Farmer Joe by ElmoEinstein
This game is much better than my first. With the help of a friend and 3 months of extra experience I could pull together a much better game.
Controls
Tab to switch item Left click to use current item selected/pick up grown crop WASD to move
Gameplay
Buy and plant crops and make money by harvesting them
Also we reccomend 10 min games.
Detailed Insight Into Plants
Carrot Price: 20 Selling price: 30 Grow time (each stage): 10 seconds Watering time (how long it can survive without water): 20 seconds Saturation(how long water stays inside the soil): 40 seconds Plant pole(no need to replant): no
Tomato Price:50 Selling price: 20 Grow time (each stage): 40 seconds Watering time (how long it can survive without water): 20 seconds Saturation(how long water stays inside the soil): 90 seconds Plant pole(no need to replant): yes
Cabbage Price: 75 Selling price: 135 Grow time (each stage): 40 seconds Watering time (how long it can survive without water): 20 seconds Saturation(how long water stays inside the soil): 70 seconds Plant pole(no need to replant): no
Garlic Price:30 Selling price: 50 Grow time (each stage): 15 seconds Watering time (how long it can survive without water): 20 seconds Saturation(how long water stays inside the soil): 30 seconds Plant pole(no need to replant): no
Insight into the devs: We are both highschool students in year 8. I did the coding and maybe 10 percent of the art and my friend did the rest of the art. We didn't use assets and practically all the code is done without tutorials. Do you think we should keep on working on it for a steam release? (Also its 4AM lol)
| source code | https://github.com/ElmoEinstein/LD2023 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/farmer-joe |
Ratings
| Overall | 274th | 3.68⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 278th | 3.577⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 518th | 3.12⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 157th | 4.1⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 357th | 3.731⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 499th | 2.105⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 509th | 2.636⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 549th | 3.188⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 29🗨️ |
I ended with $300 on my first 5min try, I like the option to set a time between 5 and 10 mins.
It seems like growing the $30 crop is the smartest move?
I didn't hear any audio in the game, that would be nice to have.
If you do expand on this, I would definitely try to come up with some reason to come up with the money, like maybe you can buy a house and furniture with the money. Also a reason as to why you have a time limit would be good to have, like maybe something happens after 5/10 minutes that prevents you from farming more, like a flood or something.
I love the art style!
Having to cycle through tools using the TAB key one at a time adds a level of frenzy to the game combined with the time limit, its like "whoops I missed the tool I was looking for, better keep switching"
I love the animation and I love the feeling of plants growing.
Good job!
all. Nice work !
I do like the time limit, adds a lot to the temporary nature, you know it isn't going to go forever. Especially with a jam like this helps with rating a ton, lets me know exactly how long you want me to play your game for a standard experience.
Overall a decent amount of fun, good graphics (though the tutorial is a bit hard to read), and concise experience. Great entry.
I also like the direction that you decided to take with your theme. Good game choice overall actually. =)
maybe its because I have an ultrawide monitor :thinking:
btw I appreciated a lot your pixel art and the implementation looked seamless, nice job
Seriously though I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of depth this game has under a very simple premise. I found myself really developing systems and almost creating my own gameplay loop that I found effective. By the end of the 10 minute game I had over $1200 with some garlic still growing, I found it to be the easiest. The graphics are simple but easily readable, I didn't have too much of that awkward farming game "is this crop ready" type of vibe. I think like others have pointed out, maybe some audio, maybe some particles, having a little bit more polish would have been great but this is also a jam game so I can look past it. I did want a bit more from it as well, I think if you were to expand the game adding maybe more crops, lifestock, upgrades, maybe some autofarming? I think it's a great start for something if you do want to expand!
I will say however I did come across one little glitch, I planted some garlic and it just formed like a tiny sprite and refused to grow? I couldn't harvest it or anything.
Overall though nice work, this was fun.
I didn't really understand the controls well enough from the instructions, but after my first attempt and going back to read, I eventually figured it out. The font you used is a little too unreadable. I got there in the end, but it took more effort than I'd like to read important text. Otherwise, the artwork was very nice!
My first playthrough (5 min), I got $670 by experimenting with various crops.
My second playthrough, I thought "Carrots all the way! Fastest grow, 2x profit. No brainer." By the end of it, I had planted 40 seeds (which should have gotten me $1600), but I didn't keep track of the water and only harvested $760 worth of it. Not much of an improvement. @jitspoe can confirm, don't go all-in on carrots :( OR if you do, don't plant more than you can get to.
