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That Wasn't Wheat...

By jakubbala, sammot and Archenwhile

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3003.6321
Fun2443.6321
Innovation3183.4221
Theme1864.0521
Graphics2943.8421
Audio2003.6321
Humor3103.1521
Mood4633.3621

Comments

sammot 2023-01-09 14:34

Spingus

archenwhile 2023-01-09 23:49

poggers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lizzus 2023-01-10 00:03

Nice game I enjoy the sound effects and music

schlock 2023-01-10 02:31

Looks great, I think the stearing should be inversed when driving backwards but that makes it a bit more challengin i guess. Not sure if "just don't care about the animals" is the message you want to send here but that is the easiest way to win.

sammot 2023-01-11 12:28

@schlock Yeah we probably didn't balance the animal hit penalty well enough with the level constraints.

aendawyn 2023-01-12 17:34

Nice game, like the ambiance ! Music is very cool too and add some intensity to cow, euh... wheat harvest 😇

cagil-ozdemirag 2023-01-12 18:52

loved the look and the game but with my luck I hated all those rocks! I could not stop thinking about the time & animals being enough of a challenge though. took a while to pass the first level once getting the hang of the driving and being bit more cautious of the rocks, works well. Regardless, great game, well done!

mololo 2023-01-12 19:33

I liked the game it was fun and the art is great I love it. The game worked great, but the only thing that annoyed me was the backwards steering being inversed, but it made the game a bit harder and made me have to concentrate better so its a minus and a plus on the same time :))

jakubbala 2023-01-12 20:43

@aendawyn @cagil-ozdemirag @mololo Thanks for the reviews!

multipixels 2023-01-13 20:45

I had a blast playing this with my friend. I struggled so much to hit the 40% mark, always confusing the rocks for pigs. My friend managed to do it first try LOL. Very well done!

sibi 2023-01-13 20:49

Great style! The game felt like you really wanted the "Limited visibility" theme to happen :D The rock was a bit unforgiving but I enjoyed "accidentally" harvesting other things. But one time a cow got revenge and trapped me in a corner.

jakubbala 2023-01-14 01:42

@multipixels @sibi Thanks for playing! We wanted the rocks to be like that so you had to really watch out or think fast, as otherwise you can just B Line up and down the field! I'm very glad you enjoyed playing :)

theherborist 2023-01-14 11:10

Who the heck planted rock-seeds in my wheat? Very interesting idea and great execution. At first I thought the position of the rocks was fixed per level, so you could "just" learn the pattern and then go ham on it, but noooo, they had to move between plays didn't they? XD

Really the only notes/additions I can think of is the music being a bit low during play and maybe an upgrade menu? Some powerup could be to reduce the cleaning time when a cow happens to be harvested or increase the yield; maybe even a radar of sorts, to warn you a rock is ahead (but without pinpointing the location of course)

Very good game!

jakubbala 2023-01-14 14:46

@theherborist Thanks so much for playing! Those tips you gave are actually excellent and the best direction we should go in if we were to keep building on this game!

jakubbala 2023-01-15 21:34

Spingus

mika314 2023-01-16 00:44

This game is hard. Also, it teaches me a valuable lesson: speed kills.

sakura-magika 2023-01-16 04:16

pretty difficult! i like the limited visibility implementation with dithering, the pier art in general was well done, even with some shadow casting!

the color pallet makes it look really eerie, and it's especially unsettling with the amount of gore from hitting an animal.

i liked controlling the tractor EXCEPT for backing up! when i back up, it seems like the left/right arrows to become inverted, which doesn't really match how i'd expect a car to drive, so that took a bit of getting used to.

i thought i was driving carefully, but still hit rocks for the first three or so rounds. then, i finally made it through the time limit without exploding, but only had like half the quota :(

besides the frustrating difficulty (i probably just need to get good), i think i disliked the music the most. it really didn't feel like it fit at all. i think i was expecting something more atmospheric and creepy, given the visuals.

main lesson: don't harvest wheat at twilight!

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rustynoob 2023-01-19 03:10

loved it except It was to hard to see what was going on

kiddy 2023-01-19 22:02

Really cool, the graphism are really matching the feeling of the game design, great jon

sheng-mai 2023-01-20 07:36

Is a great style of painting game, music although a little single but very emotional, just started to hit the pig when the blood collapsed on the screen and hit the stone issued a huge sound to me a jump, slowly adapt to find the game is quite difficult to consider the amount of oil and wheat harvest, played for a long time froze the first level did not pass haha, great game!