Oh Crop!

Inspiration

Stardew valley and the mausoleums from Cuphead

What it does

It's a video game!

Instructions

To plant, drag the seed icon at the top-right of the screen to an available land plot. Each seed has a different growth rate, buy price, and sell price, so make sure to watch the bank in the top-left! Once planted, seeds must be watered regularly with the raindrop. Drag the raindrop over dry plants to water them. But beware! While planting or watering, the player is unable to stop the crows which are trying to steal their precious harvest in the Barn! If a crow reaches the central barn, it's game over! Thankfully, your mouse comes equipped with a shotgun, so clicking on a crow stops it!

How we built it

We used the website Piskel to create custom designed pixel art, and VS Code Studio and Unity.

Challenges we ran into

Since this was our first time creating a game with Unity, we quickly discovered the steep learning curve. Specific challenges we ran into were designing and implementing UI, movement of the crow enemies, and collaborating with each other using Git and GitHub. However, through a lot of YouTube videos and enough documentation for a lifetime, were fortunately overcame all of our challenges.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is our first Unity project, and although we both have some experience with Java, we had almost no experience with C#, and we are very proud of overcoming that barrier. Also, the avocado sprite looks pretty darn nice.

What we learned

We've learned a lot about the design of a game from a multitude of perspectives. Additionally, we've had to learn quite a bit how to use Unity and other software like GitHub which we were unfamiliar with.

What's next for Oh Crop!

Additional mechanics: Defensive Towers, More plant types, New Enemies, New Maps, New Enemy Movement Patterns, More Sound Effects, Better Menus, A Settings Menu, And so much more!

Art created by Jonas Beckham

Music and Sound Effects created by

GeoffHarvey,
Ploko1234, Coins_Single_30.wav by LittleRobotSoundFactory -- https://freesound.org/s/276200/ -- License: Attribution 4.0,
water drop 1.aif by beskhu -- https://freesound.org/s/273870/ -- License: Creative Commons 0,
SeedB4.wav by menegass -- https://freesound.org/s/99719/ -- License: Creative Commons 0