Art is good. I liked it a lot.
A bit confusing in the beginning but I got the hang of it.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #13 | 3.813 | 3.813 |
| Audio | #18 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
| Originality | #34 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Overall | #37 | 3.027 | 3.027 |
| Accessibility | #41 | 2.688 | 2.688 |
| Fun | #45 | 2.563 | 2.563 |
| Controls | #47 | 2.625 | 2.625 |
| Theme | #48 | 2.813 | 2.813 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
v3.3.3.stable.official [b973f997f]
Wildcards Used
None
Game Description
Protect your crops against invading giant plants!
Source
No
Discord Username
TheKiwy#4656
Participation Level (GWJ only)
First
Participation Level across all Jams
First
Comments
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks!
I wondered whether I should include an indicator for the range. I thought about making an animation to show it but I couldn't decide on what to make it look like and ran out of time. I'm taking notes :D
Probably the game in this jam that kept me playing the longest so far! The start felt a little rough and from then on the difficulty itself kind of stays at the same level, maybe the vines could be slower in the beginning to help the player adjust to long cooldown of the scissors. Also you can cut down decimal points of an Integer using the built-in stepify function. What might have helped avoid a lot of the confusion for people would have been sound effects for when you use the watering can/hoe and when you're channeling something.
2 years ago(+1)
Thank you for the kind comment!
The difficulty was indeed adjusted last minute, we'll focus on this part of the experience earlier on in future games.
I'm surprised by the decimal point problem, I actually used the stepify function and never met any problem playtesting... I'll keep that in mind anyway.
I actually thought about the sound effects but didn't manage to add them in time... Maybe another thing to focus on earlier on!
Personally I like to think of sfx as invisible tutorials :) that signifies their importance better imo.
Now that you mention it... my game uses a percentage counter and I had trouble making stepify work until i put 00.01 as the last argument instead of 0.01 like in the docs.
Definitely get back to me if you do give that a try, sometimes it's nice knowing I'm not going crazy haha
Thank you for the praise and criticism!
I personally don't think hoeing the whole map at the start is a problem, you don't have enough seeds to plant everything anyway and it's heavily discouraged by the long cooldown.
Overall the hoe isn't extremely useful in this game anyway, it can be used to create fun patterns and may be necessary in the end-game to plant more high-value seeds but that's about it.
I agree with the rest of the criticism though, the wall of text is something I hate too but didn't really find another last minute solution unfortunately. The hoe thing is also something I'll keep in mind.
I wondered if the money system could even be assimilated to health, so I didn't consider it as a Wild Card in my submission. Happy to hear you interpreted it this way!
I'm using the keyboard and mouse, but I mostly use right-clicking for collecting crops as I found the left shift button not convenient to use. And I always pressing arrow keys to navigate through inventory as I afraid mouse wheel will be too quick to select items. Otherwise, I think there is no more issue with the controls.
2 years ago (+1)
Thanks for the answer!
Switching between mouse and arrows indeed doesn't sound convenient.
I 'll keep the control problems in mind in the future.
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