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Harvestar: Spaceship Farmer by OlivierYC

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made by OlivierYC for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

The captain's orders are clear: "Keep the crew well fed!"

As a farmer on a spaceship, you must play your cards right to grow crops despite the impact of space travel anomalies.

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Rules of Card Game:

  • Complete a series of increasingly difficult challenges, harvesting a quota of Crops before a certain number of Days.

  • Crops need optimal conditions of exactly 1 Sun and 1 Water at the end of the Day to Grow. Any more or less and they will stay as they are.

  • Crops have 3 stages of growth: Seedling, Sapling, Mature. Crops are harvested as soon as they reach the Mature growth stage.

  • Sun values reset to 0 at the end of the Day, but Water values carry over.

  • Crops cannot hold more than 2 Water at the end of the Day.
  • Crops cannot have negative Sun or negative Water values at the end of the Day.

There are 5 special cards:

  • Cover caps the Sun on the crop to 1 at the end of the Day.
  • Drain empties the Water from the crop, and prevents addition of Water until the end of the Day.
  • GMO doubles the next growth of the crop. The GMO status is removed when the crop grows.
  • Fertilizer adds 1 Sun, 1 Water, and the Fertilized Status to the crop. This can be consumed by a Force Grow (see below) to instantly grow and harvest your crop!
  • Force Grow - if a crop has the Fertilized status, using this card grows a crop to the mature stage and harvests it immediately.

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How to play:

  • Using your mouse, Left-click and hold on card to grab card.
  • Move card onto crop of choice.
  • Let go of left-click to drop card onto crop.

How to install:

  • Download "Harvestar Spaceship Farmer.zip".
  • Unzip "Harvestar Spaceship Farmer.zip" to folder of your choice.
  • Execute "Harvestar Spaceship Farmer.exe"
Link https://olivieryc.itch.io/harvestar-spaceship-farmer
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/harvestar-spaceship-farmer

Ratings

Given 8🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

Rohun
10. Jan 2023 · 08:54 UTC
Amazing entry!!! I really loved the visuals and theming of the game! The game was also very intuitive in terms of interaction. I really love the icons and symbols in the game. I did have trouble understanding what each card did for a bit and did not understand how some cards were placed in the beginning of the game. But super fun and a really great entry
BlorengeRhymes
10. Jan 2023 · 08:57 UTC
dear the creators of harvestar: spaceship farmers,

i found this game to be surprisingly fun. i dont normally play card games. i didnt make it past the part where the crops freeze but i enjoyed my time with it. thank you for the sci-fi fun :)

i remain,

blorengerhymes
pndaa
10. Jan 2023 · 08:59 UTC
I complete the voyage ! I really liked the mood and the visual. But it finished right when I understood how it worked.

I have to say that I didn't fully knew what I was doing until the last level. Things that I didn't got in the first games:
- You can only play 3 cards.
- There are random modifiers on top of the growing plants that will mess up with what you want to do.

There is too much to understand at the first level. You could add a new mecanics after each levels to make it easier to understand for the player.

Nevertheless it was fun to play. I did a second run to enjoy the game fully. Good job !
Kirsten-Lee
15. Jan 2023 · 15:13 UTC
I really like the concept and the visual style! It took a little while for me to understand how to play but after reading your instructions a few times I got the hang of it