WARtermelon

by maimai
co-authored: @houvv
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.39
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.27
A game of cat and mouse between watermelons and blueberries!

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Plant watermelon patches for your Catermelon people to live, but beware of the hungry ratberry creatures!

Try to go as long as possible and not lose all your watermelon patches.

Plant watermelon patches! Shoot the Ratberries! Build towers! Bounce around!


HOW TO PLAY:


##### Move: WASD or arrow keys

##### Shoot arrow: Space key

##### Plant watermelon patch: Hold shift (1 second on empty patch)

##### Build tower: Hold shift (1 second on watermelon patch)

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Made by a 2-person team at DOOMWOOD

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Comments16

Memel06
Memel0623 Apr 2018, 09:06
It was really funny and difficult!
I loved the colorful art and the overall idea.
This absolutely needs some nice sounds!

Thanks for your work :)
Centauri
Centauri23 Apr 2018, 09:07
Fun but hard (:
Apace23 Apr 2018, 09:08
Cute graphics, fits the theme of the game really well. :)
Had fun playing, however those dirty ratberries were just too fast for me. :( I did not do very well, my best was something like a minute and a half. :D
I feel like the controls could use a little more polishing, often enough I wasn't able to plant a melon or create a tower (probably started pressing shift too early or something?).

Overall a really nice entry, some sound would have been great to round off the experience, but it's still a fun game. :)
Andreadbx
Andreadbx23 Apr 2018, 09:09
Lovely graphics, gameplay is fun overall, just a note: i think it's a bit difficult to understand when you are actually planting watermelons and build towers since there is no soundeffects and just a very small animation, at times can happen that i go to a terrain patch, hold shift and nothing happens, very good entry!
Leonard
Leonard23 Apr 2018, 10:19
how do u rate a game ? ;) thx
Lerg
Lerg23 Apr 2018, 11:47
Very challenging, and the graphics are sooo cute!
houvv23 Apr 2018, 17:31
@leonard Hi, thank you for playing our game!

To rate our game, go back to the project page
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/wartermelon

Scroll down to the "Ratings" section

Hovering your mouse arrow over the empty starts; you will see they fills as you move back and forth

Let me know if you find it ^_^
Dmitry Smirnov23 Apr 2018, 20:23
You've done a great job. Game looks finished and it`s fun to play. Cute theme and implementation.
P.S. It took me a while to accustomed how Shift button works.
tokkiseul24 Apr 2018, 06:37
Amazing graphics and polish overall. Had a lot of fun playing but wow, it is a hard game! XD
Royoyo
Royoyo24 Apr 2018, 06:40
Amazing models and art!

It took me some time to get accustomed to controls.
And there are some strange shadows in game scene.
MathijsVissers25 Apr 2018, 19:51
Great graphics and models! Love the style.
Movement feels a bit to slow to get a good shot in. A bit unclear that converting all your watermelon patches to towers makes you lose. But other than that, cool idea, the models are the best part.
Jima1 May 2018, 13:40
Well, the visuals are really good, but I had some problems playing your game. All enemies move very unpredictable and your own movement is pretty slow, so it is frustratingly hard to shoot things (at least at start). I didn't understand how towers are placed, sometimes they move when I plant a new watermelon and sometimes the do not move. It is very confusing. And I don't exactly understand which genres you mixed. Overall it is a really good start, but it requires some work to make it more enjoyable.
Firesplash Entertainment
Firesplash Entertainment8 May 2018, 12:37
Wow nice idea, cool graphics and surprisingly difficult! Would love to see this with different difficulties and levels as a real game :)

P.s.: congrats! We are your 20th rating :) Feel free to rate ours, too!
sndr
sndr15 May 2018, 12:48
A bit too difficult, but very fun and incredibly pretty!! :)

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