Drone Gardening League by juxipolo
The top drone racing pilots in the world are turning their sights to the the hyper-competitive world of gardening! In this arena of aeration, these pilots' seeds will surely be tested. Sign-ups open now! You could be the next top sky-mulcher!
In Drone Gardening League, pilot your drone around the small offshore island arena. Each round of the tournament lasts just a few minutes. Periodically, your garden will be scored. The drone with the highest score at the end of the round wins. Between rounds you can re-equip your drone with other modules to help reach victory. Maybe bring new flower seeds in. If those flowers defend themselves or you accidentally spill some high-test weedkiller, well, that's just drone gardening for you.
Mechanics
- You have a deck of cards that control various features of your drone. You can swap out cards between rounds.
- Each card requires various resources listed on the card.
- Battery (white): recharge by returning to your base station
- Water (blue): suck up water by hovering over the water offshore
- Elixer (purple): acquired automatically, or extract some from purple goop deposits around the island
- A panel of judges score your garden every 10 seconds
- 4 fully-grown plants are worth a star
- Starflower and royal starflowers are worth more
- The current standings are shown in the top left
Reviwer Notes
- you are the red player, you can change your drone between rounds
- There are more cards if you scroll (it may not be obvious)
- The first level is a bit of a tutorial, mostly to get used to the controls
- There is no penalty for losing a round
- you must have 15 cards in your deck to start a new round. You will have to add cards after the tutorial
- There is no end state. There are three maps after the tutorial that are picked at random.
Change Log
- 8/13/18: card rendering fixes, fix sorting in the deckbuilder and remember which drone you picked, fix arrow keys, prevent base from being killed, fix some grid highlights, AI fixes
- 8/13/18: fix card list truncating the available cards at various resolutions, fix poison cloud card so it doesn't keep coming back into your hand
- 8/17/18: added a post compo version that greatly improves and simplifies the controls. You tap a button to select a card, tap it again to use it, and hold it to discard it.
- 8/19/18: Added error logging and fixed a soft lock bug
Postmortem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M-TryLdgkQ
Ratings
| Overall | 265th | 3.526⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 320th | 3.316⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 158th | 3.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 403th | 3.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 187th | 3.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 431th | 2.711⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
Nice work!
1. From the start menu search for "Event Viewer" and open it
2. Go to Windows Logs -> Application
3. There is probably a new error near the top (if you already had it open, you might need to click refresh from the Action menu)
4. Look for one an Error with an event ID of 1313 and click it
5. Look for "MSG" STACK" and "INNER" in the text on the bottom
6. Please let me know what those say
Here you go mate.
```
The following information was included with the event:
MSG: File loading error: ScaledFont base/font/medium bold
STACK:
INNER: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at System.Number.ParseSingle(String value, NumberStyles options, NumberFormatInfo numfmt)
at GameLib.fileUtils.<ScaledFiles>d__4.MoveNext() in C:\Users\mettu\Source\Repos\GameLib\GameLib\GameLib\fileUtils.cs:line 40
at GameLib.ScaledFont._Load(OLoad load) in C:\Users\mettu\Source\Repos\GameLib\GameLib\GameLib\Load\FontAsset.cs:line 34
at GameLib.IAsset.Load(OLoad load) in C:\Users\mettu\Source\Repos\GameLib\GameLib\GameLib\Load\load.cs:line 399
```
I've updated both versions of the game - this should be fixed now.
You mentioned in your video that cards in a real-time game didn't turn out so well. But I disagree, I think the implementation of this card system works quite well. But of course like any game, things can be tuned forever. Especially when it's made in less than 3 days!