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Crop Carnage by ManchmalScott

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made by ManchmalScott for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

Crop Carnage is a base-defense style shooter, with a twist. Your crops and your guns are the same thing! Plant new crops to keep a continuous supply of ammunition, but don’t replant your entire yield, or you’ll only have your scythe to defend yourself with! With three different crops to grow, and three different weapons to wield, how long will you be able to defend your farm from the hordes of zombies lurking in the forest?

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Linkhttps://manchmalscott.itch.io/crop-carnage
Linkhttps://github.com/gelvinp/ld52-crop-carnage
Linkhttps://manchmalscott.itch.io/crop-carnage
Linkhttps://manchmalscott.itch.io/crop-carnage
Linkhttps://manchmalscott.itch.io/crop-carnage
Original URLhttps://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/crop-carnage

Ratings

Overall241th3.227⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Fun211th3.205⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation161th3.341⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Theme115th3.886⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics233th3.182⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Audio132th3.341⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Humor81th3.341⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Mood220th3.091⭐24🧑‍⚖️
Given22🗳️25🗨️

Feedback

havchr
08. Jan 2023 · 21:20 UTC
Cute little game, but I did not fully understand the growing mechanic - I only seemed able to grow corn and I never figured out what the thing in my inventory all the way to the right was. Music and graphics were nice!
🎤 ManchmalScott
08. Jan 2023 · 21:24 UTC
@havchr Yeah, if I had time I would have done an in-game tutorial to help with that. The thing on the right was a watering can, which instantly waters crops, and to get more seeds to grow, you open the shop by pressing tab.
Thanks for playing!
LDJam user 237945
08. Jan 2023 · 22:15 UTC
I enjoyed this, felt like I was playing an old school NES game!
TheseusInABottle
08. Jan 2023 · 22:41 UTC
I enjoyed this. I did find that the exponential return on corn did have me at points running from the top of the screen to the bottom planting long lines of corn for future harvesting, but thats kind of the point I suppose lol. This was a very enjoyable experience.
LDJam user 315574
08. Jan 2023 · 23:20 UTC
I only managed to score 920. Can you get anything other than corn or did I not make it far enough? I think maybe I harvested more than you're supposed to?
🎤 ManchmalScott
08. Jan 2023 · 23:39 UTC
@slantyoj There's a shop you can access by pressing "Tab", yeah. I wish I had time to make it more discoverable that there's multiple pages in the "how to play" screen :/
PassbyKamenRider
09. Jan 2023 · 04:03 UTC
Nice game! Love the graphics (corns look like sponges) and music. The overall pace of the game is good, I still have time to draw different shapes with corn seeds.
* Somehow pressing tab on the web version causes the game to freeze, but the windows version works well.
kenneth-dd
09. Jan 2023 · 17:22 UTC
I like the concept. also the fact that some of the zombies are vegan (they prioritize crops over humans) is funny.
LDJam user 312238
10. Jan 2023 · 02:20 UTC
I like this game.The enemies really made me nervous.I plant and harvest everything as soon as possible.Overfall a nice game!
LDJam user 312238
10. Jan 2023 · 02:21 UTC
The only problem is that I have no shadow.It makes me look strange.
LDJam user 8951
10. Jan 2023 · 04:40 UTC
@slantyoj How the hell time you spend to get 920?

The game is very nice actually.
madcoil
10. Jan 2023 · 08:13 UTC
Cool game! I love that we came up with such similar ideas for the game loop :D
euske
10. Jan 2023 · 16:18 UTC
A really nice execution on the theme! Sadly the browser version is a little buggy as pressing TAB freezes the game. Game also freezes when restarting so I had to reload the page every time. I liked the humor. Well done!
🎤 ManchmalScott
10. Jan 2023 · 20:20 UTC
@passbykamenrider I'm glad you had fun! I'm pretty happy with my choice not to restrain crops to a grid lol. And yeah, Godot still has some weird behavior with it's web exports lol
🎤 ManchmalScott
10. Jan 2023 · 20:20 UTC
@kenneth-dd Lmao I didn't even realize that, that's pretty funny. Thanks for playing!
🎤 ManchmalScott
10. Jan 2023 · 20:21 UTC
@poietic-ruby Thanks for playing! I can't believe I forgot to give the player a shadow lol, I completely spaced it!
🎤 ManchmalScott
10. Jan 2023 · 20:22 UTC
@v0odo0 Thanks for playing!
🎤 ManchmalScott
10. Jan 2023 · 20:23 UTC
@madcoil That's true, though I wasn't even considering making my game wave based, so I'm glad you did! Thanks for playing!
🎤 ManchmalScott
10. Jan 2023 · 20:23 UTC
@euske Yeah, Godot still has some bugs with it's web export (I've even submitted a github issue because of this jam lol), so I'm glad I also had desktop builds. Thanks for playing!
Pincushion
11. Jan 2023 · 01:08 UTC
I like all the different ways to get more guns. The timer on the seed plot was a really good idea too, since there was minimal clutter. The shop's really nice. The tutorial was really well done too. All in all, nicely done.

I couldn't always place seeds or water where I wanted. The circle would be red, even though nothing was near. After some time the ground would be fertile again though.
🎤 ManchmalScott
11. Jan 2023 · 01:18 UTC
@pincushion Thanks for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it! What you might have been encountering with the invalid placement is that you also can't be too far away from your character? I think I forgot to explicitly describe the placement rules in the tutorial, oops.
smashcrate
11. Jan 2023 · 16:59 UTC
Nice music, gives good vibes. The sprites and background also good. I couldn't do much with all the corn seeds, but it was fun to kill the enemies and get band-aids :smile: Fun game, really enjoyed.
Pincushion
11. Jan 2023 · 18:15 UTC
@manchmalscott On man, I played it again, and I think you're right. I knew about that placement rule too. The player should be able to figure it out, since it's a common mechanic. I don't think it's something that needs to be in the tutorial. I blame the zombies.
🎤 ManchmalScott
11. Jan 2023 · 18:27 UTC
@smashcrate Thanks for playing, and I'm glad you enjoyed! The music was a first for me, I had never tried to do music myself before, but I'm really happy with how it came out. If you have too many corn seeds, maybe you want to go into the shop and buy some pumpkins lol
kythehuman
11. Jan 2023 · 21:30 UTC
I'm a big fan of the risk/reward dynamic in deciding whether to plant crops or use them for weapons, so good job. I had some trouble accessing the shop in the web version but still had fun. The text of the one-liners when you equipped weapons was a nice touch :)
evil23
11. Jan 2023 · 23:03 UTC
Boy is it hard! I just want to peacefully harvest my crops and these f**kers show up throwing rocks at me!!
The song is catchy, the leg movement a bit weird. One thing though: I found the game stuck when health went to 0.
Is there a way to restart without refreshing the browser?
🎤 ManchmalScott
11. Jan 2023 · 23:28 UTC
@kymakesgames Thanks for playing! I definitely spent a good time trying to balance all the factors that go into that plant/equip dynamic and I could probably spend a whole month focused only on that, lmao. Also, the puns were required. Basically the first thing I wrote down on my planning doc was "En Gourd" and I just went from there!
🎤 ManchmalScott
11. Jan 2023 · 23:30 UTC
@evil23 Thanks for playing! It's definitely a tricky game lol, I spent a long time adjusting how and when the enemies spawn and it could definitely use more adjusting still lol. When your health goes to zero there's supposed to be a game over screen that shows you your score, if you aren't seeing that then it's definitely a bug :/
jackypark9852
12. Jan 2023 · 08:58 UTC
Don't touch my plants! I was genuinely sad when I saw the zombie eat one of three plants I had. Cute game! For some reason, I was expecting the corn to start shooting at the zombies hahhahah
🎤 ManchmalScott
12. Jan 2023 · 09:45 UTC
@jackypark9852 I guess in the screenshot the popcorn bullet is like,,,,directly over the crop lmaooo. Thanks for playing, and for giving me my 20th rating!
coatline
14. Jan 2023 · 21:32 UTC
Really cute game! The music is impressive, pretty sure I recognize those as BeepBox tunes! The game unfortunately crashed every time I pressed tab to open the shop! :smile: I feel like that is unintentional but I still had a good time, corn was enough to sustain me! Great job!
🎤 ManchmalScott
15. Jan 2023 · 02:05 UTC
@coatline Thanks for playing, and yeah those are BeepBox tunes! My first time using it, so I'm glad you liked it :)

I'm sorry that it crashed when you opened the shop, no idea why that's happening but (assuming you played the web build) godot's web builds are...rough sometimes lol.