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No Farm, No Fowl by square wave

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made by square wave for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

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From deep within the soil, you emerge. You are the gourdmind: a sentient pumpkin with a heart of coal. You will never be understood, and the chickens know you are a threat. Harvest your spawn's lifepulp to gain upgrades, and destroy the filthy fowl, before they consume you.

Shoot seeds at incoming chickens to defend yourself. Occasionally, hitting a chicken with a seed will stick and cause a new pumpkin to grow. Protect these pumpkins until harvest time to acquire upgrades.

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Survive as long as you can, collecting more upgrades to become more powerful. You will rule as supreme gourd eventually.

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Carefull! Your pumpkin spawn hold the power of transformation. Do not let the chickens consume them, or they will become a monster almost more frightening than you.

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Controls

WASD to move

Left click to shoot

Right click to throw a bomb (when acquired as an upgrade)

Spacebar to dash (when acquired as an upgrade)

Credits

Built with Godot

Music and SFX made in 1BITDRAGON

Art and Animations made in Aseprite

Extra

This is my first Ludum Dare submission, but I feel pretty happy about the result, so don't worry too much about tearing me down in the comments, although constructive criticism is very welcome if you have it. And feel free to post your scores below! I set victory at my personal high score so no one would beat me.

Link https://github.com/squarewave/NoFarmNoFoul
Link https://squarewavejams.itch.io/no-farm-no-fowl
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/no-farm-no-fowl

Ratings

Overall 26th 4.071⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 16th 4.214⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 210th 3.179⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 105th 3.911⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 77th 4.018⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 66th 3.72⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 50th 3.654⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 105th 3.611⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

Roroto Sic
08. Jan 2023 · 18:00 UTC
nice funny compo game !
I unfortunatly die next to my last pumpkin

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Mariavalcam
08. Jan 2023 · 22:16 UTC
I really like your game! Really well explained. Only thing I did not like was killing chickens, but it reminded me to the "Journey of the Prairie King". This would make a lovely mini-game within a game. Congratulations.
0xWAVY
08. Jan 2023 · 22:18 UTC
Loved it. The title is super cute and loved the use of theme. I definitely got territorial once it got to harvestin' time. My one piece of constructive criticism is that it took the game a little bit to get going, but once they started comin' they started comin'! Loved the graphics, loved the music. Great entry!
diesdas
08. Jan 2023 · 22:22 UTC
amazing graphics (bomb explosion!), solid gameplay, especially the tripple shot, score second try: 158
🎤 square wave
08. Jan 2023 · 22:26 UTC
@mariavalcam haha, yes sorry about the killing chickens bit! When I showed my wife she said "you're a vegetarian and *this* is the game you made?"
VerttiXPertti
08. Jan 2023 · 22:38 UTC
Great game. Loved the artstyle and the animations.
brandann
08. Jan 2023 · 23:21 UTC
fun and challenging. my whole family has played it already! LOL
great art too
pauljs
09. Jan 2023 · 10:17 UTC
Great little entry! Cute! Clearly a classical idea but very well executed!
jcg
09. Jan 2023 · 13:59 UTC
Congratulations on your first compo! Focused, short, and sweet; was fun to organize the chickens into one spot to make it easier to defend your seeds. It was also nice to be able to line up chickens to shoot through a couple of them at once, made me feel like I was really making decisions about the experience.
Phlip45
10. Jan 2023 · 02:19 UTC
Art style was super crisp and gorgeous. The powerups are fun and the difficulty curve felt right for the first playthrough to get used to the mechanics.
matimat
10. Jan 2023 · 12:38 UTC
Good game, at first I thought I was going to be bored but very quickly I got caught up in the game which is well balanced for such a short time
Chum Chum
10. Jan 2023 · 15:56 UTC
Really neat art, great mechanics, cool submission! It was really fun!
Papaya
10. Jan 2023 · 17:37 UTC
A complete package of good gameplay, music, sfx, and graphics! It fit the theme well too. One small feedback I have is that I can walk outside of the map. Aside from that, very nice entry!
pushmepullyu
11. Jan 2023 · 05:50 UTC
The music and art are just right! Tho I couldnt tell if the slight lag when chickens got hit with seeds was a slowdown effect or because of my potato pc :D
HypernoodleJon
11. Jan 2023 · 05:57 UTC
Really fun game! Loved the upgrades available as I harvested more pumpkins, and the chickens came at a good, challenging pace.
feor
11. Jan 2023 · 05:59 UTC
Very polished for a compo, the animations on those feathers are impressive, the pixel art is great and the music works well. I think the SFX are a bit rough in comparison but that's just cause everything else is so nice. The game's fun to play, limiting the bullet regeneration to force you to kill multiple enemies is interesting, but it made me repeatedly get in some dangerous positions and the fact that any chicken 1-shots you is a bit annoying, because it makes you want to play safe. Still pretty engaging trying out the different upgrades.
rosypenguin
11. Jan 2023 · 06:22 UTC
I had so much fun with this one! Loved all the upgrades, and the extra challenge of having to not only protect your mound to collect the pumpkins, but also ensure you kill the chickens closer to the center of the stage to give it the highest chance of survival. I was so delighted to see the giant chickens when they ate my pumpkins! Dash is super good for getting rid of them. Great work! (My high score is 145)
Dagostino Audio
11. Jan 2023 · 08:30 UTC
Really innovative gameplay! Love the upgrade system! really well polished and fun game
LDJam user 268934
11. Jan 2023 · 08:52 UTC
Wouw so easy and yet so dificult.
Love te dead effect of the pumpkin and omg the big one scared me (lol).
Impressive compo you can be realy proud of this game.
🎤 square wave
11. Jan 2023 · 16:49 UTC
@rosypenguin Oh my God! No joke, Deepest Sword was one of the handful of LD games that I played prior to this which inspired me to participate! What an honor :)
LDJam user 250905
11. Jan 2023 · 21:05 UTC
Nice game, I liked it! It's a simple one, so I can't give too many suggestions for it, but I think I might've gotten further if instead of chickens insta-killing you, you could have lives tied to the number of pumpkins you have (getting hit you lose all your pumpkins, getting hit with no pumpkins kills you)! Other than that, I like it; I got a good 8 minutes of fun out of it, so I'm satisfied! :laughing:

Keep it up! :clap:
brandann
11. Jan 2023 · 21:53 UTC
By far this has been my kids favorite game. we all took turns playing it for well over an hour. great job.
tttt
11. Jan 2023 · 22:16 UTC
The game was very funny and well executed.

My only note is that adding some description for the power-ups could help in the choice.

Great job!
Simeon Radivoev
11. Jan 2023 · 23:43 UTC
Needs a bit more juice, but nice feeling overall. Boss chicken came out of nowhere :chicken:
🎤 square wave
12. Jan 2023 · 04:38 UTC
@brandann Aww, yay! That makes me feel so good. I was expecting my son to be the one most into your game because he loves to play the bad guy, but my daughter was so excited by the idea of "collecting" the cute little slimes that she just wanted to keep on going forever.
Richard Jedlicka
15. Jan 2023 · 20:31 UTC
Haha, this is cute little funny fun game :D. I love the graphics 😍. The multi-shots are fun especially when you hit 5 chicken at once. After some time the game starts to be quite adrenaline experience. I got 211 points and ended like this ![Snímek obrazovky 2023-01-15 213000.png](///raw/31e/8/z/567f1.png)

I have found only one flaw, some upgrades are not clear what they do on the first sight.

Very smooths experience, for a compo submittion. Well done!