Drying tomatoes by Dekajoo

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made by Dekajoo for Ludum Dare 51 (COMPO)

> CLICK TO START TO DRY TOMATOES <.

Your village is on the verge of starvation. The land is drying and soon nothing will grow... In short it's not your best summer.

Grow 100 tomatoes 🍅 close to the water and bring them back to the village so that you can migrate to a more welcoming land.

Every 10 seconds the water goes further away

  • Plant and grow tomatoes 🍅
  • Go back to your people to convert tomatoes 🍅 to seeds. 🌱
  • Plant more tomatoes 🍅

🎮 Arrow keys to move, space to plant a seed​

❗ Tomatoes will not grow on dry land (1) they must be planted on land close enough to the water (2) Capture2.PNG

❗ Go back to your people to convert tomatoes 🍅 to seeds. 🌱 (3) Capture3.PNG

Ratings

Overall 144th 3.658⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 126th 3.625⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 99th 3.725⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 140th 3.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 122th 3.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 62th 3.763⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 147th 3.077⭐ 15🧑‍⚖️
Mood 100th 3.647⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

Deniz ARAS
02. Oct 2022 · 22:06 UTC
Great game. feeling of rush is great. Trying to plant as much as plants before that tile get dry was fun. However going back to the top to get more seed is bit repetitive. Maybe you can gather seeds from growing tomatoes. But ar and the mechanic really mesmerized me great work.
Paroxysmal
03. Oct 2022 · 02:44 UTC
Good entry.
Castitatis
03. Oct 2022 · 09:18 UTC
really nice, the art is amazing, the gameplay is simple but solid
blk_dg
03. Oct 2022 · 17:15 UTC
Surprisingly more challenging than I initially thought, in a good way, there was some nice tension in there. Good entry, I'd love to see that water in pixel art :p Congrats
LDJam user 174638
03. Oct 2022 · 17:56 UTC
@blk-dg Agree, that was my intention but shader + pixel + 48h That was too much for me :D
LDJam user 226027
04. Oct 2022 · 10:01 UTC
Great job on the design and the mechanics! The atmosphere with music and the sfx was very good considering available time for development.
She Wrote
04. Oct 2022 · 17:44 UTC
The gameplay is really fun and challenging. Well done!
Hadik
04. Oct 2022 · 21:44 UTC
Your game is pretty fun, so please make it more next time. Not bad, not bad :) I like your art. Overall that game is good, good job.
zimny11
05. Oct 2022 · 16:20 UTC
Wow the music is absolute banger! Love the take on the theme. It was really fun to play. Great job!
mdotedot
05. Oct 2022 · 19:15 UTC
audio + graphics are good. Took a bit of time before it was rocking. I kind of liked the first part where I thought that I had to climb the plant to bring the food to the people. But than i got the idea and keep going deeper.
Pixelydian
08. Oct 2022 · 16:17 UTC
Love what you've got going here! Pixel art is amazing, music is ROCKING (the instruments remind me of Journey to Silius). Losing all progress when you die is brutal - this may be a personal preference, but I find "up" to jump difficult and not ideal controls for platforming. But I really like the use of theme and overall gameplay. Great job!
LDJam user 174638
10. Oct 2022 · 08:41 UTC
@Pixelydian Good catch for Journey to Siliu that's the inspiration :D
Thanks for the feedback I'll probably use all that at the end of the jam to push a new version !
ghostbomb
12. Oct 2022 · 00:06 UTC
Really impressive music and graphics. It'd be nice if you got a bit of grace period or health so that you don't just have to restart all the way at the beginning if you fall into the water.
shimmerscale
12. Oct 2022 · 01:07 UTC
Simple but quite fun. I like the pixel art graphics and the audio. The mechanics were a bit confusing to me at first because I didn't realize I had to return with 100 tomatoes all at once. I thought that the tomatoes I brought back were adding up, so making that more clear in the instructions and/or in the game itself would've been helpful. Also, I noticed that sometimes the tomatoes get stuck inside the ground tiles and I think a little victory song would've been fun for the end. I really enjoyed this game though! Very polished and fun to play. Very impressive that you made this in 48 hours!
Rob6566
13. Oct 2022 · 20:04 UTC
Lovely graphics and music. I like the concept too :), and the gameplay is interesting. It took me a while to figure out that I could double-jump. Nice job!
Malai
14. Oct 2022 · 11:42 UTC
Had problems getting back up to the people, the jump felt a litte bit short
Malai
14. Oct 2022 · 11:57 UTC
Nevermind, found out there is a double jump!
Game was pretty fun, loved that you have "exponentially" more seeds available and figuring out when to go back up.
Sometimes the game stuttered a lot for a few seconds (Intel Macbook, Google Chrome)