The Gleaning Samurai by allov

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made by allov for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

You role as a Gleaning Sumurai is to prevent weeds to spread and harvest your crops!

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Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96I6KzAQ0vU

To play a non-embed html version click here!

Ratings

Overall 50th 3.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 40th 3.975⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 63th 3.75⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 31th 4.286⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 48th 4.15⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 198th 3⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 99th 3.211⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 67th 3.786⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

NaNixDev
09. Jan 2023 · 00:14 UTC
Nice game, movement feels good. Feels well polished.
pauljs
09. Jan 2023 · 00:33 UTC
Very fun game! Played it a good amount of time! Very polish and cute! Just, we can't die?
Fnkee
09. Jan 2023 · 00:40 UTC
MORE SHURIKENS! LONGER SHURIKENS!

Very addictive! If I weren't gonna test other games, I'd spend all night playing this, to see how large a shuriken truly can become. Great job!
🎤 allov
09. Jan 2023 · 00:41 UTC
The only way to "die" it to have the field filled with weeds­. I haven't really balanced stuff, so you may become overpowered to the point weeds can't take over depending on what upgrades you get.
Untitled Studios
09. Jan 2023 · 00:42 UTC
Fun! I got overrun by weeds eventually, but stuck it out long enough to see the derpy tomato
VictorRypl
12. Jan 2023 · 03:00 UTC
Fun game, I enjoyed how quickly the weeds become overbearing!
pepnou
12. Jan 2023 · 14:07 UTC
Very fun to play, the art is nice but you can quickly loose the character on the screen. The music on the menu seems nice but it didnt keep playing when clicking play.
Great entry :)
MaximBegunov
12. Jan 2023 · 14:15 UTC
I liked the polish of the game: particles, glowing etc. The shooting is quite satisfying. Sometimes I couldn't see my character as he is the same size as the shuriken and has the same outline, so something to differentiate it from its projectiles would be nice although it doesn't matter as much in this game since you can't take damage. Played till day 69 (nice) and enjoyed it quite a lot. +1 shurikens is op.
chompdev
13. Jan 2023 · 03:11 UTC
Enjoyable little farming/shooter hybrid! The upgrades are fun and substantial, the action feels polished, and you've got a good variety of enemies and bosses. The tile system that can be normal/fertilized/weeds is a cool, and it's fun to manage in the heat of battle.

Day 67 and about 10,000 weeds destroyed! :)

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AL43868
17. Jan 2023 · 03:25 UTC
A good game, when I got the "cut weed" upgrade after the enemy turned into a helper. Unfortunately, I don't see the winning conditions![QQ图片20230117112508.png](///raw/d35/34/z/5691b.png)
almost
27. Jan 2023 · 07:01 UTC
Wow very well done!

Nice take on the theme, very fun. I played for a long time and got at least one of each upgrade. I like that you ramped up the number of enemies as well as introducing several new powerful enemies. Each of the upgrades felt useful in its own way and it was satisfying to reach the 5k gold value for the big upgrade. I like that the enemies could fill the screen with weeds really quickly so it actually mattered that you are efficient at clearing weeds.

The animations for planting and harvesting tiles were pretty slick.

One minor complaint is that the player and projectile are similar size with similar glow color so it can be easy to lose track of yourself.
OadT
27. Jan 2023 · 17:58 UTC
Very cool and clean looking graphics. The gameplay was also very fun and its nice that there is a update system, great work!
Sisyphean Games
27. Jan 2023 · 18:14 UTC
Love the way you incorporated ninja mechanics into a farming game, the dodge roll for working the soil and the shuriken for weeding/harvesting. It actually works really well and is super fun!
🎤 allov
24. Jul 2023 · 14:21 UTC
To anyone that care, I updated the game to address some of the feedback I received here and some from other friends. I also added a lot of new features to tests. Feedback appreciated!

https://scorekeepr.net/ld52/
TimBeaudet
12. Apr 2024 · 21:21 UTC
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