How To Keep The Dance Floor Alive? Answer: Alcohol by ultrarat
High level
You're working at a disco club ( stayin' alive ) and have to serve different drinks to keep the whole dance floor alive. Customers will wait in line for various drink requests for you to fill, all while dancing. Serve the faster to earn better tips. You can work your shift for tips, or wander off and dance with the crowd to enjoy the ambiance.
How to play/controls
- Left Mouse Button - Interact with bar tending tool
- WASD - Move
- Mouse - Look
- Hold Space Bar - DANCE!
- C - Crouch
Features
- DISCO
- DANCE FLOOR AND SPOTLIGHTS
- DRINKING
Things we wish got in but didn't due to time
- Optimizations. The min specs on this game are higher than they should be
- A drunkenness mechanic where you should not serve people over their limit.
- An upgrade system between levels, so you'd unlock more stations like a blender.
- Scaling the number of background dancers based on player performance.
- better feedback for how well your doing on inputs like button mashing and hold lengh timing and how that impacts your tip score.
- more formal tutorial
- narrative events like being busy during SantaCon
Tools
Unreal Engine 4
Credits
- @UltraRat - Scripting, Amateur Tech Art
- @Akshay-B - Scripting, Sound Design
- @SarahWont - Scripting, UI
Music credits
Music is by Jahzzar, off the album Galaxy: Lift Off Venus Hancock Great Dark Spot Seas of Mars Halley
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Galaxy Sound effects from https://freesound.org/
| Youtube | https://ultrarat.itch.io/ldjam-keepthedanceflooralivewithalcohol |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/how-to-keep-the-dance-floor-alive-answer-alcohol |
Ratings
| Overall | 1585th | 3.339⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 888th | 3.482⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1237th | 3.278⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1597th | 3.482⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1705th | 3.25⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 798th | 3.426⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 492th | 3.519⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 942th | 3.534⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 29🗨️ |
It took me some time to figure out but after that I enjoyed serving more and more complicated drinks to customers. Around 11 pm I felt slightly tired of serving Martini's so I stopped being a barman and started dancing to keep the party alive by myself, until I sadly had to stop dancing around midnight. Congratulations :)
Seriously, this game has an unique take in a type of game that is generally very boring
It took me a while to understand what to do, but I had fun when I got it! :D
I wish there was an option to turn off the motion blur... I hate that effect in all games, and it always is the first thing I turn off when playing something... :/
There's something wrong with the pivot point of the player character: I think it's off-center...?
Didn't really have time or a had an existing graphics options menu.
Gameplaywise the Rum thing didn't make sense to me :( also It would have been nice to add a wastebin where yu throw away wrong orders, or if you could put down things on the counter at all :3
This can be a really funny game! :D if you decide to polish, maybe add actualy characters, can't say I don't enjy the unreal dummies, but... :P
bonus points fr the cat image! :D Why don't you make the characters cats? :D They would probably then all order White Russians tho.. ^^
Thanks for noticing! I make it my personal mission to include my cats in my LD games as an Easter egg... or sometimes more directly :P http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=27370
hahaha! I like your creativity :D
And yeah gamejams, I knooooow time's never enough, it's so funny how you've come to arranging yourself and lowering your bar by the hour... at first there are so many "must-have"s for you and in the ending you're happy about every little shit you actually manage to do xD
So much for your precious "standards" you had 3 days ago amirite ^^
