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Hello! I am pleased to announce that after a year of development, the full release for The Legend of the Lawns is now available for download!

The basic idea behind this game is that you want to get a new console that just came out (the "Swapdeck 2.0") but don't have enough money and your parents don't want to get it for you. So your only choice now is to go outside and make money mowing your neighbor's lawn. However, the work is not going to be easy. The weeds are aggressive, the shrub demons are overly territorial, and the flowers want you as fertilizer. Can you survive Neighbor Bob's lawn and earn yourself the greatest console of this generation or are you going to succumb to the yard?

If this sounds interesting, you can play it here: https://nullptr-error.itch.io/the-legend-of-the-lawns. I would personally recommend downloading the desktop version as the game has better performance there but you can also just play it in the browser as well.

The trailer is also attached below.

I did not realize I didn't publish this a month ago so here's a very delayed devlog update I guess.

After several months of development, The Legend of the Lawns is now ready for a public demo!

The basic idea is that you are looking to earn enough money by mowing lawns to buy the new Swapdeck 2 console (that part of the story has not been implemented yet but will be coming with the full release). However, the lawns have a number of dangers and enemies that you need to overcome. You can also buy items from the store to help you out. That's the overall high level idea behind this game, I have also included some screenshots on this post to also give an idea what the game looks like.

Download or play in your web browser  here: https://nullptr-error.itch.io/the-legend-of-the-lawns-demo

Of course, since this is a demo, there might be some bugs (I was told my a friend that playtested on Windows that they experienced some crashes but I was unable to reproduce that so I would appreciate any help with resolving that) and there might be some balancing issues. Of course, I am releasing this public demo to get some feedback so please provide any thoughts and constructive criticism you have of the game!

I hope you enjoy!

We're glad you enjoyed our game and thank you for the feedback!

I believe the reason the enemies exploded before you saw them was because we made it so that the enemies were not damaged by the large asteroids but the smaller asteroid debris would damage them. It might be the case that you shot some bullets that blew up some asteroids and an enemy satellite passed through that "debris cloud" and was quickly destroyed.

I suppose an instant game over from hitting an asteroid is a bit harsh (perhaps it should instead do a lot of damage but not insta-kill). Again, thanks for your feedback :)

Nice game! I really liked the minimalist but very clean art style and the sound design with the music/sounds made from the loop was really nice to listen to.

I also think this is a pretty creative interpretation of the jam theme and I think the puzzles were quite interesting as well.

Good job!

Thank you, we're really happy you liked our game! :)

I'll definitely check out your game as well!

Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed our game :)

I suppose that could be an interesting change. We'll keep that in mind.

Again, thank you for your feedback! :)

Thanks for the feedback! Do you have any specific ideas on how we can improve the movement/orbiting?

Thank you! :)

Thank you for the feedback! We're glad you enjoyed the game :)

We're really glad you enjoyed our game :)

We also appreciate your feedback.

There is no way to speed up the game, that probably should have been a feature in hindsight.

For the $0 to $370 issue, I think what happened is that whenever a conveyor belt gets backed up a bunch of files pile up on top of each other and then when they enter a server the way we programmed the files stacking up lead to all the files being simultaneously being turned into output files which isn't a perfect system and leads to some bugs like that.

Again, thank you for playing our game.

We're glad you enjoyed our game and we also appreciate your feedback! (admittedly it would have been nice to have some way of indicating the status/state of certain tiles but we weren't sure how to implement that in a good way during the jam)

Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed our game :)

We're glad you enjoyed this game and appreciate your feedback :)

It seems to be a common criticism that the controls for placing tiles isn't the best and we will note that for any future projects.

This was a pretty interesting game, kind of gives me a Papers Please vibe with how you sit at a work station and have to sort out objects (in this case boxes rather than passports) in order to make money. I think it's a fun little concept. I liked the artwork and the background music was pretty nice. Good job :)

(Also, did you make this without a game engine? That's pretty cool if you did)

I really liked this game, the art style was cute, the music was calming, and the various mechanics relating to scaling the objects were simple but interesting and created some interesting and thought provoking puzzles. Good game :)

We're glad you enjoyed our game, thank you so much for your feedback as well :)

Thank you for your feedback! We're glad you enjoyed the game :)

Thank you, we're happy you enjoyed our game :)

Thank you for your feedback :D

It seems that collision detection is a slight issue so that is probably something I'm going to fix sometime.

Anyway, thanks for playing my game :)

Thanks for playing!

I would actually like to use Bevy at some point for a project but I'm not entirely sure what I would do and I would also need to learn a decent bit about Bevy to make a project. I am actually fairly comfortable working with OpenGL in C++ which is why I just decided to use a OpenGL crate as one of the dependencies for my game.

Also, thanks for your feedback! :D

Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed my game :)

Thank you for the feedback! I hope you enjoyed the game and I might update this game in the future, a shop would be interesting and I do agree that there probably should be more incentive for picking up treasure.

Anyway, thank you again for playing :)

Thank you for your feedback! (I do feel that fitting into a 1 block wide opening was rather difficult) The levels are put together from predesigned segments to answer your question on how level generation.

Anyway, thanks for playing my game :)

Thanks for playing, I do believe that I should have designed the collision a little better (it is admittedly quite annoying to jump into the 1 x 1 holes) and I do believe that arrows do occasionally spawn in the tower but I might have made them a little too uncommon.

Anyway, thank you for playing  and giving your feedback :D

Sorry about that, any criticism on how I can improve the game and what parts did you not particularly enjoy?

Thank you for your feedback :)

I probably should have added a better indicator of how far the player would travel, thank you for your feedback and trying out my game though!

Thank you for the feedback!

I  do believe that I should've added some way of telling the player some sort of visual indicator where they were going to land. Anyway, thank you so much for trying out my game :)

Thanks!

Also, Just a quick question for some feedback: was there anything about level 2 that was frustrating/you felt needed improvement?

Thanks! :D

Yeah, in retrospect that is true, I suppose the movement could use some work.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!

Thanks!