Farming Sim LD40 by pebkac
Your father passed away. You own the farm now.
Good luck herding your cattle, but remember - the more you have, the worse it is.
Made during a holiday and while sick in HTML/JavaScript with no external libraries. Editor of choice was Visual Studio Code.
Update 07-dec-17: released a new version with a bugfix for auto-feeder and auto-milker.
| HTML5 (web) | https://pebkac.itch.io/ld40-less-is-more |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/ld40-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 477th | 3.108⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 374th | 3.203⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 464th | 2.892⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 441th | 3.203⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 658th | 1.783⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 445th | 2.273⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 554th | 2.532⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 40🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
Also, when a beast reach age 500 (quite old btw), its selling price fall to NaN.
I didn't see the point of selling my animals ?
Besides that, the idea is really interesting and that could be very good game concept and a really addictive one (I already played more than what I thought when started :D)
Keep it up, improve it and it might become really fun to play, good job !
If you are interested, please check out my LD40 game [Escape Infection!](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/escape-infection)
Other than that, I don't play many economic management games, but I did like this one. It's simple, has just a few variables, has "stock prices" implemented and gradually you can buy stuff to automatically do stuff for you and you just have to buy and slaughter. Nice game overall.
On first glance, it seems like there's absolutely no reason to like this game, but the TRUTH IS that there are TONS of games out there that are essentially exactly this, only with graphics and sound. So, I think that's what is great about this.
That being said, I'm not gonna play it more than once, but I've been playing in the background while typing this whole comment, am currently at 41,000 funds and 12 cows and 2100 + ticks and counting...
The name on the itch page "Less is More" is appropriate, even if the name is different here. I can confirm that all the auto stuff is working fine for me. Up to 46,000 funds now.
I like how the cows live to be about 700 years old. And the simplicity of the text telling you what you did is funny.
Hold on sec... I'm going make a screenshot of my current progress and post it here...
Here we go:

Sorry, that took a moment, but You Got a Pic!
Time to go buy some hay...
I didn't really like the game (humour was the best thing but still lacking). It is solid cookie clicker, but it is only cookie clicker.
Thought making a game is impressive accomplishment by itself and especially for Ludum Dare so don't be discouraged.
Seems to be an ok start for one.
As someone else said, I also slaughtered my cow first thing on my first try, thought that was a nice touch to be able to do that. Maybe that is the real good ending of the game, because then I saved a bunch of other cows from being slaughtered =)
What I'm really missing in this game is ste ability to buy my cows one of these:
[Cow brush](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpjCQD8ynZE)
Quite addicting game, congrats. :)