Eat Your Ammo!

Grow corn for your revolutionary CORN THROWER home defence solution! (It's also delicious!)

Since the nukes, it's been impossible to grow anything in this barren soil, so the CORN THROWER doubles as an innovative new way to plant delicious, nutritious maize corn IN THE BODIES OF YOUR ENEMIES. There is a handy second trigger to bathe the bedded seeds in FERTILIZING BLOOD to maximize the chance of germination! Harvest quickly, the conditions are not ideal in this world, and each corpse will only last a single harvest!

Good luck!

Controls

WASD - Move Mouse - Aim Left Click - Fire Corn from CORN THROWER Right Click - Shoot FERTILIZING BLOOD E - Eat Corn to Heal R - Immediate reload

Tips

• Ghoul corpses are really bad at holding nutrition, so try to get to them quickly and bathe them in as much blood as possible. The blood is absorbed when it fades away.
• Getting caught without any corn is pretty much a death sentence
• Farming is difficult, but this is reflected in the scoring!

Post your scores in a comment! Thanks for Playing!

Reflection

So this was built in C++ on top of an engine I made entirely in LD40, and I think it's starting to show how much I could do with expanding it. I did really enjoy writing the particle engine this time and converting to a more 3d-ish behaviour. On top of that, I actually made the compo deadline, woo!

I wish I had time to implement sound, and a couple more guns / enemy types would be good, but hey ho, I've enjoyed it!

Hope you all enjoy giving it a try, and you had a good LD!

Post-release changelog: Fixed two bugs related to plants. 1. Plants weren't dying of age, so fixed the timout there. 2. Corpses that weren't converted to plants were fading out and contributing to the death count

You can find the original version on the releases page of my linked github.