This game was a lot of fun to play!  The art is well done and the sounds really fit the haunting atmosphere.  The farming mechanic feels balanced with the shooting, neither feels like it's the "main" aspect of the game.

The moving and shooting were very fluid and I loved the shotgun's kickback -- not enough games highlight how powerful those things are!  The hook mechanic was a little hit-or-miss for me though.  Only being able to hook onto objects made it very limiting, and when I could utilize it, it did it didn't seem to get me anywhere *that* much faster.  A "sprint" feature would have worked better, but then I guess you wouldn't have the "chain" thing.

One other minor issue I had was that there didn't seem to be any real reason to protect more than one patch.  Just hanging around one corner (or even one side) made the game much easier with no real penalty.

Despite these minor gripes, this was one of the games I spent the most time with and it was a blast to play.  Well done!

The way those aliens speed up when you approach is scary! I scrambled to shoot the first one :D The growing part seems underused right now, crops could give some kind of bonus, heal or something. Did you have other ideas you didn't have time to implement?  As others wrote, using the hook is limited by the view. Once you know the map you can roughly aim in the right direction, but it is dangerous when aliens are around! Nice entry overall, it feels like a complete package.

Overall : The idea is great, I love the kind of silly vibe: farming, aliens, and a grappling hook, just had a sort of tongue in cheek feel that it didn't take itself too seriously which made it just feel more relaxed and fun. The grappling hook is smoooth, very nice. The gun could use some additional fx/work but it pushing you back is a great detail, makes it feel stronk. Also the minimap is essential for this kind of game where you are defending a large area with multiple points of interest, if you didn't have that it would be frustrating. Getting that feature in was super important so great work with that.

The aliens lunging at you when you get close is cool, they remained kinda scary even after I knew how to time my shots. I think with the way the shotgun behaves it makes it sort of a timing game if you kill one without getting hit, which is good. I'm pretty sure the only reason it can be annoying is the camera - when the player is walking in a direction, the camera smooth makes it so you know less about what you're walking into than what's behind you. I think Natedog's idea about using the mouse to look around might be worth trying out. On the subject of aliens, some green blood could make them funner to shoot, or if you wanted to keep it cutesy you could give them a little jitter and knockback when shot, before they die.

The main issue though is there isn't really anything to work towards, which is probably due to jam time constraints of course. But I'm gonna make some suggestions anyway because this game gives me ideas lol

You should probably require crops to progress in the game/survive, in some fashion or another since they aren't useful now. My personal idea is that the game could be divided into months, each month is like a "round" in the game. The round of gameplay has a time limit, and each month you eat X amount of food. When winter rolls around, maybe you can't grow crops for 3 rounds and this is sort of the big scary thing you need to hoard extra crops for. I think this would be great coupled with the ability to trade/sell food for upgrades. This would require the player to gamble on themselves. "Can I really afford to upgrade my grappling hook? It will make getting around easier but I'll have less of a safety net for the next winter".  So Spring would feel kinda safe and lighthearted, la dee da I survived the winter and I have 9 months till next winter, I can buy cool shit at the store I ain't scared" and then fall rolls around and you're like "ohmygod I need more food I'm gonna die this winter why did I buy that cool hat"

There are a million ways you could do it though, that was just my armchair game design thoughts. This game was funny and unique, I gave 3 or 4 stars in my rating. Great work!

Very fun game I really liked the feel while playing it. The only things I can suggest are to have the mouse influence the camera position, I feel that it would give it a smoother feel as well as allow you to see the aliens easier and maybe change up how the alien behaves. Just little things i'm picking at, overall a very well made game!

Hey, Nice little game you got there. I'm going to explain my vote and what I think you guys could make to make it better.

Theme: 5. The game goes nice with the themes. ( You guys used the 3 themes as well).

Fun: 4. I give a four because I really liked the gameplay loop and I'm really into these type of arcade games, but I could be better of course. One of the main things is that there's no use for the crops except from the score, you could just run around killing the aliens if you don't care about that. I think maybe the crops could be the ones to give the bullets or regen the life (just a suggestion). What I realized is that after a few plays I did'nt few soo compeled to play it again, but the first times was just fine.

Controls: 4. They serve the purpose, I like the hook and the shotgun, but overall nothing super fancy.

Graphics: 3. They serve the purpose, but they could soo be much better. One of the main things is actually understanding the most important things and giving it contrast. The farm floor was the same bright as the character and the crops, you guys should try to push the visuals of what matters to the player; make the aliens bigger and the background not as distracting.

Audio: 3. Good. but I'm not that good on audio stuff to give proper feedback on this.

Originality: 4. A good game, that fits the theme propperly, you made a good job with what you got, and is actually original in it's simplicity.

Overall is a good game, I think with a little more work on could be a fun replayable game.

Nice game you have here! That hook is so smooth! Looking forward to have more upgrades to this.!

Fun, but difficult little game.
I really liked the minimap. How did you implement that?
The art was a bit blurry for me. How did you import it? With or without filter?
The credits did not work for me and was just displaying a black screen.