Poly Harvest by blackoptics8

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made by blackoptics8 for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

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^ pseudo 3d wip gifs :)

farm in poly harvest by dragging seed sacks around

give goods to the boi to gain more goodies

came up with this pseudo 3d technique myself and was really fun, hope you have fun too :v:

here's the little song loop if you want to listen: https://soundcloud.com/voxeledphoton/polyharvest

Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

Bowen
10. Jan 2023 · 07:32 UTC
Everything is so great!!! I really enjoy playing your game! But how to win, or I can just punch balls everywhere.
Efilheim
10. Jan 2023 · 10:36 UTC
Interesting technical concept !
🎤 blackoptics8
10. Jan 2023 · 19:03 UTC
@bowen @efilheim There's a big ball guy you can feed the ball plant things to and he gives you more seeds and a bird like every 20 of them. I was going to make em give you other random 3d objects and fun things to play with but ran out of time even though I pulled an all nighter the last day. I actually invented this pseudo 3d trick back in 2018 https://voxeledphoton.itch.io/lovebug but it wasn't as effective since I just made it more transparent and was using some 3rd power distance manipulation instead of just using a sine wave. I also got all the depth stuff sorted out and 3d audio so that was fun. Thanks for playing guys I'll play yours too in a bit.
Najimi
11. Jan 2023 · 00:32 UTC
It was fun to play the game and it has an interesting concept. I didn't get what the goal of the game was, so after punching a few of these balls into the big boy I stopped. I liked the background music. My friend got seasick from watching my stream :D
Ravarion
11. Jan 2023 · 01:38 UTC
I was pretty disappointed that I couldn't punch the balls that said hello. It's obvious that my only form of communication is my fists of burning passion.
Porcus_Pie
12. Jan 2023 · 08:17 UTC
Really gorgeous looking game, I love the pseudo-3d and the limited colour palette you used. The blues, whites blacks and reds were really used to good effect. I was honestly quite surprised when I hit the plant balls that they did actually react with some sort of physics, I'm so used to pseudo-3d games being very limited in this regard. I will say that as much as I loved the visuals, that did not stop me from feeling physically motion-sick when moving the mouse, maybe having a more controllable rotation would have reduced that. I also really enjoyed the tech, but found the actual game itself could have used a bit more. It felt a bit like a tech demo. Was still a lot of fun to punch balls around and I was impressed by the effect, nice work!!
LDJam user 277851
13. Jan 2023 · 03:49 UTC
An uncommon top view, which is very interesting.
The music and atmosphere were great.