Rabbits can trample your crops. Crows can drop a rock wiping out all crop progress. You gain an extra health heart each level. Jump over rabbits and avoid crow rocks, and try to grow all crops on screen to advance to the next level.
A short game consisting of 5 levels, and requiring no more than 5 minutes of your time.
CONTROLS: Movement - Left/Right arrow keys! Jump - Up Arrow/Space Water - X Music Toggle - M (procedurally generated and may be annoying).
The source code is a mess. Normally for Ludum Dare I try to do a pass and clean it up or comment it in places. Not this time. It's a horrible snake pit in there. I don't advise it.
Man, that rabbit is my new nemesis. Really enjoyed it! The art and objective blended really well with the platform controls and style. How did you do the music by the way? You mention it was procedurally generated. Would love to know more about that.
I'm a good farmer. One of the best games I played so far! You nailed the pacing, it didn't feel dragged out. Just perfect. I just kinda felt like jumping on bunny's head shouldn't damage character, but it's ok, maybe it would unbalance things and make game too easy.
Great to see you doing an LD again! Man that rabbit had it out for me! :laughing: I tried several times but wasn't able to get by level 4. Love the art and the music, didn't find it annoying or anything. Would make a great mobile game.
@temmy - I got some Python music generator from a ludum dare post? It's clunky and you have to run it in Terminal on OSX, but it generates a file. Don't like it, do another. Takes 2 secs to generate a file. You can then import into Unity and play it. Can probably google for stuff like that.
@lawrence - I should have added a shotgun to shoot crows or something. I intended to be able to use water to run off rabbits, but it just never felt right and you can just hold down the key. I wanted to have the bucket have limited water and you would have to refill at a pump. That would have added a good gameplay element but just ran out of time.
Thanks for playing, rating and all the nice comments guys! I will start rating games soon and will run through this list first.
Great entry! The art is really cute and i like that it is very coherent in its style, a well rounded thing. It is fun and the music is actually pretty good, a lot better than most games i tried so far - so i guess good choice on the configuration for the generator! I only made to level 3 which i could not finish due to those pesky crows shitting on my crops! Very good!
The art was chef cook kiss but I played it in the most boring way possible stand at a crop and get it to grow just always water. I think I wasent on my toes the whole time, still I enjoyed it
I should have added some way to setup a Scarecrow for like 10 secs to scare off the crows, and a shotgun for the rabbits. Maybe I should have just spawned a shotgun with 2 shots on a small chance when you grew a crop :) Thanks for playing!
I really liked the art style and the game in general. Especially the level system kept my playing. Personally the controls felt a bit too sluggish for me, but apart from that, great entry!
Great entry, I enjoy the lovely pixel art, especially the cute :rabbit: and the overall ambiance, the controls are a bit stiff, on other hand they make the game a bit more difficult, I would prefer a more "dynamic" jump control (more quick, more high) balanced with a faster rythm for rabbits. Regarding the animations, they are very good and could be imho enhanced a bit by making bounce the character when he does not move (body moving of 1 pixel, and eyes blinking when being idle for instance) and maybe some dust particles or other feedback when he jumps, it could make the game more dynamic & immersive. Anyway, very solid entry, especially in compo mode, congratz & keep up the good work :thumbsup:
Loved the graphics. Really interesting take on a farming sim. Would love to see you turn this into something bigger with more levels, different crops and a scoring system to keep you playing longer. Great job!
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Pros
quick gameplay
fun controls
precision based watering
Cons
Doesn't come with a recipe for Rabbit Soup
Good job!
@lawrence - I should have added a shotgun to shoot crows or something. I intended to be able to use water to run off rabbits, but it just never felt right and you can just hold down the key. I wanted to have the bucket have limited water and you would have to refill at a pump. That would have added a good gameplay element but just ran out of time.
Thanks for playing, rating and all the nice comments guys! I will start rating games soon and will run through this list first.
@Rongo Matane I hope I didn’t tune it too hard. Sometimes you get unlucky with random numbers and the crows and rabbits are rough.
Personally the controls felt a bit too sluggish for me, but apart from that, great entry!