Wrath of the Crickets vs Brigham Young by Wesxdz

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made by Wesxdz for LD 40 (COMPO)

Wrath of the Crickets vs Brigham Young is a multiplayer cooperative and/or competitive game for up to 4 pioneers. A horde of crickets has descended upon your precious wheat farm. The more you grow, the worse it seems to get. Master your skills as a farmer, birdwatcher, sculptor, and arsonist as you seek wealth in the Great Salt Lake Valley. The first player to construct a monument to Brigham Young will bring God's blessings upon the land and end this plague.

Changelog - Fixed a multiplayer "glitch" (lack of testing) that made initial world conditions not match up - Adjusted action costs - Increased growth speed and profitability of wheat - Changed menu selection controls

Notes - WASD or mouse menu selection - You can only start fires on your own wheat fields or grass (but they can spread however they choose AHAHHAHAA) - The game works in single player mode if you host a game by yourself - if you want to host a game with other players you need to enable UDP port forwarding - The game is currently balanced towards competitive mode, which means it's pretty easy to win single player, try timing yourself to see how quickly you can win!

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Ratings

Overall 288th 3.469⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Fun 338th 3.286⭐ 16🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 215th 3.429⭐ 16🧑‍⚖️
Theme 375th 3.375⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 101th 3.964⭐ 16🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

pixeye
04. Dec 2017 · 02:11 UTC
I liked your game : ) There is something addictive about predicting where to shoot my chickens XD
But I think balance is unfair. I can't progress
pixeye
04. Dec 2017 · 02:16 UTC
HOW TO RATE IT ! I WANNA DO ITXD
🎤 Wesxdz
04. Dec 2017 · 02:29 UTC
Haha. The balance is definitely unfair. I didn't have time to playtest. I'm going to do a balance update and fix an issue I found with multiplayer. That will probably be pushed out within a couple hours.
Adrien Dittrick
04. Dec 2017 · 13:46 UTC
I didn't manage to set up a multiplayer session, but I'll try it later :)
Graphics are cool, i like the menus.
One complaint here is that navigating said menu is hard, sometimes the WASD buttons feel unrepsonsive, like they're synced to the server or something.
tulipekoni
07. Dec 2017 · 19:32 UTC
nice entry dude! ld entry rarely has lan multiplayer opportunity. Loved the sound effects and graphics. good job :)
Blueman
08. Dec 2017 · 02:39 UTC
This was quite fun. The graphics were very nice and it was pretty intuitive to figure out. The game also fits the challenging theme very well. Overall, excellent job.
09. Dec 2017 · 19:04 UTC
Didn't really understand the game that well, do I need more wheat to use all the abilities?
Draklaw
09. Dec 2017 · 20:41 UTC
I'm trying game in a VM and I got an error message about a missing api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll. Not sure it is meaningful since the VM I use is probably not up to date.
C1FR1
09. Dec 2017 · 21:13 UTC
takes a second to understand what everything does, but its pretty fun. There is some sort of audio bug when the fire reaches the edge of the screen btw.
Zambini
09. Dec 2017 · 21:43 UTC
Very fun! I like that at certain points it almost becomes a chicken shooter. The controls take a little time to get used to but I *definitely* didn't accidentally set fire to an entire field of wheat...... :)

Also, a networked SFML game in a game jam, that takes skill :)
Raven
13. Dec 2017 · 16:38 UTC
The game is quite easy to understand
Graphics is highly polished
Didn't feel much pressure when I have more and more crops

Unfortunately no chance for multiplayer testing :(
Cannot tell whether it is more fun when multiplayer
wizebin
27. Dec 2017 · 17:35 UTC
Your source is private :(
M2tias
28. Dec 2017 · 16:14 UTC
Game with super good graphics and simple mechanics. I only played it alone so I probably lost most of the point of the game :|