FARMCADE by GeorgeBroussard
A mash-up of basic farming as an arcade game.
Rabbits can trample your crops. Crows can drop a rock wiping out all crop progress. You gain an extra health heart each level. Jump over rabbits and avoid crow rocks, and try to grow all crops on screen to advance to the next level.
A short game consisting of 5 levels, and requiring no more than 5 minutes of your time.
CONTROLS: Movement - Left/Right arrow keys! Jump - Up Arrow/Space Water - X Music Toggle - M (procedurally generated and may be annoying).
The source code is a mess. Normally for Ludum Dare I try to do a pass and clean it up or comment it in places. Not this time. It's a horrible snake pit in there. I don't advise it.
| HTML5 (web) | https://georgebroussard.itch.io/farmcade |
| Windows | https://georgebroussard.itch.io/farmcade |
| macOS | https://georgebroussard.itch.io/farmcade |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/farmcade |
Ratings
| Overall | 154th | 3.71⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 259th | 3.419⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 500th | 3.048⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 419th | 3.435⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 55th | 4.097⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 102th | 3.565⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 121th | 3.397⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 114th | 3.536⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 6🗳️ | 7🗨️ |

Pros
quick gameplay
fun controls
precision based watering
Cons
Doesn't come with a recipe for Rabbit Soup
Good job!
@lawrence - I should have added a shotgun to shoot crows or something. I intended to be able to use water to run off rabbits, but it just never felt right and you can just hold down the key. I wanted to have the bucket have limited water and you would have to refill at a pump. That would have added a good gameplay element but just ran out of time.
Thanks for playing, rating and all the nice comments guys! I will start rating games soon and will run through this list first.
@Rongo Matane I hope I didn’t tune it too hard. Sometimes you get unlucky with random numbers and the crows and rabbits are rough.
Personally the controls felt a bit too sluggish for me, but apart from that, great entry!