Brain Crops by BinaryPrinciple

BRAIN CROPS
Story
First dates conversations are not easy, even less when you have too respond. You scramble your brain to harvest the best words you can use to make basic sentences, forget paragraphs.
Let's harvest some words from short ideas, while avoid negative thoughts and akward silence. Help Tim on his date.
Gameplay
A game about collection words and place them in the right container so it can be a whole sentence. Therefore, you hare harvesting ideas from a very nervious mind.
The game is about movement and dashing. You just need to touch the Idea Bulb to release a word, then grab the word and pu it in the correct location.
Avoid Green Toxic Thought and Loose Dark Memories.
The game ends by answering to all your date's questions.
Controls
Gamepad and Keyboad Supported
Move: WASD / Arrows / DPAD / Left Stick / Right Stick Dash: SPACEBAR / Face Buttons (A,B,X,Y, Triangle, Square, X, O) Core loop
- Move.
- Bust Idea.
- Harvest Word.
- Place word in container.
Ratings
| Overall | 391th | 3.521⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 261th | 3.604⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 114th | 3.792⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 612th | 3.333⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 509th | 3.396⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 275th | 3.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 232th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 564th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 24🗨️ |
Some feedback I have got:
- The words were a bit too hard to read while it was moving. Maybe the font could have been a bit clearer for fast moving reading
- First I thought there was a penalty to putting the words in the wrong spot, but surprisingly there wasn't! I think the game could have been even more fun if you could somehow put words in the wrong spots.
- The graphics and music are very well put together
Maybe I've had a little humor to the questions, it was a very superficial date x)
I laughed at "Kids ? Not on planes" :airplane:
For a second I thought would miss LD52, I was struggling with ideas and finding the fun in the game, more so having started 24 hours later.
@kettelcorn Glad you liked it! Level balancing is always tricky.
@soonthespoon Thanks! My mistake is putting ideas prior gameplay and find a way to make it fun.
@kromeboy Thanks! Glad you liked it.
@wouter52 Appreciate your kind words! I tried to keep myself away from the traditional concept of Harvest, maybe I just overthink things. I like the the idea of putting the words in the wrong places! and have it impact your date.
@zluca Thanks! Very happy to hear how you got involved in the game, and how the bosses gave you a run for your second date. Interesting issue about the dash, I will check on it and maybe and can make it have a bigger push.
@ninnec Thanks! Agree that bosses and enemies could have better AI, even pathfinding.
@yogurtthehorse Agree AI could be better.
@animatrix1490 Thanks! Glad you had fun!
@fizzbark Is a good point, in controller feels a bit better, wonder if there is a way to determine if a keyboard is been used and select different values for the movement.
@epicgamefan Nice to hear you liked it!
@pikario I enjoy adding humor in the dialog of the NPCs and sometime throw a curved balls, glad you noticed! About the music, yes, is a Cantina Cover, sadly I didn't made it but add it as a free asset.
@mika314 Absolutely, more so trying to meet someone new.
@pope-paf Great! Glad to hear you made it through! Hope you had fun.
@koboldskeep Nice idea! even having them exploding or chasing you like bad memories. If I made a bigger version of this, I will add it.