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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Authenticity (use of resolution) | #38 | 4.714 | 4.714 |
| Gameplay | #60 | 3.714 | 3.714 |
| Graphics | #102 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Overall | #111 | 3.804 | 3.804 |
| Audio | #193 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you work in a team?
Just me.
Was the resolution a challenge?
Text/UI is a pain at 64x64 :)
What did you learn?
First game built with PICO-8 that wasn't just following a tutorial!
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Lovely fun game, lots to discover and explore for a jam game. Really good use of Pico-8 for the cute graphics and sounds. Games like this often have ropey controls and poor UI, but this is super easy to play and get to grips with. It was cool talking to all the NPCs.
Thank you!
Love the surprising core mechanic of growing your tools, and the humor in all the narrative elements! The gameplay feels a bit flat even though it feels like it's doing what it should — I think some juice on the core interactions (movement, growth, harvesting) would really elevate what's already here. However, the game does already feel like a complete package. Great job!!
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely want to add at least some basic animations/effects to the interactions.
Cute little game, it was fun to solve the puzzles presented. My biggest gripe was with the UI, I felt like there was a bit too much unnecessary busy work (such as scrolling past seeds which I don't even have).
Thanks for the feedback! The UI is supposed to stay on the last selection you made, but there's a bug with the input that breaks this.
It was a bit grindy, but i loved the cuteness of the graphics and i loved your jokes. With some music it would be even better.
Thanks for the feedback!
Loved this. Great vibes, I enjoyed exploring around the map and doing the different tasks for the different NPCs. I think my main critiques would be 1) music would've added the game's charm, and 2) I'm not sure there was much strategy for the farming, it seems that corn has the best payout so I'm not sure why you'd plant any other crop. Overall really solid job, one of my favorites from this jam so far :)
Thank you! Yeah, corn is the MVP since all crops are worth twice the seed cost and they all grow in one night haha. Was going to add a couple more NPCs who wanted specific crops, so you'd have to grow all of them at least once.
Very nicely put and a very solid first blood on Pico-8. Short story, with some exploration, some plot and nice hints. GFX are detailed and work well for the game. A bit more of SFX / music would have added a good extra to the general experience. Good job with this entry, and welcome to PICO-8 fans club!
Thanks for the feedback! I'm still trying to learn my way around the PICO-8 SFX/music editor, so hopefully can add more in that department next time around. :)
Yay I fished up the boots!
I really like the progression of this game, it was fun to work through the different requirements and talk to all the people, visually the characters are quite cute as well, especially the farm animals and the froggy haha
It sounds like you ran out of time but if you continue to build on this after the jam I think there is a lot of room to make something cool, it would have been nice to have something to spend all the money I farmed up after getting the pick haha
Nice submission, good work!
Thanks for the feedback! There was going to be another progression step where more gold was needed, but time. :)
This was a pretty cool game! Simple gameplay loop, but pretty fun, nice job!
Thanks!