Universal [BETA!] Blocky Farm - voxel-styled farm manager made with love <3

Thanks for letting the community beta test. After playing for a few minutes, noticed there is no save game. Is the game saved via Game center and/or Facebook? So far, gameplay is very clean and no issues with the ipad.

 

Just signed up! Can't wait to try it out!

 

Very impressed so far. I can't work out how to get more tools to chop trees and blow up rocks.

There are a few little grammar mistakes I've noticed but not sure if you want input on those.

Now sleep

After I've sown some more corn

 

Did I say I was going to sleep *cough*

I got carried away mooching around on the game. Initially I was a little disappointed the farming mechanic isn't more like harvest moon and stardew valley (farm then sleep to progress the game) but I love this kind of game regardless.

It reminds me very much of another similar game I'm playing at the moment called Farm on (it also has a thread on this forum). I can see farm on becoming the game I play on the go and at work and blocky farm being the game I play when I'm relaxing on my iPad. That isn't a bad thing, farm on is designed for one handed gameplay whereas I think Blocky Farms graphics would lose something played on a small screen. That said I'm still going to give it a go on my phone, heck, you can never have too much farming.

Grammer wise the main thing I've noticed is 'you are now farmer at level ....', should be either 'you are now a farmer of level...' or simply 'you are now level...'. There are more and I'll note them down. It's late and I should be asleep lol. I studied English at uni and my husband calls me 'a member of the grammar police'

I really like the graphic style, ocassionally when the game zooms in on the hens or cows and there is a tree in front of it the tree graphics glitch, I think the game is trying to work out what to render'

I love the fact there are various different things dotted around to discover and notices which say when they'll unlock and I felt excited when I saw the town!! (Sad, I know).

Nice touch with the chicken poo! Made me chuckle!!

 

First of all, thank you for getting back to me so fast about the beta. I am very impressed with the game. Everything runs smooth on my iPhone 6 Plus. I did encounter a little lag on one of the bombs exploding. One thing I noticed was that I was able to place the windmill on top of a tree. Not sure if that was a glitch or if others experienced that as well. Also, I had an idea of maybe making it so the player can rotate the buildings and animal pens. So far I really like this game and I think you guys are doing a great job! Thanks again!

 

So I've only had a few minutes to play during my break at work so far so good. I got stuck at the 90% bug but easily fixed by reloading, graphically the game does look good and very cute I especially like the little birds flying around and carrying chests and how they unveil new buildings by pulling away the cover.

Some of the movements I find counterintuitive having to drag instead of just tap but on others dragging makes more sense. Also placing items exactly where I want them is a little fiddly but if I zoom in I'm able to place things more precisely.

Other than that I found mistakes in the wording on pretty much every quest I've had not all but most I've screenshotted them and could email them with the correction if you'd like.

 

I hax Pokemon Go everyday, I hax Pokemon Go. (Seriously though I have no idea how I got this window but I tried some "innocent" commands... It appered right after I returned to the game after some time. )



I think it zooms way too much to the animals. There is no wood cutting sound when you give the order to remove a tree. Looks like eco mode does nothing, on/off it's still 60FPS if I'm not mistaken. Graphics look really good and cute as ste86uk said.

 

Does anyone know how to buy seeds? I ran out of beans

 

I have been looking forward to playing again whilst at work today ☺️

These are some corrections I've noted down as I've been playing :-

* Did you hear that the casino and cinema are now open
* Spin the fortune wheel
* Saw :- use to cut down trees
* The mine is coming soon

Gameplay wise, I've still not found any more saws or axes which is a bit frustrating as I like my farms to be just so (I don't have OCD, honest #)

I'm also finding that wherever I try to drop the sugar mill I get the error 'can't drop here' and the welcome pack offer pops up.

I've also seen the debug screen too.

 

Hey so up to level 9 so far not too far yet I know but some more feedback.

I agree about the zooming in too far when you click on animals but I have learnt to click on the pen instead to collect and feed them as it's much easier. (Also like the little poos in the pen lol)

Placing animals in pens isn't very easy with the fiddly placement I mentioned earlier and that we have to place them in a space in a small pen, also my game completely shut itself off when I placed my 4th chicken.

I think when there are no hearts to collect it is hard to know when the chickens are ready to collect from as nothing really indicates it very much you have to just click on them to find out.

Skipping orders on the board seems to cost the same amount of gems regardless of time left and it would be nice if on the game that you could skip any timer that's under 30 seconds for free.

So most importantly I don't feel like you give the player enough time at the start of the game playing to get them hooked, obviously I am because I've been here following the game. But the missions quickly turn into wait and see missions after maybe 5 minutes or so of playing so people have to log off and wait. I think new players trying the game out will need a bit more time to get them interested and make them want to keep coming back.

I've also not found any tools at all since starting, I can't even place the cow pen because I don't have enough room to do so. I just got my first gold chest from love but no tools still, I also filled a visitors happiness but nothing from that either. Really need to be able to get tools a bit more or to be given enough space at the start of the game to fit in the basic buildings at least. I have my sugar mill before cows just because I can fit it in.

My orders don't seem to refresh after I cancel them all unless I force close the app and reload it all up after the timer reaches 0.

Storage so far hasn't been an issue but I don't have much unlocked, I always hate storage management on these games it always seems to me as a method of making money more than anything else hoping people will buy upgrade items which I won't do. I will always suggest that devs add a iap for unlimited storage. I love hoarding and collecting items I find that a lot more fun that micromanaging my inventory. Although that would have to be at a tempting price point.

Edit: I am level 10 now and just noticed everything I had unlocked was showing as locked again I had to click to unlock on everything all over again.

Edit again: the order board certainly has something wrong I keep having to close the whole app down in multitasking to make my orders refresh nearly all the time. Maybe you could have a prompt to check for a refresh or something whenever it's clicked on? Also I keep having to decline nearly all of them I get so so many orders for things I can't even make yet because I don't have the space for the buildings.

 

I noticed that the text gets jumbled in the menu when you buy things for your pet. I took a screen shot. I also can't figure out where to find the chest after you choose your pet for the one quest. The hand points to the claim button but nothing happens when I tap it.

 

Still having the same issue after restarting it. Tapping the claim button isn't doing anything and I can't find a chest anywhere. Possible bug?