I actually like the theme, for once. Sure, it would be hard to come with something unique, but I actually wanted to make a survival/farming like game for a while. For a long while, ever since I played PSSSST in eighties on ZX Spectrum. I just never got around trying it, except maybe one simple game in LD many many years ago (when I spent most time writing game engine from scratch in c# and openGL). So I'm going to take this LD as an excuse of finally doing some prototype and see how far I can get it, armed with unity, HB definition art (although I'm gonna cheat here and draw with digital pencil on tablet, not on the real paper) and some weird noises made to microphone.

I have a decent idea that I'm going to go with, but man, this theme is difficult! I can't wait to see what some people come up with for this.

I have done a 3D orthogonal environment with a controllable scooter, and a tree. You will need to ram into the tree, which will drop its fruits for you to collect.

every freaking definition no matter how wacky in interpretation leads back to the same thing

first it was thinking of it as a superlative, but unless it's about a man named Harve who happened to be the Harve-est of Harves, the only other definition of harve is a plough.

so then I saw that it has precisely one single-word anagram, which is "thraves," but I kid you not, the definition of thraves is a bunch of sheaves, which are bundles of wheat

any bets on what the final proportion of farming games to grim reaper/organ harvesting to everything else there will be? I'm thinking 40 farming:50 reaper:10 other (only because most people are going to try to avoid the absolute obvious)

Here's something you might like. I made an animator component made just for 2D animations because I got really tired of how Unity does it. This allows you to easily manage animations from code. If you've got any feedback that's appreciated.

https://github.com/xThuby/SimpleAnimator2D

I've been doing some mockups to try some ideas and getting some colors up on the screen. I'm kind of exited about making a card game, but I'm afraid of aiming too big. I'll see if I can come up with any other ideas with smaller scope. Otherwise I might just go for it :sweat_smile:

"Harvest" as a theme was not a very creative decision by the community. Ludum Dare's community often follows the more appealing flow of what seems to be "indie", and ends up not risking much. 👍For example, "delivery" could have been a great choice for this game jam, which would push the creativity of the entire community.

Ok, got the idea & started execution.

Basically a Combat (Atari 2600) like game.

You have a tank that harvests trees for their apples, and then you use them as ammo to shoot others tanks. Yeah. Dead simple.

Let's see it is fun.

Here is my WIP (pico8, of course).

What's a guy to do when he has an ambitious scope and tight deadline?

Why, start modelling spaceships in Blender, of course.

I really can’t think of anything other than a farming simulator :(

I doubt that 99% of the entries will not be a stardew vallew or harvest moon clone. :P

Thinking out loud about ideas, if you fancy one it's free for the taking

• a dating sim where the goal is to seduce someone then knock them out and harvest their organs

• a stealth game where you play as a vampire and have to sneak around a town harvesting blood (I might do this one)

• A diablo clone but you play as that butcher who says "fresh meat!"

aah, this theme just a destroyin' all my ideas into splinters... And yet, i know i'm late, but i wish everyone good luck and no one will be left without a game! :D

Hey! I'm starting out as a composer and sound designer looking for a team. I'm looking to get to know people and get more experience. I currently work in an indie project. Contact me so I can show you some of my recent work. Disc: Carrinho#5981

Been a while since I have done one of these but since I am struggling to see projects to the end, figured this would be a good chance to set the momentum. Good luck everyone and have fun!

Initially a tricky theme for me as I'm not interested in going down any kind of farming route and even harvesting of souls isn't really where I wanted to end up. Eventually stumbled on the idea of harvesting user data and realised this digital approach suits the kind of game I want to make a lot better.

I'm making another point and click adventure game, but this time I want to experiment with the Obra Dinn or Curse of the Golden Idol style of deduction. So I think the idea of harvesting data to solve the game fits well enough. Want to try and lay this in even a bit more with the narrative, so I'm gonna set it in a cyber punk setting with a lot of government monitoring of personal data.

Not gonna start coding anything until tomorrow morning, tonight I want to build the central deductive puzzle that players will be solving. Tomorrow I can start building the world and characters that players can use to piece the information together.

I'm not making a farming clone so...

Harrrrrr-Vest

A game where you play a vest dressed up as a pirate trying to avoid getting washed?

It'll have more than just planting and harvesting hopefully