Farm Island by Nikolaj

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made by Nikolaj for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Harvest the wheat efficiently City slicker!

It's Farming on an Island, except no island!Screenshot 2023-01-08 202239.png

NOTE: There is an issue with Mac OSX that does not like GLES3 html5 export from Godot, but this causes a performance issue with the MultiMesh Wheat.. so if you are on Mac I have a special link, but sorry, framerate will be not great. For Windows/Linux use the first link, as that should be high performance! Sorry!

Ratings

Overall 463th 3.426⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Fun 361th 3.439⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 592th 2.97⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Theme 132th 4.147⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 342th 3.779⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Audio 301th 3.359⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 563th 2.482⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 553th 3.182⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 36🗳️ 54🗨️

Feedback

🎤 Nikolaj
07. Jan 2023 · 20:12 UTC
Ok, so far we are doing Godot, and have a tractor harvesting some wheat.. we are thinking maybe just see how efficiently you can scoop up all the wheat.

Also, yes i know this is a tractor with a plow, not a combine harvester.. but some liberties have been taken...

![Screenshot 2023-01-07 121243.png](///raw/e85/1/z/53f9f.png)
TolMera
09. Jan 2023 · 11:04 UTC
I'm on the leader board mwahahah :) I harvest in circles.
Linus Lindberg
09. Jan 2023 · 12:51 UTC
Crashes on load for me with the message "WebGL context lost, please reload the page".
🎤 Nikolaj
09. Jan 2023 · 15:52 UTC
@linus-lindberg It requires WebGL2 to run. I tested in latest Chrome and Firefox without issue. If you let me know what browser/OS you tried, I can give that a go and see if I can fix it. Thanks for trying it!

EDIT: Looks like it is crashing in OSX >_< even in Chrome. Sorry for all you OSX users.. hoping i can make time to pump out a binary build
madcoil
09. Jan 2023 · 16:22 UTC
Fun times, feels smooth to use and it's great seeing this run in the browser. Did you end up making this in godot?
InfinityE
09. Jan 2023 · 16:34 UTC
Really fun and funny, good job on the physics and graphics but audio really could be imrpoved.
Cobear25
11. Jan 2023 · 03:00 UTC
Overall I think it's great. It just wasn't particularly fun for me personally. But that might be because I was playing on a trackpad. Very impressed though with the audio, visuals, performance, etc..
HayriCakir
11. Jan 2023 · 05:07 UTC
It was fun to play! Sound and art are great too!
Mololo
11. Jan 2023 · 20:19 UTC
I like the art and the gameplay was short, but fun. Good job.
Viktor Dedek
11. Jan 2023 · 22:51 UTC
Nice. And the touch of high score table, much appreciated!
TheJookerful
11. Jan 2023 · 22:58 UTC
Yeah I am the first after you in leaderboard (At the time of writing this comment) =D
Really fun game, good job ! ;)
NoelOskar
12. Jan 2023 · 19:23 UTC
Really neat idea, i managed to get on the top 10
Yahel Dooley
13. Jan 2023 · 04:38 UTC
That was fun. I tried I think 3 times. The controls are little hard to get used too, and found myself really wishing for d-pad input however; I realize that would make the challenge much less of a challenge.
It was worth the play though, good work!
chompdev
13. Jan 2023 · 05:09 UTC
Fun little harvester game with a nice leaderboard! I like that the driving takes some skill and precision, and you get a bit faster and smarter with your run each time. I can't seem to crack about 20th place on the leaderboard, but I'm impressed by those top scores!
LDJam user 252856
13. Jan 2023 · 11:13 UTC
Nice job on the graphics.
LDJam user 314423
14. Jan 2023 · 20:04 UTC
It would be handy to document the controls, I can't figure out how to get going — spacebar seems to accelerate but I can't steer reliably!

![Screenshot_20230114_200300.png](///raw/73c/c4/z/56713.png)

But I can still see the cool effects on the ground at least :-). Looks like quite some effort has gone in.
alfacarp
14. Jan 2023 · 20:45 UTC
I enjoyed the game... Tried my best... But alas. Did not make it to the leaderboard. Though I tried. But nice game. Would have liked to see more features and mechanics. Would love to see what you'd have done with more time, and will check your profile for future games!
Adrien Tremblay
15. Jan 2023 · 01:02 UTC
Nice looking game. Wish there was more to it though!
deimos
15. Jan 2023 · 09:57 UTC
Man this is so satisfying. And I love the graphics. Good job.
🎤 Nikolaj
15. Jan 2023 · 17:24 UTC
@reivilibre thanks for the feedback! Somehow I had imagined the controls would be more intuitive :laughing:

The trick is to click/hold the place you want to go to with mouse/touch. The closer you are to the tractor, the tighter the turn.

I guess I have to remember to have an illustration on load to inform the user!
IanLux
15. Jan 2023 · 21:03 UTC
Really cool game! Had fun steering and harvesting, pretty satisfying. :)
Buni
16. Jan 2023 · 19:11 UTC
Really satisfying games and the visuals are great
PeachTreeOath
16. Jan 2023 · 19:30 UTC
Didn't expect to see a Powerwash Simulator type game in here :) It was actually pretty fun replaying and trying to get onto the leaderboards. I bareeeeeely squeaked in at 2nd to last with 707.

I am curious though, what determines tractor speed? Sometimes it went faster or slower than I expected and I never could figure it out. Does mouse position matter at all? Sometimes I'd pull the mouse further away and hope that it would make it go faster. I'm guessing it's purely based on how many you're harvesting at a time but not sure.

Either way, the game is super satisfying, and speedruns were harrowing as you would clear out a row but then accidentally leave 2 stalks standing, killing the whole run!
🎤 Nikolaj
19. Jan 2023 · 04:13 UTC
@peachtreeoath Thanks for the great feedback and i am glad you liked it!

The interaction is the farther from the tractor you pull, the faster / wider turn radius, closer the mouse is the tighter the turn radius. Somehow I imagined this might become obvious, but clearly it isn't :laughing: , ah well, next time an explainer graphic is needed!
dimaswift
19. Jan 2023 · 19:56 UTC
nice game, I made it to the leaderboards!
kuggenhoffen
21. Jan 2023 · 14:36 UTC
That's awesome, managed to get top score after trying for a while. Surprisingly addictive :D I would definitely see myself spending some time playing a more fleshed out farming game based on this.
🎤 Nikolaj
23. Jan 2023 · 01:25 UTC
@kuggenhoffen Wow nice job! What was your strategy? up and down, or looping?
kuggenhoffen
23. Jan 2023 · 19:18 UTC
@nikolaj I did spiral from outside in, I think it's possible to get even better score as I probably went a bit slow :D
LeoRototo
26. Jan 2023 · 13:02 UTC
Fun to play ! i've tried 3 times to be on the leaderboard... but failed :'(
zimny11
27. Jan 2023 · 00:06 UTC
Nice game! No chances for me to get to the leaderboard XD I was trying to use arrows or WSAD first, so it took me a minute to figure out that you need to use mouse :) Anyway, well done!