It was a great idea to use something you lived as a sacrifice to make it a game which fit pretty great with the theme :)

I thing you should have explained better how to play in the beginning, even if its pretty clear that we must moove to the end of the tables to take the dishes. Furthermore, I think its a little useless to make the player start in side of a table, because the plates never go out in there.
And the GameOver screen is a little bugged, because it go back to the maion title and you just still can see your plates mooving.

But globally, the game works and everything is implemented just fine, you had an idea and made a game with that in such a few times, then challenge well done ! :)

Not bad, it took me a while to figure out that I needed to go to the end of the tables to pick things up

OK, I don't know pick things up and I pressed all the keys once.
Then discovered needed to go to the end of the tables...

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Parabéns, foi um tempo bem corrido que e fazendo sozinho ainda mas rendeu, ficou muito bom.
Muito interessante você usar sua experiência de vida e seu sacrifício para criar um game!

Nice voxel art. I piled ten dishes xD