Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Water Tower
By keithswanger
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 314 | 3.61 | 50 | |
| Fun | 119 | 3.89 | 50 | |
| Innovation | 162 | 3.69 | 50 | |
| Theme | 662 | 3.18 | 50 | |
| Graphics | 609 | 3.06 | 50 | |
| Audio | 343 | 3.22 | 49 | |
| Humor | 294 | 3.19 | 49 | |
| Mood | 613 | 3.05 | 48 |
I like the music. The sniper also feels satisfying to shoot. It feels so good when you hit a farm and small plant in one try. Adding more feedback when you hit a plant to make it more satisfying could be good. For example, you could add a progress bar or a UI indicating how many plants are left to water. It could create more tension if the player has the exact number of bullets left. Overall, great work !
The better name is Fruit Sniper, funny game.
It's pretty awesome! the music is catchy and the controls are easy to get a hang of!
Cute and fun idea! The randomization granted me with a single shot that fulfilled both goals at once in one of the earlier levels. Lost on day 6 where there were over 20 fruits and I couldn't for the life of me tell which was the smallest, even when trying to take into consideration distance and relative scale it felt like I had to randomly guess. But ultimately a unique take on the theme with juicy sniping mechanics!
AD/HD the game. I wound up having to stop myself from playing because I got a bit hooked on the tasks. The aiming was nice and satisfying and hunting for golden fruit was engaging. I did have trouble a few times figuring out the different sized fruits but that never harmed my experience.
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I forgot how fun sniping with ballistics is! Great idea, nice controls, some fun objectives. Would love to see even more variety, like hitting fruit in midair, 360 no-scopes, etc etc, but I know how it goes. Well done.
This is a fun sniping game. But due to how randomized some objective-based fruits are, I sometimes had difficulty sniping at some fruits, especially if they are further away and are small.
Very nice idea! The surroundings could have been more interesting, but that is totally fine considering this was for a jam. I get hooked for a long time, trying to shoot that tiny fruit! Well done.
Loved it! Very addicting. If I hadn't lost I'd only have stopped because my hands were hurting and I needed to get to the next game too 😅
The music is amazing and a perfect fit. Has all the necessary sound effects. Looks very nice and everything is quite clear and obvious (altho it seemed I couldn't get the instructions back after hiding them with H?).
My only confusion was with how certain objectives were measured (I seemed to fail "without using the scope" if I entered it at all before shooting something, even tho I didn't actually shoot using it).
Would've been nice to have some extra gold fruits in the later levels to have some more chances.
Controls feel fine and I appreciate all the extra settings. I need to remember to put separate music and sound volume sliders in my next entry too!
Great job!! 🍅/🍅
:) Lol, I love it! "See Mom, headshots don't have to be so violent!" This was very fun. It feels like it needs just something slightly more to make it more of a full game. Maybe some timing element. But I really liked the simple changing goals each round. Moving around seemed entirely optional. Nice models, nice music!
I was shooting gold fruits completely ignoring the goal for some reason. Glad you did not add "360 no scope" tasks, I would fail those miserable. :smile:
Here is my playtest:
https://youtu.be/wIT2MG0C1VI
I like it! It has a nice idea, and a good execution, and jumping is fun. Well done!
Finding the smallest fruit wasn't the easiest thing to do. Interesting concept overall. I made 8 days before I couldn't find the smallest fruit and used all my water.
Fun sniping - exactly how I water my plants, some variation in the plants would help, but the bullet drop is fun to play with. good job
This was a very solid game! I just wish there were more tasks, the music really fit the game.
Cool Concept, I would love to play a versus match.
Love the concept, I also love how you included goals. Helped add a challenge to the game. I wish watering plants was this fun in real life.
Such a simple concept, but executed really well. I made it to day 14--needing to shoot two gold fruits without scoping or missing proved pretty impossible at the distance they appeared. But that's a good thing, I can't keep playing this for hours and otherwise I might have. :smile:
Nice art, decent soundtrack though it started to sound samey after a while. Overall a very solid entry!
I like the balistics of the water bullets! It was easy to forget, how far I zoomed in, so I missed, because it was further than I thought, the bullet just DROPPED too much :D Nice game!
Cute, simple and fun. I failed to find the smallest plant on day 8, buit I enjoyed this.
Very innovative theme and gameplay. It took me a lot of time to observe which fruit is the largest and the smallest in the later levels...
The concept is really great, had some Fortnite Vibes to me, because of the jumping and shooting :laughing: But I love how you combined shooting and harvesting / watering in this LD. Great job, really a fun and well done game!
Nice game, and great execution! I liked the music, the physics and the progressive difficulty. I struggled with the "no scope" shots - I just couldn't judge the angle. Good job getting this together so quickly!
I'm a terrible sniper so I didn't perform that well, but I liked that there were objectives and that I had to factor in for falloff. Simple entry, but certainly an unexpected twist on the theme!
The feeling of the shoot is really nice and I loved that there was a jump in the game, gave me some interesting challenges ! Nice work :)
score.png there might be a connection to the cross shaped tape that miraculously sticks to the center of my screen. I didn't know I could have so much fun pointing with a water gun at tomatoes xD
Love to see an FPS game for harvest haha! Awesome job
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Damn lol, I came in here expecting to hold the high score. 21 days is epic, GJ @klaus-peter
Oh my, What a good game! -----
I really enjoy shooting Fruit. sooo satisfied. And music, so exciting, made keep listening!
But, sometimes, When I shoot some Fruit, It didn't work. Except for that, Great game!
Thanks for made this game! Cheers ;)
Excellent take on the theme! The variety of tasks kept the game fun despite the simple concept. One small improvement I would suggest is a slightly more detailed ground texture, only because the flat texture sometimes made the perspective of long-ranged shots confusing, leaving me unsure of where my water was landing in relation to the fruit.
4377 was my score!
At first, I was confused, but once I read the controls, I understood that I could move around.
I don't know how you did it, but **the bullet drop physics were on point!** I felt like I could really predict the distance properly. Love the objectives and the variants of objectives. Hated getting the "without scoping or missing" objects, but the difficulty really made it that much more satisfying!
Clever having WASD and mouse as controls in which you open up a whole 360 world. At first, my comment was going to be "I think it would be better if it was all forward (180 view)," but as I played more and more, I really liked being forced to look around. Especially when having to figure out which fruit were the largest/smallest. And ON MAN the always elusive gold fruit hiding in plain sight!
If I were to nit something about the game that can be better, it would be that I did have a problem figuring out the "largest fruit" sometimes. I swear they all looked the same, but 1 did feel slightly larger because it was further away. Thankfully I was right, otherwise, I would have been pretty lost. That was my only real issue, and somehow I was still able to find it!
Oh, and maybe a "tutorial" start that first gets you to move/look around, and then shoot could be good to get people quickly knowing they can move around (although , maybe I was the only one that had that problem :P haha)
Great game and really enjoyed playing it!
I'm going to start using this as an aim trainer for myself :D hehe
Such a fun game! First I did not read anything and started playing. Thinking the gold ones needed to be watered. But then I found out that there are quests! Which makes the game much more fun and rewarding. I like the simplicity. It is easy to learn and hard to master. As it should. Well done.
Fun core mechanics, but objectives felt unnecessary. If yellow fruit are well indicated, the nearest/farthest and biggest/smallest are hard to figure out and not really fun to do so.
score.png I give up xD it's too difficult to spot the smallest plant in a lagging tomato field
@klaus-peter Wow! That's amazing. Thank you so much for playing :) You've officially mastered it xD
Its a really cool idea, but i dont like it... It makes me question my vision and aiming skills! Im terrible at it... :((((((((( But seriously a great and unique game, but damn im going to check my sight tomorrow! haahah
Also @klaus-peter your profile picture goes so well with that score hahahahahaha
Nice game. I like the physics of the bullet, you need to take care of the distance.
EZ
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"like any sane person would. by shooting them" - one of the best tag lines ever.
Great work. Its a nice simple game with a cool little twist.
The music is pretty funky but does work.
nice job :)
Fun game! It was super satisfying to hit a tomato at long range on the first try. I like how the challenges put my spatial reasoning to work with trying to figure out "is that the smallest tomato, or is it just further away?". The music was very catchy too. Did anyone else mark the center of their screen with their finger in order to do the no-scope challenges more easily :laughing:
Haha this was a really novel idea! I didn't expect how much I'd enjoy this. I was even feeling a little cocky until the "without scoping or missing" challenge came up. Really fun game!
I wasn't a big fan of the song choice, as it was too "heavy" and repetitious for the length of it, if that makes sense. But I did appreciate the settings sliders!!