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Poverty Farmer by Mightymaster99

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made by Mightymaster99 for LD 43 (COMPO)

You play as a family of four in a third world country. Naturally, your family is too poor to be able to sustain anything long-term. With minimal amounts of money, you will have to make sacrifices on both ends; your farm and your family, in order to survive and thrive. Can you do it? Or will you crumble under the pressure of the Poverty Farm?

Please run in Windowed Mode at a resolution of 1024x768. It'll look the best that way.

A few notes about the game before you start: - The tiles in the top left are your menu for shops. You can buy plants, tools, or animals. - The blue and pink cylinders are your family. You can click on them to interact with them. You'll want to, too. - The top right has a Play button, which will simulate a year passing in the game.

Source code https://github.com/Mightymaster99/Poverty-Farmer
Windows https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MvafR9mZyF15Rx6BiX5njq2OTKuwC-aK/view?usp=sharing
macOS https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zfiV4uuQvNPCwXRt5Lq6N_ofXuSflJJn/view?usp=sharing
Linux https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GBW5hBYGsFvsYEv4TTV8VEQWjhqyF6mi/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/poverty-farmer

Ratings

Overall 434th 2.857⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 392th 2.833⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 343th 2.952⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 340th 3.19⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 456th 2.429⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 423th 2.548⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

Jackson_makes_games
03. Dec 2018 · 04:14 UTC
You have an amazing concept here! A resource management/business game with different ways of making income, where you start with virtually nothing. I am in love with it. Although, the mechanics are not obvious and the game is pretty unpolished. I would love to see you develop this further!
pandan
03. Dec 2018 · 04:17 UTC
I couldn't get past turn 1. Idk if the build you uploaded for windows is bugged or not?
I love the idea of it.
carlpilot
03. Dec 2018 · 04:28 UTC
A promising concept; it seems that the turn counter doesn't advance and the game can sometimes suddenly reset. Adherence to the theme is definitely unique and quite innovative nonetheless.
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 04:30 UTC
@jackson-makes-games Thank you very much! Unfortunately, Ludum Dare wasn't on my calendar, so my friend told me about it after Day 1 was over. That should explain it being unpolished. I tried to explain the mechanics in the description here, but I agree that it would be better to have something in the game. I think I'll add that in a later build, when I polish it some more.
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 04:31 UTC
@pandan The game may be bugged, but it IS meant to be hard. I'm glad you love the idea of it!
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 04:35 UTC
@carlpilot Thank you for letting me know of the bugs! I didn't have much time to extensively test this. Ludum Dare wasn't on my calendar, so I found out it was going on after Day 1 was over. This was a pretty rushed game.
pandan
03. Dec 2018 · 04:40 UTC
you should finish it for the Jam deadline if possible!
Slashee the Cow
03. Dec 2018 · 05:43 UTC
Great effort, especially if you did it in a day (makes me sort of ashamed of what I did in two). I'd love to spend more time figuring out the best way to run my farm but I've got other games to rate.
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 05:57 UTC
@slashee-the-cow Thank you! And don't be ashamed. I've been programming with Unity for years, so I kinda got used to time crunches and knowing how to program some stuff. Though, I'm sure your game was great anyways! In fact, I just downloaded it.
Erasmus Crowley
03. Dec 2018 · 06:13 UTC
Multiple times while playing I would click on the "Continue" button, and briefly see a flash of another menu and then the game would reset.

I suspect that after I got my report telling me that I had survived the year, it was popping up a 'failure' menu behind it, and since the "Continue" and "Start over" buttons are in the same place, my click on the "Continue" was also clicking on "Start over" in the instant that the success window disapeared.

Between that and the several legitimate first-year losses, I wasn't able to play the 2nd year despite quite a lot of attempts.

Made me sad, because I love the idea and I'm a sucker for punishing games.
Rhou
03. Dec 2018 · 06:44 UTC
This Game was very fitting of the theme but unfortunetly the ui was a bit lacking I do like the idwa though its just the game felt very unpolished
Sargonius
03. Dec 2018 · 06:47 UTC
UI and UX is not good, but the idea is :-)
Jannick Larsen
03. Dec 2018 · 07:43 UTC
i like the idea, and the mechanics are great. but there is a minor lag in the visuals :)
BJ Pucci
03. Dec 2018 · 10:14 UTC
The game looks fun but unfortunately I cant play it because the mac os version does not work it crashes on launch.
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 18:18 UTC
@erasmus-crowley Thank you very much for the feedback! I'm working on the solution to the failure bug. I'm glad you liked the idea, though!
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 18:19 UTC
@sargonius Thank you for the feedback! Unfortunately, I'm not an artist, so UI and UX weren't too high of a priority. Especially since I found out this started at the end of Day 1 and only had 24 hours to make it.
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 18:20 UTC
@jannick-larsen I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed the idea and mechanics! I'll continue testing and finding what caused the lag.
🎤 Mightymaster99
03. Dec 2018 · 18:21 UTC
@bj-pucci Thank you for letting me know! I don't know what could be causing the crash, but I'll be sure to look into it.
JessicaWall
04. Dec 2018 · 02:54 UTC
I can see this being a game I'd get addicted to with more work. Was a little sad that the money kept reseting every other year for some reason. would of loved to see how long I could keep my family alive. XD
Samuel Porter
04. Dec 2018 · 03:34 UTC
For what its worth, I pastebinned the error messages I get for the Linux version https://pastebin.com/raw/yVScFXBZ
zanagi
04. Dec 2018 · 04:03 UTC
A promising concept. Unfortunately, it kept restarting after first 2 turns.
🎤 Mightymaster99
04. Dec 2018 · 05:19 UTC
@jessicawall @Zanagi Thank you both for your feedback. I've been working on fixing the game and that constant reset bug. It's apparently harder to fix than I initially thought. Then again, that's what happens when you try to code a game in 24 hours (I found out about the game jam late by a day). Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.
🎤 Mightymaster99
04. Dec 2018 · 05:19 UTC
@samuel-porter Thank you for posting the error code. I'll be sure to fix it at some point, once I get the rest of the game to work.
Samuel Porter
04. Dec 2018 · 12:54 UTC
thanks @mightymaster99 i also had a nightmare getting my game "ritual sacrifice" to work on any platform other then my own, hopefully at least the windows version is fixed now :)
Andreas
04. Dec 2018 · 13:41 UTC
Really nice idea, but it is hard to see which actions have which result. For example, you cannot see which crop or animal earned you how much money. Also, I think there is a bug that after clicking "Try again" once, the "Next turn" button will always reset the game.
AwiX
07. Dec 2018 · 08:38 UTC
An interesting game with a kind of mechanics. I put a rating) Please rating and me, thanks in advance)
Peter Maxwell
08. Dec 2018 · 06:56 UTC
Enjoyed playing. Difficult game, fits theme, good potential.
🎤 Mightymaster99
08. Dec 2018 · 06:59 UTC
@peter-maxwell Thank you! I'm glad yo enjoyed the game! It's supposed to be difficult ;)
ursagames
08. Dec 2018 · 09:44 UTC
Your game was played on my stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on the fourth day of Ludum Dare streams. Thank you for sharing your game with us! You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8
Jimbly
09. Dec 2018 · 23:51 UTC
Hmm, I can't seem to get past Day 1 - I get a summary, says I get income, then back to Day 1 / $50 :(. Generally like this kind of game though!
🎤 Mightymaster99
10. Dec 2018 · 21:53 UTC
@jimbly Hey, I'm glad you like this kind of game! I've actually been working on it. Per rules of the Ludum Dare (I think), I'm keeping the original (broken) game up. But I made a post linking an improved version of the game! Here it is: https://mightymaster99.itch.io/poverty-farmer
Jimbly
11. Dec 2018 · 00:39 UTC
By the [rules](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules), you're allowed to fix minor "bugs" - being unable to advance the day seems like a bug, not a failure in design (although maybe I was just misunderstanding something in the game), so I think it'd be fine to fix that.
> Certain Bug Fixes are allowed. You can’t add new features, but if something broke or didn’t work correctly as you were finishing up, you can fix this after the deadline. You are asked to highlight the changes you make in your submission (a short change log).

When I've got some time, I'll try to check out your new one =).