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Underground Tractors by Aerosavior

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made by Aerosavior for LD 41 (COMPO)

Farmer by day, drag racer by night. Grow your crops to fuel your beast across the finish line!

Controls

1-5: Select Seed

E: Get in & out of Tractor / Plant & Harvest Seeds

WASD: Movement

How to Play:

Start the day farming, plow fields with your tractor (be careful not to plow too much as fuel is limited!), then plant some of the five different seed types (they'll mature overnight and double when harvested the next day).

After a hard day's work, spend your money to buy more seeds, or upgrade your tractor. Use crops to fuel your tractor for the nightly race!

End the day with a all or nothing drag race. First one across the line wins!

Source code https://aerosavior.itch.io/underground-tractors
Windows https://aerosavior.itch.io/underground-tractors
macOS https://aerosavior.itch.io/underground-tractors
Windows https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IwpeQMBBLXMqghyCu2_CQk4OKQnu_1Dn?usp=sharing
macOS https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IwpeQMBBLXMqghyCu2_CQk4OKQnu_1Dn?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/underground-tractors

Ratings

Overall 331th 3.405⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 355th 3.262⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 267th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 243th 3.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 467th 2.952⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 358th 2.778⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 261th 2.895⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 431th 2.868⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 32🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

kromeboy
23. Apr 2018 · 23:00 UTC
Really a strange combination of themes: it needs Lamborghini tractors :-)
Maffew
23. Apr 2018 · 23:01 UTC
Nice take on the theme :)
Audio not for my taste, a little to "Metallica" sounding.
Overall, good submission!
Ripter
23. Apr 2018 · 23:03 UTC
I'm on OSX, the controls stop working a few seconds after starting the game. I can still click the UI buttons and end the day, but I can't use my tractor or move in the race.
Extrone
23. Apr 2018 · 23:06 UTC
Nice combination of farming and Racing, good work.
incobalt
23. Apr 2018 · 23:10 UTC
I played this for probably too long >.> I think you might need to rebalance some of the numbers. Once I got into sugar cane, the game was all over. I was hoping that the racing portion of the game would be more fleshed out and feed back to the growing part of the game. You can entirely play the game without doing the racing portion, it seems like. Just bet nothing and lose and corner the market with plants instead.
Zeriver
23. Apr 2018 · 23:28 UTC
Ha, very clever game and neat execution. I like how you have to do the planting manually and you have to think how to use your tractor efficiently so you don't fall behind too much in the racing but also get enough profit from your crops. I like the minimalistic graphics and bit music, the only thing that is somehow annoying is that the tutorial is just wall of text, it would be much more approachable with in-game tutorial, but still it's not that big of complaint since the text is pretty short anyway. So in general pretty cool game, very good concept and fun to play.
🎤 Aerosavior
25. Apr 2018 · 01:52 UTC
@Ripter I'm sorry to hear about that, I haven't had that happen to me. Are you sure that you didn't run out of gas for the tractor?
Ripter
25. Apr 2018 · 02:02 UTC
@Aerosavior I don't know? Do I have to do something special when the game starts to get the tractor to work? I just walked over to it and tried to use it.
🎤 Aerosavior
25. Apr 2018 · 02:26 UTC
@Ripter No, the tractor should work right off the bat. Sorry you're having issues :/
Slashee the Cow
10. May 2018 · 06:10 UTC
Definitely an interesting game, I certainly had fun figuring out the most efficient way to mow the field and plant/harvest stuff. Like @incobalt, I found I could just ignore the race and not use any fuel that way (maybe make it automatically race so you use fuel whether you want to or not - it's not like the race involves any skill from the player). Other than that, about the only thing I would have done is buttons to buy/sell/fuel like 10 of something at once so I don't have to click nearly so many times). But other than those fairly minor things, I had fun!
Zinkler
10. May 2018 · 10:51 UTC
Day 1 - I'm anxious to move my tractor too far on the field because I'll spend too much fuel.
Day 10 - I bet and easily win $10000.

Great game, totally enjoyed it. Few things that I wish to be in it: better balance, as the game gets too easy quick enough; victory condition; and some additional information about your enemies, because sometimes you start a race without any idea about your chances to win - and having any thoughts on that would make the betting process much more interesting. Great mix of genres, great take on the theme, thank you for your entry!
euske
12. May 2018 · 05:28 UTC
This is oddly fun and addictive, but after a week I got filthy rich and the life became boring. I liked the background music and overall style. One of the best games I've played so far.
Unentokku
15. May 2018 · 08:13 UTC
Very neat overall but would have been nice if there was more point to having different crops instead of sugar cane just being simply the best crop with no real reason to plant anything else. I would have probably tried to realistic add soil NPK levels with each nutrient each changing some stuff like growth time, produce quality and quantity.


Also having to click stuff in the end day screen 1 by 1 gets tedious.
nizlow
15. May 2018 · 12:40 UTC
Interesting concept and idea.
It kinda reminds me in a very far way with Stardew valley, because you plant your stuff and end the day if you know what I mean :P
Keep it up! :)