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Dirty Fork: Unleash the Mayhem by SmilingCat

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made by SmilingCat for LD32 (COMPO)
Horrors! You have been given a dirty fork! There is only one appropriate way to respond to this insult: Food Fight! Try to chase all of the customers away before the restaurant staff stops you.

Best played with gamepad. Mappings were done with my old Thrustmaster controller, and it seems some remapping may be necessary for other controllers in the launcher window (Windows version).

Controls:

Movement is similar to Minecraft:
Walk & Strafe - WASD / Left Analog
Turn & pitch camera - Mouse / Right Analog / Arrow Keys

Actions:
Throw Food: Q / Button 0 / Button 8 (R2 on Thrustmaster). Hold to charge throw strength.
Jump: Space / Button 1
Crouch: Z / Button 2

Alt-F4 will quit the windows version, as I forgot to put a quit button.

Apologies to Chrome and Linux users: I did make an earnest attempt to compile this as a WebGL/HTML5 game, however, Unity is not up to the task with the current release. The resulting package looked terrible and ran at an unacceptable framerate. Hopefully by my next compo the whole Unity/Chrome cluster will be sorted.
Web http://www.kongregate.com/games/SmilingCat/dirty-fork-unleash-the-mayhem
Windows http://www.smilingcatentertainment.com/download/DirtyFork_1_0_0_3.zip
Source http://www.smilingcatentertainment.com/download/Dirty_Fork_Source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=21630

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.24 488
Audio 2.82 487
Fun 3.32 339
Graphics 2.96 608
Humor 3.71 108
Innovation 3.29 420
Mood 3.02 478
Theme 3.80 201

Feedback

Recursiveanomaly
20. Apr 2015 · 05:06 UTC
The controls are a bit strange to work. But the game itself is pretty fun. I really enjoyed getting to throw food at people. Thanks for the game!
cmayhem
20. Apr 2015 · 12:47 UTC
Well I ruined someone's dress and tomatoed the ceiling. Very fun game with a little finicky (keyboard) controls.
Flygamer101
20. Apr 2015 · 12:53 UTC
The turning of a rudimentary theme idea into a great and fun game. very addicting to ruin peoples dinner.
Olias
20. Apr 2015 · 13:02 UTC
This is some seriously funny stuff. Good job!
Nilq
20. Apr 2015 · 13:45 UTC
Nice! :3
Mimus
20. Apr 2015 · 13:46 UTC
Thank you I had a good time on your game I have a good laugh.
(Google Translate, I'm French)
Ilseroth
20. Apr 2015 · 13:51 UTC
A lot of fun and I was delighted when the tomato had a secondary model. Controls felts a little wonky on the web version; but the controls felt a little better in the windows version. Also there is no quit function so when playing in windows version, I had to alt-tab and end the process manually
badlydrawnrod
20. Apr 2015 · 14:29 UTC
I am not sure what kind of restaurant you generally go to, but they seem to have a rather unconventional dress code.
skylinegames
20. Apr 2015 · 14:30 UTC
I like how they just walk away confused when you throw food at them. and also 5/5 for mood
tonypai
20. Apr 2015 · 14:39 UTC
Use food as weapon is pretty amused! :D
🎤 SmilingCat
20. Apr 2015 · 15:02 UTC
@badlydrawnrod lol, I guess that's what happens when you run out of time for texturing your models.
TheScopelessOne
20. Apr 2015 · 15:28 UTC
There is a bit of lag with input with the keyboard, also I would recommend to hide the player model so you don't see through it when you look down.
micahcowan
20. Apr 2015 · 15:34 UTC
Fun game! I think it'd help if the controls were a bit more effectful (used keyboard+mouse); it felt a bit sluggish (not framerate, just gameplay due to time it takes to turn).

It's really difficult to get the throwing power just right, though practice helps. Also, waiting until they're close up. :D
Jeasonfire
20. Apr 2015 · 16:41 UTC
The controls felt a bit clunky, otherwise this was a nice game. Nothing like rudely interrupting a crowded classy meeting!
scorched
20. Apr 2015 · 16:54 UTC
Expected some tomatoes in return)) Good work anyway
LesPingouinsDuCiel
20. Apr 2015 · 16:59 UTC
Haha! Such original! Awesome idea! :D
CogComp
20. Apr 2015 · 18:56 UTC
Nice idea.
Tasteslikefuture
20. Apr 2015 · 22:57 UTC
Very funny, feels good to peg some random dude in the face with a waffle. Great job!
Humanoid
21. Apr 2015 · 09:07 UTC
I never thought throwing food at people in some sort of alien-ran restaurant (why else would all the waiters be blue? ;) ) would be that hard!
highlyinteractive
21. Apr 2015 · 09:50 UTC
All this over a fork? This guy has problems ;)
🎤 SmilingCat
21. Apr 2015 · 10:23 UTC
Thanks everyone for the great feedback! I'm glad the controls aren't ruining the fun too much for anyone. It's an area I always seem to have problems with, though I think it's better this time around than last.
ManicMiner
21. Apr 2015 · 17:31 UTC
Game is fun - there's a weird lag on the movement and I don't know if thats the webplayer acting up or just the game being a bit sticky - but either way, I had a lot of fun splatting food around
FrederickK
21. Apr 2015 · 17:41 UTC
The controls are very stiff, other than that, I loved everything about it! :)
richiebranson
22. Apr 2015 · 01:11 UTC
Once you get the controls down, it's a pretty fun experience. All that's missing is chicken to go with those waffles!
Infernobomb
22. Apr 2015 · 01:11 UTC
I feel my rage has been sated. Very distinctive art style :P
rodrigomotta
22. Apr 2015 · 01:14 UTC
LOL, nice concept. I think you must be work in this game after the jam (it's a good idea). The prototype is ok. Congrats. Rated. Please, play and rate my game.
StefanDJagers
22. Apr 2015 · 13:00 UTC
It is really a lot of fun to play! Great entry! ;)
nopogo
22. Apr 2015 · 13:01 UTC
Liked the powerup throw. A suggestion for next entry. Make the first person controller be just a camera so you dont get the weird glitchy I can look into my own body experience when you look down :)
ss64games
22. Apr 2015 · 13:05 UTC
Haha, this was very silly. I think the controls could be improved if you didn't need to accelerate from zero to gain speed. Maybe try Input.GetAxisRaw instead?
I really liked the fact that the food stuck to objects and that the goal of the game was to create mayhem.
Now where can I find a restaurant that serves pizza, hot dogs, and waffles?
nassi
22. Apr 2015 · 19:04 UTC
For some reason the game decided that I wanted to move the camera up and down by moving the left stick horizontally and turn it by using the L2 and R2 buttons of my PS3 controller by default :P. Good thing unity has control rebinding in the launcher!

But I'm somewhat disappointed that these fools don't follow the proper food fight etiquette, I had hoped for much more mayhem! At least I had a waiter throw a hot dog at me.
rmc
22. Apr 2015 · 21:13 UTC
Very fun game, well fit in to the theme. But the controllers, at least on keyboard, need a bit of work.
garygreen
23. Apr 2015 · 19:35 UTC
Good silly fun. :-)
kabutakogames
24. Apr 2015 · 04:03 UTC
Thank god we didn't mention the dirty knife!
Ossi
24. Apr 2015 · 04:17 UTC
That was really hilarious and fun! The movement of my character felt a bit slow and clunky but I really had a blast picking up different kinds of foods and throwing them around. My favorite was throwing a watermelon slice at full power and having it get stuck on the ceiling! Amazing job!
jk5000
24. Apr 2015 · 08:53 UTC
tion in the customers. But the idea is fun and it fits the theme well.
strong99
24. Apr 2015 · 18:36 UTC
Funny game, nice to play :)
steboots
26. Apr 2015 · 13:56 UTC
Hard for me to manuver, maybe just got to get used to it. I laughed, I cried, I threw food, it was good.
RainbowSexyFish
26. Apr 2015 · 20:44 UTC
After turning, I kept trying to walk forward with the arrows. Try having all movement controls single-handed, and things like jump/crouch/throw on the other side of the keyboard.

Fun idea tho!
crazyninjamofo
27. Apr 2015 · 03:02 UTC
Cool idea and implementation of the food fight. I enjoyed the splattering effect some of the foods had, like the tomatoes. The areas got a little tight to navigate through at some points, otherwise it was pretty satisfying to play.
Jasonsumm
05. May 2015 · 19:09 UTC
What a crazy idea! I like it >.<
dallonf
09. May 2015 · 14:34 UTC
Well, that was a laugh! Controls needed some work, though; you forgot to lock the cursor, making mouse look difficult.
Smirnov48
10. May 2015 · 08:09 UTC
Nice game. Very difficult control for me.