Henbane Farms [Web] by Spice Cabinet

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made by Spice Cabinet for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Made in 72 hours for LD-52: Harvest


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HENBANE FARMS! Step into the world of the webcomic Head Full of Poison. Welcome to the other side, where everyone from your past exists as a blank slate. This is your chance to make right by them, and more importantly yourself. This is you. Your name is Owen. You're pretty cool, Owen! Owen (2).png - Walk left/right with [A]/[D] or left/right arrow keys - Hold [Shift] to run. This is important because you have limited time.

First you need to find this guy and talk to him. He'll give you a hint about what crop to pick up next. Wolf_Smol.png

The crop could be any one of these!Produce_Smol.png

  • Hit [Spacebar] or [Enter] to pick a crop off the ground, and to talk to someone!

Now's the hard part. You have to walk around and find a villager who wants the crop you have. This friendly bunch are the villagers. Villagers_Smol.png

  • Click the [give] button on screen or press [G] when talking to someone to give them your crop.

Now, lets say you gave a potato to a villager who wanted a potato. That's great! You added 5 seconds to the timer! Now you can go back to the wolf and get your next clue and another crop!

But here's the bad part, if you gave a potato to a villager who wanted an eggplant you lose 10 seconds off the timer. That's no good! You still need to find the villager who wanted a potato but you'll have to first go pick up another potato from the garden.

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And that's how you play!


Meet the team!

Bradley - Music Magician. Check out his band, Makeshift Casual

Goosetopher - Character Designer and Author of Head Full of Poison. Read it here!

Gross Papillon - Background Art and Comic Maker

Cody - Code Wizard and Game Designer. If you enjoyed this game please check out the other spices in our cabinet!

Ratings

Overall 505th 3.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 623th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 538th 3.083⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 508th 3.526⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 50th 4.447⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 170th 3.684⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 258th 3.278⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 371th 3.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 3🗨️

Feedback

imyellowfish
09. Jan 2023 · 06:20 UTC
Great graphics! even extra score for furry character sketches!
La bread
10. Jan 2023 · 04:20 UTC
Love the main character and art style, the beats are also bumpin, would've liked a volume slider though
Camden Obertop
10. Jan 2023 · 04:22 UTC
I think that this game has a really good art style and sense of humor! I did run into a little bit of a problem where sometimes I would press G to give and it seemingly didn't do anything. I like how you utilized the theme though!
Sisyphean Games
10. Jan 2023 · 04:32 UTC
Such nice art! Very cute.

I love the way the world spins underneath the player and I love the medals you have in the main menu.
Skullpaca
10. Jan 2023 · 04:40 UTC
Art style is cute and the bgm is really nice, though I kinda wish it was longer! Game stumped me for a bit (the "give" button seems to be grayed out on some people for some reason) but the riddles are fun.
ASilvers
10. Jan 2023 · 04:41 UTC
Art and Music were great but the gameplay was a bit lacking. It took me a few tries to figure out what to do, everyone is asking for vegetables but you're only allowed to give out certain ones which was really confusing and I didn't get a couple of the references which meant I had to guess when they came up which caused me to lose. I also didn't realize you could sprint at first which made it nearly impossible to get to anyone without wasting time, if a feature like that is so important it should probably just default to active.
secrt101
11. Jan 2023 · 05:52 UTC
Loved the art style!
digital bacon
11. Jan 2023 · 11:17 UTC
Interesting game. Nice cartoony graphics, and catchy music. Good work.
Lenan
18. Jan 2023 · 21:58 UTC
Cute game, though it was a little confusing and seemed somewhat bugged because i gave an item to someone and it was correct, next try i gave the same item to the same prompt and it was wrong, then the letters got very scrambled and bugged. Overall an interesting concept
Jvdwijk
23. Jan 2023 · 00:03 UTC
The game was really cute! Some of the puzzles/questions were kind of tricky, for example I really thought 'favorite color starts with p' would be eggplant (purple) but that turned out wrong 🤔

Either way, nicely polished and congrats on finishing the jam!
Ginxel
23. Jan 2023 · 17:25 UTC
Super cute art style!!!
Local Minimum
23. Jan 2023 · 18:52 UTC
I liked the style and music. I didn't quite understand the puzzles, and thought there were some obvious solutions that for some reason the game said was wrong. And there were some characters I couldn't really give anything. Or so it seemed. Not sure if there was a benefit to having a timer on it. Could have just as well have gotten free time to run around and try out the combinations. That way it wouldn't have mattered as much when I didn't agree with what was correct or not. But cute game all in all.