Ludum Dare #30compo

Divided World

by oadt

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.12

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.48

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.07

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%

*UPDATE*: Performance bug fixed!

In this game you play a farmer in a poor county. You have to plant fruits for yourself and oil palms for an foreign investor.

Controls:
Mainly only mouse, click T after the first two alert-boxes for a quick tutorial.
I recommend to play frantic and to go with one's gut, this way it might make a bit fun.

Theme:
The game is based on the theme, but I want you to interpret the game. If you really didn't get how its based on the theme ask me in the comments :)

PS: Sorry for using alert-boxes :)

Comments18

Tanner25 Aug 2014, 06:21

Really nice farming game.

Peping25 Aug 2014, 09:35

The game is really laggy which made it unplayable for me :(

PaperBlurt25 Aug 2014, 10:50

The bulky graphics play well with the game play!

mess11025 Aug 2014, 12:04

overwhelming at first.. but the story really made me want to grow stuff

DaanVanYperen25 Aug 2014, 14:08

Is there some way to make it a bit more responsive? I've tried Firefox and Chrome, but it's really slow. Coming back to this one later!

OadTauthor25 Aug 2014, 16:00

Yeah, sorry for the lags. There is anywhere a bug in the code. Because of this it's slow on some devices. I will check if I can fix that. But it will take some time :S

OadTauthor25 Aug 2014, 16:39

The bug is fixed, it was because of the use of ctx.clip(). Now everything should work better

Kedume Bits25 Aug 2014, 18:17

The system messages make the game hard to play, but the game has nice graphics.

esayitch25 Aug 2014, 18:17

Frantic farm game :P I liked it. Graphics I REALLY liked as well as the story. The theme I felt could have been used better.

Also, I got a strange behaviour... two of my patches would pop up "Bad Bottom" error when I tried to plant get oil there. Dunno if it's intentional or not.

Liked it overall, good luck!

OadTauthor25 Aug 2014, 18:25

@esayitch The "Bad Bottom" message appear when there are not enough nutrients in the cropland. It was an 1:1 translation of the German term and I forgot to change it :D

Nice that people like my graphics. I am not very artistic, so this is a great surprise :)

gmfk0725 Aug 2014, 21:05

I really quite liked it. Seems simple enough, yet some concepts (the bad bottom bit) could have been explained better. It mislead me into thinking it was easy, and overall it's quite good.

ponywolf26 Aug 2014, 16:03

I liked the graphics... I did get to how you interpreted the theme, but it took while...

BadgerPriest26 Aug 2014, 20:08

Nice interpretation of the theme!

Quetzakol27 Aug 2014, 09:46

Interesting and funny :) The only problem was that I didn't know if oil or food was ready to pick until I clicked on it (the graphics were not clear I think).

JTGaming201229 Aug 2014, 11:50

I really like these style of games, but I think the font is too hard to read. I keep thinking Trash is Thresh. I like it :)

josh1billion29 Aug 2014, 16:49

Fun concept, nice art, good game.

Nooner Bear1 Sep 2014, 17:30

It ran well for me, and it was quite fun. I loved the little bobbing farmers (they looked funny with the music I was listening to). My only complain is that the text is hard to read being so small. I'm trying to see how this is related to the theme as well.

Ramiel2 Sep 2014, 18:57

Interesting interpretation of the theme. I really like it.