Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Rich Machines
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | Les Fleurs du Mars | jam | 446 | 3.45 | 3.31 | 3.19 | 3.98 | 3.10 | 3.28 | 2.83 | 3.28 |
I really liked this one! Vampire survivors with an interesting spin on resources (ammo and time) management. I found the bidirectional health bar a sub-optimal choice and it's a pity there's no background music. Overall, a good game!
Fantastic! Relaxing game, solid implementation: I tried to push the objects out of the boundaries but it didn't work.
Super fun game! Really like the idea and the execution.
Fantastic game. Addictive and not trivial. Well done!
Interesting gameplay. Platform + mouse gesture. I'm scared of nightmares now.
As already said by @alfacarp the sprite disappears. Also, I don't know why, but there's blood everywhere! :) Looks like a fun game but the glitches make it difficult to understand!
I like the fruits and the spats graphics. Unfortunately, there's no sound (at least, on my browser I can't hear anything) and there's the aforementioned problem of the fruits falling outside boundaries.
Really fun! I like the gameplay, the graphics and the game loop. I'm scared of arrows now!
Doom in a maze of maize!
I was inside a kangaroo!
Really appreciated the upgrades system based on corpse parts (they are upgrades right?). Sometimes you can it the enemies behind walls (a feature, I suppose). My only concern is that the more I buff the character, the more the boss beats me: the upgrades are not really improving too much the character.
@ahintoflime the floxers are simply pixel art, I used Marmorset Hexels3. I made the "lighting" manually, simply changing colors. We wanted to give the flowers an alien and artificial look.
@adam-burt thank you! Yes, we tried to keep the mechanics simple but somehow interesting and not trivial. Really glad you appreciated that!
@herryfabien and @miolosh Yes, cutting flowers needs a little bit of precision. That's the part we can improve in the next versions of the game. Also the choice of the spacebar is probably suboptimal. As @tttt pointed out, there's a hint in the eyes of the robot: they turn green when a flower is "locked"!
@pazzi Thank you! You are right, a global leaderboard is a must-have for this kind of games! By the way, my high-score is 616!
Thank you all for playing! @amarokczukay yeah :) , we realised that maybe the space bar is not the best key. Probably allowing the players to use also left click or another key is better. @amarokczukay @smeljey the precision needed for cutting the flowers is a tricky point, we tried to balance it, in the next versions it will be more permissive for sure. We wanted to avoid possible exploits, such as running around continuously and spamming space bar. Anyway, as a little suggestion, the eyes of the robot turn green when a flower is "locked": hope this may help.
@lereveur impressive score! If you want to improve even more consider the following things: -eyes of the robot turn green when you're in the right position to cut -different types of flowers give you different scores. Some of them give you points earlier but they don't scale a lot when they are ripe. -each flower have has slightly different speed. You may want to keep the slower flowers there, and do not cut them: if you cut a slow flower the probability of spawning a faster (and dangerous) flower is high.
Thank you @hoichael . It would be great to implement a more dynamic and smart music system but, yes, time was stringent. We are looking also to add a control for volume, as suggested, since I don't know if everyone is happy with a pressing and intense music going on all the time.
Fantastic game. The graphics are really polished. I like the starting screen in which you can move camera. The mechanic of being attacked while harvesting is annoying, probably a shorter cooldown time would make the gameplay more enjoyable.
Interesting game. The art is cool. Introducing different times for the various vegetables would help to increase variety.
Short and simple. After the last comment, now I get what the developers meant with "seasonal". You can add a reward for catching all the collectables (and obviously complete the other 3 levels).
I really like the graphics and the mood. It's lacking visive feedback: it's not clear when the house is hit and when you hit an enemy. I also catched some potatoes hitting the air, are they supposed to do so. Anyway, the potatoes are super cool!
An interesting puzzle game with really great graphics. It's a little bit tricky, since the game doesn't tell you if you reached the goal.
I really liked this one! Good story and mood. My only critique is that, especially in the beginning, the answers look like they're not really relevant ("...","hello","yes"...). Also, there's just one page where you need to scroll: it would be more elegant to split it in two pages. Good creative work.