danyclockworker 2023-01-09 13:44
Beautiful art. You really wanted to make a shooter, but the harvest theme ruined everything? :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Harvest Mouse: Veggie Survivor
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 449 | 3.44 | 39 | |
| Fun | 482 | 3.24 | 39 | |
| Innovation | 722 | 2.64 | 39 | |
| Theme | 595 | 3.39 | 39 | |
| Graphics | 158 | 4.17 | 39 | |
| Humor | 206 | 3.40 | 37 | |
| Mood | 455 | 3.37 | 38 |
Beautiful art. You really wanted to make a shooter, but the harvest theme ruined everything? :)
Those eggplants were vicious! Great art style. I didn't understand that the veggies were popping out of the dirt patches at first, so I died from that a couple of times.
Funny idea! Maybe hold click to shoot would have been better for my tendonitis :D
@becher Noted and fixed :)
@danyclockworker ahaha I feel called out! Thanks for playing :)
That mouse farmer is working overtime! Love the cute pixel art, the veggies have so much personality! Would love to see some feedback for when the veggies get shot and when they spawn. Nice work!
Hello another harvest mouse :mouse: fun idea and the carrots are really cute!
Fun and cute game! Controls and shooting mechanic work really well. The mouse aesthetic puts a nice twist on the 'vegetables come to life' idea. The pixel art is absolutely gorgeous and the retro music fits it very well, making an overall great atmosphere.
I agree with the other comment that a little more feedback from the veggies being shot would help. I didn't notice that they made a flinching face until a few waves in. (A super nice touch! But hard to see when there's so many on screen.) Not sure whether it was intentional, but if my cursor got too close to the main character, I'd suddenly have two guns.
@fc85057 uhhh can I call it a feature and get bonus points :D. I'm wondering if having the enemies get "knocked back" a little would make it clearer? Thanks for playing!
I'll be honest, when I clicked on the game I thought oh nice, this art of this game looks like Stardew Valley, how cute, maybe it'll play like Stardew as well! I didn't read anything before playing and I was shocked to see the gun. I survived the first few waves and had a lot of fun, not even disappointed in the slightest that it didn't feel like Stardew. I loved this game and the balance is great. Would love to upgrade my gun or character as levels get harder!
Great art! Mouses are so cut!!! :D
Fun little game! The art was all very pleasant, and the enemies coming in with different stats was a nice touch... I always knew those little eggplant emojis would be the death of me :(
A simple but enjoyable gameplay loop! i like the art style!
My high score is only 2690, I'm not great at these kinds of games :D The art style is great and works well with the simple but capably-implemented mechanics.
Also, I want to specifically thank you for having a volume control. I like to balance my computer audio at a lower level, and this makes it a lot easier. I just wanted to mention that since it's something I rarely see on jam games!
score.png Very fun game! Went to play longer than expected ahahah The art is cute and the sound effects fits very well! Too bad the BGM doesn't loop. Very interesting take on the theme!
Seemed like a really steep difficulty curve then I found a little nook in the top right where the veggies can only come in a line, could've made to to round 1000.
Overall a pretty fun mob shooter. Feels classic and arcady. Others have mentioned it, but gotta give props for the art, very cute and well put together other than a couple of seems, but they weren't too noticeable.
Would love some progression mechanics or maybe add a bit of stress by making me defend the house? Just some thoughts on possible additions.
Fun and funny! I found I could hide somewhat behind the house and the veggies would line up for their turn with me (sorry, mice children, but enjoy the view from the windows I guess?) :D I could've gone forever! Cute graphics, nice that the different veggie types moved at different speeds, and I felt satisfied by the sound of them taking damage.
The vegetables were really cute, great work on them. The volume slider didn't seem to actually work though. Overall solid game, with more features it would be really fun.
Fun and solid little game with a good gameplay loop, perhaps only some feedback from the shooting and some small parts, but otherwise a good coffee-break game to play at work or when there's a feel for something casual. I enjoyed the graphic style a lot~ The music was nice, but the sound-level was a bit too high for me at the start, but that's just my little gripe.
Nice work!
A pretty fun game. They spawn and run straight at you which makes you panic at first hahaha I like that you made it so we can hold the mouse button down. That makes it really easy on the finger. Absolutely some skill involved.
Nice job! :D
@tukisboolukis yeah we caught that right after the submission deadline :(. The slider on the start screen works but not the game over. We've fixed it locally and I think we both want to keep building it out! Thanks for playing!
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Damn' vegetables!
Cute art style, I had a nice time trying this game. I think Harvest make a fun setting for this kind of game and I can see how far this can go with a funny tone! I ran into a visual issue when the mouse is too close to the main character: the gun switch between two different direction making the visual jumping from each of them pretty quickly. Cool game anyway :)
Great art, the animation was a really efficient use of only a couple frames to convey what it needed to convey.
mouse go brrrrrrrrrrrr
Your pixel art is so cute! Feels funny dying to such nonchalant looking vegetables :laughing: Overall, solid base of a game!
Very nice! love the art and sound!
Graphics, music and sounds are pretty great. Wish there was an invincibility upon hit or something so getting mobbed is survivable :D
Played a few rounds it was fun! An improvement idea that came in to my mind while playing is getting some upgrades after every second round or so. Like faster shooting, more health etc. Nice job on this, I played much more then I originally expected! :D
Love the art! Also love the detail of little mice waiting in the house while I protect them from mean vegetables. 😄
hey this mouse is so cute! very good game overallmysz.png
love the little veggie friends, even tho they're hurting me lmao. the music stopped at wave 5 for me tho and never came back...
I'm a sucker for top-down pixel art, so I loved the art in this one. I'm not very good at this kind of shooter, so I never got a very high score, but the gameplay was nice. Very well done!
i wasn't expecting a zombie survivor game looking at this chute artwork, but oh boyo. great work!!
Classic but fun. Good job !
I found a sweet spot at the top to easily win a lot of points !
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I found the sweet spot as well - and then got curious how many waves have been implemented.
At wave 23 and 33410 points I assume the waves are procedural increasing :joy_cat:
I love vegetables as enemies, reminding me of banjo in the good old 64 days - nice game with nice art!
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Those were the cutest hecckin veggies I ever did see. Well done on the graphics, it's fantastic. That's about it though, a lot of people kind of put "shoot veggies" as "harvest" but harvest is really more about collecting (or cutting and collecting). So I can't really rate too high on theme. Maybe if you guys had a sickle instead and have a harvest goal instead of a wave survival.
I did play for a while still. :3
@fis It is "infinite"! I say "infinite" because I didn't split the spawns in a wave up, so I wonder at what wave the game can't handle all the spawned in objects anymore...
I really liked the art, but i feel like the enemies are a bit too simallar to each other, like it would way cooler if we had enemies with diffrent attack patterns, also since we are defending a family, maybe we could have 2 health bars, one for the house, one for the player, and than some enemies would go after you and some after the house? just thinking out loud, i feel like the enemies are a bit too bullet spongy, i think having the shotgun deal more damage, and also shoot multiple bullets in multiple directions, but slower, would be way juicier
Hey so the BGM depending on how you did it, is just 1 button press to make it loop and i think it would benefit the game a lot because its a really awesome soundtrack! Also to lower down just a bit the sound effects so that we can listen to the music better :)). Apart from that really cute graphics, great sounds, the gameplay loop is fun and with a few pickups or upgrades it would be an amazing little game to kill vegetables, i mean time!
A very simple Vampire Survivors like game. The graphics is very comfortable. But it doesn't seem to have a strong connection with the theme "harvest"?
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I don't think I got very far, those eggplants were just too strong for me! Super cute game! Really loved the faces the veggies made when you shot them and that they had slightly different behaviors/tunings. It's important to protect your mouse family after all.
I only got to 2400 lol. How many shots can those veggies take before falling??