Planetary Fruit Miner by InvisibleWonder
It's a memory and resource balancing game! Here's the list of fruits, sorted from least valuable to most:
Banana Ore - Although scientists have tried to name it Bananium, few sentient species can barely spell it as it is.
Mashed Potatoes - Often found near deposits of Gravium.
Kiwi Ore - A fruit with fuzzy brown skin. Known as Wookiwi on Valtoonie.
Passion Fruit - Found primarily on volcanic planets.
Acai Berries - Superfood and also an excellent starship fuel.
Guava Substrate - Another transporter accident involving starberries and pears.
Papaya Formation - Known for it's buttery flesh. By cannibals.
Mango Ore - Mango? You go!
Pomegranate Ore - An obviously alien artifact.
Star Fruit - That's a thing! It tastes like citrus, apple and plum ores.
Music by Kazinozoren! https://soundcloud.com/kazinozoren
Banana Ore - Although scientists have tried to name it Bananium, few sentient species can barely spell it as it is.
Mashed Potatoes - Often found near deposits of Gravium.
Kiwi Ore - A fruit with fuzzy brown skin. Known as Wookiwi on Valtoonie.
Passion Fruit - Found primarily on volcanic planets.
Acai Berries - Superfood and also an excellent starship fuel.
Guava Substrate - Another transporter accident involving starberries and pears.
Papaya Formation - Known for it's buttery flesh. By cannibals.
Mango Ore - Mango? You go!
Pomegranate Ore - An obviously alien artifact.
Star Fruit - That's a thing! It tastes like citrus, apple and plum ores.
Music by Kazinozoren! https://soundcloud.com/kazinozoren
| Web | http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/638335?updated=1 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=28398 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 86% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.77 | 611 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.15 | 334 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.78 | 486 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.61 | 639 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.85 | 260 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.17 | 299 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.55 | 624 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.39 | 256 |
I would definitely come back for an extended version with probe upgrades, better graphics and more polish.
Well done!
Downs:Graphics are cute but the different values of the fruits need to be more recognisable by their images or there should be at least some kind of info about them on the game screen. Controls are bad, it would be cool to select probes with the keyboard WASD? (maybe on a touchscreen it can work as it is right now). The gameplay could be better with more difference between the sweeper and the seismic probe. make sweeper more random and seismic more sweeper. :D
Ups: Concept and mechanics are awesome. They are also fitting the theme perfectly. And the music is just great, I want to keep playing because of it.
Thanks+
Should've added a bonus for clearing the whole planet. The game also calculated the score incorrectly if you managed to get a fruit on your last turn (it didn't count towards total score). The UI was pretty unintuitive, and I would've preferred if the tool didn't deselect after using it. The fruits sometimes stuck out of the planet too, made me grin a bit.
Anssi@MooseflyGames
Nice music and interesting game mecanism.