In reality this is a Jam submission, I made sure to do it within the 72 hour deadline*. I just had a very busy weekend and was only able to publish a day late. If you could rate accordingly, I suppose? :-)
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Fill as many harvest boxes you can before the market closes at 4pm.
Controls: - Click on the feet to move around. - Click on crates to get fruit (and vegetables). - Double-click fruit to move them to customers. You can also drag them around. - Go to the cash register to sell complete boxes.
Credits: - Ben Kalman (btkal) - Design, Code, Audio, Music. - Andrea Mitchell - Art.
Music is by me, and is the cheeriest tune I've ever written. Sound samples are all from freesound.org.
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* though on playing the game a day after, the lack of a retry button was annoying and the controls were RSI-inducing so I added a double-click control.
A fun little multitasking game! The basic gameplay loop is simple but fun, and importantly, very easy to understand without a tutorial. The presentation is nice, and I like the music! Overall, lovely work :)
Enjoyed it! I liked the music and the mini fit-the-blocks puzzles fit in nicely with the game (have you been playing Dredge recently? :wink:). I would have loved to see that come up more, most people only wanted a few things, and spam double-clicking placed the items fine.
I think the timer is too muted for its importance to the game - you could "announce" it more using a full-screen effect like darkening as dusk approaches, or, since you created the music, raising the tempo or adding a countdown-style panicky bit to the end of it.
this was actually quite fun! i have a knack for efficient packing, and it was cool to see it made into a game. i didn't realize at first, but you have to be sure your space is laid out correctly for both filling the bucket, and filling the selling bucket. i ran into what i thought was a bug in this state, but actually i needed to move things around to fit the second watermelon in:
i did, however, find a bug, when i had a guy ready to sell, then i timed out, when i restarted he was still stuck there:
by the way, i think it would be really nice to implement keyboard only controls. technically yes, dragging the fruit around is a mechanic, but if you're playing well, you should never have to do that, since it takes up a lot of valuable time. i'm much more fluent with keyboard than clicking around the screen, and i have a feeling that i'd feel like a wizard in this game if i could just arrow around and use space or some other buttons to take and place fruit.
@fuse-in-a-bowl thanks! No, I haven't played Dredge, hmmm. You're right about the block-puzzle thing being the most interesting part of the game, and that there isn't enough of it. I initially didn't have the double-click placement at all because my idea was purely a block-rearranging thing, but it was too difficult and not really much fun. If I was to spend another day on this game I'd rearrange things a bit. And yeah good call on the timer, I had something like that on my list but didn't have time.
@sakura-magika thanks! Hah I'm not surprised you ran into a bug with the "start again" logic. It was very, very rushed. My first version had keyboard movement actually, but I took it out just to keep things simple and click. A keyboard-only control system would be interesting.
Very cool entry! I really liked this minigame and tried to beat my score a couple of times (only managed to get about 96$ :laughing:)
I noticed 2 little bugs while playing. 1.)After losing the first round, one of the customers that already had a filled cart didn't move (so that was one easy dollar for the next round :wink:) 2.) If I click the sell button fast enough I can sell the items twice (customers never complained though)
This is great. The music and art give it a really sweet and pleasant feel. That zoom in with the people sounds and strings, after "start" is clicked, is so nice! The gameplay was pretty intuitive. As others wrote, I hadn't realized that for some baskets, I needed to place the produce myself to get it to fit. That's a great mechanic for this game, but it doesn't happen enough.
@fatpenguin thanks! I never managed to break $100. There is a moderate amount of randomness to it, it's not the most finely tuned gameplay. Maybe I should fix that inventory bug later, seems like it triggers pretty often.
@pincushion thank you! Glad you appreciated the opening "cinematic", I put a fair amount of time into getting that feeling right. The sound crackling is an issue with fmod in some browsers unfortunately.
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The control scheme is a little bit cumbersome, but the gameplay itself is pretty clever and fun!
I think the timer is too muted for its importance to the game - you could "announce" it more using a full-screen effect like darkening as dusk approaches, or, since you created the music, raising the tempo or adding a countdown-style panicky bit to the end of it.
Very nice game! Great job :slight_smile:
i did, however, find a bug, when i had a guy ready to sell, then i timed out, when i restarted he was still stuck there:
anyways, after 3 attempts, my high score is $76
@sakura-magika thanks! Hah I'm not surprised you ran into a bug with the "start again" logic. It was very, very rushed. My first version had keyboard movement actually, but I took it out just to keep things simple and click. A keyboard-only control system would be interesting.
I noticed 2 little bugs while playing.
1.)After losing the first round, one of the customers that already had a filled cart didn't move (so that was one easy dollar for the next round :wink:)
2.) If I click the sell button fast enough I can sell the items twice (customers never complained though)
Again very nice entry. I had lots of fun =)
The sound crackles for me when I play it on itch.
@pincushion thank you! Glad you appreciated the opening "cinematic", I put a fair amount of time into getting that feeling right. The sound crackling is an issue with fmod in some browsers unfortunately.
Maybe an objective may have been cool because the only constraint is to beat my score.
But well done, love the happy music :)