Wheat Joust

by whismirk

co-authored: @azcat, @ekoon, @floups, @tsem

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.55

/!\ This game requires two players /!\

When two knights claim a field, a new tradition came up : the Wheat Joust. The knight who harvests the most wheat in a limited time wins. But nothing stops you from slashing off the head of your opponent.

Controls

Rules

The game starts with the two players on each side of the screen.

Your goal is to fill your bag with a maximum amount of wheat during the given time.

You can kill your opponent to steal some of their wheat.

While in the wheat, you are hidden. You make a dodge roll every time you get out of it. Use that to your advantage to ambush your opponent and slash him down !

You have 60 seconds. Good luck :D

Credits (third party assets)

Engine : Unity 2021.3.12

Music : Instrumental rearrange of I'm Shipping Up To Boston by Dropkick Murphys

Font : Old London

Sound effects were pulled from various samples. All art and code was made by our team during the 72 hours.

Our team

We're a group of 5 gamedev students from France ! We actually had class on the final day so the end result came a bit more rushed (and buggy) than we wanted.

Design : Simon Lenain (Ekoon) & Thomas Florent (Whismirk)

Code : Chloé Mathias (Azcat), Tom Segaux (Tsem), Thomas Florent (Whismirk)

Art : Floriane Schulz (Floups)

Tags: #2d, #harvest, #indie, #medieval, #top-down, #two player, #unity, #versus

Genres: action, fighting

Tools: Unity

Comments10

fc8505710 Jan 2023, 03:47

You don't come across a lot of 2 players games in jams like this, so that was a cool thing to see! I like the concept and the bit of lore you came up with for it. The game looks lovely; the art for the environment and the character design are really nice. I did come across some issues with the controls where the character would slide if moving and harvesting at the same time.

(I know you opted out of the audio rating category, but I'd still be careful using songs like that)

Christopher Hedge10 Jan 2023, 05:14

Solid mechanics, beautiful graphics, banging soundtrack, and local multiplayer... What more could you want from a game? The only thing I had an issue with was that I couldn't hear the rest of the audio over the music, but for 72 hours you made a gem.
Thank you for the experience

StephanSchue11 Jan 2023, 21:27

Love it simple and solid.

Iskra11 Jan 2023, 23:04

I love this game! It is amazing ^^

Seagoingmanatee16 Jan 2023, 20:21

Nice Entry Enjoyed having a two player game in the list

PROJECTaroid18 Jan 2023, 16:55

Nice approach to the jam's theme. The game looks good and plays well. I like how you had an alternate attack input for the 2nd player. Hitting shift too often makes windows try to activate sticky keys. Cool game, nice work!

0x01F021 Jan 2023, 09:22

hectic and fun :D there should be more local multiplayer games in LD imo.

I love that these are knights WITH farmers' pants :D

nice work!

Sphinx26 Jan 2023, 06:06

Had a lot of fun playing this with my friend! A very interesting take on the theme. I love the dodge animation lol.

91911326 Jan 2023, 20:25

That was fun to play, it's not often you come across a two player game on here; and although I didn't have anyone to play it with, I had fun trying to get my hands to be coordinated enough to battle each other.

digivorix27 Jan 2023, 19:24

Good job! It took me a second to realize that the characters were hidden behind the wheat on purpose, but it was a good time nonetheless. Love the art style too.

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