Veggie Combo
This game was made for the Minigame A Month April 2024 for theme Farming!
Gameplay:
Use your tools to manipulate the field, then harvest with as many points as you can.
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❎: X
🅾️: C or Y/Z
When harvesting you move along in a straight line if you have the same veggies in that direction and stop before stepping on a different one.
Harvesting a veggie gives 1 point +1 for each previous same vegetable.
Combo and movement stops on a new vegetable in the direction, or upon turning into a new direction!
Tools
- Shovel: Let's you swap two rows or columns with each other.
- Pitchfork: moves row/colum left-right-up-down
- Bomb: Upon stepping on, it harvests all neighbouring tiles (replaces one where you move so it doesn't break cool lines)
- Watering can: Replaces a 3x3 area with a crop randomly selected from that area (weighted by occourance)
Seeds:
After completing a stage (or on pressing Enter) you can view the seed of the current page. Note that number down and share it with a friend. In the Load Field menu you can enter the seed and race on who can achieve more points on the same map, with the same tools!
Development:
You can read the devlogs and watch the full development VODS if you are intersted in things like that!
Brought to you by:
My awesome supporters over at Ko-fi! They allow me to pursue this niche hobby of mine! If you'd like more, consider hopping over to my Ko-fi page, where I share pixel art, game devlogs, postmortems, code rundowns, all that gamedev jazz! And if you can maybe drop in a coffee so I can make the next one faster!
Thank you Csöndi and Nerdy Teachers for allowing me to keep up this hobby!
Development log
- Fixed no seed randomization.18 days ago
Comments
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I caught a stream of this game and I'm glad I checked out the full thing. It took me a while to get used to the controls but I liked all the strategy in all the different tools. Collecting a full line is really satisfying. Great job!
Ended up having lots of fun with this one, after some angering first minutes not understanding the controls. (M's and W's confused me a bit too)
If you were to take this further, I'd suggest using WASD and then E and Q for the actions rather than X and C.
(Favorite part is definitely the hover graphics when you have a row selected with a tool)
Hunted down my best high score.
231 is a really cool score, you got yourself a really nice seed there!
Mapping the keys to others is a tad tricky to do in PICO-8, possible, but would have to keep two builds, I think. Will have to look into that! Thanks for the feedback!
AMAZING game btw. Would love to see some more development on it!
Glad you like it! There are some plans for expanding, but those will have to wait for a bit!
Hey! Look! A good score!