Farmer Rabbit's Wild Ride by joyrev
Farmer Rabbit's Wild Ride
Dear Farmer Rabbit,
An Evil Veg-Romancer has taken over the kingdom with their army of necro-crops. We believe their next target is your carrot patch.
Good Luck, it's Harvesting Time.
Carrots are spawning faster than you can harvest them from the carrot patches in your garden. All you can do it throw trowels at them. Try to harvest as many as you can!
Tips:
- Carrots have a small chance to drop a power-up that will increase your fire-rate for a short amount of time!
Credits:
- Font - m5x7 by Daniel Linssen: https://managore.itch.io/m5x7
- Everything else by me :)
| Link | https://github.com/JoyRevision/ld52 |
| Link | https://joyrev.itch.io/farmer-rabbits-wild-ride |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/farmer-rabbits-wild-ride |
Ratings
| Overall | 321th | 3.605⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 186th | 3.737⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 709th | 2.694⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 308th | 3.842⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 80th | 4.361⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 257th | 3.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 258th | 3.278⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 395th | 3.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 12🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
I love the graphics and feel of it!

The gameplay itself seems a bit simple, but maybe I just didn't go far enough. Are there any pickups other than the bullet-burst (lighting) one? I found myself missing a heart pickup (because if low on health, you _would_ risk going for a health-pickup, when with any other there's less choice in a sense).
Also like the puns... would have gone for 'ne-crops' myself, but I can see that this would maybe not scan to people less used to wordplay.
I think the game feel is a little bit off though. Defeating enemies feels really weak and the trowels themselves don't feel very impactful. I also found the controls a little bit more floaty than I'd like. I think some beefier sound effects, some more animations and particles, and maybe half as much momentum would make the game a lot more fun.
I also agree that more variety powerups would be good, or even ways to permanently become more powerful, since it would give the game more sense of progression.
I enjoyed playing it quite a lot.
Though the game definitely becomes kind of impossible past a certain point as more and more of them spawn and even with the powerups, you quickly become overwhelmed by the mass of carrots :eyes: