Educational Tractor Kingdom

by darkfrost

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.04

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.16

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★59%

In early 2013, an average redneck farmer downloaded an EBook called "Programming Tractor Artificial Intelligence for Dummies". However, due to a single typo in coping out the sample code, he accidently created a murderous, self improving AI.

Built in C# and SFML, so requires windows unless you're familiar with setting up Mono :)

Created by:
- Jacob Keane (Programming)
- Holly Grant (Programming)
- Gary Nield (Programming)
- Sophie Morris (Art)
- William Ahmadi (Art)
- David Biggs (Programming)

Music by http://www.nosoapradio.us/

Controls:
WASD / Arrow keys - Move
123 / Numpad 123 - Select Weapon
Mouse - Aim
LMB - Use weapon

Comments22

Devenger18 Dec 2012, 04:28

Very bloody, unnervingly satisfying. A shame that the evolution thing fell by the wayside after the start, but still good fun throughout :)

BlockBrains18 Dec 2012, 12:56

Those chickens don't stand a chance with the beam! :D

someone20 Dec 2012, 01:38

That was awesome, and oddly satisfying.
Unfortunately the game froze when I got to the second level running it in Wine.

JFlegle20 Dec 2012, 02:09

+1 for the tractor beam, the second level seemed like a big jump in difficulty.

EatenAlive320 Dec 2012, 02:24

Nice! I died pretty early on, and couldn't find a way to recover health (was there one?), but great idea, I enjoyed playing.

Darkfrostauthor20 Dec 2012, 08:46

We had a health pick up to start with but think it got lost in the confusion XD We had a few problems right at the end when we planned to balance thus the second level came out like it did.. we're hoping to polish it and make a balanced version at some point!

Darkfrostauthor20 Dec 2012, 13:42

Small tip on the second level - Do not touch the cherry trucks! Avoid them all costs

BarrensZeppelin20 Dec 2012, 20:07

Really really fun to play. The turning was a bit awkward, but the graphics style and the bloody nature of the game made up for it ;)

Kuulog20 Dec 2012, 20:45

Killing farmyard animals is actually very fun! Great game!

OrangeeZ20 Dec 2012, 21:01

Background tune actually made the game feel quite relaxing, but 2nd level was a huge jump in difficulty, and tracktor physics were rough. But overral, the game was fun, art looks great, and tracktor beam is forever in my heart :)

dek20 Dec 2012, 23:18

Looking really cute :)

HeyChinaski20 Dec 2012, 23:57

Nice work. Took me a while to work out how to use the laser and play level 2 without dying immediately but it was great fun. Looked and sounded great too.

DaviDeMo20 Dec 2012, 23:59

hahah, funny!

goulding5721 Dec 2012, 19:24

Don't have windows, wish I did so I could play this. Looks awesome, and from the comments, is awesome. Good luck!

Jeremias21 Dec 2012, 19:59

Moving doesn't feel good because of the collision boxes (they are too big). Very funny idea anyway. I hope I didn't miss it, but is there an explanation for the icons? Especially the last one I didn't get.

Darkfrostauthor21 Dec 2012, 20:19

Health fuel mattercollected energy, then the other blacked out pictures where equipable wepons on the nums.

Yeh we never did get round to fixing the collisions XD

Cyboot22 Dec 2012, 11:56

that was bloody funny.
Ok that sounds stupid, but great game.
Nice graphics and sound.

good job!

Darkfrostauthor22 Dec 2012, 19:19

The icons from left to right were:
Health (%)
Fuel (%)
Matter collected (% to the next upgrade)
Energy (%, this is needed for certain weapons)

Then there are various icons showing you the state of your weapons, depending on which you have unlocked

arhpositive22 Dec 2012, 20:32

Nice little game. :) Lost interest after a few minutes, but still a good game in the jam category.

bentog23 Dec 2012, 18:24

I like the game, it's fun and relaxing, half a second after I got to level 2 I died :( So, I had no patience to finish level one again. Besides that, well done!

sclark3923 Dec 2012, 18:26

Pretty fun, but I couldn't figure out how to attack in the second level and didn't want to grind my way through the first again after I died. Also, "tractor beam". Love it.

mokujin27 Dec 2012, 19:32

Sheeps are too big, like elephants XD Great game!