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The animation on the scythe is also fantastic :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":908615,"author_name":"Kaptajnen","author_uid":"kaptajnen","epoch":1673378942,"text":"Really liked the art style, well done!  ","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":908670,"author_name":"Sid Fish","author_uid":"sid-fish","epoch":1673379518,"text":"Game looks great and is fun to play. Each round ends quite quickly, would be great if there was some way to bring the toxic levels down so there is a way to lengthen the rounds.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":908774,"author_name":"Timur_Bahadir","author_uid":"timur-bahadir","epoch":1673380352,"text":"Love the visual style!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":908776,"author_name":"historygym","author_uid":"historygym","epoch":1673380361,"text":"Great graphics, and fun real quick little game. Still not sure what's going on with the toxicity filling up. But did make it fun to run and gun.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":913793,"author_name":"giuti","author_uid":"giuti","epoch":1673469932,"text":"Really liked the choice of colors and pixel art incorporated in 3D. Would be nice to have some level variation but was fun!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":914140,"author_name":"Diana Shuke","author_uid":"diana-shuke","epoch":1673474920,"text":"Love the visuals! I would like t try this game on vr!\n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":919505,"author_name":"sevenzik","author_uid":"sevenzik","epoch":1673642758,"text":"Awesome masterpiece, but I wanted some goal to achieve)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":923021,"author_name":"Flying Dog Fish","author_uid":"flying-dog-fish","epoch":1673819347,"text":"Nice game with pretty graphics. A full-screen button for the web version would be handy, it's a pain playing in a tiny window.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":923835,"author_name":"Melanie","author_uid":"melanie","epoch":1673888307,"text":"The gameplay is fun, but I find that it's too short, and there is a bit of a lack of a real objective to replay.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":925351,"author_name":"AndideBob","author_uid":"andidebob","epoch":1674033640,"text":"A cute little game that looks great. I wish I could hold down the mouse button to swing instead of clicking frantically. I think I did quite well:\n\n![plums.png](\/\/\/raw\/1bf\/8\/z\/5699c.png)\n\nA fun little experience that I could see expanded in the future with some actual goals to achieve, maybe upgrades that you can buy with your plums to make your harvesting more efficient. Good job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":925856,"author_name":"rustynoob","author_uid":"rustynoob","epoch":1674096918,"text":"cute game but it was really difficult to tell where you were aiming ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":926042,"author_name":"ofiro","author_uid":"ofiro","epoch":1674139245,"text":"Nice game. The screen scrolling right made me a bit dizzy, was that the toxicity filling up?","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld52\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/bearacus.itch.io\/blighted-crop","text":"Blighted Crop (Web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/bearacus.itch.io\/blighted-crop","text":"Blighted Crop Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"87403","g_author":"1214914","g_event":"LD52","g_eventkey":"116","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"400223","g_title":"Blighted Crop","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"560","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"320956","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"320956","n_urlkey":"400223","n_parent":"313060","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/blighted-crop","n_slug":"blighted-crop","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"214914","n_created":"1673293883","n_modified":"1779694729","n_version":"1006704","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":214914,"body":"![logo_banner.png](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/5587d.png)\n#                                          Blighted Crop : *Blessing and a curse!*\n\n![main_menu_gif.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f72.gif)\n---\n\nOur farmer friend, Billy was down on his luck, his fields weren't providing any product... After trying everything from rain dancing, giving the soil back massages and bribing it, Billy had stumbled into a *mysterious man* who offered him the **solution**. Billy was offered special, magical seeds, destined to yield a rare and very sought after Golden Plum fruit. But what the mysterious man failed to explain to our unlucky farmer, is that the plants who produce this delicious fruit, are tough as nails and emit a noxious gas that could spell an early grave for poor ol' Billy.\n\n\nChop a crop as You like! |  Chop MULTIPLE crops as You like!\n:-------------------------:|:-------------------------:|:-------------------------:\n ![sgement_one.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f8f.gif) | ![sgement_multiple.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f90.gif)\n---\n\n*Hi Ludum Dare 52 participants, **Bear(bearacus)** here! Here to present you our submission for the theme *\"Harvest\"*~.*\n\n>`**All assets (models, textures, sprites, animations, etc...) and code were made uniquely and solely for Ludum Dare 52 *\u201cHarvest\u201d*, within the 72 hour time limit!**`\n\n---\n\n\n\n> With nothing but profit on his mind and his trusty magic scythe, capable of cutting through even the toughest of stems and roots, Billy has to simultaneously collect the fruit bounty whilst managing the toxicity levels being produced by the blighted flora.~\n\nThese crops grow quickly! |  More crops means MORE toxicity! | More Toxicity means Game Over!\n:-------------------------:|:-------------------------:|:-------------------------:\n![crops_evolving-min.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f7b.gif) | ![corruption_bar_preview_gif-min.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f7c.gif) | ![gameover.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f8a.gif)\n\n## What you should be doing\n - Raze these crops in order to maintain the toxic meter below the deadly threshold;\n - Swipe at the *Big Plant* (14 times) to stun it momentarily, giving you a chance to lower the toxicity meter, worry free;\n - Chop the crops containing the Golden Plums to increase your final scored at the end screen;\n\nHarvest Golden Plums! |\n:-------------------------:|\n![buttplum.png](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55fa2.png) |\n\n## What you shouldn't be doing\n - Let the big plant spread, the toxic seedlings, freely;\n - Let the Toxity meter fill up completly, or else it's *GAME OVER*\n\n---\n## Objectives \/ How to play\n![instructions_gif.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f75.gif)\n*Main control also present ingame~\n 1. 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Here to present you our submission for the theme *\"Harvest\"*~.*\n\n>`**All assets (models, textures, sprites, animations, etc...) and code were made uniquely and solely for Ludum Dare 52 *\u201cHarvest\u201d*, within the 72 hour time limit!**`\n\n---\n\n\n\n> With nothing but profit on his mind and his trusty magic scythe, capable of cutting through even the toughest of stems and roots, Billy has to simultaneously collect the fruit bounty whilst managing the toxicity levels being produced by the blighted flora.~\n\nThese crops grow quickly! |  More crops means MORE toxicity! | More Toxicity means Game Over!\n:-------------------------:|:-------------------------:|:-------------------------:\n![crops_evolving-min.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f7b.gif) | ![corruption_bar_preview_gif-min.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f7c.gif) | ![gameover.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f8a.gif)\n\n## What you should be doing\n - Raze these crops in order to maintain the toxic meter below the deadly threshold;\n - Swipe at the *Big Plant* (14 times) to stun it momentarily, giving you a chance to lower the toxicity meter, worry free;\n - Chop the crops containing the Golden Plums to increase your final scored at the end screen;\n\nHarvest Golden Plums! |\n:-------------------------:|\n![buttplum.png](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55fa2.png) |\n\n## What you shouldn't be doing\n - Let the big plant spread, the toxic seedlings, freely;\n - Let the Toxity meter fill up completly, or else it's *GAME OVER*\n\n---\n## Objectives \/ How to play\n![instructions_gif.gif](\/\/\/raw\/287\/43\/z\/55f75.gif)\n*Main control also present ingame~\n 1. 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