Carrot by LDJam user 250426

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made by LDJam user 250426 for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

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Ratings

Overall 37th 4.191⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Fun 7th 4.4⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 90th 3.873⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Theme 72th 4.264⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 145th 4.2⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Humor 166th 3.5⭐ 55🧑‍⚖️
Mood 122th 3.964⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

Ladymarengo
09. Jan 2023 · 14:45 UTC
It's really cool, I like this rocket jumps and balance
Aendawyn
09. Jan 2023 · 14:46 UTC
Music choice is awesome. It's a very addictive game congrats !
LDJam user 49756
09. Jan 2023 · 14:49 UTC
3:50:123 on my first run. Game is so nice, music is a banger and gameplay is simple yet ingenious! Really love it!
Alpacavalanche
09. Jan 2023 · 14:51 UTC
Never tought harvesting carrots could be this fun ! With a few additional ennemies and maybe some kind of upgrade system I could definitely see myself playing this game on the go. Congrats for making this in such a short amount of time
LDJam user 258850
09. Jan 2023 · 17:15 UTC
my score \o/

![image_2023-01-09_170857014.png](///raw/223/f3/z/54f3c.png)

Had a lot of fun playing, I love the mechanics. Worm? :bug:
cullencoyote
09. Jan 2023 · 22:33 UTC
Best one I've played yet! Love carrot
outstar
09. Jan 2023 · 22:51 UTC
i give this game 🥕/10
She Wrote
09. Jan 2023 · 22:58 UTC
Shooting and growing carrots is really fun!
r00gaL
09. Jan 2023 · 23:02 UTC
I had the most fun with this one so far. Great job!
LDJam user 251170
09. Jan 2023 · 23:56 UTC
Another amazing itsboats game! It's simple, but polished. Straight up addictive. Cute graphics, interesting gameplay, and a high-score addition. Always a blast playing your games! I usually try and add points of improvement but I can't really think of anything so there's that. Thanks for your submission!
Cornflowerblue
10. Jan 2023 · 00:56 UTC
I like this take on the theme, very smooth and polished. The mechanics and visuals make good use of the theme together.
Blue Pin Studio
10. Jan 2023 · 04:54 UTC
Great entry! I love the art and sound effects, it was very well polished and executed :) The bigger bats were a menace haha
plexsoup
10. Jan 2023 · 06:35 UTC
Super fun! I liked how I had to manage my ammo. Very interesting concept. Nicely polished too!
LDJam user 2331
10. Jan 2023 · 07:29 UTC
![boats.PNG](///raw/b19/z/55d0c.png)

Aww carrots 🥕⛵
Artyom Volkov
10. Jan 2023 · 17:02 UTC
Design wise the game is tiny, but extremely polished. And the idea is extremely clever. I love movement a lot, it's so fun to run around. As well as visuals and sounds are top notch. The only thing I don't like is the lack of feedback on damage taken. I whish there were more enemy types and some kind of dash, but it's not a showstopper. Great work.
Matank
10. Jan 2023 · 22:05 UTC
Really loved playing this. Art is so cute, and gameplay was fun. Thank you for making it!
peringo
10. Jan 2023 · 22:06 UTC
There was not a single bad decision made when designing this game, hot damn. Extremely fun!
publicidadeba
10. Jan 2023 · 22:42 UTC
This is one of those games that as soon as you play it you know the designer knows his/hers craft. What a gem. Reminds me of that one video from Mark Brown about Downwell. Top3 Overall for me. Great job.
Steelfeathers
11. Jan 2023 · 01:46 UTC
What a fun little game! So clever, and the ramp up in difficulty is perfect. I love it to bits. I favorited it on itch.io.
Chiranjiv
11. Jan 2023 · 02:01 UTC
I had so much fun playing this game, I like when the character bounces on the enemies, I can play this game over and over. Great job!
Tsamf
11. Jan 2023 · 02:15 UTC
Loved the mechanics. Very nicely polished game.
interface
11. Jan 2023 · 07:04 UTC
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rohanmoon
11. Jan 2023 · 07:16 UTC
Lovely! Great clean polished looking graphics with a wonderfully implemented unique mechanic. I seriously loved that bullets needed to be planted to be replenished and could be lost if you miss the ground. Very clever!
itskristeneh
11. Jan 2023 · 07:46 UTC
Fun game, i like the idea and how you worked in the theme, its really cute!
Sid Fish
11. Jan 2023 · 11:23 UTC
Game is adorable, love the art and music. Really cool game loop that makes you really consider how many carrots you use to defeat the enemies and how many you use to grow some more, great work!
Lawrence
11. Jan 2023 · 19:21 UTC
So simple, yet so fun! 🥕
Grisha
11. Jan 2023 · 21:20 UTC
Very neat base mechanic, would love to see what you could do with different veggies, larger maps, etc, lots of potential! Hope you keep working on it past the jam :)
candlesan
12. Jan 2023 · 09:20 UTC
This was a really innovative game! Managing my carrots, using them as weapons, the physics on the shoot. The mechanics and controls are simple and intuitive but there is so much great emergent gameplay. Very well done!
zubspace
12. Jan 2023 · 20:34 UTC
Really great game. Makes you play again and again. Event though the game is simple, there are different approaches to try and you need to balance the amount of enemies and still think about your harvest. The art style, music and sound effects are flawless, too. Really well done. Had to play until I reached the 100 mark:

![Carrots.png](///raw/037/22/z/564b4.png)
jitspoe
13. Jan 2023 · 02:07 UTC
Really solid entry. Mechanics felt very intuitive and fair. Love momentum based mechanics like this. Only suggestion is to have something to better indicate where aiming than just the default mouse cursor.
n.feofentov
14. Jan 2023 · 10:32 UTC
Great fun game! Was a bit confused at the start that heart-shaped carrot appears only after getting a hit because I thought it's a goal for finishing the level. And it was hard to get there jumping on enemies heads until I found out you can ~~rocket-~~ carrot-jump there. Also the fact that walls destroy your carrots is a bit confusing too. Ricochet or proper color coding would eliminate that confusion.
Still, suprecool entry. Good job!
arzi
14. Jan 2023 · 18:14 UTC
Really well executed and I loved the responsive controls. You might want to change the instruction text color in the main menu a bit, though, since I completely missed them the first time around!
Honest Dan
14. Jan 2023 · 22:07 UTC
Great polish to this game. really liked it, a great example of relatively constrained set of mechanics polished well! The planting ammo reminded me of Qazi's shotgun farmers, but the platforming one-stage arena reminded me of bomb jack or other old arcade games.
Skvader_418
15. Jan 2023 · 14:05 UTC
Carrots
Hawkin
15. Jan 2023 · 14:44 UTC
I'll never be meep so why even try :D

![Screenshot 2023-01-15 084348.png](///raw/319/53/z/567ba.png)

Love how snappy the graphics and controls are. This is a really tight platformer/shooter. The ballistic physics make the shots even harder. And the sound design is really cohesive! 10/10 :carrot: !!
Wendel Scardua
15. Jan 2023 · 17:29 UTC
![Captura de tela 2023-01-15 142756.png](///raw/bdb/1/z/567d1.png)

I only wish it weren't so impossible to escape when cornered by too many bats 😅
ZungryWare
17. Jan 2023 · 21:02 UTC
Once I learned the mantra of A.B.C. (Always Be Carrot-planting), I got a lot farther. Having essentially infinite ammo at my disposal made things a lot easier, but still didn't save me when bats were spawning faster than I could send carrots into them. My high score was 114.

It's a really cute concept, and surprisingly deep for an action game with only one action outside of basic movement. Your carrot-gun is your weapon, ammo-farmer, and rocket-jumper all at once. I loved pulling off slick movement like taking advantage in a gap in the bats, jumping off their head, then carrot-jumping to freedom!

This seems like it would make a fantastic mobile game. Super addictive! Great work!
Grotfang
21. Jan 2023 · 11:03 UTC
great gameplay very fluid and efficient! realy fun game overall
amarokczukay
22. Jan 2023 · 18:07 UTC
very fun and fluid game, really nice balance between planting your carrots and shooting enemies, loved the in-air movements with the recoil of the gun! super fun to play and addictive!
Stefan Laimer
23. Jan 2023 · 19:02 UTC
Super fun game! Absolutely loved it! The knock back is super punishing at times but still fun :D
Jvdwijk
25. Jan 2023 · 00:35 UTC
Really cute arcade game! I didn't get the best score (yet) but I had some really fun moments in this game! Would definitely play this more in the future ^^

I think it was my dumbness, but I didn't realize you had to shoot your bullets into the ground at first for more ammo (even though text prob told me that), maybe have a short cutscene/intro where you shoot a bullet into the ground for the player?
pndaa
26. Jan 2023 · 23:22 UTC
Did few game then I also followed the A.B.C mantra. That made me succeed to do 132 carrots !
Had great fun, it is really well polished. Thanks for the game !
LDJam user 299757
27. Jan 2023 · 02:09 UTC
really liked it just wish there were less ways to get cornered but possible im bad