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Love how every time I publish a game someone always find a way to beat my high score :-D ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":905808,"author_name":"PuttPuttTheTruck","author_uid":"puttputtthetruck","epoch":1673346240,"text":"Pretty simple game but with some nice animations and particle effects it could be a nice relaxing game, and the online highscore definitely adds a lot. I love how you can see a view from above of the patterns you've made","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":905923,"author_name":"Flying Dog Fish","author_uid":"flying-dog-fish","epoch":1673347879,"text":"Nice crop circle making simulator. If only there was an overhead view to see the resulting pattern.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":906572,"author_name":"WobbleBlocks","author_uid":"wobbleblocks","epoch":1673357435,"text":"you know I drew a schlong, great work! VR would be awesome!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":906692,"author_name":"Pusheeneiro","author_uid":"pusheeneiro","epoch":1673358862,"text":"It's fun to discover more ways to harvest grain faster.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":906740,"author_name":"froissant","author_uid":"froissant","epoch":1673359385,"text":"Congrats on making all of this alone! The leaderboard is a nice addition \ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffb","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":908416,"author_name":"Annie Owl","author_uid":"annie-owl","epoch":1673376746,"text":"Figuring out the optimal way of cutting wheat was surprisingly engaging :smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":908858,"author_name":"profan","author_uid":"profan","epoch":1673381051,"text":"I like this, the birds in the background and the sound to cut wheat put a smile on my face, also props for getting a highscore listing in on the jam deadline! I wanted one too but alas, time :D\n\nNice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":909131,"author_name":"kromeboy","author_uid":"kromeboy","epoch":1673383411,"text":"@profan the High Score table is a component that I have made some time ago. It now take me about 15 minutes to implement it in any game, and for what I see is always worth the effort.\n\nThank you for playing!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":909700,"author_name":"amkingTRP","author_uid":"amkingtrp","epoch":1673389011,"text":"Oddly satisfying game.  Based on other entries I kept expecting to get \"upgrades\" to my scythe to let me cut more, but keeping it simple subverted my expectations.  It's a nice addition to the collection of \"experience\" games that have been submitted to this jam. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":911463,"author_name":"D3kryption","author_uid":"d3kryption","epoch":1673422446,"text":"A surprisingly simple yet relaxing game. IT like it. The LODing is funny and made me laugh. My score was 8029 or something. \n\nNice job! :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":911989,"author_name":"stellarnightmare","author_uid":"stellarnightmare","epoch":1673435166,"text":"Pretty Noice. it was simple but enjoyable and having the online high scores adds to it alot.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":912095,"author_name":"DzejPi","author_uid":"dzejpi","epoch":1673437667,"text":"Fairly simple game, but fun! LOD is pretty amusing, but what else can be done, right? Haha. I love that you included the online scoreboard. I am third now!\n\n![2023-01-11_12-44-28.png](\/\/\/raw\/046\/93\/z\/56195.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":912188,"author_name":"xCarl","author_uid":"xcarl","epoch":1673439672,"text":"The online high score is an incentive to keep retrying and find a better technique to harvest and gain more points. Well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":912592,"author_name":"kromeboy","author_uid":"kromeboy","epoch":1673449308,"text":"@dzejpi yea, the LOD was the main focus of what I have learned with this project. Obviously you can't render about a million straws in HTML5 (and if you can the aliasing is still awful). I could probably include something more detailed then a cube, and maybe create 3 levels of detail, but I preferred to show this feature explicitly.\n ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":915615,"author_name":"vrerabek","author_uid":"vrerabek","epoch":1673517804,"text":"Very relaxing game and the high score is a nice touch. I like how you tried to optimize the game, you have inspired me to look up into something similar myself!\n\nCould not beat the high score, but I'm pretty close! :smile:\n\nGood job! \n\n![Screenshot 2023-01-12 111115.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/fdf\/72\/z\/563c2.jpg)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":918157,"author_name":"rosypenguin","author_uid":"rosypenguin","epoch":1673590476,"text":"Ok I need to learn some harvesting strategies because the highest I could reach was 8000... Love the highscores system, even though the game is really simple and straightforward I still had an incentive to keep playing :D ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":918915,"author_name":"Jiri Hysek","author_uid":"jiri-hysek","epoch":1673624206,"text":"Relaxing gameplay that is harder than it seems if you want to be at the top :) I managed to get something over 15000 in the challenge.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":921691,"author_name":"BinaryPrinciple","author_uid":"binaryprinciple","epoch":1673738718,"text":"I see the basis for a cozy, artistic game. I enjoyed it and have a few recommendations: setup a random pitch when you harvest, setup a mini map, maybe there are some wheat that give you power ups or higher score, even some alien jump scares. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":923080,"author_name":"kromeboy","author_uid":"kromeboy","epoch":1673821970,"text":"@binaryprinciple the minimap is a nice idea and something I want to try to implement. It couldn't be a second camera because the game can barely handle a single camera. Probably an abstraction on the cubes that get the same on and off state of the main game (if a cube is partially cut it will not be rendered as a cube).","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":927428,"author_name":"KreGames","author_uid":"kregames","epoch":1674389911,"text":"At first relaxing game, and than you her the sound of he swing in your nightmares :D Nice entry, smooth gameplay, but after a few tries it comes boring.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld52\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/kromeboy.itch.io\/harvest-simulator","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/kromeboy.itch.io\/harvest-simulator","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"86900","g_author":"1033529","g_event":"LD52","g_eventkey":"116","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"398823","g_title":"Harvest Simulator","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"746","g_commentcount":"24","g_site2_node_id":"318443","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"318443","n_urlkey":"398823","n_parent":"313060","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/harvest-simulator","n_slug":"harvest-simulator","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"33529","n_created":"1673045322","n_modified":"1778914095","n_version":"1001813","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":33529,"body":"![Immagine.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/9f2\/8\/z\/55e0b.jpg)\nAs the title say in Harvest Simulator you have to harvest a field of wheat.\n\nYou can play this game in two modes: challenge and free play.\nIn challenge you compete for the online high score: cut as much wheat as you can in 100 seconds.\n\nIn free mode you can relax and cut as long as you want: you also can try to create some shape in the crop, like a crop circle. \n\nPress esc to get back to the external camera and view your work.\n\n- w to move forward\n- space to cut\n- mouse to look around\n\nI have tried to optimize the game by not rendering all the wheat all the time, but this game can still be a little hard on the performance. 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