Harvest Minute by Malai

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made by Malai for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

Screenshot 2020-10-05 at 23.20.28.png

You just wanted to be a laid-back farmer and earn your living growing parsnips,

but strangely if you forget to water one single plant the day starts anew, resetting your field, but not your tools lying around.

Water all your plants, sow new ones and harvest them when they are ripe and sell them using your shipping box.

Controls:

Keyboard

  • WASD/Arrow Keys - Move

  • L/C - Pickup/Drop

  • K/X - Use held item

  • ENTER - Skip to end of day

Xbox Controller

  • D-PAD - Move

  • A - Pickup/Drop

  • B - Use held item

  • Start - Skip to end of day

The Analog Sticks are not supported

Pickup tools first before you can use them.

Use the seedbag to sow additional plants.

Water your plants with the watering can, you can get multiple at the water patch.

If not all plants are watered, your field will reset, but not your tools.

Pickup your harvest when they are ripe (once you see white on the plant)

and drop them in to the shipping box.

Harvest and sell as many as you can in 7 days!

Audio does NOT work in Safari, but should everywhere else (except IE of course)

Made using my own engine tako,

Thanks for playing!

Tips:

Exploit the day loop mechanic to prepare tools you need where you need them.

Ripe plants also need water.

But harvested crops don't need to be watered.

You don't have to sell the crop on the same day you harvested it.

It's possible to sell at least 30 parsnips!

Ratings

Overall 1199th 3.214⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1257th 2.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1451th 2.619⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 960th 3.476⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1120th 3.205⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 719th 3.25⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 925th 2.5⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1040th 3.167⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

SaraFilipa
05. Oct 2020 · 21:24 UTC
Fun farming game! I like the graphics, gameplay is pretty easy/intuitive as well. :) Well done!
MECHORD AND MECHOH
06. Oct 2020 · 08:29 UTC
Nice pixel game.
LetterAfterZ
06. Oct 2020 · 08:38 UTC
Nice lil game.

The inventory mechanics were a bit tricky to work with, but I got there in the end.

I didn't manage to make it to the 30 parsnips, but was happy with my 9.
mumaitron
06. Oct 2020 · 08:46 UTC
Had fun with it, cool idea!
JRevel
06. Oct 2020 · 08:46 UTC
Nice game ! I just wish the character could move a little bit faster
ANONIM93
06. Oct 2020 · 10:07 UTC
Nice little game, i think more player feedback like some particles would be great, the only feedback players get now is sound.
JOrbits
06. Oct 2020 · 18:20 UTC
Feels a bit like the beginnings of Stardew Valley. Movement is definitely too slow in my opinion.
Artyom Volkov
07. Oct 2020 · 19:29 UTC
A small nice farm game.
3mpty
08. Oct 2020 · 12:56 UTC
Character moves a bit slow and I found the reset mechanic is more annoying than helpful. Possibly because of the movement speed.

Kudos for making a working harvest moon clone in 72 hours, really impressive
MidoriMelody
25. Oct 2020 · 15:35 UTC
I love farming games and this one is addictive. I had fun watering and then harvesting the turnips. I think it would be good to add a reward for selling turnips.
StellarBearGames
25. Oct 2020 · 15:57 UTC
Nice game, I like your pixel style. Is your palette from lospec? Controller support is great to see. I got 19 parsnips having wasted a day not watering the grown parsnips. What's fun is there are lots of ways to optimize your strategy. Good for you using C++ / your own engine. Congrats!
🎤 Malai
25. Oct 2020 · 16:10 UTC
@stellarbeargames It's the game boy color palette from aseprite :D
freeworld
25. Oct 2020 · 16:24 UTC
Got 27 parsnips! That took me forever :D

I liked the art and the gameplay! The character was a little slow and the collisions sometimes felt a little unforgiving as others already mentioned, but overall an enjoyable experience!

I really like the idea of positioning your tools for the next loop of the same day, maybe that mechanic could be expanded upon if you plan to work on this in the future :)

Good job!
chispaLBC
25. Oct 2020 · 16:35 UTC
who doesn't like a farming game? The movement is a bit slow but overall is fun! Also making your own engine is really impressive. good job!
Likirus
26. Oct 2020 · 11:56 UTC
this puts me in the mood to play Stardew Valley ;)