Candy Quota: Halloween Harvest

by travm

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.33

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Candy Quota is a passive multiplayer game about working together in an unstable world that only exists during one month of the year: October. Each player works together by harvesting candies that are used to power a strange machine that raises a massive ladder into the sky. Each players contributions are shared with all players in the world, so that together we can raise the ladder to see what exists above.

How to Play

Collect the candies that spawn throughout the level and then feed them to the blue machine. The ladder in the center of the level will raise every time anyone donates candy.

You can turn on the red control panel to see statistics such as:

- The total number of players currently playing.
- A count of all candies fed to the machine globally.
- A total of your personal contributions to the global count.

Work together with all of the other players to harvest enough candy to completely raise the ladder before October ends and reveal what awaits above.
At the strike of midnight on November 1st, the world will disappear until next October!

Controls

- Move: D-Pad, Left Stick, WASD, or Arrow Keys
- Jump: X (PS), A (XB), or Spacebar
- Interact: Square (PS), X (XB), or E

Note: There are no mouse controls. Press Start or Enter to begin the game.

Tags: #candy, #halloween, #incremental

Genres: platformer

Comments18

Judy Kim5 Oct 2021, 04:51

I really loved the art/animation and sound for this game, it was SO satisfying and poppy. The animation for climbing up stairs was especially cute :) I would have enjoyed it more if it was clearer what to do when I couldn't reach higher levels -- I wanted to do something with the boxes on the first/ground level but wasn't sure how to interact with them (or know when I successfully interacted with them). The game feels nice though, thanks for making it!

professir5 Oct 2021, 16:53

For future reference:
- ENTER = Used to START the game
- ARROW KEYS = move
- E = interact with chests and machines by the ladder
- SPACEBAR = jump

LDJam user 2653607 Oct 2021, 01:47

Interesting idea! I loved the bounciness of the movement and the especially the ladder climbing animation. Overall, movement felt pretty tight in general. It would be fun if there was more to do, but I know you're kinda limited with the jam time constraints!

Turquoise Moon7 Oct 2021, 01:58

Having to work with other players is a cool idea. Unfortunately most people who play early on probably won't remember to come back later to see what's at the top of the ladder. I had fun collecting the candy that I could reach though.

ekun8 Oct 2021, 20:05

Nice seeing a Godot game, graphics are polished and smooth, and the idea for a cooperative game is a neat one.

With only a couple people online, I couldn't seem to get the ladder to raise much higher than the starting height with my contributions, but I could see it being a fun thing to try with more people.

frederikja1638 Oct 2021, 21:00

A little tip: Dont just place text at the beginning you have to click in order to start the game. I tried running the game from linux through wine and i couldn't figure out how to start the game because the cursor didnt swap sprites correctly. Wont rate as i never figured out how to play the game.

travmauthor8 Oct 2021, 21:25

@frederikja163 Apologies for the confusion. You have to press start or enter to play the game. There are no mouse controls. I'll update the text to be more clear soon!

Quoc9 Oct 2021, 08:17

Great and neat game. The game idea was interesting and it was fun to play!

paulhocker11 Oct 2021, 03:34

very clever idea for the game and great use of the theme. i hope more people play to see what happens.

juxipolo12 Oct 2021, 05:12

Technically impressive and very unexpected. Neat!

The quickest way to spawn more candy to contribute to the global count seems to be to restart the game - it would be nice to have something in game that could spawn additional candy

travmauthor12 Oct 2021, 16:13

@juxipolo Thanks for the feedback! Totally agree - the post jam release improves spawners and increases spawn rates if you get the urge to jump back in.

yopox12 Oct 2021, 22:54

I loved the graphics :) Collecting candies is really satisfying :candy:

I think I will keep the game opened a bit in the background to do my part :santa:

I have noticed that walking left has priority over walking right, it is possible to get the wrong facing if we press left/right then the other key and then releasing the first key :spy:

travmauthor13 Oct 2021, 13:43

@yopox Nice find! I was wondering if someone would notice that. Moonwalking is a feature right?! 🤣 Thanks for playing! I'll have some more updates coming soon.

Salazin20 Oct 2021, 00:57

I really love the art for this, I'm an absolute sucker for pixelated game art! The sounds were awesome and the music worked great for your Halloween theme too. It was super cute! I like the stats you can see, like how many candies were submitted too. I think this was a fantastic start to something more. I hope you add more stuff to this and release it as a more developed game. I loved this!

MasterProject21 Oct 2021, 01:43

Really polished game. The art and animation are both very charming, and the idea for the game is something I've never quite seen before. These kind of social experiments are always a treat, so good job!