Life is Fleeting: New Harvest
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I finally managed to get this in a somewhat playable and finished state. This is a remake of my entry for LD51.
The game this time is less focused, less frantic and tbh not as complete of an experienced as far as gameplay goes. This is mainly because this time I took it as a challenge to expand on things slightly, learn new things again and have much better and more consistent code instead of just slapping everything together.
The art I feel is better and more consistent, though there are tiling issues. The gameplay loop and features works but I don't think it's as fun as my last game. I think a few small changes could fix that but for the moment this is what I have.
I'm quite proud of what I managed to accomplish at least. I was tired throughout, I wasn't expecting the jam when it appeared and I somehow managed to fix a few completely random issues that popped up at the end that had the game completely unplayable. I experimented with state machines, I created a hotbar, I have multiple scenes with consistency in what the game keeps track of between them and for the first time, I created a settings menu and a pause menu... with a settings menu!
The settings menu I'm very pleased with. You can rebind keys, there's buttons to set binds back to default too. Last time, people mentioned wishing they could have the tile targetter/selector be beneath the player so I did just that but I added a checkbox so you can go between the old and the new! I also added a volume slider which is a bit iffy in actually working but it's there!
How to play:
Grab your tools and get started by watering the crops already in the field. After enough days of watering, you can harvest them. You sell them at the box for money which you can then use at the shop to the right to buy seeds. The goal is to get enough money to buy 3 gifts for your preferred outdoor NPC. Give 3 of the same and correct colour and you win!
Remember, you must have your tool/seed/gift selected in the hotbar for them to work.
This was hectic, I need a rest! Hope you get at least a little fun out of it!
I finally managed to get this in a somewhat playable and finished state. This is a remake of my entry for LD51.
The game this time is less focused, less frantic and tbh not as complete of an experienced as far as gameplay goes. This is mainly because this time I took it as a challenge to expand on things slightly, learn new things again and have much better and more consistent code instead of just slapping everything together.
The art I feel is better and more consistent, though there are tiling issues. The gameplay loop and features works but I don't think it's as fun as my last game. I think a few small changes could fix that but for the moment this is what I have.
I'm quite proud of what I managed to accomplish at least. I was tired throughout, I wasn't expecting the jam when it appeared and I somehow managed to fix a few completely random issues that popped up at the end that had the game completely unplayable. I experimented with state machines, I created a hotbar, I have multiple scenes with consistency in what the game keeps track of between them and for the first time, I created a settings menu and a pause menu... with a settings menu!
The settings menu I'm very pleased with. You can rebind keys, there's buttons to set binds back to default too. Last time, people mentioned wishing they could have the tile targetter/selector be beneath the player so I did just that but I added a checkbox so you can go between the old and the new! I also added a volume slider which is a bit iffy in actually working but it's there!
How to play:
Grab your tools and get started by watering the crops already in the field. After enough days of watering, you can harvest them. You sell them at the box for money which you can then use at the shop to the right to buy seeds. The goal is to get enough money to buy 3 gifts for your preferred outdoor NPC. Give 3 of the same and correct colour and you win!
Remember, you must have your tool/seed/gift selected in the hotbar for them to work.
This was hectic, I need a rest! Hope you get at least a little fun out of it!