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Horticulture by someone

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made by someone for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

Try to make a business of growing and harvesting plants for various clients. It is meant to be a messy pile of papers and plants that keep getting lost.

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Instructions - I ran out of time for a tutorial: - Buy seeds from the plant guide. Click to turn the pages. - Select a seed bag and click anywhere to plant. - Select the clippers to harvest parts of the plants. - When harvesting stems you need to remove any leaves or flowers first. - Requests won't be fulfilled if they are buried. Make sure requests are on top of the pile. - You must make enough to pay the rent by the end of each week.

Written using my personal c++ game engine. First time trying a 2d game with it since it is designed for 3d, seems to work quite well.

Edit: After actually playing it for a bit, I have determined it is possible to make enough to pay the rent. It seems I messed up the reward calculation though as some requests are impossible to make money from.

Link http://sam.draknek.org/files/ld52-source.tar.gz
Link http://sam.draknek.org/files/ld52-harvest.zip
Link http://sam.draknek.org/files/ld52-harvest.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/horticulture

Ratings

Overall 111th 3.632⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Fun 143th 3.461⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 45th 3.868⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Theme 30th 4.289⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 123th 3.737⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Humor 124th 3.015⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Mood 169th 3.263⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Given 51🗳️ 61🗨️

Feedback

Horda
08. Jan 2023 · 23:16 UTC
I would love to play a more polished version of this game, controls (cutting things in parts) and graphics (plants behaviours) are already sooo good !
The only problem imo is the flow, it seems it is balanced for testing but the plants grows far too quick and the astronomous amount of orders makes it quite not enjoyable to me, I do not have time to think about what to do.
But beside that again, this is a great foundation for a more complete game, I could definitely spend hours taking care of these plants. (and pay for that :p)
Really good job, hope your plan is to make something out of it in the future, because it is promising. :D
LDJam user 258850
09. Jan 2023 · 12:04 UTC
This was great! reminded me of a really good game last jam where you would grow flowers and prune them for clients too ^^
I made it to the second week but everyone just wants zaza flowers and I can't keep buying them!!! haha
ManchmalScott
10. Jan 2023 · 06:12 UTC
What a neat game! Apparently I don't know what a stem is though because I wasn't able to fulfill a single order asking for stems. Is it not the non-leaf part of the plant?
LDJam user 316918
11. Jan 2023 · 02:00 UTC
Great game and I agree with @horda and their assessment. Also can the same plant grow back over time? Or is idea to have a one time use from each plant you grow?
TRUEchips
11. Jan 2023 · 15:34 UTC
This game is pretty fun! Thanks for making it!


(Also you may not remember me but you rated my game 1 and a half years ago, and that's from where I discovered your game xD)
VictorRypl
11. Jan 2023 · 21:57 UTC
A bit confusing at first, but I had fun when I got the gist of it!
Jonqs
11. Jan 2023 · 21:59 UTC
Challenging one. Game become hard pretty quick. I keep forgeting to change to the tool when harvesting and i end up planting everywhere. Like the idea a lot. Congrats !
LDJam user 314423
12. Jan 2023 · 09:46 UTC
Nifty game, but crikey I keep getting lost in all the papers! I'm too slow for this game :D.

And that moment of regret when you cut an entire plant that you just planted instead of a leaf on the plant next to it...

Surprisingly fun :).

I found out that I didn't know what 'stem' meant, I thought it was only the middle part of the plant and so I wasted most of my first Blorg...
Pierre-Marie
12. Jan 2023 · 21:47 UTC
A difficult game is challenging. It would have been nice to have keyboard shortcuts to switch between pages / buy / change tools or seeds. On my first game everything went so fast that I found myself overwhelmed with commands before the GameOver :D
MachWerx
15. Jan 2023 · 02:47 UTC
Impressive procedural animations! I was overwhelmed by the orders and in the end, couldn't fill a single one. I couldn't consistently get a stem. I feel like the game might be better if it didn't have any stem requirements or if there was a better way to get them. But great job on how far you got with such an ambitious idea!
Bloodfin
15. Jan 2023 · 02:54 UTC
Pretty neat game, feel very chaotic trying to keep up with all the incoming orders, and while I wasn't able to make rent did at least get a good number of orders out. While I think some balance tweaks might help by starting even slower and than ramping up the orders once you get a few fully under your belt, you did a great job getting this finished and out!
Duncan 3
15. Jan 2023 · 06:12 UTC
if there was specific area for the requests, and the planting area was separate, i think it'd keep the feel of it being a mess of papers but make it easier to manage the plants. i like the gameplay of having almost no money, so you have to try to find orders you can fill with your existing plants.
LDJam user 300745
15. Jan 2023 · 13:46 UTC
Nice game. I like how the plants changes the position when you cut the leaves/flowers. It seems that removing weight, the branches go up.
Flying Dog Fish
15. Jan 2023 · 19:49 UTC
Nice game with pretty graphics and nice plant growing and cutting mechanics, but the orders come in way too fast and clutter up the screen until you can't see anything at all. I wish there was a way to play the web version in full screen, it's a pain playing in a tiny window.
shp
15. Jan 2023 · 19:54 UTC
Really cool tech for the plants and how they change, and I really like the concept. the execution is a bit messy with the way the requests keep coming in and filling the screen (I guess that's intentional?) and it's not super clear that you have to click on the request to fulfill that particular one, still everything works and there's a lot to be proud of!
Zyper
15. Jan 2023 · 21:00 UTC
It's impressive that you made this game from scratch! The gameplay is very responsive and satisfying.
I encountered an issue with the Linux build, but it's likely due to my window manager not respecting unresizable windows. As a result, I resized the game window to fill the screen, which unfortunately made the game unplayable on the first attempt. Other than that the game was highly playable. Very nice!
Chase of Bass
16. Jan 2023 · 12:36 UTC
It was sooo cool how the plants grew -really nice job on that! The graphics were great and the concept was a good use of the theme! Impressive you did this in c++ with your own personal engine! Really fun and well designed! :D
Zirrrus
17. Jan 2023 · 18:58 UTC
Really cool! Love how the plants grow and some of them droop with the weight of leaves!
oillen
17. Jan 2023 · 22:14 UTC
This game is fun, and the customer names are funny and their demands became a joke...

Still I had some issues, mostly with GUI/Collision related game elements,from cutting the wrong parts of a plant to the top GUI preventing to harvest the blue flower of those red Dren plants, and at worst at a certain point plant parts were not accepted for jobs anymore.

Though I enjoyed it, it is relaxing and stressfull at the same time and I had a good time playing it while listening to Morrowind's soundtrack :D
JuanRod707
19. Jan 2023 · 09:52 UTC
Wow, very cool design and concept. I love these games where you eventually become an expert in some lore stuff. For this game is identifying plants. Really liked this game, amazing work!
frozenfire92
22. Jan 2023 · 13:59 UTC
This was a cool entry with a good concept behind it. I found the difficulty to be a lot and I got buried in requests way too quickly :joy: Lots of polish in this game (cutting the plants at different places was awesome)! Pretty impressive demo for your engine (also big :thumbsup: for having WebGL build support). Keep on makings games!
Laul
22. Jan 2023 · 21:40 UTC
Very nice! it was a bit difficult to get the stems though...