Beet Farmer by oneseedfruit
See the gameplay video to better grasp the mechanics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8gdt76U7s
Avoid starvation. Avoid bankruptcy. Plan well.
Select an action. Then start doing. Bounce ball on paddle. Harvest beet to sell. Grab beet to harvest. Tip: Water field before planting.
This game requires you to multitask. Think of a task as a ball you're juggling on the paddle. You can juggle up to 3 balls in this game, so you can carry out up to 3 tasks at a time.
[W] [S] to select [A] [D] to move [SPACE] to launch [ESC] for menu.
It's a farm sim + Pong/Breakout mashup.
3 actions to select from: (1) WATER, (2) HAND with SEED (to plant a seed), (3) HAND (to harvest a beet).
After an action is selected, launch the "ball" and start farming.
You can only do up to 3 actions at a time (3 "balls" to juggle at a time).
Decide which 3 actions are you going to do at any time.
Drop off an action (literally, drop off the ball) that you don't need to make space for an action that you do need.
Water costs money. Planting a seed costs money and makes you hungry. Harvesting a beet makes you hungry.
Using a hand with seed to plant a seed, once the seed is planted, it will turn into just a hand for harvesting a beet.
So if you want to harvest a fully grown beet, instead of using just a hand, you can launch a hand with seed to plant a seed, then it'll turn into just a hand that can pick up the grown beet too. Doing this saves you a little from hunger.
You need to water your seeds so that they'll grow. They'll also wilt if they lose all their moisture.
Tiles too, dry up gradually, and moisture can be maintained in the tiles by constantly watering them.
Tiles with plants on them dry up faster then tiles without.
When your beet are fully grown, you can harvest them.
Juggling a harvested beet to the bowl at the bottom left corner would fill your hunger.
Juggling it to the shipment box at the bottom right corner would sell it for money.
You also have to pay your ever increasing tax dues every 30 in-game months (seconds in real life).
| HTML5 (web) | https://oneseedfruit.itch.io/beet-farmer |
| Github | https://github.com/oneseedfruit/BeetFarmer |
| Other (web) | https://youtu.be/xx8gdt76U7s |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/beet-farmer |
Ratings
| Overall | 227th | 3.576⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 205th | 3.53⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 52th | 4.045⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 63th | 4.197⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 318th | 3.318⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 225th | 3.183⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 232th | 3⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 229th | 3.29⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 55🗳️ | 24🗨️ |
I liked the audio in the game, helps give it a super chill vibe. Overall enjoyed this.
If you have time, you can also check out my game as well https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/slime-battle-royale
@Firesplash Entertainment @ManBeardGames Hahaha, I really need to learn how to keep things simple or make proper tutorials. Added that to my to-do list!! Also gotta practice art, better art might convey things more effectively, not to mention I rushed this while working on another LD41 game in a team :D. I had plenty of fun even though I didn't do much due to the lack of skills on my part.
I can't make music well, but I wanted audio in the game, so I had an idea. The audio consists of an array of 7 pitches of some instrument selected at random to play everytime a ball hits a tile, in the main menu though, a timer is used instead to play a selected pitch. Guess what, it was done in 5 minutes using SunVox, then another 5 minutes to code in.
@LERPish @mintarcade Thanks!! Hahaha, guess I've found my niche? I wanna add more stuff to the game, like rocks, pickaxe, different crops, seasons and pests, and.... so much more but for now, I'm gonna focus on learning how to make proper in-game tutorials, better art and balancing the difficulty.
And oh, oh!! I'm also gonna play and rate all your games when I wake up since it's past 3AM now over here and I gotta sleep!!! Those who like farm games, check out other LD41 games like Crash Crops and Harvest Doom you guys!! @Firesplash Entertainment made a farm game too!! So did @mintarcade. Whoa farm games everywhere. Can't stop making farm games!!
The concept of the game is very clever but it needs a bit of polish, and like you say yourself, a simple to grasp tutorial. Nice work!
Simple graphics, **but satisfying**.
Simple sounds, **but makes soothing music as you play**.
Simple gameplay, **but deeper than at first glance**.
It really shows how you can't just look at a screenshot and judge.
Edit: I booted it again and got audio to work! Not bad! I also figured out - you have to feed yourself by putting completed beets in the left, and pay more money by putting completed beets in the right. Interesting!
I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.
I hope you continue with the project.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape
PS.
sorry for my bad english