Heroic Harvest by PeterSanford

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made by PeterSanford for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Screenshot<em>20230109</em>103348.png Screenshot<em>20230109</em>103308.png Screenshot<em>20230109</em>103341.png Itch.io link - https://pete-sanford.itch.io/heroicharvest Heroic Harvest is my first game to ever be released! You play as a rouge crop awoken by a harvest moon, on a mission to escape the farmers trying to harvest him. Harvest the farmers to gain weapons and upgrades and defeat "The Harvester". I hope you enjoy and would love feedback on your experience!

Ratings

Overall 491th 3.368⭐ 21πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Fun 357th 3.447⭐ 21πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Innovation 629th 2.895⭐ 21πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Theme 483th 3.579⭐ 21πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Graphics 602th 3.105⭐ 21πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Audio 257th 3.474⭐ 21πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Mood 512th 3.278⭐ 20πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Given 19πŸ—³οΈ 8πŸ—¨οΈ

Feedback

smashcrate
09. Jan 2023 Β· 21:01 UTC
Dude the music, it's 10/10 just cause of the main sound loop. Sprites, atmosphere, back story, different bullet mechanics etc are just great. Wish I could progress more, I keep dying before getting enough organs, but that's just me and my low reflexes lol. Overall good job man.
Update: Just beat the game after writing the comment lol. I did my moonwalk strat on the enemies :laughing:
JormaRysky
10. Jan 2023 Β· 01:44 UTC
Congratulations on your first release!

This is solid little twin stick shooter. Enemy bullets might fly little weird or disappear too soon I think
Popman_yes
10. Jan 2023 Β· 20:34 UTC
Cool art and very nice music. I thought it was a bit too difficult because you lose all of your progress after dying and you can't catch a break - the enemies just keep coming and there is no real time to buy stuff. Also the guy who takes away 3hp felt OP. I like the double use of theme (farmers trying to harvest you and you harvesting organs).
LDJam user 261418
10. Jan 2023 Β· 20:54 UTC
Really liked how intense the gameplay is! We needed a couple of attempts to make it to the boss! Very well rounded product for such a short development time, well done!!
I think it might be worth to experiment more with the during-game purchase mechanic :) Well done!
Harmofish
12. Jan 2023 Β· 09:07 UTC
It's a good game, but the enemy appears so quickly that it's difficult to react and lacks the injury effect.
mhorth
12. Jan 2023 Β· 22:49 UTC
This played great! Once I got the sniper rifle(?) and was no-scoping all the bad guys, there was no stopping me lol. Everything was clearly communicated and the sound effects complemented the gameplay well.

I played on a typical 1080p monitor and had large yellow images on the sides of the screen, really narrowing my field of view. Was that intentional difficulty or a bug?
LDJam user 276121
14. Jan 2023 Β· 01:05 UTC
An excellent first crack, although I'm unsure why it's formatted in portrait on a 16:9 screen. Lack of awareness kind of artifically increases the difficulty.
GrunkGrunk
15. Jan 2023 Β· 03:59 UTC
Dude the music, it’s 10/10 just cause of the main sound loop. Sprites, atmosphere, back story, different bullet mechanics etc are just great. However 16:9 screen increased the difficulty
Sheng Mai
20. Jan 2023 Β· 08:01 UTC
A very innovative game, very interesting ideas. The music and graphics are great, although the enemies come out too fast and the screen is a little small so I die quickly, but still very fun.

Looking forward to the subsequent updates!
Matthew Lie
22. Jan 2023 Β· 08:35 UTC
Music is really cool. And I like the controls too. Good job
Sphinx
26. Jan 2023 Β· 06:54 UTC
A really cool game! Love the audio and the concept! Kind of reminds of hotline miami. Hope it could be juicier.