Kuerbisroboter by Jan
Kuerbisroboter
Harvest enough pumpkins before your time is up, you only got one season.
You can't heal yourself, you only get one life.
So don't get killed by the Pumpkin-Zombies.
Featuring the Evil Pumpkin Farmer, his army of Pumpkin Zombies and the Potato Farmer with his duck.
This is our first time participating in LudumDare.
Game made by Ina, Karo & Jan.
Harvest enough pumpkins before your time is up, you only got one season.
You can't heal yourself, you only get one life.
So don't get killed by the Pumpkin-Zombies.
Featuring the Evil Pumpkin Farmer, his army of Pumpkin Zombies and the Potato Farmer with his duck.
This is our first time participating in LudumDare.
Game made by Ina, Karo & Jan.
| Windows | https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9uiBJe7_wy0eHRVVk9Fa01mb3c/ |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=31836 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 62% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.23 | 201 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.79 | 288 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.17 | 159 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.37 | 227 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.38 | 66 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.37 | 99 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.96 | 235 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.72 | 281 |
Just a heads up before I do: movement speed seems to randomly change and, after attacking, I have to release the movement key then press it again... it's kind of annoying...
In the Help menu are some more hints about the gameplay.
But I like it.. It's like Rumpelstiltskin!
The only criticism I would have is, once a zombie gets too close to you it's very hard to kill them with your fork.
And I needed to select the lowest difficulty setting to win the game, because I just never got enough pumpkins due to the rare occurence of seeds. Maybe I did something wrong, I guess. Also, what are the potatoes for? And can you spend the money on anything other than new plantations?
More questions than feedback, sorry about that. :>
here are some answers:
1) We had some really cool plans for the little robot, but in the end there were just not enough hours and we had to cut all of it. :/
2) You can can farm for pumpkin seeds by harvesting the fields while the pumpkins are still tiny.
3) You can trade the potatoes with the farmer in the east. Just stand close to him and hit space. For 5 potatoes he sells you a better hoe. If you already own the steel hoe then he will just pay you money per potato.
4) The money is only used for buying new fields.
No worries about the questions, if you got more feel free to ask here or check out the in-game help menu. :)
On the downside, the controls and movement needed to be more solid, the button presses(aside from movement) only worked when the button was released. And the Kurebisroboter did nothing, though his voice was cool xD
The controls did not seem to work for me all the times instantanously, which is some kind of annoying when you try to kill the Zombies.
If you have time please consider rating my game! I would really appreciate it! :DD