Ludum Dare #23compo

Farming Simulator

by spacechase0

Overall★★★★★★★★★★1.93

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.80

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.67

Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.54

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.13

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.75

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.18

Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.78

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★53%

Got pretty far, but decided against finishing up for various reasons. The main thing that's missing is more crops (and maybe seasons).

I was going to try to fit it into the theme, but like I said, I decided not to completely finish. :P

I probably didn't even spent a little less than 10 hours on the game, because I was out of town.

Controls:
Mouse wheel or Up/Down arrows change the selected tool.
Left clicking uses the current tool, right clicking sells plants (if they are grown).
O decreases the time rate, P increases it. L sets it to the default.

It really isn't that accurate. It's just a quick clone off of Harvest Moon (minus characters... and everything else).

Comments19

icefox23 Apr 2012, 06:44

Interesting, but could use a little more elaboration. You probably know this. :-)

Being able to fast-forward time would also be handy.

spacechase0author23 Apr 2012, 15:52

Oh yeah, forgot to mention the controls. :P I've already added that.

You can hold O to decrease the time rate, and P to increase it. L sets it to the default.

xBlinkedx26 Apr 2012, 02:08

It's not bad, but it could use a little more features added to it. Also selling the plants wasn't working for me. Unless I'm doing it wrong.

Kharza26 Apr 2012, 02:19

My father is a farmer so I had to try this. I didn't have much luck though. Hope you are around for the full 48 next time, it's a different idea!

Sanguine26 Apr 2012, 15:24

I played it, but it was not very clear about what I should do.

spacechase0author26 Apr 2012, 21:50

xBlinkedx: Make sure they're fully grown (top row in the screenshot). If not, I'm not sure what the problem would be.

Sanguine: Yeah, it probably could use some more instructions next time. :P

demonpants27 Apr 2012, 21:52

Looks pretty cool - can we have a Mac version?

spacechase0author28 Apr 2012, 01:59

I actually developed it on a Mac. :P It's up now.

seagaia28 Apr 2012, 02:38

Like the farming vibes and the lack of farmville/zynga evilness! It was cute and works pretty well so you should do more if you liked making this

artefon28 Apr 2012, 03:10

This reminded me of Zynga's farmville.

Permanent728 Apr 2012, 04:31

Very unoriginal farming game. But well implemented! The innovation wasn't really there but its still a fun type of game.

spacechase0author28 Apr 2012, 04:45

I've never been original. :)

Fenyx28 Apr 2012, 05:40

Maybe you could add variation to the speed of growth for the plants? Anyway, it was well implemented, though being able to slow time (and the default time itself) made the game far too easy to manage a full farm.