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But I still had a great time playing, and the music is lovely!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":794225,"author_name":"DibbleChud","author_uid":"dibblechud","epoch":1649186539,"text":"Goose","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":802636,"author_name":"Skruffye","author_uid":"skruffye","epoch":1649257292,"text":"Wow, this was great! Felt really polished and that soundtrack was... unexpectedly jazzy. :laughing: \n\nI feel like, if you were interested in taking this any further, I'd love to see some kind of campaign with upgrades to your farm and tools!\n\nGreat work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":802647,"author_name":"Wainini","author_uid":"wainini","epoch":1649257384,"text":"Graphics are great, the sounds are amazing, and the music is superb! I really enjoy the experience. Still a bit confused about when I can move or not. After I plant, I can't move, but if I do something else after I plant, I can move. I will definetly play the game more. Thank you!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":803471,"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"jupiter-hadley","epoch":1649264116,"text":"I love the art! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you\u2019d like to take a look. :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/PKNtuuCFWt0","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":805503,"author_name":"adam-gould","author_uid":"adam-gould","epoch":1649277558,"text":"That certainly didn't *feel* like a compo game. Very polished and slick. The tutorial is a little clunky, but hey, for a compo game it was fantastic. The little details and movement, the soundtrack, everything is just so smooth. A very impressive entry.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":806274,"author_name":"realryanrogers","author_uid":"realryanrogers","epoch":1649282462,"text":"Thank you for sharing! This was a very interesting. Soundtrack is great, graphics are cute, loop is very good. 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Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":812545,"author_name":"pikachurian","author_uid":"pikachurian","epoch":1649366432,"text":"the gameplay loop felt nice.  The art was simple and appealing.  There was one glitch in the game where harvesting just stops working for some plants.  Besides that, I really enjoyed this game.  Good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":815190,"author_name":"Frib","author_uid":"frib","epoch":1649424992,"text":"Pretty decent gameplay loop but I think I figured out the optimal way to play pretty quickly. But at some point harvesting stopped working for me (v1.0.0) so I don't know how far I would have gotten and if the weeds would've done anything to throw a wrench in my strat.\n\nOther than that hiccup, nice game, nice music, nice duck, good stuff!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":817096,"author_name":"LDJam user 0","author_uid":"0","epoch":1649459126,"text":"Quack! Quack quack quack, quack.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":817202,"author_name":"Gildar76","author_uid":"gildar76","epoch":1649461269,"text":"Cool music and gameplay. I also like the simple art style!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":818534,"author_name":"LDJam user 249705","author_uid":"249705","epoch":1649502673,"text":"Really like the art. Very relaxing game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":822033,"author_name":"Aka Black Dog","author_uid":"aka-black-dog","epoch":1649594163,"text":"great game, a little confusing at first","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":824588,"author_name":"velvetlobster","author_uid":"velvetlobster","epoch":1649678705,"text":"this reminds me of the untitled goose game","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":824590,"author_name":"velvetlobster","author_uid":"velvetlobster","epoch":1649678761,"text":"but where you are actually the goose farmer, cool and funny idea","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":824631,"author_name":"arya-s","author_uid":"arya-s","epoch":1649680080,"text":"Thank you for streaming and reviewing my game even though I wasn't there to see it live!\n\nI like your game concept, it's fun running around, planting and growing things and strategizing how to plant so that harvesting is efficient.\n\nI thinks some of the UX\/UI could be improved, for example showing an area of effect on the action I have selected around the mouse. I also had an issue of wasting turns because of that, but for a compo that's totally understandable!\n\nThe art style is cute and the audio is fitting. I was hoping for a few quacks :)\n\nGreat job and thank you again!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":834580,"author_name":"SketchyGalore","author_uid":"sketchygalore","epoch":1650409916,"text":"Love the music! Also really like that this game was done turn based, made the time management much more interesting!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/13\/13b2bfdea027f329835a1fab45813debdf22d9e5dc1d4823e8388a3c07f94ac1.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/initialposition.net\/LD\/50\/Quackenfarm_WIN.zip","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/initialposition.net\/LD\/50\/update\/Quackenfarm_v102_WIN.zip","text":"Windows (NEWEST UPDATE)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/InitialPosition\/LDJAM50","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"81197","g_author":"1212690","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"385494","g_title":"Quackenfarm","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"149","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"276617","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"276617","n_urlkey":"385494","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/quackenfarm","n_slug":"quackenfarm","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"212690","n_created":"1646661337","n_modified":"1778358453","n_version":"904831","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":5,"author":212690,"body":"Did you ever want to play a farming simulator where you have to think about your moves? 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