Gina's Bed & Breakfast by CameronJSamuels
You just woke up at Gina's Bed & Breakfast in time to eat. You realize that you are starting to gain weight, and decide to take a morning stroll to burn calories. You can't take it much longer after being forced to eat burgers, and you don't know if you will continue to live.
How to play
Explore on your mission to eat healthier. Use the arrow keys (or WASD) on a computer or swipe on a mobile device to move around the room. Follow the storyline within the gameplay to complete the game.
Inspiration
Theme: The idea came to my mind instantly: the more unhealthy food you eat, the worse it is. This was a simple idea and I thought it would be easy to make.
Game: I was inspired to make this game based off of a terrible experience on a family vacation. My family was going to stay at a motel on one of the nights. It was terribly unorganized (keeping track of rooms was done on paper), so both of our rooms were occupied, leaving us with two other rooms. One of the rooms didn't lock, and the other room had someone's stuff in it. The cook quit that morning, leaving another person to cook meals, who happened to be only able to cook burgers (even for breakfast).
Tools used
- Bitsy - game engine, graphics
- Piskel - other graphics
- Sublime Text - text editor
- GitHub - source control
- GitHub Pages - hosting
| HTML5 (web) | https://goo.gl/RyiqAh |
| Source code | https://git.io/vbO0x |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/ginas-bed-breakfast |
Ratings
| Overall | 446th | 3.167⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 529th | 2.873⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 506th | 2.794⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 216th | 3.686⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 394th | 3.157⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 76th | 3.64⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 227th | 3.304⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 44🗨️ |
I have noticed from other people I have shown the game to, one also said that the first room was a bit confusing. I might improve the upstairs room to solve these problems.
Also, thanks everyone for commenting great things!
It is an interesting idea to give the player a similar miserable experience to the character. Every time I approached a hamburger I wanted to go around so I wouldn't get stopped by text again.
I'd like to see more things like this.
Surprisingly, the dialogs did not work that well for me... Event if I've got the idea, I felt that it was not evolving that much, and that it was lacking progression.
The various scenes work well for me though.
Although the game aimed to make me think about my diet, it kind of made me crave burgers now :D
Also, @tvance, I hope you did not rate it badly for that reason.
Your game is good, there's some clever uses of bitsy (the bus in side view for example.)
although, be careful about putting invisible objects: it can be nice, but also, if the player is pressing the arrow key several times in a row to move faster, the dialogue might not be seen, especially since it's not a dialogue you can hear again.
Appart from that the game is pretty cool; the fact that the player can't do anything else than eating the things in front of him/her because of the level design is funny.
I didn't mind it not having any music, I think it works quite well without any. I do however think it could benefit from some sound fx for the dialogue and the characters actions.
Btw, since I'm not sure if it's on purpose, I did manage to go on the table without eating the burger and have Gina move to the side. I was then able to exit the B&B. That saved me from one disgusting burger at least!
@youbestrong, yeah, it is really humorous. But the funny thing is, the motel this game was based off of, had another building to stay in a few miles down the road (which is even more awkward).
And for the music, I might add that post jam because it would be cool to have.
Thanks everyone for your great feedback!
The story was really cool and fits well the theme ^^
(also, a small bug, you can stand on the stair, going up and down every frame, making the screen alternate between the scenes, but nothing dangerous or annoying :p )
https://youtu.be/Od8yYFv5wQ4
@larrychupacabra, great video!