Hungry Rabbits

Hungry Rabbits is a game Karin and I made for Ludum Dare 41 in 2018 (more about Ludum Dare in the Intersection article). The theme this time was Combine 2 Incompatible Genres. We thought a card game + farming simulator would be a fun thing to try:

Grow as many plants as you can, while fending off hungry rabbits, draught, and unwanted insects. Each crop is worth a different amount of golden coins, all very accurately resembling the price in your local grocery store. If you ever wanted to test your farming skills through a card game, here’s your chance!

The game is played by drawing cards from either the "seeds" or the "tools" pile. The seeds you plant on one of the 4 plots, and then they grow a bit every turn. Different plants need a different amount of turns to get to a point when you can harvest them. To harvest plants, you need a "basket" card. This means you have to balance between picking from the "tools" or the "seeds" pile. Each turn there is also a chance that your plot gets attacked by hungry rabbits, drought or bugs. To prevent the plant from getting eaten, you need an appropriate tool card to play - fence, watering can or ladybugs.

It was great fun working on the game together. Karin made the graphics for the cards in watercolors, and I focused on the programming. In terms of scores, we ended up in 520th place overall, out of 2017 entries. We did get some nice comments from players though!