Ludum Dare #52compo

Feed the beast

by benmo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.33

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Grow corn to feed the monster so that it doesn’t eat you! Get to 100% to win. If it goes down to 0% then you lose!

Instructions:
- Click on the monster to feed him!
- Click on the shop to buy stuff!
- Plant corn in tilled soil
- Use shovel to till soil
- Use shears to harvest corn
- Place scarecrows to keep the crows away

Post submission changes
- I uploaded a new version to fix some critical bugs like the UI not working correctly and input not working when restarting the game.
- I added some tooltips and adjusted the game balance while I was at it.

Source code:
- https://github.com/bmolyneaux/LD52

Genres: survival

Comments3

superpokeunicorn9 Jan 2023, 04:59

Cute game! The 2.5D visuals are very charming, and I like the silly sounds the beast makes. I will say that the gameplay gets a bit repetitive once you get a scarecrow up and running; just a matter of repeating the cycle a few times until you win. But sill a solid entry. Nice work!

cagibi11 Jan 2023, 10:29

I agree with the difficulty curve needing a bit of tweaking, but this is already impressive for the compo. The visuals are interesting (I was a bit surprised by the oblique camera angle at first, but it made the crows' positions clearer).

Pincushion15 Jan 2023, 18:14

I think the difficulty curve was over-tweaked. There were so many crows that I couldn't get 2 rounds of crops for 1 scarecrow. So I think it's too difficult right now.

Balance aside, it's a nice game. The coarse pixel art billboards form a nice cohesive look. The controls feel good. The placement border makes using the seeds/tools intuitive. The animation when the shop is opened is pretty satisfying. This could go much further with many more seeds and tools.