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A jam submission

Labor of LumberView game page

A fun forest growing game.
Submitted by P1X3LM4N — 1 day, 12 hours before the deadline
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Labor of Lumber's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Level Design#52.8002.800
Lore#62.8002.800
Visuals & Audio#73.2003.200
Theme#83.2003.200
Farming#93.2003.200
Creativity#102.8002.800

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

I really like the art, I saw the art quite early on in development and I thought it looked good then. Althought it's a bit difficult to see the art at the resolution / screen size it is and the numbers can be quite difficult to read on the treas. After reading the itch page I understood a bit more about the objectives althought there's a few different values in the bottom right, which is a bit confusing on what I need to pay attention to / what's changing. The sound effects are also really nice althought occasionally the different pitch when I harvested wood made me think I'd harvested it at the wrong time (I'm not sure if that's the case or not).

Developer

Thank you I used free assets from kenney they are free for everyone to use if you like them you can find them here :) https://kenney.nl/

Submitted

WAY too grindy without introducing any new mechanics. The idea is pretty sound but it's just too much of a click-fest without much in the way of giving the player a feeling of satisfaction. I think with a little rework this could be a lot of fun though. Good job on getting something submitted for the jam!

Developer

Thank you! I agree I can work on the amount of experience and money needed as well as introducing new plants and things to break up the clicking. I also want to have a way of planting more than one tree at a time maybe that would help with the click-fest.

Submitted

I like the minimalistic style and how everything happens on one screen. Feels clean and focused.
I do wish I could play the game in fullscreen, though!

I tried to beat the game, but unfortunately, I wasn’t able to buy the fifth house.
After saving and reloading, all houses became available for purchase again.
When I clicked on one of them, I got this error:

ERROR in action number 1
of  Step Event0 for object Control_Obj:
Variable <unknown_object>.houses_rebuilt(100022, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_Control_Obj_Step_0
gml_Object_Control_Obj_Step_0 (line -1)