Ludum Dare #50compo

The Extraterrestial Farm Enterprise

by aggrathon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25

A game about managing a farm on an extraterrestial planet with lush (almost aggressive) flora (while also trying to pay back a loan to the space mafia). Play the game in Your browser!

Tips

The fertility of the soil affects how fast both crops and weeds grow.
Remember compound interest (the debt grows faster the more debt you have).

Software Used

Unity (game engine), Visual Studio Code (code), Gimp (art), Paint.net (art), Audacity (sound), Bosca Ceoil (music), Righteous (font), OneNote (notes), git (version control), and Github (hosting).

Screenshot

Tools: Audacity, Bosca Ceoil, GIMP, Paint.net

Comments12

Dan Livings4 Apr 2022, 16:45

It was pretty fun to play. I survived nearly five minutes by exclusively growing cash crops and burning vast swathes of increasingly expansionist alien weeds, all the while the amount of debt was still going up faster than I could pay it down. Nice work.

alks9 Apr 2022, 18:55

Good work! nice simple gameplay but its really addicting! Ended up playing pretty long :D! Thank you for making this!

Wizard9 Apr 2022, 18:56

Quite fun to play. easy to grasp. music and sfx were great. Only issue I had was the ui was going off screen and I had no way to see some of the game. Other than that great work

hmightypirate9 Apr 2022, 19:02

I did very bad the first times but improved later by focusing in the cash crops and paying the debt from time to time (but still very difficult). I wonder what would be the best strategy here.

But I like this kind of games

kirypto9 Apr 2022, 19:31

Music is wonderful. I will say the premise and gameplay was very intuitive. The first game I failed measurably, but lasted a long time on the second, even pulled off the victory after 500. Very good game. Only comment is on theme, I was not expecting to be able to win lol. Perhaps an increasing interest rate over time?

Necdilzor15 Apr 2022, 14:31

Nice game! Loved the music and the humor.
Woods were spreading fast!

tigerfinch15 Apr 2022, 14:48

Really polished! Loved the music in particular.

natpat16 Apr 2022, 03:04

A fun take on the theme! Interest on debt really is inevitable. I found it a fun arcade-y experience, with some interesting choices to make. The debt really did fly up, and I would have liked more of a choice of how much of my money I could pay off the debt rather than almost all of it, but that's a small gripe. Good stuff!

Nonnen20 Apr 2022, 11:46

Very hectic game! Music added to the intense mayham

BurnsDesigns21 Apr 2022, 15:20

Wo. I needed 1 or 2 runs to grasp all the different tools available and how they worked, but once I saw the system, I had a lot of fun.

Intense Gardening.