Harvest Simulator

by kromeboy

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.46

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.22

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.72

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.35

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.80

As the title say in Harvest Simulator you have to harvest a field of wheat.

You can play this game in two modes: challenge and free play.
In challenge you compete for the online high score: cut as much wheat as you can in 100 seconds.

In free mode you can relax and cut as long as you want: you also can try to create some shape in the crop, like a crop circle.

Press esc to get back to the external camera and view your work.

- w to move forward
- space to cut
- mouse to look around

I have tried to optimize the game by not rendering all the wheat all the time, but this game can still be a little hard on the performance. The Windows version will probably run faster then the web version.

Comments24

Steven Garberg9 Jan 2023, 04:23

This was pretty relaxing to play. Nice job!

Riesyeti9 Jan 2023, 16:22

The gameplay is very simple yes BUT the online highscore is awesome! Makes you want to try it again

icxon10 Jan 2023, 07:24

Oh I wish I could walk there like Maximus from Gladiator. Found couple technics how to gain score fast. Also this will be sick in VR (and probably furniture-breaking)!

Here is my playtest:

kromeboyauthor10 Jan 2023, 10:14

@icxon that's great! Love how every time I publish a game someone always find a way to beat my high score :-D

PuttPuttTheTruck10 Jan 2023, 10:24

Pretty simple game but with some nice animations and particle effects it could be a nice relaxing game, and the online highscore definitely adds a lot. I love how you can see a view from above of the patterns you've made

Flying Dog Fish10 Jan 2023, 10:51

Nice crop circle making simulator. If only there was an overhead view to see the resulting pattern.

WobbleBlocks10 Jan 2023, 13:30

you know I drew a schlong, great work! VR would be awesome!

Pusheeneiro10 Jan 2023, 13:54

It's fun to discover more ways to harvest grain faster.

froissant10 Jan 2023, 14:03

Congrats on making all of this alone! The leaderboard is a nice addition 👍🏻

Annie Owl10 Jan 2023, 18:52

Figuring out the optimal way of cutting wheat was surprisingly engaging :smile:

profan10 Jan 2023, 20:04

I like this, the birds in the background and the sound to cut wheat put a smile on my face, also props for getting a highscore listing in on the jam deadline! I wanted one too but alas, time :D

Nice work!

kromeboyauthor10 Jan 2023, 20:43

@profan the High Score table is a component that I have made some time ago. It now take me about 15 minutes to implement it in any game, and for what I see is always worth the effort.

Thank you for playing!

amkingTRP10 Jan 2023, 22:16

Oddly satisfying game. Based on other entries I kept expecting to get "upgrades" to my scythe to let me cut more, but keeping it simple subverted my expectations. It's a nice addition to the collection of "experience" games that have been submitted to this jam.

D3kryption11 Jan 2023, 07:34

A surprisingly simple yet relaxing game. IT like it. The LODing is funny and made me laugh. My score was 8029 or something.

Nice job! :)

stellarnightmare11 Jan 2023, 11:06

Pretty Noice. it was simple but enjoyable and having the online high scores adds to it alot.

DzejPi11 Jan 2023, 11:47

Fairly simple game, but fun! LOD is pretty amusing, but what else can be done, right? Haha. I love that you included the online scoreboard. I am third now!

xCarl11 Jan 2023, 12:21

The online high score is an incentive to keep retrying and find a better technique to harvest and gain more points. Well done!

kromeboyauthor11 Jan 2023, 15:01

@dzejpi yea, the LOD was the main focus of what I have learned with this project. Obviously you can't render about a million straws in HTML5 (and if you can the aliasing is still awful). I could probably include something more detailed then a cube, and maybe create 3 levels of detail, but I preferred to show this feature explicitly.

vrerabek12 Jan 2023, 10:03

Very relaxing game and the high score is a nice touch. I like how you tried to optimize the game, you have inspired me to look up into something similar myself!

Could not beat the high score, but I'm pretty close! :smile:

Good job!

rosypenguin13 Jan 2023, 06:14

Ok I need to learn some harvesting strategies because the highest I could reach was 8000... Love the highscores system, even though the game is really simple and straightforward I still had an incentive to keep playing :D

Jiri Hysek13 Jan 2023, 15:36

Relaxing gameplay that is harder than it seems if you want to be at the top :) I managed to get something over 15000 in the challenge.

BinaryPrinciple14 Jan 2023, 23:25

I see the basis for a cozy, artistic game. I enjoyed it and have a few recommendations: setup a random pitch when you harvest, setup a mini map, maybe there are some wheat that give you power ups or higher score, even some alien jump scares.

kromeboyauthor15 Jan 2023, 22:32

@binaryprinciple the minimap is a nice idea and something I want to try to implement. It couldn't be a second camera because the game can barely handle a single camera. Probably an abstraction on the cubes that get the same on and off state of the main game (if a cube is partially cut it will not be rendered as a cube).

KreGames22 Jan 2023, 12:18

At first relaxing game, and than you her the sound of he swing in your nightmares :D Nice entry, smooth gameplay, but after a few tries it comes boring.

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