Green Thumb Chronicles by magus77
βGreen Thumb Chronicles is the game we (magus and falien, bf and gf) made in less than 72 hours for the Ludum Dare gamejam. The theme was "harvest". We ran out of time to add soundeffects and some other things we wanted, but at least it's playable! We made a game :-)

You are running a potionshop. where clients can buy potions to order. Buy recipies to unlock the seeds, order seeds and grow the plants needed for creating the potions. Harvest the grown plants to use as ingredients in the big potion kettle. Then put the completed potion in a vial and place it in the shipment box to get payed at the end of the day.
You can play the game in the browser here: https://datadelft.itch.io/green-thumb-chronicles
We hope you enjoy our idea. Please rate us and leave a comment, we will be happy to rate yours!
Falien & Magus
| Link | https://datadelft.itch.io/green-thumb-chronicles |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/green-thumb-chronicles |
Ratings
| Overall | 576th | 3.237β | 21π§ββοΈ |
| Fun | 635th | 2.921β | 21π§ββοΈ |
| Innovation | 376th | 3.342β | 21π§ββοΈ |
| Theme | 496th | 3.553β | 21π§ββοΈ |
| Graphics | 340th | 3.786β | 23π§ββοΈ |
| Audio | 257th | 3.474β | 21π§ββοΈ |
| Humor | 387th | 2.933β | 17π§ββοΈ |
| Mood | 178th | 3.825β | 22π§ββοΈ |
| Given | 13π³οΈ | 9π¨οΈ |
It's also pretty confusing to open the recipe shop and not have the first recipe be the first job's potion. Another problem is not being able to put down things onto a table or some other kind of storage, so I ended up having to discard a plant I picked out of order. There's also not enough feedback with regards to what's being held, or when the held item is used, which would probably be a problem for more complex potions.
Gameplay-wise, initially I was a bit overwhelmed by the task list. As other people have said it would have been been better to have that as a sort of tutorial where the steps description when needed.
Not sure if it was a bug or a design oversight, but when I completed the first potion and got something like 33 gold, I didn't have enough money to buy any more recipes. Then went to the door and waited for next day and received another 33 gold, and could repeat this.