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Cream of the Crop by Weirdybeardyman

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made by Weirdybeardyman for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

The harvest needs to be in today, but your tractor has broken down. What can you do other than strap a scythe to the bottom of your crop duster and have at it? Fly low to the ground to chop down the crops. Be careful to watch your fuel, if you run out it's game over! There are spare jerry cans in the barn, the doors are open so you can grab them without having to land.

Controls: - WASD / Arrow keys

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Tools- Godot Affinity Photo & Designer Blender Audacity

Credits- Wheat texture painting approach taken from this great Godot snow tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXo97H55EhA I used this Godot plane contoller tutorial from KidsCanCode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrwmAme_WA I tried to give a sense of speed based on this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9OriySqLjQ Motion blur https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/211 Camera Shake https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/735

Things I missed- You can't see your mouse when trying to press the buttons to play again. I forgot to add controller support. Sorry there isn't any music, I only had 30 mins left to add SFX and music.

Link https://weirdybeardyman.itch.io/cream-of-the-crop
Link https://weirdybeardyman.itch.io/cream-of-the-crop
Link https://weirdybeardyman.itch.io/cream-of-the-crop
Link https://weirdybeardyman.itch.io/cream-of-the-crop
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/cream-of-the-crop

Ratings

Overall 178th 3.452⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 136th 3.476⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 164th 3.333⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 101th 3.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 122th 3.738⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 214th 2.938⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Humor 145th 2.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 209th 3.119⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

ursagames
09. Jan 2023 · 05:19 UTC
Ohhh a fellow godot entry! My time was 464! I did find myself mostly just sticking to the ground and not doing a lot of flying as it didn't seem any more efficient to do try to go higher and dive down compared to just staying level with the ground. Felt good to play though! Although I did wish the completion metric was a bit lower since it felt like I was mowing down little bumps to get the final bit. Like if maybe the goal wasn't to fully harvest everything, but to just get a full days worth of harvest it might have removed the tedious bit at the end.
candlesan
09. Jan 2023 · 05:50 UTC
You definitely get a huge sense of speed when you're flying low to the ground. All the little polish details you put in really come through (especially the camera shake and motion blur).
I skipped rating you in sound because I wasn't getting any. Is there sound?
I liked that I could go back to refuel as many times as you want. At first I thought it was going to be limited.
🎤 Weirdybeardyman
09. Jan 2023 · 09:57 UTC
@ursagames thanks for playing! yeah good idea, I should have made it 90% or something. I also wanted to make it so you have to deposit grain in the silo once you reach a certain amount, which might have encouraged flying a bit more, but of course I ran out of time 😅
🎤 Weirdybeardyman
09. Jan 2023 · 09:59 UTC
@candlesan thank you very much for playing and for the nice feedback. Yeah there should be SFX, like engine sounds and refueling sounds. No music though. It might need turning up?
CG_Fred
09. Jan 2023 · 20:34 UTC
Love it! Really nice controls and I love buzzing through the barn & windmill.
merdeboi
11. Jan 2023 · 09:54 UTC
I clipped through the ground :smile: This feels more like a racing game than a flying one, can stick close to the ground at all times. Overall really fun entry. Great job on the graphics, the harvesting/wheat texture implementation. Great sense of speed. ![ground.png](///raw/e0a/z/56170.png)
fnelix
11. Jan 2023 · 10:00 UTC
Flying felt good and was easy to control. I think this would be a bit dangerous with a real plane ;)
I like your idea with the grain silo, but yeah, 48h .. Cool entry!
pikkufighter
11. Jan 2023 · 10:36 UTC
This was a fun idea, unfortunately I clipped through the ground and couldn't finish the game
FancyReckless
11. Jan 2023 · 18:49 UTC
The crops reminded me of snow, but then I watched description and realized why :D. Overall fun game, really hit the perfectionist side of about making the field clean. up/down controls are not to be touched, but horizontal ones were really smooth. Aesthetically quite pleasing.
🎤 Weirdybeardyman
11. Jan 2023 · 22:50 UTC
@merdeboi ah yeah I realised that I forgot to add collision to the extra terrain pieces around the central plane 😬
Thanks very much for playing!
LeReveur
14. Jan 2023 · 01:09 UTC
My best is only 354, and maybe I can do better, but I saw all I had to say : good job! Especially for a compo!

PS : at a time, I was too near of the ground, and when I turned the plane on a wide angle I suddenly found myself underground, without any way to go back above… I say it for any usefull purpose, but I guess this is a Godot issue and that you can't do anything :sweat_smile: (it was with the windows version)
TerraCottaFrog
14. Jan 2023 · 19:41 UTC
I like the idea here a lot, and I think there is a very fun direction you can take this.

The main issue I found was there there was no reason *not* to fly close. I never had to pull up, and in fact the only time I steered the plane vertically was steering it *further* into the ground in order to slow the plane down for tight corners.

Having more obstacles on the ground (cows, harvesters, more static structures that cause injury to the plane) and more reasons to fly up (hills with other plants on them, having fuel be on a level higher than the ground) would make more use of the seemingly pretty solid flight controller you have.

It would also be good to have smaller levels with shorter time limits, that would encourage the player to take risks and need to better plan how to approach each level.

I think it would definitely be worth it to do a post jam version which works on encouraging the player to interact with the world more.
🎤 Weirdybeardyman
14. Jan 2023 · 22:15 UTC
@terracottafrog thanks very much for the feedback, those are some good ideas!
Mika314
16. Jan 2023 · 00:25 UTC
It is quite satisfying to see how the plane eats crops.
Eranot
16. Jan 2023 · 00:38 UTC
Cool graphics! Movement is really smooth, I just wish crashing the plane would make you lose the game too!
🎤 Weirdybeardyman
16. Jan 2023 · 01:11 UTC
@eranot thanks mate! Yeah I would have liked to make the plane crash when you hit the ground, I was just worried it would be too tedious or frustrating
Eranot
16. Jan 2023 · 01:37 UTC
@weirdybeardyman I agree it would be ver frustrating if the plane crashed on the ground, but maybe it would be alright to crash on the trees, buildings and rocks =)
chompdev
16. Jan 2023 · 04:02 UTC
Great entry! This one is really fun and relaxing to just buzz around the fields at your own pace. The flight model feels great, and the wheat harvesting is super satisfying as well. Great idea to have the barn fly-through refuel as a fun challenge to repeat periodically. This is the only harvesting game I've played so far that uses a terrain layer for crops, and it works remarkably well. Excellent job on this one!

![score51.PNG](///raw/044/42/z/5683c.png)
Daniel Alhadeff
16. Jan 2023 · 04:17 UTC
Really enjoyed the game -- seriously great work on the camera controller and overall game feel!
Sergey Myachin
19. Jan 2023 · 13:21 UTC
great game! i played 3 times and win! very enjoyable controls
pkenney
21. Jan 2023 · 19:24 UTC
Cool vibe with the silly story and unusual controls of the plane and being so low to the ground! I did mostly just cruise on the ground so I think I lost a bit of the flying feel but it was still a fun vehicle to control.

And the "destructible terrain" style of wheat was a nice touch that worked well.

Nice job!
jelch
21. Jan 2023 · 23:38 UTC
I like the sense of speed! I would have preferred the player to bounce off the ground rather than go through it. Nice use of godot.
Itskdog
22. Jan 2023 · 02:33 UTC
Great job with the flying controls! I wish the map was a little bigger.
Kelvin Mulungu
22. Jan 2023 · 18:21 UTC
Very fun, controls were perfect and that sense of speed really hit as well as advertised. I feel like if you had levels that started very easy and slowly escalated it would help give a feeling of accomplishment. Also, this farmer is a goddamn genius, next time someone around me needs to harvest some fields, we're grabbing a cessna and a long blade. Great work here.
jk5000
22. Jan 2023 · 19:14 UTC
A pretty fun little game. Well done.
smilewood
22. Jan 2023 · 21:05 UTC
Excellent game, I really liked this take on the theme - very funny premise. I loved flying the plane around, your flight felt very good to me, so my biggest wish for the game would have been some reason to actually leave the ground (or up the challenge by not letting me just scrape the plane across the ground without some real penalty). The way that the crop harvesting works looks great, it was very satisfying to do the core action of the game.

Having the fuel in the barn was great, although the fact that it was hovering slightly tripped me up a couple of times. Then when I came back around to get it I ended my game in the most sad place.
![fuel.png](///raw/4f5/z/56ba0.png)

Overall a great game, very well done!
🎤 Weirdybeardyman
23. Jan 2023 · 02:05 UTC
@smilewood oh no, so close but get so far! Thanks very much for playing and for the feedback!
ginathepotato
23. Jan 2023 · 06:25 UTC
The clipping through the ground made it a bit of a struggle in the beginning, but I thought the game was well done overall! It was really satisfying once I got the hang of it, and I really like your take on the theme!
betovf
23. Jan 2023 · 11:39 UTC
Nice entry! As a Godot developer myself, I really appreciate you shared the tutorials you followed :smiley:
Mephistase
23. Jan 2023 · 11:57 UTC
The flying sensation is really well rendered!

Like others, I would have love to do more stunts and not just stick to the ground.

Maybe by adding a plateform where we need to deposit or refuel frequently?
Fluburbio
27. Jan 2023 · 18:00 UTC
Impressive game! I love the graphics and sense of speed, and who knew harvesting crops with a plane could be so satisfying :D Great work!