Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Click to harvest
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 216 | 3.76 | 32 | |
| Fun | 356 | 3.45 | 32 | |
| Innovation | 307 | 3.43 | 32 | |
| Theme | 25 | 4.43 | 32 | |
| Graphics | 527 | 3.33 | 32 | |
| Humor | 378 | 2.94 | 30 | |
| Mood | 437 | 3.40 | 32 |
I really like the mechanic of using the cards for planting crops. The design works really well; it's intuitive and controls are very responsive. The mix of 2D & 3D art works well and the game gives a relaxed vibe.
This may just be me doing something wrong but I was not able to do too much. I couldn't get research working and I only ever had access to one booster pack.
Hi @fc85057, thanks for the feedback. After submitting yesterday we were totally burned out and didn't have the motivation to do any Screenshots or How to plays. For the research you need to drop the harvested crops onto the research. And the other packs are unlocked through the research. So without it you don't get any cool new cards :)
Really like the gameplay loop and upgrade etc... def my type of game. Wish there was more to spend money on though. Great work yall!
Seed booster packs are pretty funny as a concept. The time running constantly gives a rather rushed feeling.
Interesting game! I could see this becoming an actual steam listing with some additional work. great job!
Nice game! I liked that the controls were intuitive and the seed booster packs were fun. I feel like the days should go a bit slower, because I never actually had to wait for my crops to grow, since I could do research/buy boosters in the meantime, and the boosters animation was quite long. But it was fun overall :)
Nice game.I like the audio.I can harvest plants easily.But I have no goal in this game,what should I do?
Great game! love the sounds but could use some music.
Love the audio on this. Using cards made me feel like I was really planting them :)
The gameplay works like a charm, well done!
The seed booster pack animation is a bit long to wait at each round of carrots. If you plant a carrot at the end of the day it's an instant harvest :D
Took me a second to figure out how to drag the cards just right, but after that 1 second this game was pretty nifty! Love collecting things and getting even cooler things for it, love this.
Very nice little game! Its very chill and I enjoyed exploring the new cards. I also think card games and farming games fit perfectly together. At some point the card management got a little stressy. Good job!
Thanks @Everyone for the great feedback. The balancing was indeed tricky and in the end we decided to follow the game jam vibe and make it not to challenging. Everyone should be able to play through the different crops without having to farm an hours just to unlock the next seed. But I can see that the animations are a bit long after you've seen them a few times :)
@ian-mcd The initial draft had plans for other things like equipment that increases some stats (or protect from bad weather) and that you have to buy new plots and things like that... but a little overscoping is a requirement for a game jam, right?
@mangoworks There should be background music in the game. Strange that you got the sound but not the music. What device/browser did you use?
like the game very fast growing carrots ,,, nice entry
Nice game! didn't know how to get anything other than carrots like on the screenshot. All I got from the booster packs, was more carrot seeds. Check out our game, it's actually quite similar. You grind lots of crop. Oh and I also liked the music, it was not annoying :D
@evil23 If you go left (instead of right where the market is) you find the research tab. There you must research (unlock) new crops and then they will also turn up in the booster packs. I've bookmarked your game and will have a look after work when I can download it
It only took me 117 days, but I finished it. I liked the retro graphics, and the tractor occasionally driving past added some life to the scene.
There doesn't seem to be a lose condition; it felt that it was really just a matter of time and getting the right crops in the card drops.
It would also have been helpful to get a hint on what cards would be available (i.e., the chance of getting a com mon, uncommon or rare seed) for each of the boosters. Too often I'd be buying a 2-star booster trying for a particular seed, only to have it finally drop when I bought a 1-star booster.
I really like the research and card-based play, though. Very well done!
Thanks for playing out game, @digital-bacon. 117 days is a good value. A bit faster than our average first time testers. Thanks for noticing the tractor. That was something I just wanted to have in the game and even when I didn't have the time to add more animations on the farm and the tractor has some issues, I really like it as well :)
Technically there is a lose condition: You can run out of money and are unable to do anything. But we didn't want to make a game that you can lose and even thought about adding a mechanic that gives you free seeds if you are broke. In the end we balanced the game so easy, that that should never happen and it is just about enjoying the journey to the end (or trying to beat the days highscore).
Making it clearer which seeds you get from which boosters is something that we should have done in hindsight. I added it to the To-Do list for a potential post-jam-update.
Really awesome entry! I liked how there were booster packs for seeds, that was fun and exciting. It had a really good progression feel to it as well. I had a little trouble navigating the UI at first but got the hang of it after a little. The only thing I wish was that I could skip the animation for opening boosters (its possible that this exists and I just missed it) But lots of times I would come with a bunch of money to buy boosters. One of my favorite games this jam!
I liked your game a lot! The music was very soothing as well. Nice little casual farming game. It took me while to find out there was also a research tab, so once I had about a million carrots I found out there was more to do xD
You made a lot of content in such a short time, nice job!
Only tips I could think of is maybe to have some hotkeys for selecting cards, a button to sell all produce only (not your seeds) and maybe a way to skip the pack buying animation. Especially when looking for a specific type of seed it can get a little tedious.
Again, great job over all!
Thank you @bo-dangles and @mantsje for your kind feedback. We are happy that you liked our game. And yes. Skipping the animation was the first thing I changed for the post game jam version (that is hopefully coming soon for everyone interested). It doesn't help for the jam, but in hindsight skipping the animation should have been there from the start :)
This was an engaging game. I loved the booster packs, they made buying seeds exiting. There was a lot of content in the game, and it was fun to fill research tasks and discover new plants.
Very good game, everything well polished from the mechanics to the sound design to the UI. The one thing missing was a "how to play" section but that's very much understandable.
I might have found a small bug as double clicking the buy-new-card button sometimes starts the process but not the audio.
Other than that, I don't know what to say. Very addictive! XD
Surprisingly fun and polished clicker.. the art was really well done too. Well done!
Once i understand how to unlock researchs it was really fun. A lot of crops to unlock and discover. I like the booster system to buy crops. thze only missing thing is a nice music. Very fun game in such a short time.
this was fun. i like how the 1 star crops are still useful later in the game. i think a small tutorial would be nice (ex. explaining that you have to drag the cards onto the research boxes)
I liked the game quite a bit, simple but engaging. The Artstyle fits too. The inventory was full realy fast, but the hoverover kept it still manageable. As for the animation duration, fast clicking in the market allows to buy 3 sets while only showing the animation 2 times. And you can skip the second if you leave the market. For the research one, just leave :wink: