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Bean Farmer Extreme 2

By craigalancarroll and bytecauldron

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1343.9131
Fun474.0832
Innovation4703.1931
Theme6383.2530
Graphics4003.6331
Audio534.0531
Humor663.9132
Mood3633.5130

Comments

vidu 2023-01-09 05:10

That's so cool, I love the overall mood and the feeling ✨ Congrats !

kenneth-dd 2023-01-09 05:40

Simple idea and hardcore, and well polished! The tension is insane tight, every wave it's feel like barely holding. I enjoyed it very much!

btw, this 'caw' power up is op. loved it. LOL. by-btw, is there a Bean Farmer Extreme 1?

haztro 2023-01-09 06:57

I love beaning!!!

ectucker1 2023-01-09 21:10

I love the little animations on the sun; feels fun to have it react like that!

fuzzy-lobster 2023-01-10 02:44

CAW CAW CAW

lotus-dev 2023-01-10 02:49

This game is so cute!!!!

chrispy977 2023-01-10 03:08

Fun stuff, high pace action shooting and crows. The combo I never knew I needed.

Pretty straight forward with the controls, thought at first I didn't realize I could go side to side. Fire rate once you got the 3 shot felt super slow and even after getting an upgrade for speed it didn't seem like it was shooting much faster at all. Combine that with the difficulty ramp and I got board pretty quick at that point since it felt like there was no way to kill all the birds.

Another sick addition though would be if the lines were a music sheet and if you matched the note playing in the music it would super power it (scope creep pretty hard there, but still would be super fun).

dramonsa 2023-01-10 03:13

Probably the best game I played so far, really entertaining it was a really good moment! Maybe the difficulty is too high, but I'm not sure if I play the right way

crow-seeds 2023-01-10 08:06

I’m really beaning to the extreme in this one!!

indronna 2023-01-10 08:42

Got to wave 10 (16890 pt) Really addicting and fun game, love the sun animation when picking an item, I felt like the first level was a bit too hard though ^^

nougato 2023-01-10 08:46

Really nice! I love the 8bit music, with the animation it reminds me of some gameboy games ! a little too hard for me 😁

matimat 2023-01-10 12:56

Bravo ! very cool, I got caught up in the game for at least 20 minutes. I went to wave 4 (3580 pts)

substain 2023-01-10 14:44

Wow. Harder than it looks. got only to wave 4 with score 3320. Solid game!

morpheyz 2023-01-10 16:59

CAW CAW CAW

Pretty hardcore, but I enjoyed it a lot. The art is hella cute. :D

wargaming72 2023-01-11 01:48

good hardcaw game, I love playing I might try and beat wave 7

crashbashash 2023-01-11 01:49

Very challenging but rewarding game. Loved the crow powerup, especially what happens when you reach 4 crows on screen. That really made my day. Love to see more from you.

pyspher9 2023-01-11 06:15

This game is definitely a challenge, but I was always having fun. The massive amount of birds made the gameplay really intense and I found myself laughing at just how fun it was.

One suggestion would be to improve the notification to the player that they need to be _under_ the power ups and hit `E` to select them. I got stuck there for a little bit

craigalancarroll 2023-01-11 13:54

@nougato Thank you! This is actually my first 8-bit song. It was really fun to write!

craigalancarroll 2023-01-11 13:55

@dramonsa Dang, thank you! Difficulty scaling is pretty tough in these tight-turnaround jams, but we're planning on making a polished version once the voting is done.

craigalancarroll 2023-01-11 13:57

@pyspher9 Thank you! We'll definitely look into making the player experience tighter. Definitely don't want snags where the player is confused about what they should be doing next in that scenario.

bowen 2023-01-12 05:05

CAW CAW CAW!

dzejpi 2023-01-12 15:39

This was some proper extreme, button mashing fun. First round is pretty challenging, but once you get into it, this is super fun! Probably the most fun and engaging game I've played this jam so far! Very good choice of colors - it looks great, but at the same time, pleases my eyes! Animations were fun too - especially the sun on the select screen! Also, you have some really great music here! Definitely one of my favorite games of this jam!

craigalancarroll 2023-01-12 16:21

@dzejpi Thank you! We had a blast making it. I've wanted to give an 8-bit song a serious shot for a while, so when we came up with this idea, I decided I would fully commit to it. I'm very happy with my peppy, over-the-top arrangement of Simple Gifts.

ddrkirbyisq 2023-01-13 21:56

Probably played this for longer than I should have...(wave 16).

This is an example of the whole being more than the sum of its parts, I think. The mechanical gameplay is actually pretty brain-dead (as long as your bullets are hitting something, it doesn't matter too much where you are), and the upgrade system isn't very interesting (fire rate over everything else, wish 3 bullets wasn't a trap!), but the cute/humorous aesthetic and music and everything combine to make something that is enjoyable anyways.

The background track sounds really derpy at first blush but is deceptively well-produced with pitch slides, tasty aliased triangle bass, and some nice noise drum/fx fills.

ethan-hair 2023-01-14 01:36

Absolutely loved it lol

jesseww 2023-01-14 05:08

This game was very well executed. Just fantastic. I had a blast playing it, tried quite a few times and made it to round 8. Honestly, I'll probably open it back up and play again sometime.

miltonnh25 2023-01-15 02:33

Good job with the game. It was pretty fun to play even with the gameplay being pretty simple overall. The art and music worked well with the game. I also felt it was pretty balanced as it never felt too easy. It would be cool to see more upgrade options and more choice for the upgrades, since there tended to be multiple of the same upgrade in the choices.

rocktavious 2023-01-16 02:21

The game is super fun but very hard. I love the music and the simplicity.

I think the only improvements you could make are just adding more variety of upgrades and just more content overall but thats expected for a game jam so I think you did a great job keeping scope small and getting a small polished thing out.

Great work!

johnnysix 2023-01-27 23:37

This was a blast, the only minor crit is the bird speed consistency - if maybe variations of the crows ( like the big crow ) move differently, you'd be able to be more tactical I guess. My slow wits often got owned by a fast moving bird that emerged from what hard formerly been a slow moving line.

The music was epic btw!

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