Farm to Cup has very solid expression of the game jam theme. It really shines with its engaging and motivational gameplay. The visuals are very clean - the limited palette is fun, and the UI is quickly understood with the interactive tutorial system. The purchasable bean blends make for an interesting dynamic. What a very solid jam game <3
Suggestions: I think that having a couple of different designs for the beans could make it easier to identify different types of coffee - perhaps 5 so that you can easily correlate the information in the balance readout to check beans based on their strongest attributes. [if they have more than one maxed out stat then perhaps a 6ths design to show that it has more than one powerful attribute. This is more a quality of life/ease of use suggestion.
Do you intend to finish this game?
What would you do if you had a bit more time?
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Thank you very much for playing the game. I'm glad to have heard the art works well because I'm definitely not an artist haha. The tutorials could be way better though, but I quickly put together as best as I could with the limited time I had left at that point in the jam.
The idea of different arts for different beans or varieties is a great suggestion and something I originally considered as well, but again I focused on some of the more crucial parts of the game so it didn't make it in. I included the ability of renaming the beans so players can keep track of different beans with different names, but I agree that having graphics that you can quickly choose from is a much more streamlined way to play.
Hard to say if I want to continue this game in its same form, because I think there's some big issues with it. I may return to it at some point, but it probably would have to have some big redesigns in some of the mechanics.
I think balancing and the bean stats designs are 2 big things I would test more if there were more time, but knowing myself I probably would have spent it polishing some other things haha.
Thank you again for playing!