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Arrrrrvest! by SgtWeirdo

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made by SgtWeirdo for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Y'arr Mateys! Ye ship be a self sustainin' marvel ere to do away with the Soul Arrrrvester and 'er Cap'n. Plot your course, mind the duration, plant yer crops and bide the days as you cross swords with the naughty and haughty crews 'ere on this sea!

General instructions, choose a destination, each has a different travel time, during travel plant your crops and upgrade your ship. Your stock is readily visible in the crates. Hover over any of the 4 parts (farming table, sail, cannon, or railing) of your ship to see the upgrade costs and click to build the mightiest vessel on the sea. Click on your pocket watch to watch a day go by!

Programming and UX/UI by @LewL - art, UI, music and, sounds by @SgtWeirdo Game design was the love baby of @LewL and @SgtWeirdo!

Fun fact, the dev's aren't sure how many r's there are in the title.

WebGL Build https://lewlhere.itch.io/arrrvest
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/arrrrrvest

Ratings

Overall 378th 3.536⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Fun 395th 3.393⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 139th 3.738⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Theme 405th 3.714⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 569th 3.238⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Audio 278th 3.417⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Humor 159th 3.536⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Mood 472th 3.354⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Given 48🗳️ 68🗨️

Feedback

LewL
09. Jan 2023 · 21:25 UTC
Dev here, make sure to play the itch.io version for less bugs + better resolution!
Seagoingmanatee
09. Jan 2023 · 21:38 UTC
Ok i'm glad you mentioned the itch.io link. This Game had me confused at first. As soon as I heard the battle SFX where its basically (you i'm guessing) making sploosh noises I was dying. Thank you!
LordMiji
09. Jan 2023 · 21:38 UTC
Hahahah love the sound effects, great work. I only played through the intro sequence fight but what a neat game - Great work
919113
09. Jan 2023 · 21:47 UTC
I didn't realise the cannon was a thing to start with as the base of it blends in with the floor. Also a bit confused by the clock that goes back in time. I had fun playing.
benskca
09. Jan 2023 · 21:51 UTC
This is such a cool concept, it's really fun planning how you want to use your time and resources. It's also really satisfying upgrading the ship and seeing yourself get stronger. My only complaint is that it took me a little bit to realise which parts of the ship were interactable, the railing upgrade for example I didn't realise I could select until after the first couple battles.

(The sound effects are amazing btw)
Skullpaca
09. Jan 2023 · 23:08 UTC
Not gonna lie, I spent a lot more time than I expected playing this lol. It was really fun! It took a while to understand what does what, and some stuff are a bit confusing (e.g. does upgrading farm past 8 tiles do anything?), but overall it was very enjoyable once I got used to it. Made it all the way to the boss but I couldn't beat it since it kept repairing faster than I can do damage haha.

Great job on the game! The bgm is gonna be stuck in my head for a while now.
Fromage
10. Jan 2023 · 00:19 UTC
My son and I had a lot of fun with this!

I think the harvesting theme could be better integrated (we didn't even realize it was a thing until our second playthrough)

Also we played the itch version but there was a bug where at the start of the node selection it would error out and auto move to the next battle. We didn't get to fight the last boss as a result.

Anyway, great stuff!
LewL
10. Jan 2023 · 00:27 UTC
Thanks everyone for your feedback - cheers to @sgtweirdo for his genius to implement those sound effects, hah!

@skullpaca - when a building is maxed out, there should generally not be any tooltip popping up anymore suggesting that there's more upgrades. If it still does, sorry about the confusion. Repairs are a pain and have already been toned down a good bit, Islands used to repair like crazy, hah.

@fromage - we're happy to make families happy! That progression-skip has been haunting us the entire day, thought it would miraleously dissappear, thanks for the feedback!
Adam Gallina
10. Jan 2023 · 01:04 UTC
I also ended up playing this a lot longer than I expected :) - the only thing I really had an issue with was the lack of ingame instructions for what could be upgraded, but I was able to figure it out without too much trial and error
MidoriMelody
10. Jan 2023 · 05:45 UTC
The music for this game is reallt good.
Cambryx
10. Jan 2023 · 12:27 UTC
Verrrry cool game! It took me a while to figure out how to play it. Maybe some more instructions on where to click / what you can interact with would have been helpfull.
After that I had a lot of fun!
Unfortunately I couldn't select the final big ship for some reason so I missed the last battle.
Also the battles felt a bit boring at the end since I just kept klicking on my cannon (don't know if there is a better strategy). The farming / upgrading part of the game was way more interesting and fun to me.
Other than that not a lot to complain about, just a fun little experience that I really enjoyed!
Grrrrrrreat job!
masternoob
10. Jan 2023 · 14:59 UTC
I really liked the idea and there's a lot of content in the game. Just found it at bit difficult to figure out what you could do. The icons are a bit hard to recognize for me. But great spin on the theme!
Substain
10. Jan 2023 · 15:09 UTC
fun game! after getting hit by the storm, i could not access the map though. like the idea though, i mean who doesnt want to grow cannonball-seeds?
Alex de la Cour
10. Jan 2023 · 15:55 UTC
Took me a few deaths to get the hang of it, but once I did - a really fun game! It was really satisfying planning what to upgrade, what I needed and how long I had. I had a good laugh while I was playing, harvesting my cannonball plants and watching the pirates complain as I was defeating them. Unfortunately a bug removed the number from the final boss when I clicked on it so I didn't have a chance to fight them.
Tomtomgome
10. Jan 2023 · 19:29 UTC
Very good and very fun game, the concept is very catchy and it's overall very good. I got stuck once on the map and I had to reboot completely because I couldn't do anything anymore, maybe I missed something :(
And even though I tried hard (really) I couldn't defeat the boss, it's just too strong :D
FionaSprinkles
10. Jan 2023 · 19:34 UTC
I like these sound effects a lot!
🎤 SgtWeirdo
10. Jan 2023 · 19:46 UTC
Thanks for the kind words everyone! We're aware that there are some bugs, in retrospect we should have done a few more playthroughs but that's 20-20 for ya. We should have highlighted interactive elements too. It's been a great learning process for us and we really appreciate the time you all spent playing the game!
<3
Ale
11. Jan 2023 · 03:12 UTC
I like the idea, but was pretty lost. After my third attempt I managed to make it past the island, only to get immediately destroyed by a powerful raft. I think that a little bit of text to explain everything would make this much more enjoyable, as it seems to have way more mechanics than I was able to find on my own.

But besides that, good job! The music and sound effects were great, and the graphics were good too, except for they made it hard to tell what is interactible and what isn't.
starofleaf
11. Jan 2023 · 04:50 UTC
A game that completely pokes my smile! If this game can add rouglike elements in the future and make the guidance more detailed, it will be a very interesting game! I like it very much!
secrt101
11. Jan 2023 · 05:18 UTC
Took me a bit to figure out the mechanics, but I liked the idea once I did! Felt like it could use a bit more balancing, always felt like there was always a timeslot where I was just waiting for things to grow. The final boss also seemed really strong, but I could have just been bad at resource management, lol. Loved the concept and has a ton of potential!
Achilnos
11. Jan 2023 · 20:16 UTC
Very nice game. Looks nice and was very fun. Had quite a few goes. I did find that after the first level the next 2 level just weren't selectable and it forced you to select a level further along, I don't know if that was intentional but seemed to make it hard to be prepared for future levels as you didn't have time to get resources.
Really enjoyed it though. One of the games I've enjoyed the most so far.
Glaikunt
11. Jan 2023 · 22:55 UTC
Really fun & cool game once you understand everything. Battle sound effects were amazing, made me lol. Great Job with this one, really enjoyed it.
Xeke-Death
12. Jan 2023 · 10:12 UTC
Took a few combats to realise what I was supposed to do on the ship, but I managed to get pretty beefy. Sunk a few ships without firing a shot because I could ram them to sunk.


I think the final fight against the 2 mast ship in the middle of the map bugged for me, because when it appeared, I was not able to click on it to proceed.

Nice work, overall.
VictorRypl
12. Jan 2023 · 15:06 UTC
A jam highlight for sure! Takes a while to understand all the mechanics, but the loop is very addicting.
Matank
13. Jan 2023 · 05:18 UTC
Fun game, and really cute pixel art!

I think one thing that could be improved is that it wasn't very clear which parts of the screen are clickable (I only found out you could plant resources on my third playthrough)
Steffo
13. Jan 2023 · 21:14 UTC
Yarrr! Solid game, me hearties! 🏴‍☠️

## Feedback

### Game

Fun and strategic gameplay in deciding what to plant in advance, which can be easily extended by adding more actions to battles requiring different resources!

About that... what's the point of cannonballs if you can use any other resource in place of them, and they take the same time to grow?
(No time to implement different growth times?)

The game crashed right before the final boss battle! :(((

### Distribution

Thanks for **providing a HTML5 build**!
Since I am playing on Linux, I appreciated it!
ssh.randy
16. Jan 2023 · 04:29 UTC
love the music and voice SFX, my favorite kind of SFX. graphics were super cute too. the gameplay was a little confusing initially, as i had no idea what to do with the plots of dirt. but as i played it became a bit more intuitive. overall great job!
🎤 SgtWeirdo
16. Jan 2023 · 16:30 UTC
@starofleaf Yeah we wanted to have an infinitely scrolling map, but it requires balancing beyond the time we had for this project so we scoped it down. Glad you enjoyed though! thanks for the feedback!

@steffo appreciate the detailed feedback! Thank you! <3 but yeah, initially we wanted to have different growth times, but unfortunately due to the time it would take to balance we opted out to at least deliver a core experience for the jam!

We're still working on polish of the UI and adding some animations in it, we'll do a separate file release to our itch once we're done! thanks to everyone for playing and thanks in advance to those yet to embark!
Klaus Peter
27. Jan 2023 · 15:06 UTC
Really liked the idea of trying to strategically build and improve a ship! I think it was a bit difficult to figure out what everything was in the beginning. It took me a while to understand how the upgrades worked and what effect they had. So that was a bit chaotic :joy:
But otherwise a pretty neat entry ^^