This was an interesting little game. When I lost i wasn't quite sure why, so having an idea of what your crops are up to (e.g. how long they're going to take to grow, etc) would really increase that strategic nature of the game without doing anything else. Obviously theres a whole lot more you could with plants and pestilence, bugs, etc. But it's a great little premise you could easily take further.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Best use of the theme | #15 | 2.546 | 2.750 |
| Gameplay | #18 | 2.083 | 2.250 |
| Most likely to make an impact | #21 | 1.697 | 1.833 |
| Overall | #23 | 1.852 | 2.000 |
| Graphics | #24 | 2.006 | 2.167 |
| Audio | #28 | 0.926 | 1.000 |
Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Hey Bunnyviking,
The idea of a hardcore survival game centered around farming is quite alluring to me, so I'll see where it goes. I somewhat intended to add a status display of sorts where you could see how your plants were doing but after implementing the basic mechanics I left it at that.
Thanks for playing!
Interesting concept, and has potential to be explored further.
Making it so you can actually see the settlement and the land you are farming next to it would add soooo much to the game. Aside from that, good job!
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Farming oddyseyThis game seems like it has some potential to be a fun mobile game. The tooltips need better triggering if so much information is going to be stored in them. I liked the concept and found it kinda addicting, played a lot of rounds, but I think there are some bugs stopping progression. My top score was 15 months.
Notes from gameplay:
brown
tooltips over UI are hard to trigger
- what does physical mean?
this background is kinda making me dizzy heh
am i planting potatoes or chunks of peasants, the game name has me wondering now...
this grow animation on the planting is cute and sleekly done
i want some sort of visual and audio feedback when I select a potatopeasant
wish i could click and drag to fill in spaces
also does each flavor of p
soil health - should be Affects instead of Effects
what do the different flavors do?
i now have -25 chunks of organ, I think i'm winning
game over, the nerve!
I made -55 people, I think that means I helped the earth the most!
ok round 2, this time don't skip 5 months in a row playing with UI
these people eat so much
how do I harvest the potatoes?
oh the tooltips for the potatoes are working on my 3rd try
noooo i can't make a pretty pattern of alternating potatoes - there is one plot too many!
i don't think potatoes are growing?
ok another go. 11 months without growing anything
oh hey some grew this time in july. They didn't last round
ok this is kinda stardew valley with death mechanics
15 months
I think the size of the board is making me want to plant way more than I should
some extra text behind the restart button
the kumara didn't grow after 8 months
maybe the temperature adjustments are messing with something?
I'm not good at this game, I think lol
but kinda addicting
would be good on mobile
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EarthsongHey Loressa,
Thanks for you reply, I made this game with a very general idea of how I wanted it to turn out, and I think this is where I fell short. After completing the basic prototype I felt like there wasn't enough material for me to turn it into something that would be enjoyable and my motivation for it entirely ceased.
You had a few questions that I'll answer here.
- The term "Physical" is a term used in godot's input system that describes a physical button, and when adding a shortcut to a button in godot, this term appears within the tooltip, so the user can learn the keybinds.
- Each plant should also have a tooltip, describing various traits about them. The three kinds are Kumara, Taro and Yams.
- Harvesting is done automatically, and I admit this leaves much to be desired in player feedback.
Also to be clear, your difficulties are entirely reasonable, the game is, in its current state, horrifically unbalanced and all values were pretty far dettached from reality. Soil quality and temperature were used as ways to create multipliers for plant growth and plant health and can either ruin your crops or barely effect them.
All in all I did see some potential at the beggining, however with limited scoping and direction it fell flat in alot of ways. Feedback is very helpful for me to improve so thanks for all the time you spent on it.
This game seems like it has some potential to be a fun mobile game. The tooltips need better triggering if so much information is going to be stored in them. I liked the concept and found it kinda addicting, played a lot of rounds, but I think there are some bugs stopping progression. My top score was 15 months.
Notes from gameplay:
brown
tooltips over UI are hard to trigger
- what does physical mean?
this background is kinda making me dizzy heh
am i planting potatoes or chunks of peasants, the game name has me wondering now...
this grow animation on the planting is cute and sleekly done
i want some sort of visual and audio feedback when I select a potatopeasant
wish i could click and drag to fill in spaces
also does each flavor of p
soil health - should be Affects instead of Effects
what do the different flavors do?
i now have -25 chunks of organ, I think i'm winning
game over, the nerve!
I made -55 people, I think that means I helped the earth the most!
ok round 2, this time don't skip 5 months in a row playing with UI
these people eat so much
how do I harvest the potatoes?
oh the tooltips for the potatoes are working on my 3rd try
noooo i can't make a pretty pattern of alternating potatoes - there is one plot too many!
i don't think potatoes are growing?
ok another go. 11 months without growing anything
oh hey some grew this time in july. They didn't last round
ok this is kinda stardew valley with death mechanics
15 months
I think the size of the board is making me want to plant way more than I should
some extra text behind the restart button
the kumara didn't grow after 8 months
maybe the temperature adjustments are messing with something?
I'm not good at this game, I think lol
but kinda addicting
would be good on mobile
Submitted
EarthsongI feel like this game needs a tutorial. I am confused by what my goal is. I feel like this could be a great game if I knew what to do.
Submitted
Regenerate
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