After a cafe has lost all money and ran out of food, an employee takes it upon himself to save the cafe by growing fruits and food in the garden outside.
Walk around with wasd, press space to open the menu, hold down the mouse and drag to move the camera, and press f to harvest.
Very cool and addictive!! Great graphics! A bit long to get started, but once you have a couple of stuff in the farm it's hard to keep up!! :) Great job
Great graphics for a compo game! Could probably use more cheap seeds/recipes at the beginning to help ease the player into the game rather than having to wait on the strawberries so long.
While I will probably still see that mouse's head that looks like a plucked chicken with ears in my nightmares I enjoyed this more than I thought.
Balance of the plants is a bit off, you really only need 1 raspberry plant vs many strawberry and blueberry ones. If the growing speed was a bit higher and the rewards for the later plants a bit lower it would be more dynamic.
Initially I had a garden with all kinds of fruit but once I started making the big bucks I razed all that stuff, planted only coffee beans and converted the cafe into a Starbucks. Better ROI, you see.
The core idea of the game is really nice and exciting, but there are just so many minor annoyances that I was unable to enjoy this game at any point.
To start off, the game's far, far too slow. At the start it took far too long to get the 25 coins of regular income I needed to start blueberry farming. Then, with every plant taking more time to grow, the game just dragged on far beyond its welcome. Second issue, and this is a huge one. To control the mouse, you need to click and drag. But the mouse isn't locked to the window. So I was left having to click, drag to turn a little bit, move my mouse back over to the other side of the screen, drag again, to do any sort of turning and my wrist is absolutely killing me right now. You made a really nice asset for the chef and gardener (though why they're wearing winter clothes while it's "sunny" I'm not clear on >_> , and the plants look fairly nice as well, but with the complete lack of texturework on the walls and building it loses a lot of the overall effect. Finally, don't make the user hit 'f' on every single plant. Let them gather in a radius, or have the plants gather themselves, or let them hold down f to gather everything they walk past. My hands are in pain from playing this game :T
In short: lock the mouse to the window, speed up the growth time of the later plants, increase the selling price of strawberries, let the user hold f instead of pressing it, add some texturework to the walls/building and you've got a pretty fun game.
I'm sorry that I'm so harsh, but I think you should've simplified the character assets and put some effort into balancing and designing the gameplay.
outstanding bug: not sure if it's intentional, but you can easily place overlapping plants; you prevent the player from placing plants while standing inside another plant's area, but if I stand outside of the area facing in I can easily make the plants overlap, though that does make gathering them difficult.
These assets look really good! The game is a pretty fun timewaster and its definitely the ludum dare game ive played the longest. It was hard to quit.. all my coffee plants. You will be missed.
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Balance of the plants is a bit off, you really only need 1 raspberry plant vs many strawberry and blueberry ones. If the growing speed was a bit higher and the rewards for the later plants a bit lower it would be more dynamic.
Initially I had a garden with all kinds of fruit but once I started making the big bucks I razed all that stuff, planted only coffee beans and converted the cafe into a Starbucks. Better ROI, you see.
To start off, the game's far, far too slow. At the start it took far too long to get the 25 coins of regular income I needed to start blueberry farming. Then, with every plant taking more time to grow, the game just dragged on far beyond its welcome.
Second issue, and this is a huge one. To control the mouse, you need to click and drag. But the mouse isn't locked to the window. So I was left having to click, drag to turn a little bit, move my mouse back over to the other side of the screen, drag again, to do any sort of turning and my wrist is absolutely killing me right now.
You made a really nice asset for the chef and gardener (though why they're wearing winter clothes while it's "sunny" I'm not clear on >_> , and the plants look fairly nice as well, but with the complete lack of texturework on the walls and building it loses a lot of the overall effect.
Finally, don't make the user hit 'f' on every single plant. Let them gather in a radius, or have the plants gather themselves, or let them hold down f to gather everything they walk past. My hands are in pain from playing this game :T
In short: lock the mouse to the window, speed up the growth time of the later plants, increase the selling price of strawberries, let the user hold f instead of pressing it, add some texturework to the walls/building and you've got a pretty fun game.
I'm sorry that I'm so harsh, but I think you should've simplified the character assets and put some effort into balancing and designing the gameplay.
outstanding bug: not sure if it's intentional, but you can easily place overlapping plants; you prevent the player from placing plants while standing inside another plant's area, but if I stand outside of the area facing in I can easily make the plants overlap, though that does make gathering them difficult.