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Kudos!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":897199,"author_name":"square wave","author_uid":"square-wave","epoch":1673215784,"text":"I love the calming music, and the general feeling of being a cute little rover trying to help the humans. Also I've never been thanked and complimented by a game before, so that little message was nice :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":897573,"author_name":"LDJam user 49756","author_uid":"49756","epoch":1673220721,"text":"Nice chill experience, it's easy to understand the rules. It's pleasant to move around with this little robot, planting and gathering resources for itself and humanity! ^^","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":897600,"author_name":"johnnysix","author_uid":"johnnysix","epoch":1673221278,"text":"I really liked the concept, the rover is a little unforgiving with a very sharp oversteer at high speeds, it'd be cool if the steering speed eased off as you increased speed, but conversely increased to almost bump-steer to get those hard to reach pickups. :smile: \n\nAlso, the robot art in the logo is awesome, it'd be cool to get closer to the player if you fleshed out the level art to match the concept. :smiley: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":899266,"author_name":"LDJam user 12890","author_uid":"12890","epoch":1673271990,"text":"Well done game with polish, good job! The 3d aspect to the top down gives it a good feel.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":899995,"author_name":"nyxkn","author_uid":"nyxkn","epoch":1673286859,"text":"Such a beautiful game! What a great mood and atmosphere. Really fitting music and really nice sound effects. Gameplay is also quite solid. I found the enegry meter to be a bit too punishing and I was spending most of my time refilling energy. Otherwise no complaints. Great work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":900358,"author_name":"Knatterton","author_uid":"knatterton","epoch":1673292033,"text":"Love the polish here, sound, ux, it all feels really nice and juicy.\nAlso getting strong Wall-E vibes from the little rover, super cute stuff!\nGreat attention to detail and amazing work for just one weekend!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":900386,"author_name":"maxflav","author_uid":"maxflav","epoch":1673292335,"text":"I love the vibe of this! The little robot that could. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":902628,"author_name":"aka_tim","author_uid":"aka-tim","epoch":1673305804,"text":"Nice job! feels super solid, the rover handles surprisingly well I think you nailed that. Art was amazing. I maybe would reduce the resource spawn rates, but no less a good game :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":906066,"author_name":"Phillip Scott","author_uid":"phillip-scott","epoch":1673350144,"text":"Nice Entry -felt like Wall-E meats Matt Damon :smile: addictive, Just could not keep up with the energy \n\n![image_2023-01-10_112901991.png](\/\/\/raw\/123\/b3\/z\/55dfa.png)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":908417,"author_name":"MegaFocus","author_uid":"megafocus","epoch":1673376746,"text":"Graphics were very good. The controls were a little bit hard to get. And also great art by midjourney :smirk: ","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":911219,"author_name":"LDJam user 280509","author_uid":"280509","epoch":1673417337,"text":"Great vibe as a silent diligent cute rover!\n\nI always failed to escape from the hurricane and kept crashing on the rocks. My drivers' license should expire XD","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":914022,"author_name":"Neeeb_","author_uid":"neeeb","epoch":1673473228,"text":"Really fun and satisfying. Controls are tight and feel just right. Feels great to deposit long chains of seeds!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":914259,"author_name":"IanLux","author_uid":"ianlux","epoch":1673476886,"text":"Quite interesting game!\nDidn't expect to instantly die to the tornado though haha\nIf you feel like expanding it, new hazards or maps\/planets would be really cool.\nOverall great job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":914448,"author_name":"Thierry","author_uid":"thierry","epoch":1673480852,"text":"Das Spiel macht Spa\u00df und f\u00fchlt sich sehr poliert an, besonders die Animationen im UI verst\u00e4rken das. Die idyllische Hintergrundmusik passt gut zur Atmosph\u00e4re, mir gef\u00e4llt es!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":918144,"author_name":"chompdev","author_uid":"chompdev","epoch":1673590077,"text":"Neat game! The graphics are clean and the driving is a good challenge. I like keeping an eye on the gauges so you can decide what to pick up next in your limited inventory. The music and sound effects are nice. It's handy having multiple drop-off points, too. The pesky space-tornado is always out to get me! :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":919949,"author_name":"Orhu","author_uid":"orhu","epoch":1673658168,"text":"Great work on this! I really love how clean the visuals are and how deliberately designed the movement is. You did a really amazing job on this. I would've liked to have more of an idea of where storms would go since they seem to move. I don't really know how best to deal with them, but I'm sure if I played more I'd figure it out. This was a really solid game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":921704,"author_name":"ArtsyOmni","author_uid":"artsyomni","epoch":1673739138,"text":"Dang, this game is pretty punishing! =P But I kept trying to last longer each time. That energy is definitely hard to keep up. I haven't managed to get to 50 people yet, but I'm going to try a bit longer and see if I can optimize.\n\nSomething I haven't yet managed to figure out is if the storm path is responsive to your movements or if there's a fixed pattern. I'm definitely convinced that 47 is probably the highest score you can hope to get.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":927280,"author_name":"Eranot","author_uid":"eranot","epoch":1674350503,"text":"Good job! Simple gameplay, but you used well the theme. Audio is very well done.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":929375,"author_name":"PSV Games Studio","author_uid":"psv-games-studio","epoch":1674762959,"text":"Cool game! The concept is quite interesting. The graphics are beautiful, the music is nice and the gameplay is well polished. 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And soon, with all of Rover's work, many Humans can join Rover on Mars !\n\n![Intro.png](\/\/\/raw\/817\/34\/z\/547aa.png)\n\n## What is it ?\n\nRed harvester is a top down arcade survival game where you drive Rover to harvest ressources, plant new seeds and avoid Mars's notoriously bad weather, aka a big hurricane.\n\n## How to play ?\n\n![HowToPlay.png](\/\/\/raw\/817\/34\/z\/5456f.png)\n\n## Controls\n\n**Move Rover** with [Arrow keys] OR [W,A,S,D keys] or [Z,Q,S,D keys]\n\n**Plant seeds** with [Spacebar]\n\n![Screenshot4.png](\/\/\/raw\/817\/34\/z\/547f5.png)\n\nMade by one person for Ludum Dare 52 : Harvest.\n\n*You can play the Web version on Itch.io, but you can also download a Windows version which runs much smoother (link at the bottom of the Itch.io page).*\n\n**Have fun and thanks for playing !**\n\nCheers,\nSimon \/ Forgin' Bits","comments":21,"comments-timestamp":"2023-01-26T19:56:27Z","created":"2022-12-31T17:59:29Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":26,"grade-02":26,"grade-03":26,"grade-04":26,"grade-05":27,"grade-06":25,"grade-07":22,"grade-08":24},"id":314642,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":82.798974046136,"feedback":23,"given":16.625,"grade":25.25,"grade-01-average":3.875,"grade-01-result":157,"grade-02-average":3.792,"grade-02-result":165,"grade-03-average":3.688,"grade-03-result":166,"grade-04-average":4.021,"grade-04-result":208,"grade-05-average":3.94,"grade-05-result":255,"grade-06-average":3.826,"grade-06-result":114,"grade-07-average":2.9,"grade-07-result":402,"grade-08-average":3.727,"grade-08-result":226,"smart":-3.1468587321437},"meta":{"allow-anonymous-comments":"1","author":[276248],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/817\/34\/z\/544e2.png","link-01":"https:\/\/forgin-bits.itch.io\/red-harvester","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-02":"https:\/\/forgin-bits.itch.io\/red-harvester","link-02-tag":[42337]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-05-16T06:48:15Z","modified":"2026-05-16T06:48:15Z","name":"Red Harvester","node-timestamp":"2023-01-08T21:39:24Z","parent":313060,"parents":[1,5,9,313060],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/red-harvester","published":"2023-01-08T21:39:24Z","scope":"public","slug":"red-harvester","subsubtype":"jam","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":989876},"text":"# Red Harvester\n\nRover has the best job in the world. 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