WARtermelon by MaiMai

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made by MaiMai for LD 41 (JAM)

A game of cat and mouse between watermelons and blueberries!

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Plant watermelon patches for your Catermelon people to live, but beware of the hungry ratberry creatures!

Try to go as long as possible and not lose all your watermelon patches.

Plant watermelon patches! Shoot the Ratberries! Build towers! Bounce around!

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HOW TO PLAY:

Move: WASD or arrow keys
Shoot arrow: Space key
Plant watermelon patch: Hold shift (1 second on empty patch)
Build tower: Hold shift (1 second on watermelon patch)

Made by a 2-person team at DOOMWOOD


Ratings

Overall 470th 3.548⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 624th 3.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 762th 3.143⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 790th 3.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 88th 4.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 346th 3.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 595th 3.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

Memel06
23. Apr 2018 · 09:06 UTC
It was really funny and difficult!
I loved the colorful art and the overall idea.
This absolutely needs some nice sounds!

Thanks for your work :)
Centauri
23. Apr 2018 · 09:07 UTC
Fun but hard (:
Apace
23. Apr 2018 · 09:08 UTC
Cute graphics, fits the theme of the game really well. :)
Had fun playing, however those dirty ratberries were just too fast for me. :( I did not do very well, my best was something like a minute and a half. :D
I feel like the controls could use a little more polishing, often enough I wasn't able to plant a melon or create a tower (probably started pressing shift too early or something?).

Overall a really nice entry, some sound would have been great to round off the experience, but it's still a fun game. :)
Andreadbx
23. Apr 2018 · 09:09 UTC
Lovely graphics, gameplay is fun overall, just a note: i think it's a bit difficult to understand when you are actually planting watermelons and build towers since there is no soundeffects and just a very small animation, at times can happen that i go to a terrain patch, hold shift and nothing happens, very good entry!
Leonard
23. Apr 2018 · 10:19 UTC
how do u rate a game ? ;) thx
Lerg
23. Apr 2018 · 11:47 UTC
Very challenging, and the graphics are sooo cute!
houvv
23. Apr 2018 · 17:31 UTC
@leonard Hi, thank you for playing our game!

To rate our game, go back to the project page
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/wartermelon

Scroll down to the "Ratings" section

![Screencap01.jpg](///raw/146/a/z/118ae.jpg)

Hovering your mouse arrow over the empty starts; you will see they fills as you move back and forth

Let me know if you find it ^_^
Dmitry Smirnov
23. Apr 2018 · 20:23 UTC
You've done a great job. Game looks finished and it`s fun to play. Cute theme and implementation.
P.S. It took me a while to accustomed how Shift button works.
tokkiseul
24. Apr 2018 · 06:37 UTC
Amazing graphics and polish overall. Had a lot of fun playing but wow, it is a hard game! XD
Royoyo
24. Apr 2018 · 06:40 UTC
Amazing models and art!

It took me some time to get accustomed to controls.
And there are some strange shadows in game scene.
MathijsVissers
25. Apr 2018 · 19:51 UTC
Great graphics and models! Love the style.
Movement feels a bit to slow to get a good shot in. A bit unclear that converting all your watermelon patches to towers makes you lose. But other than that, cool idea, the models are the best part.
Jima
01. May 2018 · 13:40 UTC
Well, the visuals are really good, but I had some problems playing your game. All enemies move very unpredictable and your own movement is pretty slow, so it is frustratingly hard to shoot things (at least at start). I didn't understand how towers are placed, sometimes they move when I plant a new watermelon and sometimes the do not move. It is very confusing. And I don't exactly understand which genres you mixed. Overall it is a really good start, but it requires some work to make it more enjoyable.
sebastianscaini
08. May 2018 · 11:58 UTC
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/super-slime-slasher-ultra/ambysts-daily-recommendation-14
LittleStone Games
08. May 2018 · 12:21 UTC
Hey!Good job!I really like the mechanics!The art is pretty good and cute haha.However sometimes its a bit frustating.What software did you use for the models?Anyways good job :)

Here is our game if you want to try it!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/me-da-miedito-la-oscuridad-i-get-goosebumps-in-the-dark
Firesplash Entertainment
08. May 2018 · 12:37 UTC
Wow nice idea, cool graphics and surprisingly difficult! Would love to see this with different difficulties and levels as a real game :)

P.s.: congrats! We are your 20th rating :) Feel free to rate ours, too!
sndr
15. May 2018 · 12:48 UTC
A bit too difficult, but very fun and incredibly pretty!! :)