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Hello, first of all thanks for playing, I'm happy you found the game interesting. I'm sorry that you encountered a game breaking bug. If it's not too inconvenient, could you tell me (reply here or via email: dev.wagyu@gmail.com)the specifics of the bug and how I might be able to reproduce it 🙏

I will be adding more content yes. When it comes to making it into an actual farming game with hours and hours of gameplay, I would need to come up with a more distinct identity that'd make this game stand out. For now, I think the short nature of the game serves its purpose of telling the stories I want to tell. But I guess we'll see,  I read from some of the comments that the art style really resonates with some people.

Thank you, working on it rn

Thanks for playing, let me know if you somehow managed to make enough money to buy those stuff in the store. Shouldn't be possible but I'm not so sure anymore 😂

Currently you can use arrow keys or controller to move but you still gotta use the mouse to use items

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Art stylenya keren sekali 👍

I didn't know you could have actual game mechanics with Ren'Py. Well done!

Okay I managed to get it working with the recommended fix. As I've said before, I love the look of this game. Sprites are well made and the entire thing has a distinct personality. Animations are smooth and the swinging animation feels impactful. This game ties in the theme elegantly. I think the sudden change to night time is a great design decision. The switch in music immediately gives you the feeling of danger. Overall, this game is excellent and one of the best entry when it comes to incorporating the given themes. If I had to give some feedback, here are things I found based on my experience with the game that I think could be improved:

- The color of the tilled soil is too similar to regular dirt. This makes it hard to see at a glance which tiles are tilled.

- You should be able to see the your resources while browsing the shop. I don't think there's a good reason to make it a separate tab.

- I was stuck for quite a while after trying to enter the maze area at the northwestern part of the map. My character went off camera and I had to wiggle my way back to the screen. Might be a good idea to block off the entrance to the maze if the player isn't supposed to go there.

- You can't really predict which sides the enemies will be coming from so it's a guessing game on where to plant your defensive crops. In the early game, you can't really cover all 4 sides of the arena with defensive crops and once you do have a defensive crop in each side, you have to get lucky with the enemes' pathfinding and hope your crops are in range.

- Lastly, this is super nitpicky but I think the game would do well with a dedicated "interact" button so I don't have to swing at the merchant.

Thank you so much, it really means a lot especially coming from you. Do you have any feedback that could improve the game? I feel like this game has a lot of room for improvements but I'm a little unsure about what to prioritize. Thanks again for playing.

For what it's worth I really like the sprite for the player. Really smooth walking animation. Don't get discouraged for not finishing, the fact that you started at all is commendable. The sun do be rising.

Congratulations for your first game. As others have said, you pretty much nailed the atmosphere. For your first time learning to code it's actually impressive how much stuff you managed to implement. It's good to be critical but you don't have to be too hard on yourself. We all start somewhere and once you get efficient with implementing stuff that's where the fun begins. Hope you stick with it and I'm looking forward to what you'll create.

Congrats on your first game. Love the colors you chose, quite pleasant to look at.  The cow is super cute too.

Hello, screenshots look great guys love the isometric pov. It's not loading for me though I tried using two different browsers (google chrome and opera)

Thanks for playing. It's actually a rip off of Harvest Moon: Back to Nature for the PS1. I really recommend it. But shout out Eric Barone, he's one of the greatest to ever do it.

On some real stuff though, it's a farming game so there's bound to be some similarities (prepare soil -> plant seed -> water -> harvest). I tried to innovate with some stuff but I don't want to be different just for the sake of being different. Given the relatively long development period, I saw this jam as an opportunity to innovate on the narrative side of things instead of just surface level gimmicks. However, I agree that I could've done a better job with the game's structure (and level design I guess).

Oh btw I just got my Switch, should I get Links Awakening or Echoes of Wisdom???

It was quite enjoyable. Looking forward to post-jam updates. Speaking of, I found several minor bugs:

- You should set the current hovered interactable to null when the player isn't looking at any interactables. Currently, I can play the monologue for the cooked family inside the house while I'm nowhere near them by pressing E.

- I equipped and unequipped a tomato seed item and it got stuck on screen for the rest of the game

The main gameplay loop is great. The farming is actually super fun once you get going. Audio is a little harsh tho, and a little inconsistent. I love the arc raiders tribute, return to spudanza is peak.

Really hectic but fun. Harvesting wool feels super satisfying. You've got the incremental formula down, progress feels really good. what are the requirements for unlocking the robo cleaner? I played until day 13 and it's still locked.

Of course man, I'm happy to give feedback much as I can. I also saw some of your screenshots on discord and this was the first game I tried lol. I'll be checking out your other games at some point too, really love your art style. Oh and for the wood stuff I was thinking, instead of lowering the amount required it would probably be more interesting to add new unique ways to harvest wood.

The fact that you were already thinking about how to make it more noticeable to the player is great, I was just doing random shit my first game ngl.

ouu shi we got the next gen update W

I still have much to learn, it truly never ends. You gotta love the process. I played your game, it's one of my favs. Thanks for playing.

Oh lmao my bad it was supposed to be a screenshot of the glowroot quota above a house

Thanks for playing. My main source of inspiration for the art style comes from those miniature farm dioramas, hence the heavy use of tilt shift.

Great execution, love how it's completely dark at night. Audio and VFX feel good. Only problem is you literally have no reason to plant anywhere else but closest to the enemy spawn point. I then realized that you can plant on top of another plant so I just put all my units in that one square and it's over at that point. I couldn't even see the enemies no more.

Solid atmosphere, love the billboarding. Great feel on the rifle. I was about to comment on the camera but zikoundou already did so I won't. It was a bit unclear whether or not you need to water the crops and which crops have been watered. The inventory system feels a little to stingy, I guess it adds to the horror but it kinda gets in the way of farming and exploration. Maybe add a storage chest at home. I liked this entry, most intense game I've played so far in this jam.

Cute and cozy. Simple but fun farming mechanics. I love the pixel art, feels really polished. My only gripe is the controls. Given the game's quick pace I would change the interact button to any of the mouse buttons or even space bar so you don't have to juggle between WASD and E. This is fine if the main mechanic doesn't revolve around pressing E. Overall a solid entry, one of my favorites.

Okay first of all, congrats on releasing your first game, you should be proud as this is very well made. I love the darkwood style lighting system, really adds to the atmosphere. Super interesting premise too. I have some feedbacks that might help improve the player experience:

- It was quite unclear what you need to plant seed. I tried pressing E like 50 times before realizing that you need to plant them near a lantern. Things like this might be clear to you as the developer, but you need to communicate it to the player, at least if it's not something intuitively real like "attacked = hurt" type of thing. Off the top of my head, you could communicate that planting requires lantern by adding some sort of highlights in radius around the lanterns. You should also add an error message when pressing E while not close to a lantern, something along the lines of "You need light to plant" or something.

- Super important UI elements should not be obscured at any point. I'm talking about this one in particular:

That screenshot is a little hard to see but that's exactly my point.

- You should make controls that are simple but intuitive. There's no reason to make harvest and plant 2 different buttons. Especially when those two buttons occupy the same finger (index finger for E and F, plus WASD). We're trying to play a farming game, not play twisters with our fingers. Make it contextual. What I mean by this is that try making one button do all the leg work. Or picture this, how about planting by using the mouse seeing as the cursor is always visible instead of planting where your character is at. I truly thing it would make it way more intuitive to plant, you don't have to position your player just right and then having to move your index finger from D to E.

But yeah I don't want to overwhelm you with feedbacks so I will leave it at those. Hope I can be somewhat helpful in your game dev journey and keep grinding, love what I'm seeing so far.

I wanted to play this game as soon as I saw that one screenshot on discord. Love the style but as some people have suggested the text do feel hard to read. I also wish there were audio, I like seeing numbers go up but I also like hearing numbers go up. Other than those I enjoyed this game immensely.

Absolutely one of my favorite games in the jam. Movement feels really good and unique, which also ties into the planting requirements of some crops. Love the simple art style and the animations on the robot, the little item drop spinning animation, really polished. It's crazy how you managed to develop so many features in under a month. Overall an exceptional entry. I only have some minor feedbacks to give:

- Weather and day/night system doesn't feel as impactful as they could be. You spend most of your time inside the volcano or turning in quests/deliveries so I don't see the point of a changing weather. The radiation period only serves as a waiting time for when you need to turn in deliveries or progress the tutorial. Speaking of, I think the tutorial guy should teleport/appear at where you complete a task so you don't have to backtrack all the way back.  By that logic, the crafting bench should also be portable. I'm pretty sure it's a jam limitation so I completely understand.

- The cutting audio frequency peaks a little so it gets distorted.

What's good y'all, trying to play this game rn, gorgeous artwork and music is nice. What am I posed to do doe I'm confused 

This is a hard game, I played 12 days of this and saw no progress lmao. I love the little attention to details like swaying grass and the HQ eye following the mouse cursor. The music is really nice too, reminds me of Rimworld. I feel like there is room for improvements to lessen the friction of player interaction:

- Important informations like your credits and the send salvage team button should be visible at all times. There is no reason to make it a separate menu. This is especially true considering the game is time based where every second counts.

- The balancing is a bit off. Crops die from being stressed when enemies are near and that's okay. But the thing is, each crop takes a significant investment. The fungus, which is supposed to be your best line of defense, doesn't do nearly enough to justify their price point. I can't scale my farm but I'm also not losing because the HQ just refuses to die, so I just spent majority of the time waiting for the night to end while the HQ slowly fires at enemies. I tried farming potatoes early and that doesn't help at all because they keep dying without fungi, and when I do plant fungi they die every night.

- I don't think it was a good idea to take away player's control at night. It would've been fun trying to desperately plant fungus at night while enemies are attacking.

Overall, this is a well made entry held back by balance issues which are understandable given the time constraint. I still enjoyed my time with it and I hope y'all will keep updating this game. I hope I'm not too harsh with my words, I'm hella passionate.

Solid incremental game. Progression feels good, I could play this for hours. I appreciate the little details like the little animation when switching mushroom and the music transition when pausing, these really add to the polished feel of the game. However, I have some points that could improve the overall experience:

• Passive secondary income is very important for incremental games like this. It gives the player a sense that no time is wasted, that they're always making progress. This is currently not present and there are quite a bit of downtime waiting for your shrooms to grow.
• Upgrade pacing could be better. You need to time it so that times between upgrades are not too long. Ideally, upgrades should give the player that "breakthrough" moment every now and then.

Off the top of my head, those are the only feedbacks I have. I want to mention that I really love that you included these mushroom "lore", really interesting to read. Speaking of, you wrote those in English. why did you make the page fully in arabic 😭

Audio is superb, art style is cohesive and very nice to look at. I don't mind the heavy use of the color pink because it makes the important stuff stand out and I see this as more of a chill second monitor game. The lore tidbits are well written and  it's actually exciting when you find a new lore recording.
Really good gameplay loop. Feels almost like Satisfactory the way it gives you a new goal to work towards to unlock new resources to build more new stuff. Love how you can just run into trees to get wood, but this later becomes tedious once you need a lot of wood. And I'm sure this is a jam thing but there are some trees near the outskirts (and I found 1 near the center) that do not drop wood.
I'm also a little unsure about the energy system as it hinders the flow a bit. Maybe add a more noticeable prompt or alarm when those wind turbines are full. However, I truly think it would be better to not make the player manually harvest those turbines and instead just make them automatically distribute energy to nearby crops. This would give the player some downtime to be able to explore the map. Overall a very pleasant and enjoyable experience.

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Left some feedbacks in the ratings tab. This game truly has one of the most unique art styles I've ever come across.