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A jam submission

Spinach to WinView game page

Submitted by I'm_Mail, ThinkMicrobe785, sadiecreature — 8 hours, 43 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#7573.4583.458
Audio#8033.2923.292
Seriousness#9483.5003.500
Overall#9873.3753.375
Creativity & Theme#12423.4173.417
Visuals#14013.2083.208

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Game Engine

Godot

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I love incremental games so this was right up my alley. Very unique interpretation of the theme to the point where after playing I thought, what did this have to do with spinning?? lol. Background music and sound effects created a nice atmosphere and I liked how you could unlock seeds both through the quest system and by merging them. As with most incremental games, the economy balancing went out the window after you setup a full farm but I don't think that detracted from the core aspect of the game which was collecting the seeds. There were a few mostly UI related bugs which did make interacting with the game frustrating at times. For example, I couldn't find out how you cannot take items out of the merge area and my selected item on the hotbar would sometimes get deselected after using it once. I think the merge mechanic could also use a bit of polish as it was starting to get difficult to manage the hotbar with so many types of spinach. 

Submitted(+2)

Awesome game- really cool mechanic with mixing seeds to find new recipes instead of just plain linear progression- Well done!

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Must. Discover. Spinach.

Super chill time with this one, just tending my little gardens and doing plant breeding. Only some minor gripes, not being able to quickly see my item counts in the hotbar and having to keep re-adding the plants to the crafting boxes if I wanted multiple seeds.

Everything else worked well, visuals and audio were both fitting and mostly clear (a couple plants were a little tricky to tell apart at a glance). Great job!

Submitted(+2)

Creative play on words for the theme! I would recommend upping the contrast between your UI text and background color, and perhaps changing your typeface. White text on pale yellow/beige boxes can be extremely difficult to focus on, making it hard to see. 

Submitted(+2)

I loved it, its little but completing the dex makes it addicting. I would add an option to mute/reduce the volume of the music.

Submitted(+1)

This is fun!

Submitted(+2)

Oddly addicting! Definitely out of the box with the theme haha. My main critique is the hotbar was a bit annoying to work with. A scroll functionality wouldve done wonders

Submitted(+1)

Kinda cheeky with the theme, but it's a cool idea for an incremental. I think having quests with 100 spinach is a bit too grindy for a jam game, but I enjoyed discovering new spinaches and the shop evolved at a nice rate. My main gripe was with the hotbar, it seemed to change which item was in my hand all the time, which was quite frustrating.

Metagame cog 20/125

Submitted(+1)

Nice game. I think there needs to be a little more player feedback in terms of when a quest can be handed in and when new unlocks are available. Impressive work for one week though. Congratz!

Developer

Yeah you're probably right on about the lack of feedback when you beat a quest but we hope you enjoyed the game despite that and thank you for your feedback on our quest of making this game better 👍

Submitted(+2)

I can see myself playing this for a few hours if it were a full game, ngl. What i found a little tedious was the singular crafting. IF you could drag a certain amount into crafting to make many seeds at once it would feel nicer. The music is smooth, I like the baseline a lot, some sound options to lower it would be nice as the site loads it reletivly loud for background music. Some Key binds for slots could already help with crafting.. pressing 1 selects the First slot, etc.. Overall a really nice game. I enjoyed it ! ( also impressed by the inventory.. i tried it and it was complicated af ) 

Developer

Thank you so much for this feedback, if the game ends up being expanded in the future we will definitely take your suggestions into account and you can thank I'm_Mail for the inventory, even as one of the other devs myself the inventory system still impresses me.

Submitted (4 edits) (+2)

Great little incremental farming game, enjoyed playing it on the train, make the time speed by.  Also, I liked the fun little flavour text in the quests.

I have some suggested UX improvements that would really polish the experience of playing: 

- Keeping combined items in the combining slots e.g. I want to compile 10 ice spinach and 10 normal spinach, I have to keep putting them in the slots, if I have some left in my inventory if would be nice if the another would populate the slot automatically, so I didn't need to keep adding them.

- If I have seeds selected on my hotbar and plant one sometimes it would be deselected after planting one, and sometimes it would stay selected so I could plant many without clicking on the hotbar, 

- Being able to see a tooltip with the names on hovering on a type of spinach or seed would be nice, as I started to forget the combinations I'd already found when trying to unlock crystal spinach. 

- When picking up spinach from my farm, every other spinach I picked up, the spinach is added and then removed from my hotbar, that doesn't seem intended? 

Developer(+1)

We fixed that final bug while you were playing but thank you for telling us about your other advice we will continue to patch bugs and do small improvements due to comments like yours

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

Very cool concept, two things i would improve is text font and contrast, old man me had a very hard time reading some of the text, the other part is how the hot bar and hand seem to change contents out of no action from me, but otherwise amazing work ♥

https://ibb.co/0yHKMC9K

Developer

Does that hotbar bug only happen when you are in menus or does it seem to be happening all the time?

(+1)

Love the pixel graphics! Encountered a bug: I entered inventory, clicked the "ALL" tab, and gained 999 of every item (stacks with multiple clicks). Additionally, clicking "FIRE" gives 1 fire seeds, clicking "AIR" gives 1 air seeds, etc. Hope you're able to figure it out!

Developer (3 edits) (+1)

Thank you so much for pointing that out, those were for debugging but we accidentally left them in 😓. We are fixing this as soon as possible. Your feedback has been incredibly helpful. 

Developer(+1)

Yeah, the problem is all fixed now. Glad we caught that early!