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Mc Gobbers Shroom Panic by Copito

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made by Copito for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

A farming - hacking - survival up

Mc Gobber is in a panic, Shroomastic the witch is nearly out of mushrooms and the forest is closing in!

Use cat towers to help you defend your mushrooms, before harvesting them for the witch.

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  • Note: Repeatedly pressing '3' cycles through your seeds
  • There is an annoying bug where sometimes monsters stop spawning but I've struggled to find steps to reproduce it
  • Written in C++ by pasting around various code bases on my computer, a lot of stuff was written from scratch
  • Sorry, as usual I ran out of time for audio, I'll try to make time to do a post-jam version with audio later this week!

Post Jam Version

I really just put this up to fix the rubbish logging, it does rebalance the game to be significantly more difficult, I'm not sure if this is better or worse than the original but I had those changes locally when fixing the logging. I'm afraid I still didn't have much time to add audio

Link https://copito.itch.io/ld52
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/mc-gobbers-shroom-panic

Ratings

Overall 534th 3.304⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 466th 3.278⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 574th 3.019⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 469th 3.611⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 510th 3.393⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 434th 2.815⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 654th 2.981⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 35🗨️

Feedback

VaizAragorn
09. Jan 2023 · 23:43 UTC
Controls felt really nice. I couldn't understand what I have to do in the at first, after figuring it out it was really fun. Keep u pthe good work!
Shiiro 10psi
09. Jan 2023 · 23:53 UTC
I would have liked to see some sort of feedback when I was hitting the mushrooms or the enemies to let me know that hitting them multiple times was what I needed to do. Maybe a health bar or something.
Vyolfers
10. Jan 2023 · 02:48 UTC
It was unfortunate that you ran out of time to make the audio! I bet it'd be so satisfying to get an audio feedback from harvesting and hitting all those shrooomss!! I like it a lot, and the art is super cute too! Good work!
Aznz
10. Jan 2023 · 13:47 UTC
The game was really fun when head to mid, just kept on playin and listen to my own music and chill. mechanic was really fund special adding the cat turret which help me progress a lot! made the game fun and relaxing. the only thing i can say add more ui system for people who started the game. might be little bit confusing but overall really good game.
cybek
10. Jan 2023 · 22:07 UTC
If game doesn't work for someone (GL_INVALID_OPERATION, opengl error 1252), it means it's running on intel graphics, if you have external/discrete GPU, run on it.
Next time try making logs more verbose, it would be hard to debug from it :)
Nice game, funny and nicely done. Huge props for making it in c++ and using the tga format :D
A little tutorial would help since at first run I just ran away from the starting point and tried to find the mushrooms in the forest.
Also it would be nice, if there's no sound, to at least have some graphical effect that you are attacked or your picking the shrooms works, since it requires multiple clicks. But anyway, nice and fun game!
🎤 Copito
10. Jan 2023 · 22:15 UTC
Hey thanks for the feedback @cybek I did originally have a hit feedback animation on the player but i removed it last minute because it interrupted attacking and lead to the player being stun locked too easily which i found really frustrating. there should be a graphical effect from picking the shrooms though (the little bits spawn on the floor then they fly towards you). as to the logs... sorry! :D i also wrote the gl code during the jam.
cybek
10. Jan 2023 · 22:28 UTC
@copito : oh yea, sounds like it's better that you removed this animation :P But some small red particle or a text of "-1" would be nice I think, however it's a detail since you can see the hearts decreasing. About the shrooms, the particles are visible, but only when you hit the shroom 8-9 times I think? Or maybe every hit gives me a shroom?
About the logs, no problem ;) I've used the opengl so I didn't spend more than 1 minute to check this. It was rather a hint for you, if anyone else would have a problem, you couldn't debug it and help other people run your game. But I really appreciate that you used opengl and c++ here, we are rare species here :)
🎤 Copito
10. Jan 2023 · 22:36 UTC
@cybek yeah maybe it would have been nice to have a bit more feedback when you were hit, for clarity you get 1 "shroom" for each particle you collect after destroying a shroom plant. Sorry if that was unclear
sonicpixelation
10. Jan 2023 · 23:36 UTC
This is really well done. Good job!
SS9
10. Jan 2023 · 23:41 UTC
This was fun, I really enjoyed the gameplay! I wish the rewards for completing a tier became better the higher up you got, because I reached a point where it was very hard to level up with little reward... But this game was actually really enjoyable, and I thought you did a great job!
D3kryption
10. Jan 2023 · 23:47 UTC
The fact that you wrote this in pure C++ is just insane.
You did a great job tho!
I liked the mushrooms! :D
LDJam user 277835
10. Jan 2023 · 23:59 UTC
Very fun! I could play this all day if there were more mushrooms to grow. Having a damage indicator would be great. I'm not sure why there is a path leading away from the pot, I went that way and there was nothing. Awesome game!
🎤 Copito
11. Jan 2023 · 08:20 UTC
thanks @ss9, that's so true about lack of rewards as you level up, and I was really disappointed I didn't have time to balance it better and improve the rewards. It was just a lack of time issue
paci
11. Jan 2023 · 16:33 UTC
Really nice game, I'd like to play the complete version (with the audio). I like the art very much, the experience is fun even without much feedbacks.
Skosnowich
12. Jan 2023 · 10:44 UTC
I like the general idea of the game and also the art style/animations are lovely. After having some cats protecting my field, I felt the game was too easy. There were way too few enemies and this sadly made the game boring after some time. I ran around hoping maybe there was something to explore outside of my cosy cat-shroom fields but didn't find anything. Collecting the shrooms sometimes was a PITA, because they flew around me and felt rather floaty in general.

Sounds, of course, would have added a lot to the game. Nonetheless great game, it was fun to play!
🎤 Copito
12. Jan 2023 · 11:12 UTC
sounds like you might have hit the "monsters stop spawning" bug @skosnowich normally the number of monsters scales up quite a bit by 10 minutes in or so that said the balance isn't ideal. Shrooms flying around you should only happen if your bag is already full, but could also be a bug like everything it's rather an unpolished feature... i did my best with the time i had!
Skosnowich
12. Jan 2023 · 11:28 UTC
@copito Ah, I see, well the monsters didn't stop to spawn completely, but the numbers were rather low. 10 minutes might be a bit long for a jam game for difficulty to kick in, but balancing jam games in the short time is also my nemesis. Don't worry, the game was pretty fun overall. :thumbsup:
Ravernt
13. Jan 2023 · 18:03 UTC
Nice game! Love that you need to plant turrets like plants. The game also has good visuals but sadly there are no sounds. Well done!
deadgoodnik
13. Jan 2023 · 18:48 UTC
Cool little game nice Graphics shame there's no audio but cool none the less
LDJam user 277851
13. Jan 2023 · 19:11 UTC
Very interesting combination of planting and TD
You also use them once when you switch tools, which looks like a bug
nullval
13. Jan 2023 · 22:55 UTC
I can't seem to run the game :( it crashes on launch ![ld52 - crash.png](///raw/0d9/64/z/5662e.png)
🎤 Copito
14. Jan 2023 · 10:16 UTC
anything in the log @nullval ?
nullval
14. Jan 2023 · 13:59 UTC
@copito only this:

GL error: 1282
🎤 Copito
15. Jan 2023 · 00:50 UTC
@nullval fwiw i've put up a version with better logging on the itch page called "build-post" if you have time to run it. What kind of gpu are you running it on?
His the Unknown Painter
15. Jan 2023 · 09:54 UTC
This is well done game!
I like the character animation!
But one thing I really hope this game is... soundtrack or effect.
So silent when I played this game, Well, That's all!
Thanks for make this game!

cheers!
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LDJam user 174638
23. Jan 2023 · 10:33 UTC
Cool game, simple but addictive gameplay. I lov ethe art as well congratz :)
lizelive
24. Jan 2023 · 05:08 UTC
Hard a hard time running it on proton. But like the art.
🎤 Copito
24. Jan 2023 · 08:33 UTC
interesting, thanks @lizelive I sort of expected this game to be fairly easy to run via emulators etc, as it only uses really basic OpenGL and it was one of my motivators for using gl rather than vulkan as I have in other recent jams. Seems this rationale wasn't really correct!
DFaouaz
24. Jan 2023 · 11:26 UTC
Fun little game and the art is really nice! Great job!