Nice graphics! We did a similar genre combo with farming + horror.

Very cool design, love the setting. Great fun.

Reached level 60, it's very challenging especially at start. Attacking your own towers/walls seems like unfortunate design since wanting to destroy them comes only way later and mostly just walls. Loved the graphics and mood. Could be a little easier IMO but I had fun

This game is fun to play, took me a few times losing to get the hand of it. The art is very nice and the music is also good. Overall a great little game.

Really impressed with the art, the first time I saw the tower pop up I was really surprised. The gameplay was intimidating at first until I realized I can kinda just mash with 1 crop to build up the resource and go through the 1 by 1. Really cool idea and reminds me of Farm For Your Life which I loved. Good job!

It's really impressive. This is the first LD game that I enjoy that much and that I would truly want to play on Steam with a full version!
It's also my first 5 stars rating, and it's well deserved. Congratulations, you've been awesome!

Awesome game! Impressive graphics and entertaining. A must

Very creative mix of genres. Visuals are great. I like the fact that request change every game, that's a plus.
Quests of collecting plants to get souls is nice, but I feel like everything grows too fast. There is no point using all the fields. I would like to spend more time on growing and organizing my plants. Maybe start with some souls to get initial defense setup and face one wave while cash crops grow. Also would be cool if enemies attacked the plants first!

Control mechanism and attacking feel a bit clumsy. Seeing the requests on the door disappear if you accidentally click forward to attack. I'd rather have attack on separate key so I don't accidentally attack my own towers.

@Keppu thanks so much for the feedback :) i've added it to our feedback document for reference :) (we hope to continue to tweak and refine Harvest Doom and this kind of feedback really helps so much)

@Yozamu wow thanks! :) maybe you'll see it on steam one day :P we had plans for other features, one was that you could visit a shop, and talk to the villagers to form relation ships and do extra missions, bringing it more inline with the harvest moon tie in. but we ran out of time for that haha. future goals :) thanks for your feedback!

I found this to be excessively impressive. Top notch jam pixel art and interesting mashup of ideas. The tower defense/farm idea was heightened by the take on horror.

I'm usually not a fan of tower defense games, but this combination of tower defense and farming (plus the horror elements, which are automatic points with me) is actually something that I like a lot. I agree with one of the other commenters that it'd be nice if the requests stayed visible after approaching the door. I had to mess around with that to get it to stay visible, since I kept walking right up to the door. Otherwise I really enjoyed it a lot and would really like to see a full featured version of this one day.

The theme is nice and i like the idea, maybe try to give more time between the waves since the player can start it at any moment!
Nice work keep it up!
Check out our submission if you want: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/incompatible-rally

Very well done, overall. The art is beautiful and the music sets the right mood. I agree with what another user said about being able to hit your own towers and walls.

This is a really good game, you should build it up and expand on it. Great art, music, mood, gameplay, theme, everything really.

its a bit tough at the start but once you know what you are doing becomes simpler. Really nice job

Would appreciate if you gave mine a go! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/left-for-bait

Fun game and good genre mashup! The graphics are nicely done as well in my opinion.

I personally would have preferred, if the movement wasn't tile based and maybe the attack key would have been separate from moving.
Maybe having the crop grow slower would have also put more weight on the farming aspect.

Overall great game though, with an impressive feature set. I really enjoyed playing it, I think I'll go play another round now :D

I was extremely impressed by how well thought out this is. Only thing I disliked is the fact that you could destroy your own structures, but I guess that's how you replace stuff :)

I’d love for you to review my submission as well.
### https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/keyboard-warrior

@benbusby hey :) the requests do stay visible :) they are in the top right of the screen :) :D thank you so much for playing

I found this game engaging. I wouldve liked more time between waves to gather crops, get souls and build stuff. That'd be fine for a two/multiplayer (which this has the potential to be :wink: ) but for a single player, just a tad difficult.

Apart from that, very impressive!

There it is. Two of my favorite genres combined with excellent art style and moody music. The start is ab bit too "hard" in my opinion since the time you have to figure out everything is quite limited. And I also think that the growth rates are too fast. Maybe reduce the requirements of the villagers and let the plants some more time to grow. But anyway, this is critic on a high level. Very nice job done!

@Wassim i will try your game. laptop i'm on at the mo is a bit crap and is refusing to run it :( will try when i get to my proper PC :)

One or two minor bugs, but that's expected for a game jam :) The art and feel of the game is pretty solid, same with the controls. It gets a little repetitive at points and I found myself farming things in circles because their growing time was so short. The music was a little too atmospheric and it seemed kinda empty sometimes. Besides that, overall it was pretty good!

As I said, this is gorgeous.
I played the web version and I had no problems!
Great name, resembles Harvest moon (On purpose, I assume)
I really liked it! Added to favorites.
Great work and amazing sounds/graphics!

@croewens yeah destroying your own stuff was a fail safe incase you built yourself into a wall etc. but the attack is on our list to move to a seperate button too :) we really ran out of time at the end to tweak :P thanks so much for playing

@Brendan Toy No problem. Relatable :wink:

Nice game. I tried several times to build the last tower but that took a bit long. Gets annoying all that farming at some point but generally really cool. Beautiful art, nice atmosphere and the waves work well! (I know this can be tricky to develop.)

Wow, this game is extremely fun! As soon as I kinda figured out the meta and gameplay loop, I was hooked!
It was a bit difficult to start playing, as I needed a couple tries to get going.
Very nice pixel-art and audio!
I really enjoyed playing this, really had me addicted for a while!

One huge annoyance (for me) though, was having to spam the space key constantly. It would have been much nicer if you could just hold down the button and it would trigger the button press a couple times a second or so.

I managed to get to wave 39 before my tab crashed.
Not only did the tab crash, but also did my _audio drivers_. I wasn't able to produce any sound at all after the crash, had to reset my machine (probably could have just restarted the drivers). I'm using an out-dated version of Firefox.
In case you're thinking of making a post-event version, you should probably look into limiting the amount of sounds being played at once.

Overall, had a really great time playing! Awesome entry! :)

@NoahRo haha thanks bud, yes java script isn't the most forgiving for this kind of project. but congrats on getting to wave 39! really glad you had fun :) we've spoken about making some post additions, as there were features we had to cut due to time, but hopefully we can add those in at some point :) i need to buy my friend a few beers first :) he worked very hard to get the game running as well as it does :) thank you so much for playing :)

@Brendan-Toy I know the struggle with JavaScript :P You guys did a great job! :)

This game is really frantic and also addicting. The constant going about farming, but also fending off enemies was quite fun, and I loved the spooky approach with the dark colours and souls and various Halloween-esque creatures constantly coming at your farm.

I find that when it came to the delivery of the souls, the place where you had to stand to deliver them was kind of picky. Like, the place where you actually deliver them is a step before the door, where it's very easy to walk all the way to. As a result, there's quite a bit of frustration when it comes to rushing to get your souls, but then walking too far that you go up to the door and moving frantically back and forth until you get that popup to deliver the souls.

I also think the health should reset for when you attack your own towers. It's very easy to do so on accident, and I feel like over time, the player will end up taking away their own towers when they don't intend to.

Aside from that, I definitely had a lot of fun with this game. The farming and tower defense aspects are both pretty evident in this, and they work well together. I love the creepy mood and ambiance of the music. The design of "you" aka the player was also very well done. It's a bit weird looking at the horizontal lines in the game - they seem a tad out of place and detract from the atmosphere, but I do understand that it does help to align the elements more easier. I wonder if there's, perhaps a way to make them feel more part of the aesthetic, though.

This is very impressive indeed and a must try for sure! I love every aspect of the game: tower defense/farming, graphics, the horror setting, the music. By all means, it's a really nice game, and since you said you might put it on steam someday, is there somewhere we can send bug reports? For people who might be afraid to try the game because of me, it's not game breaking but simply a minor annoyance you might not even experience (still trying to see what causes it)

I loved the art work on this game, and it is actually really fun. Sadly there are a few weird bugs, like when selling vegetables some times they don't count all of them, so for example, i have 30 vegetables and it shows 10 on the seller, but even though, it's a great game. Nicely done!

I'm very surprised with your game. The graphics, the gameplay, the music ... everything is incredible. Honestly I do not see anything to change and I consider it almost a final product. Maybe add another button to collect, because many times I plan instead of collecting because I give very fast to the space bar, but I loved it and I hope that it continues

The art is fantastic! I love everything about a good farming game. I had the same idea to mix horror with farming and even had the title "Blood Moon", but couldn't think of how the gameplay would be. I think it was smart to use the enemy wave/tower defense like gameplay. Fantastic work!

This game is very addictive... and hard! I really like the overall setup and story. Absolutely amazing job on the concept, graphics, audio, and gameplay!! 😍

Very nice graphics and interesting idea! Great work!

So beautiful!! mad pixel art skills man, definitely a favourite! Well up :smile:

I wasn't that good at it, but still had a ton of fun - fantastic work!

Hey, that's very good one ! For now gameplay is a bit repetitive, and difficulty could increase faster. (hum, that was a bad idea for me to close the barrier x) ) But, Very good work ! Graphics and audio are very good, game looks like very polished. One of the best entry so far :)
If you continue development, may be you could add some automatic harvest mechanics, more enemys, (and a little tutorial for the first game, i had to try again 3 times to understand what i had to do).
Well done!

Cool game, like tha artstyle and atmosphere

Very cool game !! Amazing art and mood. Maybe in the beginning a little bit to hard, but this makes it really addictive. Keep going with that amazing stuff.

If you like farming games, you can check out our farming shooter if you like (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/ld41-1)

@BlakeMcDeezy don't worry, i'm bad at it too lol :P

Lovely game! Would have been amazing to have some bosses to fight at some key Wave. :smiley:
Whenever the Doom tower is here, it seems that no wave can beat them anymore! ahah Now at wave 33, I am just pressing "Start it now" :v:
Really well done! :heart:

@Goutye the doom tower is really a endgame "yep, that's about it, thanks for playing" kind of tower. heh. We do have 'bosses' (monsters with higher level on every 5th wave) but they don't look bossy, just regular sprites with bigger stats. Thanks for the feedback!

I like the concept, music, and art style. It all fits nicely together, besides maybe some polish to the UI.

I found an exploit where if you have a fence and build a tower below it. You can kill the tower by attacking the fence. This removes the tower but it keeps shooting, so I can build another and stack towers.

The beginning is relatively hard to set up quickly enough, but once you have a path and a few fire towers you can farm to doom pretty easily. So it feels like there's a lot of damage/parameter and difficulty curve tweaking to be done, which is important for TDs imo.

I have like 3 doom and 5 fire towers stacked here and stopped playing because it started lagging. At this point you can farm for more DPS way faster than the wave scaling and never die. (The farming part gets tedious by then too, harvest sprites where?)


I've juste played it for a solid hour :o.
It remembered me good old warcraft's wintermaul ;).

Nice work !
Congratulations :).

Man its cool. I like the graphics and the music is spot on and reesponsive. Awesome work

Great entry. played it a few times getting better each time. I really enjoyed this one.

I really like this game I just wish it didn't cost so much to exchange for souls in the beginning. I would like to play more as the game progresses. My email is ComputerWhizard@ComputerWhizardsGames.com feel free to send me updates I would like to see how the game is coming in the future.

I really liked it. It's cool how many people tried to do some farming horror games and it worked well. The engine looks different too, some web based? Quite cool. Graphics are also really good.

It's so pretty! Love the art and the idea. The mood it generates is really spooky!

@sohakes It's html5/javascript without game engines. I usually code my games from scratch lol. Thanks for the feedback!

Wow, that's awesome @Fiote! Looks hard haha, congrats!

Really well made but the beginning pacing seems a bit much. I can't seem to get a first request done or collect enough to build anything before dieing. Even so the interactions are very satisfying. The sound effects, animations, and UI work together really well. You have a nice aesthetic going. I do keep finding my self wanting to close the request window with esc though lol.

Couldn't figure out how to play. Still, tried my best. I found the UI a bit confusing and the pacing is a little too fast. Also, the map leans more towars the farming aspect, which makes it a bit hard to understand how to play the TD side.

I really liked your game. Sorry if something I say was already said, there's too many comments to check 😆

The graphics are amazing, and the sound effects and music suits perfectly your theme.

I think my only complain is that attacking your own structures should not be a thing. If your goal was to allow players to make space, a button near the tower that you have to click would have done a better job.

I ended up destroying one of my most expensive tower because I wanted to clear a bush (or plant, don't know exactly what it is ^^) on the map.

That's still a great game, I'm impressed of what you did there 😄

This is really impressive! The graphics are great and it's very polished. I think it might be better if you started the player out with enough souls for one tower, since it is hard to complete a request in time. I also think that adding some kind of automation to it would be really helpful and would keep it from getting repetitive as quickly.

I apologize, but I didn't play this for very long (compared to the entries I've played to this point) When I saw your post, I knew I was in for some trouble when you said that your entry was both "A cross between harvest moon and a tower defense game" and "its pretty hard too" (no offense)

I have NEVER played Harvest Moon, and I will most CERTAINLY suck at such a game if it's both a Tower Defense game, and "pretty hard," and that's coming from the person who MADE the game (alongside @brendan-toy who did the art and music)

But, anyways, the game! I might not have played the game for very long, but here are my opinions:

I think that the graphics and music are great! But, as much as I hate to say it, that's the only thing I like about the game.

I honestly found it a bit strange to just hit something as soon as you walk into it. Which made things silly when I kept attacking my own home while going up to it. And the time limit is VERY restricting considering how they start in literally SECONDS! I feel like it should've been longer than 40 seconds max. Also (and this won't be the last time it happens) the amount of things you seemingly need to remember in the introduction made the game intimidating before it even started!

I apologize again, for this negative (and long!) review. I know that is to be expected of feedback, but still. Also, I stopped playing it after 5 minutes, thanks to me being intimidated by the mix of genres I'm not familiar with. But, in the end, nice game!

First, I don't know if any wordplay was intended but I am a big fan of Harvest Moon and though couldn't help smiling while reading the name of your game. I found myself hitting my own towers at first, didn't understand that I could and that it would break them xD I'm used to tower defence and I didn't find your game difficult at all. Crops could grow slower in my opinion, it would explain the use of all the fields you can use.

Really loved your game.

My grandpa's farm succumbed to the lag of wave 40 :(

@fanatrick yeah unfortunately there wasn't much time left for stress testing :P we hope to fix this soon. you can get around the lag by limiting towers at the moment. i managed to complete the game with 2 arrow towers and 2 flame towers 2 magic towers and a doom tower. and of course strategic placement of fences etc.
but yes we are aware of the issues :) thanks for playing though! :) :D

@Ryunos yeah it was little word play haha :P the reason behind destroying towers was for something we really didn't have time to implement lol. but it basically ensures that players can't accidently build a tower and trap themselves.
in future updates we hope to fix a lot of issues :P but for the sake of the jam thats where we got to in 72 hours. :) thanks for playing!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

Whoa, this is a really awesome concept! I'm not sure if I found a bug - I couldn't turn in some of the requests - it would show 0 of the vegetable even though I had 5. I had fun playing this though. I might try again to see if I can replicate the bug. Good work!

Edit: I played through again and didn't run into the issue I had the first time - no idea why it didn't register some of the vegetables that time. This is a great game! I like the music and I noticed a bit more of the details in the art. I'd keep playing, but I gotta rate other games to try to get more attention to mine!

This game was awesome! Biggest thought is I would like if I couldn't attack my own stuff by walking into it. Took me a sec to figure it out, but I really liked the difficulty. I kind of like a game where I die pretty quick and realize "oh, ok I get it now". I think I'd also like if you could see what you need to be preparing without going to the house. Loved the music.

Edit: I also ran into a bug where my inventory said I had 22 tomatoes, but the turn in screen said I only had 2 and wouldn't let me turn it in. Expected in a game jam game, still absolutely solid. Loved it.

this combination was also one of my first ideas, really like what you did out of it, there could be some improvements made, but you built a pretty solid game here

I played this on stream - It was really fun!

I loved the mix of farming and tower defence, and it played incredibly well :yum:

Probably the only nitpick I have would walking into my towers damaged them, I kept unintentionally doing this throughout my playthrough, probably a delete tool would be better suited for the task or an option to turn it on or off.

Other than that, great game - really enjoyed it :smiley: