It's always better to bounce ideas off each other, let's all share our progress on different things we've done for the jam!
I got my theme ready, and now I’m working on the visual assets. Gonna have pixel art and then 2D art for simple dialogue. To start, my farming game takes place at a vineyard, so you grow grapes for wine (that’s the main crop and the main export), if possible the game demo will last one week ingame time. The twist? Can’t reveal it yet, but there’s more than one way to age grapes into wine.
https://discord.gg/8nPgdPjuKf :) I will update it on the main page too!
Fantasy fantasy. I have an idea of using a fantasy dungeon instead of a farm. You'll still gather/farm/fish and craft, but instead of making your farm and town bigger (imagine stardew valley), you'll make your own fantasy dungeon. Imagine having slimes instead of chickens, or a golem instead of a horse, or instead of villagers you have skeletons/orcs/other creatures, and by crafting and selling the produce you make, you can make your dungeon bigger. All in a fun and comedy way. (Hope that by changing the setting am still within the rules)
Im trying decide if I have enough time. I might look for a partner. I started some tiles to see if it would work, and I think it would. My theme is horror. Like some gross farming stuff inspired by little shop of horrors. Im thinking of calling it "Feed the Harvest". I dont wanna give away too much because it might spoil the fun but im thinking cute by day with creepy feelings occasionally, and gross by night with sacrifice and junk. Using green tone colors during the day and blue tones at night. Then maybe red tones on the last night.
I usually dont finish jams I enter because of time but I also usually only enter really short jams. Usually my eyes are bigger than my stomach when it comes to jams.
i started yesterday copy pasted lot of my own stuff, now i have something vaguely tangentially related to farming (farms have plants that need bees sometimes right?) http://matland.be/farmgame2/
... and it is now somewhat finished and submitted! also i made a gitlab page for it https://gitlab.com/netman69/pollin8r