The harvest needs to be in today, but your tractor has broken down. What can you do other than strap a scythe to the bottom of your crop duster and have at it? Fly low to the ground to chop down the crops. Be careful to watch your fuel, if you run out it's game over! There are spare jerry cans in the barn, the doors are open so you can grab them without having to land.
Things I missed- You can't see your mouse when trying to press the buttons to play again. I forgot to add controller support. Sorry there isn't any music, I only had 30 mins left to add SFX and music.
Ohhh a fellow godot entry! My time was 464! I did find myself mostly just sticking to the ground and not doing a lot of flying as it didn't seem any more efficient to do try to go higher and dive down compared to just staying level with the ground. Felt good to play though! Although I did wish the completion metric was a bit lower since it felt like I was mowing down little bumps to get the final bit. Like if maybe the goal wasn't to fully harvest everything, but to just get a full days worth of harvest it might have removed the tedious bit at the end.
You definitely get a huge sense of speed when you're flying low to the ground. All the little polish details you put in really come through (especially the camera shake and motion blur). I skipped rating you in sound because I wasn't getting any. Is there sound? I liked that I could go back to refuel as many times as you want. At first I thought it was going to be limited.
@ursagames thanks for playing! yeah good idea, I should have made it 90% or something. I also wanted to make it so you have to deposit grain in the silo once you reach a certain amount, which might have encouraged flying a bit more, but of course I ran out of time 😅
@candlesan thank you very much for playing and for the nice feedback. Yeah there should be SFX, like engine sounds and refueling sounds. No music though. It might need turning up?
I clipped through the ground :smile: This feels more like a racing game than a flying one, can stick close to the ground at all times. Overall really fun entry. Great job on the graphics, the harvesting/wheat texture implementation. Great sense of speed.
Flying felt good and was easy to control. I think this would be a bit dangerous with a real plane ;) I like your idea with the grain silo, but yeah, 48h .. Cool entry!
The crops reminded me of snow, but then I watched description and realized why :D. Overall fun game, really hit the perfectionist side of about making the field clean. up/down controls are not to be touched, but horizontal ones were really smooth. Aesthetically quite pleasing.
My best is only 354, and maybe I can do better, but I saw all I had to say : good job! Especially for a compo!
PS : at a time, I was too near of the ground, and when I turned the plane on a wide angle I suddenly found myself underground, without any way to go back above… I say it for any usefull purpose, but I guess this is a Godot issue and that you can't do anything :sweat_smile: (it was with the windows version)
I like the idea here a lot, and I think there is a very fun direction you can take this.
The main issue I found was there there was no reason *not* to fly close. I never had to pull up, and in fact the only time I steered the plane vertically was steering it *further* into the ground in order to slow the plane down for tight corners.
Having more obstacles on the ground (cows, harvesters, more static structures that cause injury to the plane) and more reasons to fly up (hills with other plants on them, having fuel be on a level higher than the ground) would make more use of the seemingly pretty solid flight controller you have.
It would also be good to have smaller levels with shorter time limits, that would encourage the player to take risks and need to better plan how to approach each level.
I think it would definitely be worth it to do a post jam version which works on encouraging the player to interact with the world more.
@eranot thanks mate! Yeah I would have liked to make the plane crash when you hit the ground, I was just worried it would be too tedious or frustrating
@weirdybeardyman I agree it would be ver frustrating if the plane crashed on the ground, but maybe it would be alright to crash on the trees, buildings and rocks =)
Great entry! This one is really fun and relaxing to just buzz around the fields at your own pace. The flight model feels great, and the wheat harvesting is super satisfying as well. Great idea to have the barn fly-through refuel as a fun challenge to repeat periodically. This is the only harvesting game I've played so far that uses a terrain layer for crops, and it works remarkably well. Excellent job on this one!
Cool vibe with the silly story and unusual controls of the plane and being so low to the ground! I did mostly just cruise on the ground so I think I lost a bit of the flying feel but it was still a fun vehicle to control.
And the "destructible terrain" style of wheat was a nice touch that worked well.
Very fun, controls were perfect and that sense of speed really hit as well as advertised. I feel like if you had levels that started very easy and slowly escalated it would help give a feeling of accomplishment. Also, this farmer is a goddamn genius, next time someone around me needs to harvest some fields, we're grabbing a cessna and a long blade. Great work here.
Excellent game, I really liked this take on the theme - very funny premise. I loved flying the plane around, your flight felt very good to me, so my biggest wish for the game would have been some reason to actually leave the ground (or up the challenge by not letting me just scrape the plane across the ground without some real penalty). The way that the crop harvesting works looks great, it was very satisfying to do the core action of the game.
Having the fuel in the barn was great, although the fact that it was hovering slightly tripped me up a couple of times. Then when I came back around to get it I ended my game in the most sad place.
The clipping through the ground made it a bit of a struggle in the beginning, but I thought the game was well done overall! It was really satisfying once I got the hang of it, and I really like your take on the theme!
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I skipped rating you in sound because I wasn't getting any. Is there sound?
I liked that I could go back to refuel as many times as you want. At first I thought it was going to be limited.
I like your idea with the grain silo, but yeah, 48h .. Cool entry!
Thanks very much for playing!
PS : at a time, I was too near of the ground, and when I turned the plane on a wide angle I suddenly found myself underground, without any way to go back above… I say it for any usefull purpose, but I guess this is a Godot issue and that you can't do anything :sweat_smile: (it was with the windows version)
The main issue I found was there there was no reason *not* to fly close. I never had to pull up, and in fact the only time I steered the plane vertically was steering it *further* into the ground in order to slow the plane down for tight corners.
Having more obstacles on the ground (cows, harvesters, more static structures that cause injury to the plane) and more reasons to fly up (hills with other plants on them, having fuel be on a level higher than the ground) would make more use of the seemingly pretty solid flight controller you have.
It would also be good to have smaller levels with shorter time limits, that would encourage the player to take risks and need to better plan how to approach each level.
I think it would definitely be worth it to do a post jam version which works on encouraging the player to interact with the world more.
And the "destructible terrain" style of wheat was a nice touch that worked well.
Nice job!
Having the fuel in the barn was great, although the fact that it was hovering slightly tripped me up a couple of times. Then when I came back around to get it I ended my game in the most sad place.
Overall a great game, very well done!
Like others, I would have love to do more stunts and not just stick to the ground.
Maybe by adding a plateform where we need to deposit or refuel frequently?