Feed Us by El-Metallico
So, you are the owner of a very strange diner. You have a lot of customers, and also you have a mysterious fridge.
You see a client, you see what he wants above his head, go get it from the fridge and try to give this food to your client. I dunno why, perhaps you are drunk or something else, but your hands are shaking, so you drop down the food pretty often, and also the food can fly by itself sometimes… wut? I told you - it’s a very strange bar, even your hand is fake, lol.
Sometimes your fridge will be full, so you'll be OUT OF SPACE, then you'll need to put some products into destroyer machine. Sure, you can just throw away food, but you'll loose 1 HP. So put 2 things into destroyer and keep playing.
Btw, clients don’t like that stuff very much and they might kill you because of it. JK (NO. RUN)
Also, you can tickle these cute guys by clicking on them, so they'll wait a bit longer.
We used Pyxel Edit for art, FL Studio for music and Haxe based engine + Kha.
We hope you'll have some fun, and hopefully you not gonna get nightmares ahaha ... hahaha...ha...
Team:
Dmitry Petyakin (https://twitter.com/ElMetallico1) - art/music
Ustance (https://twitter.com/abstract_panic) - programming/gamedesign
Game soundtrack:
https://el-metallico.bandcamp.com/album/feed-us

| HTML5 (web) | https://ustance.itch.io/feed-us |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/feed-us |
Ratings
| Overall | 720th | 3.266⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1043th | 2.734⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 743th | 3.031⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 994th | 2.924⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 62th | 4.406⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 121th | 3.788⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 216th | 3.387⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 311th | 3.438⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 31🗨️ |
Great game)
Unfortunately I'm not the biggest fan of the "deliberately clunky to control" genre and the RNG, that sometimes doesn't even give you the chance to try and serve your customers doesn't help it.
Still enjoyed it a ton because of the presentation =)
Pros :
- Breathtaking pixel art
- Great sound
- There is some kind of interesting backplot with these ever-angry animals
- Nice UI/drag and drop mechanic
- That game over screen...
Cons :
- Steep difficulty curve
- Meals appear randomly in your fridge : unless I missed something, it is frustrating to lose because the right meal did not show up at the good time
All in all, good job !
I find the game sort of difficult, but mostly because the controls are imprecise. Maybe it lacks some visual feedback? Also the random nature made me frequently out of the stuff that the animals wanted (I guess that's the take on the theme? I understand that there is a button to reset the fridge but I could'nt make it work).
Good entry overall! It just needs some refining :)
@kokonaught Thank you! I agree, visual feedback needed.
@jlv thanks! Yeah, it's pure random.
@lou-bagel Thanks!
@manusaiz @pyrodaes Thanks, guys. Yeah, sure, tutorial can fix this.
"I am pixelartist and animator looking for partner(programmer/designer)" I might check on you in 3 months for LD43 :yum: