Crop Chaos by Cambryx

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made by Cambryx for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Can you manage this chaotic farm and earn enough money to top the leaderboards?

Keep you crops healthy and earn money fulfilling orders.

Controls

  • WASD or Arrow-Keys to move
  • Right mouse button to pick up / drop objects
  • Left mouse button to use objects

Screenshot 2023-01-09 205204.png

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Can you reach the top of our leaderboard?

Screenshot 2023-01-11 165754.png

Ratings

Overall 88th 3.981⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 156th 3.815⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 491th 3.167⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 5th 4.574⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 22th 4.571⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 77th 3.96⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 334th 3.083⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 89th 4.06⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 7🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

archfan7411
09. Jan 2023 · 20:07 UTC
Wow, this is incredible. I can't believe this is a jam game, with everything from the graphics, to the gameplay, to the leaderboard. Well done!
Eltar
09. Jan 2023 · 23:56 UTC
Pretty solid game ngl. Kinda reminds me of the farming games I used to play as a kid on Facebook
wonyoung
10. Jan 2023 · 12:05 UTC
Music and game play is very clean. great job!
808074
10. Jan 2023 · 12:15 UTC
I very liked music!!!
Vein
10. Jan 2023 · 12:16 UTC
![Screenshot_40.png](///raw/7d6/94/z/55e0d.png) I am stuck in here I tried to pick up and drop object and also use with the mouse left or right.
LDJam user 278146
10. Jan 2023 · 12:24 UTC
Pretty fun! Love the art style.

Kept getting so confused about whether I needed to left click or right click
LuizGT
10. Jan 2023 · 12:28 UTC
Great game! Everything fits together.
bartalomew
10. Jan 2023 · 12:29 UTC
the tutorial doesn't work for me neither, but other asects of the game are super polished, you can be very proud of yourselves. music is a nice nod to stardew valley.
Cievers
10. Jan 2023 · 12:30 UTC
@vein, So did I, but you use WASD to move the farmer character, and then interact with the tile you're standing on. After that however, the game was a blast trying to handle everything at once! :D
Nougato
10. Jan 2023 · 12:30 UTC
Amazing work ! Too many things to do at the same time ! I really enjoy playing it ! the UI is very user friendly. Graphics and controls are just perfect !
🎤 Cambryx
10. Jan 2023 · 12:31 UTC
@vein you have to walk on top of the tomato seeds with your player (using WASD), then you can pick it up with right click. ( I guess we should have mentioned this in our tutorial :D )

@bartalomew do you know what the problem was with the tutorial. Did you get stuck somewhere with no option to progress?
Stefan Laimer
10. Jan 2023 · 12:32 UTC
Really fun and stressfull game!! It's awesome that you use have a leaderboard!
Szivacs
10. Jan 2023 · 12:35 UTC
Good job! The graphics are amazing. The only thing that I feel might be useful is the ability to empty the basket (or fully discard the contents) if you mess up the harvesting. Maybe it was intended this way, so there are consequences. Either way, really nice entry :wink:
Kilirane
10. Jan 2023 · 12:40 UTC
I managed to make $615, but it was pretty hard! The whole production is very clean, it's a neat game, well done. I think the game still need some tweaking, especially on the timers: it's very complicated to do everything at the same time, and I keep having 3 crows spawning every 15s. It would be interesting to see the difficulty increase over time and give us time to start slow, and to have the ability to switch between an object on the ground and the one in hand. great job anyway!
Dicemeister
10. Jan 2023 · 12:41 UTC
very nice finished game. Beautiful graphics. I found gameplay incredibly frustrating. Crops die too quickly, and it takes too long to run around and pick things up and put them down again and by the time you finish everything is dead. with a little tweaking to balance that though, I think it would be a nice little game.
Vein
10. Jan 2023 · 12:48 UTC
Thanks guys I know how to play it now! I like how the game looks! @cambryx @cievers
SgtWeirdo
10. Jan 2023 · 12:51 UTC
Really good job! feels like a well put together game, music, mechanics and art work well together!
detectiveLosos
10. Jan 2023 · 13:18 UTC
The game has a very nice tutorial introduction and a very soothing audio ambience. But I felt it to be a bit too stressful for me. There is constantly a pressure of wild customer timers ticking down, crops in need of watering AND scaring off crows, you also need to be constantly changing tools in your hands and placing them back where you took them from - too much stress factors for me to handle at the same time.
But yeah, the chaos is also right there in the title. So I don't know why I was expecting anything different :D

At the same time the competitive edge you were going for with the leaderboard, the time limits and a high skill ceiling - that bit works quite wonderfully.
Quite a nice game overall, with very cute visuals that might mislead you into thinking this is a cozy farm of some sorts.

P.S. I really wish you could pick up and pet the cat and just sit and watch everything ~~burn~~ get eaten by crows.
Erik Kubiak
10. Jan 2023 · 14:50 UTC
I love the graphics soooo much !
Nekuake
10. Jan 2023 · 15:58 UTC
It's amazing how well done and polished is the game and the gameplay itself. You did a great job here!
LDJam user 9418
10. Jan 2023 · 17:20 UTC
Awesome polished game

![Untitled.png](///raw/ac4/2/z/55ef1.png)
Ale
10. Jan 2023 · 23:11 UTC
I made it to the top 10 :D

That was really fun actually, and very well made. The music and graphics were great, and the pacing was fast enough to not get repetitive. Although, I wonder how competitive that leaderboard is since it seems like a big part of it is due to luck, since (everything?) is randomized. Regardless, it's always fun trying to improve your score.

Great job!
LDJam user 315748
11. Jan 2023 · 07:32 UTC
this was fun!! very fitting name! Love the graphics and music.
nullval
11. Jan 2023 · 09:52 UTC
really well polished entry, and I'm really bad at it XD
noskro
11. Jan 2023 · 15:16 UTC
<Insert exact copy of @detectivelosos's comment here/>
angiemon
11. Jan 2023 · 21:53 UTC
This is such an amazing entry, like others said, so polished, pretty and cute!

Reminds me of overcooked, one of my favourite games!

If you wanna do a post jam version, I'd add little explanatory button prompts (like in overcooked) I think that would further help with readability :)

Also, most of the time the scarecrow placement didnt work for me :( maybe I was just too dumb?

Also I think it would be great if I could swap what I am holding right now with what is lying at one field :)

Again, great entry!
Matt Rix
12. Jan 2023 · 20:39 UTC
This is really good! It is definitely not the typical chill farming game, but it's called Crop Chaos so I can't fault it for that! :D
JUMPirate
13. Jan 2023 · 09:43 UTC
Very fun little game! Reminds me of playing overcooked. The whole game is very complete, and there are many things to do in the game. The operation can be more simplified. For example, when you have an item in your hand and want to get another item, you can directly exchange it.