Harvest Standoff

Harvest Standoff is a kid-friendly, round-based, five-against-five team game on a farm. The Herd (Clucky the chicken, Hamlet the pig, Daisy the cow, Woolly the sheep and Billy the goat) face the Hands (Farmer Joe, Rosie, Hank, Pip and Mabel). Nobody gets hurt: you splat each other with water, eggs, tomatoes and peas, and the big objective is a Stink-Pumpkin that goes "pee-yew" if nobody corks it in time.

You play one side with four computer teammates against five computer opponents, on Easy, Medium or Hard.

Two modes, two maps

• Stink-Pumpkin: the Herd sneak the pumpkin to site A or B and plant it; the Hands guard both sites and cork it if it gets planted.
• Last Team Standing: no pumpkin. Splat the whole other team. With 30 seconds left, everyone still standing shows on the map.
• Sunnyside Farm and Applewood Mill, which has a creek that's slow to wade through.

Every round starts with a short shopping window. Win rounds and splat opponents to earn corn coins, then spend them on better launchers, padded overalls, a cork kit and throwables. Teams swap jobs at half-time, and the first to 6 rounds wins.

How it was made

All ten characters were sculpted in Blender by script, with no manual modelling, then rigged automatically with six bones each. Surface textures, menu art, voice lines, music and sound effects were generated, and a set of headless-browser tests plays whole rounds to check that bots behave and that both ends of each map are fair. The public page loads nothing from third-party servers.

Credits

Made by andreteow.

The round

1. Freeze time (8 seconds): you can't move yet. Press B to open the shop and buy with the number keys.
2. Live (100 seconds). In Stink-Pumpkin mode:
   • The Herd carry the pumpkin to A or B and hold E for 3 seconds to plant it. Then it has a 40-second fuse.
   • The Hands win by corking it (hold E for 8 seconds, or 4 with a Cork Kit), by splatting every animal, or by running out the clock before it's planted.
3. A splatted player is out until the next round.

Teams swap jobs after 5 rounds. First to 6 round wins takes the match.

Corn coins

	Coins
Starting money	800
Win a round	3,000
Lose a round	1,400, rising by 500 for each loss in a row (up to 2,900)
Splat an opponent	300
Plant or cork the pumpkin	300

You can bank up to 16,000.

The shop

Item	Price	Notes
Egg Popper	1,200	Automatic and fast. Great up close.
Tomato Tosser	2,700	Strong all-rounder. Stand still to aim.
Pea Shooter	4,200	One big long-range shot. Right-click or Z to zoom.
Padded Overalls	650	Soak up half of every splat until they wear out
Cork Kit	400	Cork twice as fast (defenders only)
Flour Bomb	300	A white cloud nobody can see through (key 3)
Rooster Crow	200	Dazzles anyone looking at it for about 3 seconds (key 4)
Mud Balloon	300	A sticky puddle that slows everyone in it (key 5)

Everyone always has the free Water Squirter (key 2).

Tips

• Aim for the head: head splats count about double.
• Stand still to aim. Every launcher sprays wider while you move, and much wider in the air.
• Hold Shift to walk. You're slower, but your footsteps are silent.
• Save in a bad round. Losses pay more each time in a row, so you can skip buying and come back with a full kit next round.
• Hands: always buy the Cork Kit when defending. Halving the cork time wins rounds.
• In Last Team Standing, a late Flour Bomb hides you, but at 30 seconds left the map shows everyone anyway.

Controls

Key	Action
W A S D	Move
Mouse or arrow keys	Look
Left mouse or F	Squirt / throw
Right mouse or Z	Zoom (Pea Shooter)
R	Reload
Space	Jump
Shift (hold)	Walk quietly
C	Crouch
E (hold)	Plant / cork / pick up the pumpkin
1 / 2 / Q	Main launcher / Squirter / last used
3 / 4 / 5	Flour / Rooster / Mud
B	Shop (during freeze time)
V	First-person or over-the-shoulder view
Esc	Pause