Swipe The Roast by cobrajs

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made by cobrajs for LD27 (COMPO)
Swipe the Roast: A game about grocery shopping

Drive your cart through the grocery store and grab as much food as you can, but try not to stack it too full, or else you will lose money from dropping groceries.

Note: This is a little unpolished. Especially the score screen. I didn't have time to add any sound either.

Keys:
X : grab left
C : grab right
Left : turn left
Right : turn right
Up : forward
Down : backward

Ratings

Coolness 32% 1563
Overall 2.22 1132
Fun 1.94 1128
Graphics 2.39 851
Innovation 3.06 478
Theme 2.39 1078

Feedback

devi ever
26. Aug 2013 路 03:35 UTC
Got an error : "cannot open data/apple.lua: no such file or directory"
PaidGEEK
26. Aug 2013 路 03:45 UTC
Same error for me.
mpath
26. Aug 2013 路 03:52 UTC
I don't have a windows machine and I have no idea what love is. Sorry.
馃帳 cobrajs
26. Aug 2013 路 08:28 UTC
Ok, I uploaded a new version with that error fixed. Love means Love2D, a cross platform Lua based game engine.
josefnpat
26. Aug 2013 路 12:51 UTC
Nice job, I like the hand drawn-ness of it! Remember to always save time for polish! (or the polish people. Not sure which.)
leafo
27. Aug 2013 路 05:37 UTC
cool idea, I wish there was more
Croze
28. Aug 2013 路 22:18 UTC
no groceries ever showed up on the shelves, and was fairly buggy. I personally liked the drawn on graphics, and game could be good given some polishing.
Latcarf
28. Aug 2013 路 22:42 UTC
That's very difficult, the cart can get stuck very easily. But the idea is original.
awppy
28. Aug 2013 路 23:51 UTC
I didn't see any groceries on the shelves and there only seemed to be one item per game?

Found it much easier to control when going backwards. That's how I'll do my shopping from now on...
馃帳 cobrajs
29. Aug 2013 路 01:30 UTC
Yeah, I was planning on drawing groceries for each section, but I ran out of time. There are separate sections of groceries, there's just no visual indicator :P
brobutter
30. Aug 2013 路 01:03 UTC
didn't see any groceries and i moved way to fast to do anything.
VeloSpectre
30. Aug 2013 路 22:35 UTC
Pretty funny idea for a game. Hard to play though it seems. kinda fast movement speed. I like the item dropping system.
alts
31. Aug 2013 路 22:25 UTC
All I could think of while playing this was "Supermarket Sweep". And then I read your journal, and sure enough, you were thinking the same thing. Thank you.

I feel like this game has two ideas that would work independently, but when combined feel a bit weird. The dropping game doesn't need the narrative of the supermarket nor the distinct foods to work well. And the supermarket spree is hampered by the dropping mechanic, which puts limits on how frantic the shopping portion can be. I might split these up into two separate games, and consider how to fill in the gap left by the other in a way that accentuates the strong aspects of each.