Snake Farmer by sorecactus
The Santa Fe Snake Trainer's Guild is the most prestigious and exclusive snake training league in the country. Joining is all you've ever wanted. The only problem is... you don't even have a single snake!

Now, high quality snakes are expensive, but you have a plan. By planting tasty crops, you can make the snakes come to you.
Buy seeds from the Market.
Plant crops and wait for them to grow.
Harvest the crops and sell them at the Market, or wait and see if a snake shows up.
Catch that snake!
Enter your snakes into snake shows to try to get the best score of all time.
The snakes are the colored cubes. Walk up and hit space to catch them.
CONTROLS
wasd to move space to interact
TIPS
You can see your snakes by walking into your front door. More expensive plants attract rarer snakes. Different judges like different kinds of snakes.
Updates- -Fixed UI bugs -Fixed Feedback text not showing -Fixed crash on snake view
| Youtube | https://sorecactus.itch.io/snake-farmer |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/snake-farmer |
Ratings
| Overall | 867th | 3.111⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 612th | 3.194⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 350th | 3.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 729th | 3.111⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 413th | 3⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 919th | 2.833⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
It's fun but after 10 snakes I got tired and sold my snake. Wonder how you could make the fun last longer.
Great submission nevertheless :)
It took a long time for any snakes to actually show up. By that time I had gotten a bit bored and was messing around, accidentally ran *through* the clubhouse and got stuck on the other side :upside_down:
heres my actual feedback: the interaction with the market and the snake club was a bit janky, when the character's hitbox colided with them and the menu showed up, sometimes i'd be pushed back and it made really hard to keep the menu up for interactions. You also put in the game description that the controls were just wasd and spacebar, but on the menus, you actually use the mouse to interact so maybe putting that on the game controls would be nice, since it could make the player a bit confused as how to buy props and enter the competiiton. I noticed that the fee to enter the competition was 100 but that didnt get deducted and the prize collecting resulted into nothing, which was a little disapointing. The different colors to show different types of snakes was really nice. I don't know if you had just a set of 5 snakes names or if that happened to me when i started to get snakes with the same name by coincidence. The text on the top showing the ammount of seeds you have has a little flaw, cause everytime i planted all my seeds it would say id have still one more in my inventory, it would just show the real 0 if i changed crops and went back. The text on the bottom showing actions not disappearing was a little annoying, maybe showing it for some seconds would be better, just keeping the warning for snakes on the crops visible until they were colected would be a better approach to that. The growing clycles and pricing of the props were really well balanced, that is a feature i'd advise you to keep and maybe if you want add more in the future. A thing i dint get at first was the "training" of the snake too, but i think you meant it's temper, cause at this time we have no ways of training the snakes for competition.
I loved it, I see a lot of potential, I think it would make a nice mobile game also, since its casual, I can see myself playing it again once everything gets more polished (if you intend on doing that). I'm sorry if this got too extensive, I'm not bashing the game by any means. You did an awesome job
P.S.: I also got stuck outside the gaming area @kessutinnu
The only two plants that attracted the snakes were the alfalfa and the desert but the game mentions there are more maybe? I don't know if that's a bug... nevertheless, it was a fun experience, congratulations!
I did exactly the same as @kessutinnu hahaha