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HomeGameCoder1 year ago(+1)

Super interesting and with a lot of potential. If you allow some suggestions

  • Player can harvest at any time but price is dependent on size.
  • After max size, fruit holds a bit and starts to go bad (also affects price). 
  • After starting to go bad, frui can fall to the ground at any time.
  • Fruit picked from ground have lower price.
  • One click per piece (no group harvest)
  • Faster game (1 minute) Could be player A and B (one after the other) to compete locally

But I had a great time playing it... only when I saw the leader board I went frustrated! How is that first place even possible?

The style is also very interesting. My 5yo daughter loved the game! BTW, it also works great in a touch screen!

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Fluburbio1 year ago(+1)

Hey, thanks a lot for your kind words and cool suggestions! I'm so glad to read that you and your daughter liked it so much :D It's very nice to get the confirmation that the game works great with a touchscreen, too. 

About the leaderboard, I've recently nerfed the bananas a lot, since they sold for way too much and their upgrades costs were comparatively trivial. The scores could easily go up to a million if you had at least 30 seconds to spam bananas at the end. After doing that, I should have erased to scores that predated this update, but I forgot 😅 This is fixed, and you got promoted to second place. Congratulations! Thanks for pointing that out, those score were no longer possible and the game looked unbalanced and discouraging.

I like your suggestions a lot, especially the local competition mode! The prices would need to be rebalanced, but I'll start to work on that. 

One of the very early builds had one click per fruit, but it was tedious and tiring in practice, with so many clicks my hand would hurt after a single session :)

Fruits going bad and fruits prematurely collected are interesting ideas, but I'm not sure if a variable price would work well 🤔 Also, it's very subjective but having fruits go bad would mean that they would stop smiling, and that would hurt the happy-go-lucky feeling I'm trying to convey. I like the falling fruits idea though! 

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HomeGameCoder1 year ago(+1)

Yep. I understand the going bad situation vs game mood. At least, falling to the ground could add some kind of distraction. The price changing during the fruit grow is to make the "fast" player suffer a little... he needs to wait, not because it is not allowed to click but because it gives him less score! nailing the right time is the key to the master player! About the "one click": it makes a lot of sense in a touch screen. You can easily try it. The web version in Itch works fine in the web browser of your smartphone! Glad you like the ideas! Keep up the good work! Cheers!

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Fluburbio1 year ago

You bring some very good points, thanks! Adding varying prices would necessitate some changes in the code, but I like the idea, I've put it on my backlog. "One fruit at a time" could be configurable in a settings menu, along with a volume slider 🤔

I've updated the game on itch with a new local competition mode as per you suggestion.  The implementation is still a bit rough around the edges, but I'm satisfied with the balance and with what it brings to the game. I'd love to get your feedback on that if you can spare the time! 🙂

The next update will be a speedrun mode and varying prices, and that where I'll stop I think. Thanks for sharing your great ideas!

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THE LAST SECRET1 year ago(+1)

Actually, I like the multiple fruit harvesting: it adds the task of finding the sweet spot to harvest most fruits with one click and thus makes it more interesting!

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Fluburbio1 year ago(+1)

Finding that sweet spot is a joy to me too when playing on PC, it's nice to read that from someone else! For a dedicated mobile build though, while I'll keep multiple fruit harvesting I'll probably reduce that hitbox a bit because tapping quickly is faster and more fun than pointing and clicking with a mouse (or worse, a trackpad).

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