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Farm Before The Storm's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #284 | 3.485 | 3.485 |
| Audio | #550 | 2.955 | 2.955 |
| Game Design | #561 | 3.030 | 3.030 |
| Overall | #563 | 3.005 | 3.005 |
| Innovation | #606 | 2.803 | 2.803 |
| Fun | #682 | 2.803 | 2.803 |
| Graphics | #694 | 2.955 | 2.955 |
Ranked from 66 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You have to tend to a magical farm in between the storms.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I made all the code from scratch, but not the assets.
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Great take on the theme. Enjoyed the mix of a usually chill farming game with the stress of the lightning and constanly rising water.
Some things were a little unclear, like not being able to see if I was holding any crops after harvesting them, but I assume that was mostly due to limited time.
Exactly, creating the base game took more than I expected, so I had to cut some parts. I will hopefully patch them after the jam.
Thanks for the feedback!
right on the theme and fun play on words. it was a bit unclear as what is the objective. but really cool! good job!:)
Hey! I'll hopefully add some tooltips and a proper UI with an after-jam patch. Thank you for playing!
a comfy farm game in the rain, i got hit by lightning!
fun to grow crops, some of them have different speeds for growing
why do i need to water crops if it's raining...hmmmm
Hey!
Shhh, it's enchanted water! :D I was planning to add story in the game but couldn't even find time for a simple UI haha.
Thanks for playing!
Good work! I didn't encounter any problems with the restart that was mentioned. I will say I'm not sure what to do after the bar is filled with offerings though
Hey!
The restart problem is basically a bug that locks you out of the game over scenarios. That's why nothing happens when the bar fills (or you get struck with lightning). Sorry!
Thank you so much for playing!
Nice game! I liked the various assets and the planting system! I encountered some bugs but it was fine!
Thank you!
Great game! The art/assets look great, I really like the setting of having to offer crops to the demon god statue. Was a bit confused for a sec when I noticed the pumpkin and Watermelon sprites were swapped and than the fact that I couldn't die (I have become the Immortal God of farming!) Was really fun and cute. 10/10 WELL DONE
Ahah :D Sorry about the god mode bug and the switched seeds. I tried to rush things at the last hour, and those bugs are the products of that hurry :/
I'm currently working on the bugs though, and will hopefully patch the game after the jam. Thank you so much for your kind words!
Okay a few things.The game itself plays pretty well. It generated enough interest to keep playing. However a bar for each resource would be good, I didnt see the need to plant and harvest anything other than wheat. I filled up the statue but it didnt do anything.I managed to wander off the right side of the map and got stuck underneath it as there was no collision on the bottom right fencepost Unsure what to do after all resources had been gathered?
Cool little game 10/10 would sacrifice my gardens soul to the MOAI head god again.
Hello!
Every crop has a grow timer, and late growers have more value. The list goes like: potato, grain, watermelon and lastly pumpkin.
The game unfortunately has a major bug, causing lightning bolts to not kill the player and game over screens to not work . I managed to cause this bug at the last second, while I was trying to implement a secret "god mode", that's what the missing collision is for, you can get to places that you normally shouldn't be able to (basically the left-most part of the farm). It was supposed to be the easy mode for some players, but it kinda ruined the whole experience with that bug, sorry about that...
Thank you so much for playing and your detailed feedback. You rock!
awesome farming game! I didn't see the statue until it was too late, perhaps add in the description of the game its position
I updated the description. Thank you for your feedback!
I like farming games so I like the spin on it :) Tense and cozy at the same time. I wish I had some instructions to know what to do at the start. Great job!
Thanks for the feedback! I will hopefully add the instructions and UI once the jam is over. :)
Really enjoyed it, The atmosphere and everything came together to create a really tense feeling. Would love to have an in game indicator on what to do, either through highlighting certain items or through some text, Overall really good experience
Hey! You're right, the game really does lack tooltips or indicators. I couldn't complete the UI so I had to scrap them. Hopefully I will take a look at them after the jam. Thank you for the feedback!
cute farm game! cozy and not at the same time
Thank you!
Fun little game. Farming in a storm sim. I could use my mouse to click on the bottom bar and make it full, I don't know if that's meant to happen.
Oh my god! I never even noticed that! Thank you for playing and for the bug report!
I loved the feel of this game, frantically running out from cover to do some farming before being hit by lightning and the rising water level gave a great feeling. I couldn't seem to get the game to end, I had filled the bar at the bottom and was also submerged under water but other than being struck by lightning was stuck on what to do. But other than that one bug a great little game, well done!
Thank you! I have unfortunately caused a really core issue while trying to implement an easter egg at the last second, which sometimes causes two game over scenarios (beating the game or getting a game over) to not work.
Thank you for finishing the game even though you had issues. You rock!
It's definitely a great farming game with real storming vibe. Liked it. But adding more instructions will help me out. Congratulations!
Thank you for the feedback!
Cute art style.
Thank you!
I had trouble with this game. It wouldn't run in Opera, then it wouldn't run in chrome, so I finally downloaded it. Now that it ran, I figured out how to plant, water, and harvest, but I couldn't figure out what any of that did. There was what looked like a progress bar at the bottom? But nothing filled it. Also, I couldn't exist the game, so I had to alt-f4. Not really on theme, since it seemed during a storm, not before it. But at least it had a storm. <3 Graphics worked, although pumpkins seemed to be green. Thanks for submitting!
I'm sorry you had many troubles trying to play the game. I'm not sure what caused it, so I can't be of help unfortunately. The progress bar is how much harvest did you gift to the statue by interacting with it, on top-right of your farm. I wasn't able to implement proper UI on time as well...
The rain is constant in the game, storm is represented by the lightning strikes that occur every 25-45 seconds. You have to hide from them in your tent and continue working while they aren't present.
Thank you for giving it a shot even though you had many problems!
P.S: I also seem to switch the pumpkin and watermelon seeds by accident haha, sorry about that.
Really cool game design and I really enjoyed the general theme. I was a bit confused at first on how to play it because I didn't realize the crops grew so fast and I was just waiting for them to grow but once I picked up it was fun! The potato crop looked like seeds when it grew so it confused me a bit but overall fun game with a cute aesthetic!
Hey! I didn't want this game to be slow paced, so that's why there's an "enchanted farm" haha. And the first harvest prototype had one, really large potato, and I scratched that idea in the last version :D. Thank you so much for your feedback!
Assets fit well together, the sound was good. I like the title :)
Thank you so much!
I know you didn't make the assets but I like how well they fit together, you did a nice job picking them. The game itself has good polish and interesting gameplay, good job!
Thank you for your kind words!
I like the art style, very nice! First I died really quickly, then I somehow started surviving, I dont know if it was because I ran super quickly and gave things to the statue, or if it was that I was not holding water, or if theres another explanation. I liked that the entire map was just water, but I still had to water the plants :D.
I thought I would only play for a minute, but farming is addicting and I kept going until the bar was full, when nothing happened I was a bit disappointed though!
Hello and normally it should not be possible to outrun the lightning, haha! I was trying to add an easter egg at the last hour and must've messed up one of the core scripts, that's why you (and a few other players) experience that bug. Sorry in advance and thanks for your detailed feedback. You rock!