Planting with Pain Donkeys Adventure by Biebras
It's 2D top-down shooter, survival. The world is made from tiles 16x16 and has 8-bit music/ sounds. You begin as character Donkey. Your main job is to survive a zombie attack, plant some plants that give you health. The only way getting seeds is, to sacrifice your life part.

Wow, another ldjam, another game. I'm genuinely happy about this entry, finally, I did something fun and smooth. The only regret is that I only had 2 days, Sunday and Monday.

Looking forward to ldjam 45.
Art: As you can see it was made by me :D
Music: Eric Skiff - Song Name - Resistor Anthems - Available at http://EricSkiff.com/music Sounds: https://opengameart.org/content/512-sound-effects-8-bit-style
Worked alone.
Bug fixes: Zombies spawning at player pos: fixed
| HTML5 (web) | https://beikadiu.itch.io/planting-with-pain |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/planting-with-pain-donkeys-adventure |
Ratings
| Given | 19🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
Edit: Ahh sry didn't see that I had a bug with tutorial, but sadly I can't fix it... So i uploaded tutorial in discription.
tried to water it first but my watering can didn't do anything :S
A Short tutorial or key mapping would be awesome.
Visual feedback and the sound is very well done!
And sometimes your enemies are spawning directly into the player that should be get fixed :)
- Zombies are fast, reaaaaally fast, and it is not a problem, it's a choice, but then I would like that they do not spawn right on my face and explode on me
- When a message says that the wave is ended, there are still spawning zombies. Maybe less, but then it's strange to say the wave is completely ended, just say it is some break time or something
- The planting system is hard to get used to and to understand. I did not watch the video on my first try because I expect games to be clear by themselves, and it is almost impossible to guess you have to get some water first (though it is pretty logical actually haha)
- Do not allow the player to buy seeds if it's going to kill him
Overall I liked it ! The shooting and movement felt really great and the music is nice! Good entry :)
For zombies yeah maybe its little to fast, but you know when I'm making an alone game, there's no one to test it and it feels to easy after 500 plays :D.
Zombie spawns..... I will fix tomorrow(maybe, if I'm not going be lazy(I know the solution few codes added needed))
the major problem with this game is hard to learn and there is no explanation. I couldn't do it because I ran out of time. So next time I'm 100% going to make a small game, but really polished.
I'm so glad that played my game. I love your writing :love_letter:
I wish I could cooperate with you next jam :smile:
And well I'm sorry but I'd rather do a jam with people I can be with IRL ^^ and since I'm in a game dev school, there are tons of people I would like to work with for ludum dare !
**Positive things: **
- fits the theme
- for one person and the amount of time realy polished
**Negative things: **
- it's a little bit annoying if the zombies spawns in you and you don't have a chance to react and escape
Great work, well done!
- You should be able to plant seeds and water them afterwards. This is also an easy solution to make it more intuitive since the player could either water or plant the seed on a tile.
- This point is more of an opinion. I find that the plants dry out too fast and die. Between shooting zombies, trying to water the soil and plant more seeds, I felt like I didn't really have time to take care of the old seeds. Since you're already being chased by zombies, maybe a progression system where you have to wait for the plant to grow before watering it again would be better. If you still want the plants to have a chance to die, maybe if they get trampled by zombies that could kill them?
I hope that's helpful! :)
The top down shooter part was fun, but the spawning was tricky sometimes.
Now when I look back to a game, it's a bit unlogical for gun impact.The zombiemoan woupd be an awesome idea, why i didn't think of that....? And the gab is more unitys problem(if you are playong on small resolution and don't have pixel perfect camera), the pixel perfect sucks in unity, couse you have litle control of it and I didn't had time to search for new one.
Everything is simplist but works well ! Kind of stress both in harvesting and killing... Nice entry!
But those are little things. Great entry!