Super Strict Farmer by Benjamin
YOUR GOAL
You have 12 rounds to accumulate more victory points than your opponent. At the end of the game you receive victory points for extra cattles, sheeps, grain and food
USING ACTION SPACE
On your turn, you can use your blue farmers on various action space, you start the game with 2x farmers wich mean you can perform 2x actions each round.
FEEDING YOUR FARMERS
At the end of the round you must feed your farmers, they consume one food each. If you have no food, farmers eat grain. If no grain they will eat victory points. If no victory points, your farmer will die.
BUILDING STUFF !
If you collect enough ressources you will be able to use the workshop action space. Choose one card and the building will be added to your territory. Some Building have special power, or have victory point value.
EXTEND YOUR FAMILY
If you start a round with at least one empty house, you will gain one new farmer. So build a third house as soon as you can ! You need 3x woods and 1x grain for this !
PLOW FIELDS
You need fields to keep animals or to sow grains
You have 12 rounds to accumulate more victory points than your opponent. At the end of the game you receive victory points for extra cattles, sheeps, grain and food
USING ACTION SPACE
On your turn, you can use your blue farmers on various action space, you start the game with 2x farmers wich mean you can perform 2x actions each round.
FEEDING YOUR FARMERS
At the end of the round you must feed your farmers, they consume one food each. If you have no food, farmers eat grain. If no grain they will eat victory points. If no victory points, your farmer will die.
BUILDING STUFF !
If you collect enough ressources you will be able to use the workshop action space. Choose one card and the building will be added to your territory. Some Building have special power, or have victory point value.
EXTEND YOUR FAMILY
If you start a round with at least one empty house, you will gain one new farmer. So build a third house as soon as you can ! You need 3x woods and 1x grain for this !
PLOW FIELDS
You need fields to keep animals or to sow grains
| Web | http://deepnight.net/games/ld23-superstrictfarmer |
| Scale 2x ( for big screen ) | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5708192/LD23/index2.html |
| Timelapse | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWmV6ZL_SCA |
| Source | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5708192/LD23/sources.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=2952 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 71% | 3 |
| Overall | 4.37 | 3 |
| Audio | 3.22 | 137 |
| Fun | 4.13 | 5 |
| Graphics | 4.43 | 9 |
| Humor | 3.08 | 115 |
| Innovation | 3.94 | 47 |
| Mood | 3.44 | 80 |
| Theme | 3.95 | 43 |
The only thing is that I wish I knew which buildings/actions were availble even if I didn't have the resources (for example, I didn't know the bridge existed until the second game).
Otherwise, very enjoyable.
It would be cool to have a reference with all the rules.
Super Strict Farmer is a really smart game, nice art and feedbacks (sound and visual FX.)
GG !
This game could definitely be continued after the compo :3
I'm a huge fan of Agricola, I've played it A LOT, but not as much as I would like to because I don't have many friends who like Agricola :/
I've tried some web version of Agricola, and it was BORING, moreover, everything was so tiny it wasn't even playable.
So...when I saw you tried to made an Agricola inspired game for this Ludum Dare, I was very excited.
And I'm not disapointed.
Strict Farmer isn't a video game version of Agricola, it's a game inspired by Agricola, but much more simple, short, and easy to play, and that's why it's great. I took me around 1 minute to get all the mechanics, then I played 4 ou 5 times (so 1 minute wasn't too long)
Of course, I'm not 100% satisfied, this game is GREAT; but was made in 48h so it can't be perfect (and it's quite impressve already). So here's my only critic :
- THE AI IS DUMB! ^^
Ok, I suppose it's because I'm an Agricola fan, so the game is quite easy to me in front of an AI, but I was expecting the hard AI to be really tough, it's not enough ^^ I beat him by 2/3 points everytime (and right now...I'm a bit drunk, so it's not supposed to happen ^^)
Strict farmer is a game I enjoyed to play, but now, I want it to be a game I'll enjoy to play everyday, so make it harder ^^
Some tips :
- I noticed the AI sometimes send a farmer to the flag, even if he's already the first player...that is stupid ^^
- I noticed the AI relies way too much on fishing (to get 2 food) You should teach him to make his own food!
Well, anyway, thank you. Obviously I give you five stars.
I didn't get if we can use enemy's buildings. I guess no, but it turned out that enemy can use MY buildings. But I won anyway :P
I should try 2P now.
a little bit hard without reading the guide ^^
Really good work
* if you have less guys than the enemy, you get extra turns even after placing all your guys
* i won the game 14 to 12, getting most of my points in the end, but it still said 'defeat' on my side
* when I plowed my fifth field, it appeared under the enemy houses.
pretty impressive amount of polish on this for a single person's work. almost makes me skeptical you could do it all yourself... :P
A minor point was that I couldn't figure out how to build things for ages, because whenever I hovered over the workshop area it highlighted as market because the opponent had already used it.
But once I played my first playthrough, I fully understood how it worked.
Very polished. Nice job.