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A jam submission

Farming oddyseyView game page

Grow crops following nature's laws.
Submitted by Darius — 14 minutes, 47 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#13.5003.500
Graphics#24.0634.063
Overall#33.1123.112
Most likely to make an impact#92.5002.500
Best use of the theme#102.8132.813
Audio#122.6882.688

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

It took me a bit to figure out how it worked, but once I did I thought it was quite fun. It would make a nice mobile game - I like how the deck dealing mechanic opens up the door for a bunch of variety, excellent design there. The graphics are so beautiful and the UI is awesome! 

Here are the notes I took while playing:

adorable art style and nice button style. Font could be a bit nicer, maybe shadow added to buttons. Logo is awesome but could use some thin outlines to help make the individual elements pop, especially the letters and the bird against the black background

starting story section. cute music, wonderful art! I love the skew and pencil, great way to learn in to the jam's limited time and enhance a sketchy style for speed of production! scrolling text sound quickly gets grating, text is a little hard on the eyes while scrolling. ui looks very clean and crisp.

skipping to a new page mid sentence makes it hard to follow the story

is there a page missing from the story? It ended at "at his house," but then went to stage select

back button took me to main menu, was thinking it would take me to story. S to skip avoids the printout, on first play through I thought it meant skip that page of story

i like the audio feedback on button clicks, sound is fun and fits thematically in the game, few errors - playing on mouseover, playing twice when previous/next spawns after clicking next in tutorial 

tutorial is nice!

ooh choose a deck? Intriguing... what did it do?

this game board is awesome, great art and layout

oops i think i skipped a day. Slick animation on that!

skipped all days, got to loss, back to stage select

how do I get more tills? I noticed plants grew randomly when I just skipped turns. Do I need to plant everywhere?

i planted a carrot and it said -5, -5 what?

puzzle piece isn't doing anything when clicked, i assume this is compatability menu

oh no, crows ate food! Nice animation on them, they ate it so fast though!

used the rain. Ohhhh i get it now, it's a deck of cards, like a board game. Oops guess i used my weather card

inconsistent having to click the plough but drag the seeds

counter for days it at 3, watering can says 15 uses but could only water one plot, clicking on others doesn't do anything. are they done growing? Do i need to harvest?

i planted everything day 1, not sure what I should be doing

i lost, ran out of turns?

oh i figured out the compatability menu, it's a drag, that's confusing. Wish it could be toggled open

cut card doesn't seem to work, unless it does something other than the plough button.

i like the alert sound when crows appear

music repetitive

ohhh use the plough to harvest, that's why they can't be watered

more seeds could be another possible reward for harvesting, I got free turns

i won, +1 star!

stage 2!

how many points are plants worth? Like if i get -5 points for planting incompatible is it better not to plant?

doesn't look like there is a stage 3

Developer

Thanks for the feedback Loressa. You can drag everything in the game (seeds,actions and the compatibility menu). I didn’t really have time left to add depth to the tutorial and teach the little things in it. I guess that’s the downside, because I didn’t teach everything and let the player guess, it made it difficult for some players to figure out what to do and stopped playing because of that.

Thanks for the honest feedback once again :)

Submitted(+1)
  • graphics are nice and I like how you incorporated the book and all, it could have a deeper meaning to the game tho
  • music is repetitive a bit
  • no season theme nor organic/regenerative/indigenous practice :(
  • lost because didnt have more seeds to plant?
Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for the feedback! The goal of the game is to gain the maximum score while making the best use of your seeds. For example planting compatible crops next to eachother gives u a higher score than incompatible crops. Some levels also have some agroforestry involved in them which also increases your score.

I made just 3 seasons: spring, summer, autumn. I didn’t add winter because I didn’t know any crops that can grow in winter (atleast in Europe). And i get your point, the seasons don’t really do anthing besides changing the visuals.

Music is repetitive because of the timeframe I had.

And lastly the book is strictly there because I wanted to make the design of the game an illustrated page in a book.

Again, thanks for the feedback and for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Love the board game feel of this! Excellent design and pretty incredible art assets too. How did you do this in 5 days??

Developer(+1)

Thanks! heh, I worked every day for 12 hours.

Submitted(+1)

This is quite cool, i like that you have a bunch of little mechanics.

I hate that you have both drag and drop and click&click mechanics in the same interface

You also did a nice little story and a great little tutorial without mentioning how to harvest crops (and no really clear indicator it's harvest time.

Otherwise this is pretty great for the theme and 5 days.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback! I was a little too ambitious with some mechanics and had to cut some things out. Because of that I had no time left to create things such as indicators or add more depth to the tutorial.

Submitted(+1)

really nice music and artstyle. and what a treat to see the crow.

Submitted(+1)

Really well designed game and great presentation. Super impressed for a solo effort!

Submitted(+1)

Its really fun even when I see crow, which means it mentioned the consequences of a farmer,  might make a good impact :)

Submitted(+1)

This game is cute af, I want a crow plush haha. Love the deck mechanic too : )

Submitted(+1)

The graphics were super cute.

Submitted(+1)

Nice concept, I loved the art and the music was comfortable. I really liked it! :D

Submitted(+1)

Nice! Real well designed game and I like the presentation. :)