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Harvest Shroom

By achilnos and profhatchet

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4603.4230
Fun5073.1930
Innovation2113.6030
Theme2423.9631
Graphics3043.8332
Humor2573.2828
Mood3513.5328

Comments

0xwavy 2023-01-09 01:16

I'm not able to play this because I'm on mac but the art is gorgeous!

greynovembergames 2023-01-09 02:04

Got an error while trying to launch the game sadly.

achilnos 2023-01-09 12:16

@0xwavy Hi, I'm glad you likek the artwork. I've now added a web embedded version of the game if you would like to try it. Hope you enjoy.

achilnos 2023-01-09 12:17

@greynovembergames Hi. I've now added a web embedded version if you would like to try. Hope you enjoy.

achilnos 2023-01-09 13:39

To anyone running the game on chrome/edge or any other chromium based browser. The game will currently not work there :frowning2: It works on firefox if you try there instead. Will be working on a fix.

achilnos 2023-01-09 17:22

I've now re-added the windows and macos binaries with all the required files and they should now work. Otherwise unfortunately the embedded game will only work on firefox. There seems to be very little information about it and I don't have any more time to investigate a fix.

I hope everyone enjoys the game and thank you for playing!

jeffsobel 2023-01-09 19:09

Fun game with cute graphics and good audio. Very nice title screen, especially for a LD game!

I like the main mechanic of eating a mushroom to start the timer/level, and then having to rush to figure out which mushroom would add to the timer and which would just add a secondary timer. Seems like a cool puzzle idea. The timers are a little bit unforgiving though lol.

Very cool game!

haotian-chen 2023-01-09 19:11

love the art! the game is about trying in my view, to find with mushroom can extend current poison. so maybe a mushroom index that record ever mushroom you've eaten can be good? again, I have to say the dying animation is sooooooo good

nymnymn 2023-01-09 19:42

I really liked the art and music

diego-teran 2023-01-09 22:21

Liked the art and animations. I feel like the gameplay ("try different paths/combinations") doesn't work as well with the large amount of times to respawn/retry

xaviarrob123 2023-01-09 23:20

Love the art style of the game! My only suggestion is to take a look at the difficulty and have a better ramp up so early on the timer is a bit more forgiving but it gets harder as you play!

tero-pulkkinen 2023-01-10 02:15

I got "failed to read serviceworker property" :-(

poietic-ruby 2023-01-10 02:16

The most attractive thing is your game's post.I love it.I think I was brought into the game because of the post and art.I really like your game.

poietic-ruby 2023-01-10 02:16

Godot is really good,I like it!

togo-sepultraut 2023-01-10 02:27

im surprised how far our hero can go while eating random fungi across the path. its a fun challenge trying to work out which mushrooms to go for in order to make it to the end

achilnos 2023-01-10 08:06

@tero-pulkkinen This seems to be an issue on chrome. If you try the game on firefox then this doesn't happen. Unfortunately I coudln't work out how to fix this.

achilnos 2023-01-10 08:30

@tero-pulkkinen I've now added an alt link for the game on itch that works on chrome: https://achilnos.itch.io/harvestshroom

tero-pulkkinen 2023-01-10 08:36

Ok, I tried. Liked mostly the music/sounds.

chompdev 2023-01-11 00:53

Really cool idea for a puzzle game! Memorizing the correct mushroom combinations as you go through each level is fun, and it quickly becomes tricky. The art and animation is so good. Music, too! You guys should be proud of all you accomplished in one weekend!

smilewood 2023-01-11 05:12

The art of this game is awesome, I love the general design of it and the music is fantastic. All of the animations fit well with the gameplay and are well done. The general idea of the gameplay is compelling, but for me it fell down a bit with the feedback that it gives the player. I found it hard to tell what was going on with the various bars, it seemed like sometimes picking up mushrooms started a bar that meant I could walk further and sometimes they added a second bar that did not seem to do anything, I still die when the first ran out. One of the things that frustrated me about that system was that when I picked up the mushrooms in the other order the same happened in reverse, when the first one I picked up ran out I died. Some form of explanation of how the mushrooms interact would have gone a long for me, playing ended up feeling less like a puzzle and more like trial and error. Overall this felt like a beautiful and well-thought out puzzle game that just wasn't able to communicate its mechanic to me. Great job with your first game jam!

syudzius 2023-01-11 16:42

Congrats on your first jam, good entry! Nice puzzle game, gets a bit difficult for me, but fun. Art and sounds are also great :)

joker15277 2023-01-12 09:58

An interesting idea. I liked the graphics and animations

spacecadet 2023-01-12 16:44

Cool graphics and music. The gameplay didn't feel quite intuitive to me. I wasn't really able to figure it out what was the difference between the different mushrooms and which to pick up in order to survive. Anyways I think it is a good idea and it plays well so well done.

erivas-soulares 2023-01-12 17:35

It took me some time to figure out what's exactly happening here, besides the fact that Bill is a bad scavenger.

A Tutorial about the shrooms intetractions would do wonders to this game. Btw, I loved the animal critters at the woods, it fells much more alive! Congrats!

blue-pin-studio 2023-01-13 04:34

Great entry! I too, had no idea how to decide which shrooms to eat so i just randomly picked them until i passed the level. I eventually had to stop playing because it was taking too long to brute force the level with all of the red mushrooms xD. A tutorial would've been great but i can see how leaving it up to us is a good call too!

tildecat 2023-01-15 10:53

Cool game! Maybe mushroom picking can be more player friendly. Sometimes I came to a mushroom, but even when I was near it, I ran out of steps and I didn't pick up it. But overall very nice game!

rocktavious 2023-01-16 02:59

Honestly - amazing first entry to the jam. Way better then we did the first time around.

Overall the gameplay was good and the controls were good and tight. I struggled with not moving fast enough or bumping against corners it felt i should have not hit. Also it seemed like the steps countdown was just slightly too fast as it did the pickup animation but then i'd immediately die after words.

Also a tutorial explaining the mushroom interactions - i died alot in the beginning.

Keep up the great work! Great Entry.

zimny11 2023-01-26 23:21

Well done! Especially for first time! I got stuck on one of the level I couldn't reach second mushroom no matter what I was doing. Besides that, cool puzzle game. Art style is nice, music is good and in-game mechanics are cool!

cat-lab 2023-01-27 04:46

Great entry! It could be a little difficult to figure out what the different mushroom effects/bars meant but it lends to replaying and trying new combinations. Love the art style and the music!