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With the Grain by Fuse in a Bowl

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made by Fuse in a Bowl for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Play our 10 minute Zen puzzler!

Build railways between farms and hungry towns to deliver wagons of wheat.

Click on blue arrows to extend the tracks

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Connect the tracks to the stations to set a train on its way

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You cannot build tracks that turn towards an adjacent edge

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Click on the red arrow to remove tracks

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Use WASD to move the camera. Use Q and E to rotate and Z and C to zoom.

Relax and have fun!

By:

  • Anthony Diggle - Engineering, Art
  • Ben Kalman - Engineering, Audio

Uses:

Original music and audio created by Ben, with the exceptions of:

  • "Steam train": https://freesound.org/people/gadzooks/sounds/39413/
  • "Wheat in the Wind": https://freesound.org/people/bdvictor/sounds/240914/
  • "Birdsounds": https://freesound.org/people/Monsieur_Renard/sounds/388390/
  • "Ambience Food Market": https://freesound.org/people/VincePest11/sounds/326016/

Post submission changes:

  • Fixed audio stuttering. If the audio still stutters on your computer, press p once. This will reduce your framerate but remove more stutters.
Link https://fuseinabowl.itch.io/ludum-dare-53
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/with-the-grain

Ratings

Overall 343th 3.803⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 721th 3.288⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 449th 3.515⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Theme 249th 4.227⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 489th 3.848⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Audio 255th 3.773⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 114th 4.161⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 51🗨️

Feedback

H1hoho
02. May 2023 · 08:11 UTC
A calm and pleasant game.
DrunkardWolf
02. May 2023 · 08:16 UTC
Enjoyed this one, calm and liked the take on the theme, good work :)
LDJam user 359614
02. May 2023 · 08:18 UTC
love the delivery concept.
nice music..
nice vibe..
nice mechanic but need to be fix abit..
thumbs up..
CantThinkOfAName
02. May 2023 · 08:19 UTC
Very fun! And the music is very nice
LDJam user 257438
02. May 2023 · 08:25 UTC
Very calm and easy (not too easy) puzzles with make him calm!!
Good Interpretation in the theme! and laying of tracks system was too too good to be true!
Very good instructions have been given by you!!

Also, pls play my game also!
ruruie
02. May 2023 · 08:26 UTC
Very chill! Looks great. Slick camera! I guess chill as it was I was looking to see if there was any strategy to it but it seems the paths are pretty much set? After a few minutes I started getting some quite bad audio stuttering. :x
Shgamerk
02. May 2023 · 08:32 UTC
I like this game, so relaxing.

I have some problems with the sound, sometimes it makes a bit annoying sound (i don't know how explain better)
but it didn't distract me from chillout
Jackaljk
02. May 2023 · 08:45 UTC
I like the concept and the game is very polished and relaxing, but I think you should give the player more agency on how to place the tracks. As it is you merely have to follow a predefined path. It would be great if you had to manage conflicts between tracks and even train schedules.
🎤 Fuse in a Bowl
02. May 2023 · 09:24 UTC
@ruruie @shgamerk thanks for your reports, I'm looking into the audio issues now
🎤 Fuse in a Bowl
02. May 2023 · 11:29 UTC
@ruruie @shgamerk the audio stuttering has now been fixed - thank you for letting us know!
ZungryWare
04. May 2023 · 01:19 UTC
This is pretty easy as a puzzle game. Aside from a one town (the one where you loop the path back around it) the paths were pretty obvious. It seems like a good concept for a tough level-based puzzle game, too!

I am impressed with the non-uniform tile-based map. The rails all connect up properly and figure out which directions are legal. I'll have to checkout out that Sylves library if I ever do anything with Unity.

Nice atmosphere and cool mechanics, I just wished those mechanics had been used to their fullest!
dougggggg
04. May 2023 · 01:40 UTC
Nice, chill game! Loved the graphics and music--I think you nailed the pastoral vibe. I think I would have liked to be able to click once and build the track to the next decision point--felt like I was clicking a lot without making any decisions. Other than that, I liked the controls and everything felt smooth.
digital bacon
04. May 2023 · 10:00 UTC
A very relaxing game, well done!
LDJam user 279507
04. May 2023 · 16:10 UTC
Man that's a pleasing building experience followed by a nice pay-off - love the little track animation and watching carts o' grain getting choo-chooed about. Discovering the zoom function (by re-reading your description doh) was a life saver. Thinking some in-game reminders would help.

A+ for game name.
Savolae
04. May 2023 · 18:20 UTC
A nice, simple, chill puzzle game. All the game mechanics work smoothly and the goal was easy to understand. Though I agree with the other commenters that many of the path were a bit too obvious, maybe if the map had been a bit smaller the player would have had to think a bit more about where to connect each path? Nevertheless I enjoyed the game, nice work!
geck0
05. May 2023 · 11:27 UTC
Nice chill experience
DeadByDeath
05. May 2023 · 13:29 UTC
I finished the game. It was a beautiful experience. The puzzles were not a real challenge but the difficulty was easy enough to make you finish it and enjoy it. Good job in the details of the graphics and the immersion. Probably you might have used better controls (f.e. use mouse wheel to zoom in and out) but they did not create any problems. The sound and audio quality were good but nothing particular special. The theme of course was nailed!!! Very good job my friends!!!
dUmMy432
05. May 2023 · 13:34 UTC
nice game with a hot cup of coffee after a long day at work.... liked the graphics... overall good game
LDJam user 337697
05. May 2023 · 13:41 UTC
Nice puzzle game.
JoaoPBax
05. May 2023 · 20:04 UTC
The idea is pretty good and the presentation is very well done. The camera is a bit laggy and causes me a bit of a headache though, its also kinda hard to find where to go, it would be good if you could zoom the camera out a bit.
benk
05. May 2023 · 23:54 UTC
@joaopbax thanks for playing & the nice words. the camera is zoomable actually - using z/c keys. Wish we'd had time to implement mouse controls!
JoaoPBax
06. May 2023 · 01:38 UTC
@benk Oh, thanks for the heads up, I'll give it another try! The zoom control instructions must have gone over my head, thanks!
Quinnster
06. May 2023 · 05:07 UTC
Super nice and relaxed. Had a great time building a little railway!
congusbongus
06. May 2023 · 05:48 UTC
The mood of the game is excellent! I thoroughly enjoyed playing through the game. The track building mechanic is certainly unusual, I'm not sure it works perfectly as it requires a lot of clicks and sometimes trial and error since the source and destinations are often off camera, but it shows promise and with some QoL tweaks and clever level design I'm sure it can work very well. Lovely presentation and music.
DenKa
08. May 2023 · 15:35 UTC
This is a wonderful and charming game that helps you relax and is incredibly engaging. I want to keep playing it again and again! However, it's a shame that the potential of the puzzle wasn't fully utilized. Only 2 trains at the bottom of the map made me think, while the others were too simple and just involved drawing a straight line. Overall, the game is great and has a lot of potential that could be realized. I would like to see some markers in the interface that would indicate cities, as they are a bit difficult to find. Also, the camera seems a bit slow, and it would be great if it could be sped up with the Shift key. Overall, thank you for the game! 😊
TobiasD
10. May 2023 · 21:59 UTC
Oooh it's soooo chillllllll. Very nice game feel, a really sleepy little puzzler, lovely music and vibe. And a cool mechanic as well! Perhaps needed a little something extra to make it more of a puzzle - or just more obstacles and forks for the trains. But very nice entry guys!
Sebastian-M
14. May 2023 · 18:41 UTC
A zen game indeed. I love just seeing the trains go around the map once the route was set. It reminds me a lot of Dorfromantik and that's a huge compliment. The camer controls are also very cool.

I'm sure if you had more time you could come up with a relly cool puzzle game out of this.
Stevie257
15. May 2023 · 19:00 UTC
I appreciate the attention to detail in the graphics of this game, as the developer's efforts shine through in the carefully designed character models and environments