn? I very much liked the concept and the movement speed and graphics. Very cool!