10 Second Farm

by quoclon
co-authored: @jon-curtin
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.09
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.41
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.91
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.77
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.40
"Every 10 Seconds" - Ludum Dare 51 Entry.

Play

https://quoclon.itch.io/10secondfarm

General


A farm management. No win conditions. If all your animals die you lose!
The Selection Phase is '10 seconds long!' - which was our inclusion of the theme!

Instructions:


Selection Phase - Click on animals, and then Click on a building/truck:


Feed - Left Building - increases health. Green Bar. Use early.

Breed - Middle Building - creates offspring, when Red Bar is high

Produce - Right Building - creates produce (i.e. eggs), use when Blue Bar is high

Sell - Right Truck - sells the animal; use when health (Green Bar) is high


Outcome Phase - See the outcomes of your efforts


Gold Adjustments - will go up if you made produce or sold animals

Health/Breed/Produce Bars - may go up or down



Event Phase - ​External events occur that impact gameplay that round


[Not Implemented] - eventually will impact sales/health/produce, etc.



Upgrade Phase - Random upgrades, various prices, impact gameplay that round


[Not Implemented] - eventually will impact sales/health/produce, etc.



Post-Mortem (things we were stoked on)


Building a 3d game - most of our work has been in 2d

World Space UI ​- Health Bars, Billboard UI, etc.

Scriptable Objects - ​making event creation super slick

Navmesh Agents - easy-mode AI

Highlighting 3D Characters - using multiple mesh/materials

Collaborating - using git, brainstorming, etc.

Balance - hanging out, coding, but still going out for food, walks, etc.

Building Skills - utilizing some core skills, but overall learning some new things!

Comments15

fnelix3 Oct 2022, 10:12
Nice idea! Gameplay seems incomplete though, and for me some UI elements are way to large and off-screen.
LDJam user 300360
LDJam user 3003603 Oct 2022, 10:43
Nice idea, a bit sad that the unfinished phases makes you lose 20 seconds waiting (may have been skipped) but the game is very cute
LDJam user 2364163 Oct 2022, 10:56
I love farm games. But why animals move and jump so much? If you go even further with this behavior, you will get first-person shooter game, lol.
Nbrowning55 Oct 2022, 03:58
Really loved the low poly art and the animations on the animals. It really brought the whole mood of the game together.
Nbrowning55 Oct 2022, 04:07
Love the background and the animations on the animals are very squishy and nice. I don't know if I ran into a glitch but when I fed the animals they seem to gain little health. Overall fun idea just needs some tweaks on the numbers, the art and animation where all well put together. Great Job!
Stephen Kyranakis5 Oct 2022, 04:07
Nice work! I like the animation of the animals, including the way that they all hop around. I also liked the laid-back style and low-poly art.
triggthediscovery
triggthediscovery5 Oct 2022, 04:21
Nice little game! Loved the graphics, I think the rapid jumping added to the hectic atmosphere.
LDJam user 301711
LDJam user 3017115 Oct 2022, 06:16
No one has mentioned it yet but I apologize for the atrocious spelling. Yes English is our first language... maybe it shouldn't be
Thierry6 Oct 2022, 08:40
I really like the art style, especially the animal animations. It gives the game a light and fun feeling. However, for me, it lacks a progression path, for example a goal to achieve or things to unlock.
Brandsma
Brandsma6 Oct 2022, 08:51
Nice 3D art and love the daily news having an influence every round. Sometimes it felt a little bit slow, where I was just waiting for 10 seconds till the animals were all done doing their thing.
KatBoo7 Oct 2022, 11:12
So many systems in such a short amount of time! Was a little confused but enjoyed playing :)
SimonO
SimonO7 Oct 2022, 11:43
Great idea to try and boil a farming genre into a 10 second loop! I found it a bit hard to follow the results of my actions each round but had fun putting on my virtual farmer hat!
NightVision659 Oct 2022, 03:26
Don't know how to play at my first playthrough but figured it out later. Really nice game, and I like the newspaper telling you the information that makes each turn different.
BayLock
BayLock11 Oct 2022, 05:52
Nicely Done Bro. really nice concept and use of the 10 second theme. Would love to see this game developed further and released in a larger scale. Please do check out my submission as well.
TinyLittleStudio
TinyLittleStudio13 Oct 2022, 09:40
Interesting concept and well executed. If I had to criticise I would say the user interface is a bit difficult to read / see. I would also recommend ending the timer if you selected all animals to not have idle time as you quickly learn to select them way faster than the ten seconds in the beginning. Other than that it is a solid jam submission. Good work!

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