Preeker Ranch by VoyagerIX
A simple ranching game where you farm little creeper-like slimes that explode when you get too close.Made by XuanXuan, Jonathan Zhang, HenryTexas, Zhang Dingxin, and Jiao Yue.
| Link | https://voyagerix.itch.io/preeker-ranch |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/preeker-ranch |
Ratings
| Given | 8🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
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I struggled a bit with the controls at first, but got the hang of it.
I feel like a few of the mechanics are unecessarily unforgiving and work against the farming fantasy. When the slimes disappear that's a permanent loss of a slime. And throwing a mushroom and missing wastes the mushroom. And slimes starve to death if you aren't careful. The farming fantasy feels best to me when it's easy to build on your past actions. Like the more crops you have in Stardew Valley the more money you have to buy more crops, and the farming gets easier as you progress through the game. In Preeker Ranch there's a lot of ways that your resources can be lost or wasted, which makes it more like a precision resource management experience rather than a farming experience.
Though I think there's a nice charm to Preeker Ranch and it'd be rad if getting lots of slimes and mushrooms was easier. I think there's something cool here.