Just You And Your Porch by lilroo

made by lilroo for LD 38 (COMPO)

This Game Has Sound! Turn on your speakers :D

A game about enjoying a nice pot of tea on your porch.

Click one of the lamps to turn the lights on, its hard to enjoy tea in the dark.

Click the teacup to take a sip of tea and watch the satisfaction meter at the top go up.

Once the light is on, you'll start attracting those damn flies! Either click on the repellent burner or turn off the lamps to drive them away.

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Keep an eye on the status bars on the right of the screen.

If the mosquito bar fills up with red, satisfaction will start to decrease, click the repellent burner to drive this down.

If the repellent bar empties, you wont be able to click on the burner, click the repellent box to fill the burner up again.

If the tea bar empties, it means your cup has no more tea in it. To avoid this disaster click on the teapot.

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Game contains 100% real earl grey mouth sounds!

Play now and enjoy the comforting sounds of evening tea: http://profuse-orange.surge.sh/

The code (here be dragons): https://github.com/lilrooness/ld38

Made with the Defold Game Engine http://www.defold.com/

Original URL

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/just-you-and-your-porch

Ratings

Overall	396^th	3⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Fun	414^th	2.75⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	269^th	3.15⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Theme	354^th	3.158⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	435^th	2.7⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Audio	212^th	3.1⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Humor	57^th	3.6⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Mood	154^th	3.45⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Given		24🗳️	20🗨️

Feedback

🎤 lilroo

23. Apr 2017 · 21:35 UTC

The code: https://github.com/lilrooness/ld38

AxelHammarback

24. Apr 2017 · 09:44 UTC

Nice – love the calm atmosphere!

Lipsch

01. May 2017 · 15:15 UTC

The athmosphere woukd be better if you'd added some background music.
Overall, calming but not much to do
Like it (:

nilead

01. May 2017 · 15:38 UTC

If you add a nice BGM, the mood would improve a lot. Not much in the gameplay department, was it was nice.

mde

01. May 2017 · 16:23 UTC

Very simplistic but polished game. Nothing to complain about here.

ryte2byte

01. May 2017 · 16:35 UTC

I always appreciate finding some different (ie. not a platformer) at LD, and this certainly qualifies ;) I did manage to win, but had to go back and re-read the directions after tinkering with it for a bit. Having recently played Gods Among Us, I really, really love being able to see those resource bars!

IDidGame

01. May 2017 · 16:43 UTC

Relaxing little game, actually made a cup of earl grey afterwards :)

PhyscoKillerMonkey

01. May 2017 · 16:50 UTC

Simple little game, would be better to have some instructions in-game so that you don't have to keep flicking back and forth between the game and this page.

Kosmo

01. May 2017 · 18:37 UTC

A bit straightforward, but relaxing, enjoyable, and unique. Thanks!

wildmusketeer

01. May 2017 · 18:40 UTC

I think this is one of those really interesting simulator/screen saver game. Weirdly, I felt like I could smell the tea just from the sound effect. I was pretty immersed in the game. I think it achieves what the game sets out to do which is to simulate sitting in a fly infested garden. But I have some nitpick on the UI: progress bar stemming from the middle and filling to the sides was a little confusing to me, and the black pie progress bar was hard to see on top of the black repellant burner. Overall, very nice little game.

Scornz

01. May 2017 · 18:42 UTC

Simple concept, well executed. I'm not sure how this game entirely follows the theme... but good idea!

nervous-composers

01. May 2017 · 19:09 UTC

I actually found the game slightly challenging rather than calming, trying to fill up my satisfaction bar while driving away the flies, keeping the repellent topped up, keeping the teapot full, etc.. I beat the game, it's not too hard, really neat concept!

Samusoidal

01. May 2017 · 22:44 UTC

Well done! Completely captures the atmosphere of drinking tea near any kind of plant...
Those flies!

ColeSlaughter

02. May 2017 · 03:50 UTC

Whew, enjoying a nice up of tea on a peaceful quiet evening is a lot more stressful than I imagined. :P I was frantically clicking around, refilling the repellent, drinking the tea, refilling the tea, and clicking the lights on and off desperately trying to reach "maximum satisfaction." It was actually pretty engaging!

Although around halfway through, I discovered that I could just keep the lights on all the time, and as long as I kept the repellent lit whenever it ran out, I could out-pace the mosquitoes with the OP tea, haha. It seemed like all of the timers had the same cooldown, which made them pretty easy to manage once I got the hang of it. Perhaps having certain thing refill slower than others could add to the challenge? I pretty much never ran out of tea because refilling the bar completely took pretty much the same amount of time as drinking a cup. ^.^"

DaisyChubb

02. May 2017 · 14:21 UTC

I love this! I'm a huge tea drinker and I have to say, each sip takes you into your own small world so you got the theme bang on! ;)
Very polished & the difficulty level is great, engaging without being too hard.

D-Studios

07. May 2017 · 02:27 UTC

This game was good. I liked the simple graphics and lighting and the innovation behind this game. The idea behind the game is pretty funny and I admit, I hate flies. Also, the sound effects were kind of funny. The gameplay mechanics were simple but fun. In expanding this game, you can make animations and add more sound effects for each kind of action (such as drinking) and randomly select from one of the sound effects so that there is variation (so that each sip of drinking tea does not sound exactly the same). This technique can be used for realism. Good job making this game!

Dopple-Danger

09. May 2017 · 16:28 UTC

This had a nice play pace. It's zen without being something you can ignore for any length of time. I really liked it, it was simple and engaging.
I wound up posting a playthrough video if you are interested: https://youtu.be/OYuA1I8-kc8

🎤 lilroo

10. May 2017 · 20:09 UTC

Thanks so much for the video @dopple-danger !!

buteratosgames

16. May 2017 · 10:57 UTC

Very goood! I love it! 5 stars!

sgstair

19. May 2017 · 04:07 UTC

Yeah, this is an almost stressful zen game :) I didn't realize it was possible. There was no possibility for stable calm, always something needs to be adjusted. ALWAYS. I did manage to max out the green bar eventually, just a matter of keeping everything going as much as possible. Not my cup of tea I guess :P

I played this on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/142659988 - time 1:30:10