Running out of Coffee by Triastase
Oh no! You have so much work to do, that you really can't afford to sleep right now. But you're sooo tired... You need coffee. A lot.

Goal: - Do your work on the computer without running out of caffeine in your blood. - You win when the chronometer is at zero. - You lose when your caffeine level is at zero.
Controls: - Left click on the computer or press W to work (earns you money). - Left click on the cup or press C to drink coffee. - Left click on the coffee machine or press R to refill your cup. - Right click on the coffee machine or press B to brew new coffee (costs money). - Left click on 1UPs to get upgrades for the respective objects.
Ratings
| Overall | 634th | 2.536⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 640th | 2.138⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 544th | 2.571⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 128th | 3.857⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 404th | 3.036⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 182th | 2.885⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 570th | 2.231⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
On presentation: The simple instructions you have really should be *in* the game. Right there on the screen. Just put letters next to items and people could work it out easily.
There's very little visual feedback of what's happening too. The bars are there but the correlation to action, for example the W to work - I thought you kept pressing it, eventually realised you just press it once.
The biggest problem here is that it's hard for anyone but yourself to play the game. The game could be great.
Hope this helped!
The challenge seems to ultimately revolve around remembering to start working again the moment you refill your cup, since otherwise you would always have enough money to refill the pot and then it would just be "can you press the buttons fast enough." I didn't enjoy doing that, and I'm not sure what could be done to make it more entertaining.
If I were laying it out I would have the keys in a row instead of being the initial of the relevant verb. That way the player could get into a flow with the keys and it would be kind of Guitar Hero-sh. As it stands, this is a game about fighting a control scheme and the arbitrary work state change.
I do like the meters, those are a fun and useful means of presenting information to the player. They work well in context with one another. The money one would have benefited from a mark indicating that the player has enough money to brew another pot.
I like the concept and i had the urge to keep retrying because i felt i was improving. A reset button would have helped with that.
I think the game could really do with some audio feedback, for example when the monitor turns on/off or when the coffee pot is empty.
Overall a fun little game!
On the flip side I really like the graphical representation, so good job on that :)
- … is to hard (maybe, it would have been easier if the controls were side by side on the keyboard as thinking about which key did what in the game is to slow for the fast pace the game has – and clicking also was a bit complicated, as then, one has to look to the bars on the right and the cursor).
- … needs sound, because without sound, it's too hard, as there is only visual feedback (and even that is insufficient, as others already mentioned) telling you if you need to brew new coffee (which is too complicated for the fast pace of the game).
Thank you for sharing.
Seems like coffee runs out terribly quickly though.
had a great laugh trying it out.
I think things should be more responsive, maybe giving more feedback on what is happening. Really hard to play but nice concept. If it had a reset button I would've played a lot more!
Great work
Keep moving forward.
It lacks sounds too, that's an important point of a game.
I like the way you display the different jauges and the 3D art is quite good though.
Keep coding ;)
I like the concept, it has some flaws though
**Positive Things :**
- The concept XD
- The graphics, while simple are well done, so that always gets some points :)
**Negative things :**
- The lack of sound, at least a little music in the background would have been nice
- A bit hard managing your time to play longer, you run out of money or coffee a bit quick i.m.o :(
Regardless it's a nice little game that's still well made despite its flaws :) especially since it's a compo entry good job !
Silly award giving time :p , you get the HomeBrewed award for making a game about coffee XD