The Gluten Farm by rockford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxlzc14NeM
Completed in 8h30 for the Ludum Dare 52.
Controls :
- Space to play
- Arrows keys to move the combine harvester
- Harvest the weat to produce more gluten for humanity.
- Avoid ckickens and bundles.
- Harvest 100% of the field to win.
Tools :
- C# / Monogame
- No external lib
- GFX are 8x8 tiles created with TIC-80 and exported as PNG
notmadewithunity
| Link | https://dmekersa.itch.io/the-gluten-farm-ld52 |
| Link | https://github.com/dmekersa/LD52 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/the-gluten-farm |
Ratings
| Overall | 101th | 3.682⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 104th | 3.621⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 195th | 3.212⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 85th | 4.015⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 128th | 3.712⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 150th | 3.242⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 86th | 3.306⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 121th | 3.5⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 13🗳️ | 26🗨️ |

Prior to running the game I noticed there were a LOT of files and I had to scroll to find the EXE. Could be handy to put all the game files in a subfolder of the zip, then place a shortcut or batch file to run the game? The minor-est of minor pain points, I know :P
Simple but fun; great mood and comfortable controls. good job!


Also bonus points for also doing a combine harvester game where you can drive into animals 😁 I had fun!
- I love the graphics and sound design.
- The scoring system is very well layed out and I like the font. Is it a font? Or your handwriting?
- I don't like how I need to install your game. Usually I skip games where I need to install, but I made an exception for yours
Edit: what an unusual choice to create graphics in TIC80 and to export them, does that have an advantage I don't know about? I'm curious :-)
Thanks for the feedback!
The font menu is from Dafont. The ingame font is drawn by me.
Regarding the export from tic80: I'm not an artist and I found very easy to draw 8x8 sprites with limited colors. The tic80 is perfect for that.
I understand for the download but I wanted to use Monogame for this one and it doesn't support web.
The downloading bit I don't mind. I just extract it in my downloads folder and delete it afterwards. Your game needs to be installed, which gives me much less controll over what is done to my system. That is the part I don't like :-) I've seen similar comments from LDers in the past couple of years, and as this is your first entry, I thought I would mention it :-)
Good point for the installer. I now propose with or without. Actually I changed for an installer because some people complained to have to seek for the executable in the archive :)
Just to mention it's not my first entry, I did 3 more LD in the past but on the former website.