Harvest Stone by Kongo

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made by Kongo for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

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Welcome!

to the world of sorrow and despair, where every day is nightmare, and everything is meaningless! Protect your family! Look for potato! Try to find joy in this dark world … and at the end ask yourself if it was worth living so long and prolonging this agony?

The game is a Harvest Stone. The goal is .. exactly, what Is the goal here? Is it really worth trying when every new day can bring you new tragedy?

Development team:

  • Kongo (Programming)
  • Diler (Art)
  • JayaSheel (Music)

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PS

If you think you found a bug, it could be hallucinations of malnutrition.

Ratings

Overall 46th 4.133⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Fun 134th 3.867⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 95th 3.867⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Theme 85th 4.233⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 161th 4.167⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Audio 28th 4.2⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Humor 2th 4.7⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Mood 17th 4.367⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

mcbombadev
10. Jan 2023 · 00:15 UTC
A complex, thought-provoking narrative about the plight of the working man. High quality voice acting. Twist ending definitely caught me by surprise.
Tomáš Selmeci
10. Jan 2023 · 10:51 UTC
Very well designed entry. I love the mood and story.
Cambryx
10. Jan 2023 · 10:59 UTC
Very cool game! I like the simple pixelart graphics and the relaxing music.
The voiceacting and jokes are hilarious and funny!
ChickensioDev
10. Jan 2023 · 11:01 UTC
LMAOOOO THIS GAME IS SO FUN LOL THE HORSE JOKES ARE JUST AAAAAAAAAA HEWFWLKFJKHFDSAJ i didnt know u could explore outside that area for a while though so maybe an indicator would make it PERFECT but still SUCH A GOOD GAME
SvenErik
10. Jan 2023 · 11:07 UTC
Awesome game the sounds & voice acting is point on with the lovely humor that's accompanying it all. All the graphics fit together really well too besides the interior walking one, that felt a bit different style wise, but still fit enough. Scarecrow is awesome and poor doggo.

Well done!
Iluvatar
10. Jan 2023 · 11:15 UTC
This is the first time I'm giving a game 5*. Hell I would even give you 6* if I could for the potato language alone!

Where do I start. The game is absolutely over the top Jam game. Complex world, little details that you cared enough to put in (like when the character starts to have bend back after his son died, like wtf, that's RDR2 kind of detail right there). Item usage is so well done a fun to use. Throwing rocks was so fun.

Absolutely stellar voice acting performance. The combination of absurd and comedy is so on point. World really feels alive (actually feels more dead, but you get my point).

PS: Rest in peace Boyo, I hope you have become a dog somwhere up there in the clouds.

PPS: I'm also hungry for some good ol' stone soup.
ChuChuGeralt
10. Jan 2023 · 11:17 UTC
Great game!
As already mentioned, any indication that you can leave your first farm area would be great!

The voiceover was hilarious and the humor was really good.

And I am verry happy that I could fulfill my sons dream in the game... :slight_smile:
Enad96
10. Jan 2023 · 11:23 UTC
Potato Potato
Igor Minenko
10. Jan 2023 · 11:42 UTC
Thats sooo good mate, perfect game XD
The first time Im givin all 5 to a game, crazy!
LDJam user 76306
10. Jan 2023 · 11:48 UTC
Wow what a rollercoaster, I loved the scarecrow joke, really left me chuckling. Excellent work on the art too!
rohanmoon
10. Jan 2023 · 12:01 UTC
Potato.
LDJam user 278660
10. Jan 2023 · 12:05 UTC
When I grow up, I wanna be a dog lol
kastaff
10. Jan 2023 · 13:02 UTC
Awesome story game !! really funny ahah
I would have liked a bit more gameplay but maybe this is part of the joke XD
Lerg
10. Jan 2023 · 13:20 UTC
All 5s! Potato potato, sobaka.
Hiku
10. Jan 2023 · 14:52 UTC
Story was great, voices were great! The game was awesome overall!
kr4ft3r
10. Jan 2023 · 14:57 UTC
If people were to give realistic ratings this game should outright win. I can't think of a single category where you should be rated less than 4, but mostly it's fives. Not to mention the theme, you are alchemists that produce gold out of shit.
🎤 Kongo
10. Jan 2023 · 15:48 UTC
@kr4ft3r not out of shit, but out of the potatoes :smile:

@mcbombadev @tomas-selmeci @cambryx @chickensiodev @svenerik @iluvatar @chuchugeralt @mnikn @kastaff @lerg @hiku @kr4ft3r
We were afraid that this twisted sense of humor wouldn't appeal to most people. So we thought **** that, let's make a game for ourselves! But you are one of us!

Thank you everybody! You made my day!

As a reward, you will get the joke that inspired this game:

I have a friend who fled to another country. He sent a letter that he now works 18 hours a day at a turnip farm. He sleeps on the soft mud. There's no malnutrition with stolen turnips. Great success.
Envy. I'm setting up my own farm to make turnips. I plow the ground with a stick. There is no hope, only stones grow.

The secret police makes me pay tax for the stone farm. Now I owe a lot of stones. I'm trying, but I only have a few small pebbles. I don't pay, so the secret police says "capitalist traitor." They want to beat me, but I take a stick and a small stone.

There is no stone or stick. Only cold. I'm trying to find a letter from a friend. No letter, just hallucinations of malnutrition. The only escape is death.
bartalomew
10. Jan 2023 · 15:52 UTC
what else would you need from a game this one can't provide? stellar voice acting, hilarious jokes, living and breathing world. thank you for this experience!
emil-akper
10. Jan 2023 · 15:53 UTC
100 potatoes out of 100. The one who voiced the game is a born actor!
Zahkros
10. Jan 2023 · 16:53 UTC
I became a very sad potato after talking with the horse. Thanks for the game, awesome vibes and atmosphere, great entry for this jam, congrats!
tetrapteryx
10. Jan 2023 · 21:20 UTC
Brilliant voice acting and dialogue. I'm glad we didn't have to eat the horse.

Potato.
Grisha
10. Jan 2023 · 21:26 UTC
The funniest entry I've played so far, great job! I truly felt the pain and anguish at not having a potato. I was like, where is dog? There is no dog!
Pfannkuchen
11. Jan 2023 · 09:55 UTC
WOOOW!!! This is awesome. The mood, the jokes, just the most original concept I've seen so far in this jam. I simply love that. The voice acting is the funniest thing. Can't imagine how fun that was to record
Korvack
11. Jan 2023 · 10:17 UTC
A narrative game that is both funny and touching with impeccable sound work... It's so simple and yet so effective... Potato!
benderson
12. Jan 2023 · 07:34 UTC
Nice game, but I stucked in this phase....
No way to do something, without potato and without rocks... I think it's a BUG :D ![Screenshot_20230112_082933.png](///raw/1c9/e4/z/56392.png)
🎤 Kongo
12. Jan 2023 · 09:10 UTC
@benderson you can talk to dog body (press space when you're nearby dog). You can't see it from this distance, but it has something in its mouth :smiley: Then you can check inventory (press Z to open. Change items with arrows/WSAD).
robobarbie
23. Jan 2023 · 00:35 UTC
i loved this entry!! super well fleshed out and fun to play. the graphics and humor really reminded me of those baroque decay games -- nice job!