Harvest Hijinks

by hunt

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Winter is coming and you must grow enough crops to last the winter. However, tiny insects are determined to eat you out of house and home. Grow inedible bushes and shrubs to protect your crops so you can last the winter.

How to Play

1. In the shop, click on the plant you would like to place.
2. Click on the space you would like to plant in.
3. Repeat until your garden is ready.
4. Click "Start Round" and hope you can survive the bugs!
5. Click on any fully-grown plants to harvest them.

Plants

- Plants have 3 stages: seed, sprout, and mature. Seeds are the cheapest in the shop, but they cannot block bugs.
- Each plant has different health, growth times, and harvest values.
- There are 3 broad categories of plants: cash crops, durable shrubs, and flowers that support plant growth.
- There are also vines that are a mix of the above categories and spread over time.

Insects

All bugs will eat plants until they are full. If they make it to your house, then they will start eating your supply of acorns!
- Flies are weak bugs that make a beeline for your house.
- Beetles are slow but eat a lot more than flies.
- Locusts circle around your garden as they eat all your crops.

Tips

- During the early rounds, consider buying bush sprouts to defend your cash crops.
- You can place plants while the bugs are attacking. If you don't have enough money to defend all sides of your house, start the round to see where the bugs are and then quickly put down some bush sprouts to block them.
- At the end of a round, you'll gain an acorn (2 in Easy Mode) and any plants that have grown will emit green particles.

Credits

Windemere, Art

Mermeid Designs, SFX, Music, Art

Hunt Sparra, Programming
Genres: strategy
Tools: Godot

Comments15

Frostbeak8 Oct 2024, 21:02
I think the game could use some balancing(maybe I'm just bad), but overall the combinations are really cool. Super expandable concept too.
LDJam user 372231
LDJam user 3722319 Oct 2024, 14:39
The game doesn't load. "Service Worker is disabled because the context is sandboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' flag"
Linky439
Linky4399 Oct 2024, 18:36
Phew, it's hard! But I like the idea and the art is quite nice as well!

Is there a way to prevent the bloody beetle to take down my poor house though? :D I swear everything was going okayish and then... The blue beetle slowly crawled to my house... And it was over.

The concept is quite fun, there might be a bit too many plants to start with so the player can get easily lost. But it would make for a nice puzzle game if fleshed out a bit more, congrats!
Verbante
Verbante9 Oct 2024, 18:55
Cute game! The music is nice. I like how the main menu music layers in :)
Transkuja
Transkuja9 Oct 2024, 19:09
Nice game but took me a while to understand what to do ^^'
Ntimi
Ntimi9 Oct 2024, 19:11
That's a fun puzzle game with a nice theme going on! I like that the plants around your house are both a wall to protect you, but have to be protected, too. I needed a few tries to get the concept, but after I survived two rounds, everything afterwards went well. Just mastered easy for now, but I'll be back for the harder challenges. :D
Nick Halstead
Nick Halstead9 Oct 2024, 19:41
First of all, I LOVE the art, music, and concept of the game. I think you have a really nice idea here, and I'd be exciting to see it "sprout" into a full game.

Some feedback: doing well in the game seems to rely on placing a few high value sprouts early and starting the round while still having currency. Then, placing bushes (grown ones, not seeds) directly on enemies to avoid a loss on round 1. Having different icons for a seed bush vs sprout/full would help, and maybe some direction to encourage placement after starting the round.
CathelAleph9 Oct 2024, 19:51
The game has very complete artwork! The rules were a bit hard to understand for me, but after some trial and error , I made it to round 4 hahaha. Very cute game, I really like it!
f1tzy
f1tzy9 Oct 2024, 19:54
Art, music, and controls are great. The difficulty is a little steep, might need some tweaking in that area.
LDJam user 374049 Oct 2024, 20:33
Very nice game! I agrre that there may be too many plants at the begining. but the soundtrack fits quite well. very innovative idea
Abdul Zakkar
Abdul Zakkar10 Oct 2024, 03:48
Cool game! Although I did find it pretty challenging, I never seemed to have enough acorns to spend on much! I really like the audio and art style, well done
Angelina Wu10 Oct 2024, 03:53
The art is very very very cute!! I loved the concept of the game, I do think there are some balancing issues but this was fun. Sort of disagree with the people saying it was hard to understand what to do— I thought the instructions were well-written and the game was intuitive once you got going.
Loveschach12 Oct 2024, 05:48
Love the idea and the art, but I long for a comprehensive tutorial. It was very overwhelming to start.

Why are all my neighbors bugging me? They come and chew me me out about my plants. It really stings when they're so hostile.

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