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[polycube]

Harvestcraft is a farming game inspired by Minecraft and Harvest Moon. I find Minecraft to lack purpose and Harvest Moon games to lack creative expression, so I've decided to try combining these two game types.








platforms: I'm using XNA, so Windows pc and possibly XBLIG
release date: sometime in 2013
pricing: to be decided
team: just me for now (programming, art and game design)


Milestone 1 - Core Features [◆◆◆◆◈◈◈◈◈◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇]

◆ tile engine - basic things like rendering, physics, player character
◆ water simulation - used to irrigate crops and power waterwheel
◆ lighting
◆ terrain tiles/resources

• topsoil
• grass
• subsoil
• cobble
• stone
• gravel
• sand
• clay
• coal seam
• iron ore
• gold ore

◈ inventory and storage - can carry, drop, and store items in piles or containers

• dirt pile
• sand pile
• gravel pile
• clay pile
• stone pile
• log pile
• basket
• barrel
• bookshelf
• sack
• chest

◈ tools

• pick - mine stone, coal, gold
• shovel - dig dirt, sand, gravel, clay
• axe - chop trees
• hoe - till soil
• scythe - harvest wheat, grass
• hammer - break walls, roofs, doors
• watering can
• sword

◈ buildable tiles

• wood wall
• wood floor
• wood roof
• wood door
• wood platform
• wood foundation
• stone chimney

• ...

◈ furniture tiles

• bed
• table
• ladder
• flower pot

◈ crops and plants

• wheat
• potato
• apple tree
• coniferous tree
• deciduous tree
• reed

• ...

◇ animals

• cow
• chicken
• sheep

• ...

◇ tech

• windmill - generates power
• water wheel - generates power
• gearbox - transfers power
• millstone - used to grind wheat into flour
• bellows - required for smelting
• smelter - used to smelt metals and glass
• oven - used for baking and firing clay
• hearth - used for cooking and forging
• water well
• hoist

◇ cooking recipes

• bread
• baked potato

• ...

◇ shop
◇ stamina and time
◇ procedural terrain generation
◇ smoke simulation
◇ character animations

• walk cycle
• use tool
• swim
• jump

[poe]

Are those in-game screens? This looks awesome!

[Joshua]

Cool visuals. I'm also curios if those are mockups or actual screenshot.

Fluid sim + water wheel. 

[gimymblert]

best game ever

[geepit]

This sounds + looks awesome! 

[Kurt]

Yes.

[DrunkDevs]

Interesting.

[sublinimal]

The world needs more games like these. Good luck and keep us updated.

[gejben]

Sounds like a great combination. Looking forward to seeing more of this

[SuperDisk]

Sounds like a great combination. Looking forward to seeing more of this

I agree.

And despite the fact that the ground is just a solid color, the game looks very pretty to me. 

[jmcmorris]

This looks great! I like the simplicity in the graphics. I'd be interested in hearing more about the design behind the game such as are you going to put a focus on farming? It looks like you plan to do some mining as well.

[moi]

nice, coherent graphics and perfect scope, you win

[SolarLune]

Cool idea and graphics. I liked the events and plot of Harvest Moon. Hopefully MineCraft's mechanics will give you something to do in-between the story / stuff happening.

[christonian]

this looks amazing if this is playable and are willing to show the world I would love to do a indieshowcase of this

if not then I will be willing to wait and will be waiting for future progress of this game

[Mef]

Instantly liked the idea. Tell us more about it!
 

[Ouren]

Yes please.

[Ashkin]

Hello there

[cucumbur]

Looks/sounds adorable. (even if you did blaspheme Harvest Moon)

[melos]

digging the idea - good luck!

[ndke]

Interesting idea, I'm looking forward to this game