Giant Pumpkin by EpaceGames
Grow the heaviest pumpkin possible for the county fair! Grow roots beneath the surface; avoid rocks and collect natural resources. Will your pumpkin get the blue ribbon?
| Web | http://www.epacegames.com/ld29 |
| Source | http://www.epacegames.com/ld29/source.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=2881 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 46% | 1460 |
| Overall | 3.92 | 56 |
| Audio | 3.30 | 237 |
| Fun | 3.61 | 143 |
| Graphics | 4.46 | 17 |
| Humor | 2.83 | 320 |
| Innovation | 4.00 | 68 |
| Mood | 3.70 | 123 |
| Theme | 3.97 | 52 |
Really nice game though! I especially like the resource balancing, great job on that. Very up-lifting graphics and sounds as well.
Would be a good mobile game!
The other thing is that, looking at the point of view, the player is simultaneously portraying farmer and pumpkin. I think I would have preferred a pumpkin trying to get large for different reasons--to become the pumpking?--and purchasing various evolutionary effects to aid its own advancement would be more interesting. For example, plants evolved caffeine content as a natural insecticide, so you could do something like that. This would also differentiate your game a little bit thematically--I don't mean relative to the LD theme, just in general.
A couple of bugs, too, with the weed killer not functioning, and I've never been able to buy resources like water or nitrogen and have them actually show up in my stores.
Finally, the past few times I've played, I didn't actually notice the buttons in the top right corner allowed you to scroll up and down. I just saw your twitter key and my eyes glazed over, thinking it was yet another one of those "share on social media!!" button panels. Doing something to set these keys apart visually would help a lot with that.
Still, this is a very polished, well-constructed game! Thank you.