I scored my hand-drawn camp a 5.7 when I held it up against screenshots of a farm game that sold well. Then I switched the whole thing to toy-looking 3D and the score went down to 5.2, which is worse than where I started.

It took four rounds to get it to 6.8 and then 7.7. The biggest fix was a dumb one. Empty farm plots looked like holes dug in the ground, so I filled them with grass blades and tiny flowers

It's free in the browser if anyone wants to look. Do the empty plots still look like holes to you?

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[–] 1 point 2 days ago

Empty plots looking sad is such a common trap. I started putting a tiny "plant something" hint on bare tiles for the first day, then hide it once they plant once. Does the toy 3D camera make it harder to tell which plot you clicked?

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