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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | a farmer and his fields, bound together | jam | 634 | 3.14 | 2.00 | 3.01 | 4.09 | 3.30 | 2.62 | 2.57 | 3.28 |
damn. Great work. Only made it to day ten on the first attempt. It really is addictive and fun just like Tamagotchi, in a darker and more realistic way. And the gameplay loop reminds me of Papers, Please and This War of Mine, all focusing on choice making while you work to feed the family while having this kinda more and more desperative mood as you proceed. The harvest option on my family member surprised me. good game good game.
Great mood and simulation of reaping wheat with a sickle. The fact that you cannot move when using the sickle somehow make it more realistic since in real life you have to stand still and bend down to focus the muscle power better. And I love how it gets dimmer and dimmer as you harvesting more and more crops.(The dancing scene was a little creepy at first sight tho...haha)
Man this is so satisfying. And I love the graphics. Good job.
This is my dream job now as well. Love the pixel filter on lowpoly model visual style. And the game is just uplifting and relaxing to fiddle with casually. 但兄啊，你这小孩儿的嗓音有点儿显老啊lol
That's so much content! Amazed at how you developed and designed all these stuff in just 3 days. Love the pixel art as well. If you improve the hint/instruction system (or not) and add more content you can totally release it on steam or else. Great job.
My favourite moo in LD52 so far.
I LOVE the idea of using photos from your real life as assets. I believe they can carry emotion values that give the whole vibe a unique taste. And yes, even if with no objectives, the game is good enough to spend some quality time on. Keep up the great work！
Simple but fun. Love the pixel art as well! Although as the sequal to the fire game I expected the mechanics to be equally complex. But still 牛逼 :)
Surprised by how much game content you made in such a short amount of time. I love the simplicity of the UI and how the item menu goes. And yes it's hardcore and a little to much for me, 一个生存建造游戏苦手。Great job anyway!
Great one-button game! Love you choice of the color pallette especially the pink of the player.
Love it. First of all I like the pixel/3D art style and how you manage to keep all the sprite with the same ratio of the pixels, making the visual looks consistent. And the gameplay: I believe you are succesful presenting the player a certain feeling - pushed to make the choice between rescue+harvest, destroy to stop the fire and harvest those without catching fire first. It's like a bunch of feeling of achievement and loss mixed together. Really intersting and great work!
I like how you can havest all the crops in a row when you stand in the middle of them, pretty satisfying. I think the game would be even better there's a clearer goal set for each level so the player will know what to expect.
I like how the bee sting will damage the enemy as well as the flower, making you reconsider the timing of shooting. Neat little game.
Simple and fun. Would be even better with some twists on gameplay for example a new random ability or debuff or environment change every let's say five loops. Anyway great job!(the smiley DVD face is kinda creepy phew)
Actual effective gameloop and soaked me in for a while. The "守己爱民" additional task list is a nice touch, adding a more realistic yet personal mood to the game. However you can complete the 守己爱民 tasks much faster by not being 守己爱民, how ironic. Great job and congrats on finishing the game.
@dannyk1994 thanks! and you remind me of adding the keyboard control instructions! silly me.
@skopfy Thanks for the advice! I was planning on adding some treasure u could find on different levels but there was no time. Maybe in a update in the future! And just looked into German keyboard layout and I see what u mean. Sadly the key bindings is fixed by the game engine itself (it's called PICO-8) so I can't change it freely. But it provides some alternative options: c & v as well as n & m. You can choose and combine what u like.
@dawnreaver Glad you like it! But the idea of the game is to simulate the farmer's repetitve physical work, and it is usually not that forgiving, so...:)
@yellow 谢哥，你也是:D
@eggshelldog thanks for playing. You have to go a little below the text to enter next level. I should have made the trigger area much bigger lol. 会在下一次更新（如果有的话，应该有的吧）里改掉这些不合理/不符合直觉的小地方，谢谢分享！
@mnikn 同意脚踏板会带来更好的游戏体验！也许做成装置形式更利于主旨的传达（好高骛远地畅想ing）。我觉得pico8是很适合在jam快速生产原型的引擎，不过对代码能力有一定的需求。我很喜欢pico8的气质，不过自己技术力比较低，尚在夯实代码基础的阶段，希望能快快进步到能用pico8得心应手地实现想法的程度吧。感谢游玩！希望未来也能看到你的其他pico8作品:P
@jfeeefl 感谢游玩与分享，你的评论对我也很有启发！
@bloodbane Thanks for playing! I see what you mean and I kinda agree with you to some extent...But in my opinion, making the controls like this will draw the attention and porvoke the thinking process of the players in the first place - why is it like this? why is it so hard, boring and tedious? what does it have to do with farming? - and thus build up a closer internal connection with the topic of the game. I mean, even if you just put a simple sentence in a game and that's all, the player will still get the message. What I wanna try out is how I could do this in a more effective and powerful way. This is merely my personal understanding. Thanks for sharing ur thoughts, it really made me look back on the game in a new way!
Love the below the thigh mosquito view and the color pallette choice, giving the game an eye-catching style. Looove it. Yes it's a bit hard, but I reconsidered and realized that mosquitos in real life are playing in a even harder mode risking their lives, and thus all the difficulty can be forgaven lol. And how you fly slower with more blood in ur belly is a nice touch.
Just wanna say the art and music and the whole mood is great. You guys really nailed it. My favorite: rays of the light that painted in crayon style.
Love the twist in level 6. Got stuck for a little while and then came the eureka moment and it feels good. And I love fpp puzzle games especially when they have a realistic touch. Oh and great take on the theme, accurate (I believe so) and fun at the same time. Art and sfx are good as well.
I love your unique take on the theme and how you introduce an interesting topic. The game's gameplay art and bgm and all the stuff depicts your idea really clearly. For a even better gameplay I'd like the player have an ability to pull the artworks from the edge and corners of the room since it's can be very hard to move them when they get there. Great job anyway, congrats on finishing this.
I guess we could always draw inspiration from our history...Great job. This is thought-provoking yet super fun. Clever mechanics to fit the narratives, quality pixel art and interesting music track choice. 牛逼的团队合作，爱来自中国:P
There is a folk song feel to it and I love it. And it's aesthetically perfect as well (big pico-8 fan here).
I love the design of the dash system and enjoy just flying around the map (and the design of the ghost with the big mouth so weirdly cuuuute). Solid platformer gameplay. However the map is a little bit too big in scale and there's no navigation or environmental changes so it can be confusing on where to go from time to time. Anyway good game.