Ludum Dare #35compo

Harvest Meadow Madness

by joekinley

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.25

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★37%

You are a farmer that wants to farm plants for points.
But bugs occasionally come and destroy your plants.
See how far you can come?

WASD + Mouse
Scroll or 1-4 for Tool selection

Comments12

Rscar18 Apr 2016, 15:48

Sound effects were lovely! So much screen shake!! I liked the strategy element with plant placement

PeachTreeOath19 Apr 2016, 03:26

Pretty hard at first until you learn to use the environment to your advantage, can never go wrong with farming games.

RPGghut19 Apr 2016, 05:37

Extreme screen shaking! Great game, difficult at the start put addictive XP

SeaMonsterGD19 Apr 2016, 19:20

The idea is great and really works. As others have said, the game is a bit too hard to start with and the screen shake hurts but I love the mechanics and the mood as well. The shooting sound is fantastic.

uvwar20 Apr 2016, 04:23

I think the screenshake gave me a seizure, nice game though!

lilKriT21 Apr 2016, 15:51

The camera shaking effect is nice, I also like the dynamic music. Game is cool, but it could fit the theme more.

qu221 Apr 2016, 17:54

Wow that screen shake!

Monklet8021 Apr 2016, 18:20

I don't know why I bothered cheating at a game like this, but I found a way to keep the bugs out. :D Pretty fun, good mood shift when the bugs come.

Cerno_b21 Apr 2016, 19:59

My record is 117 points but only because I found an exploit where you could wall yourself in with unwatered seeds. The bugs can't eat the seeds and you can harvest inside your fortress as long as you want.

To me the difficulty needs some tweaking, and the controls could be a bit improved (I would like to be able to click the icons at the bottom). Graphics are very basic though (understandable given the format), but the excessive screenshake made up for that (at least for me).

Apart from these issues though the game has a lot of potential. It feels great, it sounds great, it made me want to try a few rounds to get behind the mechanics. I probably would have spent even more time if the game was better balanced.

I think you are onto something here and would encourage you to keep working on it. I can totally see that format in extended form with proper visuals in a mobile store somewhere.

Great job!

randomhuman23 Apr 2016, 16:54

Pew pew pew pew!! He he. Punishing, but fun.

justacookie27 Apr 2016, 12:21

the game mechanic was simple but fun. we liked the juiciness of the game (the camera shake and white flashes) and overall it had a really good mood. the graphics were well done. we had a bug, where we got stuck in the middle of a 3x3 field, after planting and watering plants.
thanks for making this game :)