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My Dear Farm by Benjamin San Souci

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made by Benjamin San Souci for LD 41 (JAM)

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WASD or Arrow Keys to move. X or Space to interact

Go to bed when you're done your tasks.

Farming Simulator + Horror Game

https://twitter.com/_schmavery

https://twitter.com/qcmaude

https://twitter.com/knatetucker

https://twitter.com/bsansouci

Bug fixes in v1.2: - can't throw flowers in water anymore - don't update game objects while watching the journal/fading out -> might've caused the bug where you go back 2 days instead of just one

Bug fixes in v1.1: - chicken respawn if there aren't enough at day 8 - chicken used to spawn in the troughs, now they don't - you can't close the door on yourself anymore - change the journal message to be permanent across respawns for day 6 - updated font to Times New Roman (people complained the text was hard to read)

HTML5 (web) https://bsansouci.github.io/ludum-dare-41
macOS https://github.com/bsansouci/ludum-dare-41/releases/tag/1.2
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/my-dear-farm

Ratings

Overall 249th 3.794⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Fun 381th 3.5⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 242th 3.735⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Theme 174th 4.118⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 593th 3.471⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Audio 688th 2.633⭐ 17🧑‍⚖️
Mood 85th 4.029⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Given 17🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

Viktor Dedek
24. Apr 2018 · 20:12 UTC
I could not get any further when suppsed to mourn. I found the grave but, what should I do than?
Lagman9000
24. Apr 2018 · 20:14 UTC
Good fun! Nice presentation and progression! If you get chance check out our game too https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/mechasnek :)
gdort
24. Apr 2018 · 20:18 UTC
That was really dark. I loved it!
Q-ro
24. Apr 2018 · 20:18 UTC
Pretty solid game, the concept is interesting, although it felt a bit disjointed, but the story kept me playing till the end, cool stuff :).
🎤 Benjamin San Souci
24. Apr 2018 · 20:35 UTC
@viktor-dedek Oh no! You're supposed to take the flower to the grave and also hit the action button to "inspect"
Tiberius
24. Apr 2018 · 20:36 UTC
Hi!
I liked your game! the mixture was fitting and also a bit funny, when things got very weird and you still could plant and collect. Atmosphere was nice. Reminded me a bit of the color out of space from H.P. Lovecraft.
legavroche
24. Apr 2018 · 20:37 UTC
10/10. First off, you are the first game that I played that actually has a plot. Not only that, its a good plot with foreshadowing/atmosphere-setting and world building. Second, you nicely incorporated farming mechanics with the horror elements. There were times when I couldn't figure out the interactables but having the journal linked with the house/next-night was brilliant for figuring out what to do. The few places you used audio were superb but you probably should have opted out of the "humor" and "audio" categories. My one issue is that the chicken phase in and out of the barn. Great work.
Karl Ek
24. Apr 2018 · 20:40 UTC
Well made game! Really enjoyed it!
tg1397
24. Apr 2018 · 20:40 UTC
This was fun and creepy. I really wish that there was more motivation to do the actual farming part rather than just to do the task as quickly as possible to continue the story. Also, at the end, I found a slight glitch where if you don't succeed the first time you can't activate the brief reveal cut scene again, so it becomes impossible. The sprites were all well made, and I enjoyed the story a lot
🎤 Benjamin San Souci
24. Apr 2018 · 21:06 UTC
@legavroche Thanks for kind words. The small chicks are pretty hilariously broken, we didn't get around to fixing their clipping through the barn.
🎤 Benjamin San Souci
24. Apr 2018 · 21:08 UTC
@tg1397 Oh noo! Can you expand a little about not being able to continue? You shouldn't need the "cutscene" for the monster to be present.
tg1397
24. Apr 2018 · 21:43 UTC
You still have to investigate the barn afterwards - it might still be possible, but the monster spawned in such a way that getting to the barn was much harder than anticipated.
🎤 Benjamin San Souci
24. Apr 2018 · 21:56 UTC
@tg1397 Ooh that part, gotcha. Thanks for the feedback, will make a note :)
helpcomputer
25. Apr 2018 · 21:05 UTC
Gripping story that kept me playing. I thought the tasks while being chased were a bit frustrating and also broke the tension, but I still enjoyed it. Well done!
Therdre
26. Apr 2018 · 04:12 UTC
I enjoyed playing this quite a bit. I loved the story and the progression was great. Good job!
Loowees
26. Apr 2018 · 04:47 UTC
This is fantastic!! Love the writing and presentation, completing the tasks was quite satisfying too. I really liked the design of the monster too! Though I found the chase sequence while doing tasks to be a bit more frustrating than tense.
Trenogre
09. May 2018 · 02:48 UTC
Well done. Great writing, I very much found myself anticipating the next days worth of diary entries, and the game play was pretty decent as well, especially when the monster came out. Very well done given the time period.

There was a slight issue with the camera. On the first day maria came out and i had to work around her, the camera kept focusing on her and not me. Also one of the manure didn't to clean itself at one point for the first few tries. Other than that Very well done guys!
soylalluvia
09. May 2018 · 04:02 UTC
Interesting! Appreciated the story and got eaten first time round. Definitely like the idea of a farming/horror game albeit more task driven initially, I could see this evolving into a more open world type game.