Sourdough Starter Kit by Edearth
You love freshly baked bread but the bakery is closed due to the quarantine. Even worse, you cannot find yeast in the store!
Well, not to worry. This is the perfect time to make a sourdough starter and bake your own bread. So get your hands dirty and make a yeast culture like your ancestors used to make. You couldn't just buy prepared yeast in the middle ages.
How to play:
- Mix flour and water to give yeast an environment in which it can thrive and multiply.
- Click on the clock to advance time until the next day. But careful, the yeast will generate air bubbles. We don't want to make a mess!
- Shake the container to help remove air bubbles from the mix.
- That's it, it a very simple and stupid game :)
| Youtube | https://edearth.itch.io/ld46-sourdough-starter-kit |
| Youtube | https://github.com/Edearth/ld46-sourdough-starter-kit |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/sourdough-starter-kit |
Ratings
| Overall | 442th | 3.515⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 97th | 3.912⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 151th | 3.833⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 948th | 3.015⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 596th | 3.333⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 131th | 3.625⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 523th | 3.212⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 41🗳️ | 15🗨️ |
One bug I found was that if you spammed the clock, the game would practically freeze.
@captandrey the idea is that you're supposed to keep the yeast alive. I wanted to show yeast cell multiplicating in a small animation when advancing days, but I had to drop it since I ran out of time :)
@theseusinabottle yeah, that's my biggest regret, I had to drop the music and sound effects too. To be honest, I was trying to do something with shaders and I failed miserably. Lesson learned, I'll prioritize sound next time!
Three issues I had:
1. The physics of grabbing things aren't really working as expected. Even the slightest movement to the left or right makes the object rotate by a lot. In contrast, when the object rotates to the side it takes a really long time for it to fall back down due to gravity.
2. Sometimes, if you drop an object close to another, you can't pick it up alone again - their colliders glitch through each other and become connected, and the only way to separate them is to shake them violently (and lose most of your progress).
3. The "Menu" button visible when you finish the game is active at all times during the game - you can accidentally click on it while trying to pick up the flour. Try moving your mouse cursor to the bottom of the flour bag. The cursor will change and you will be able to click the button to move you back to the menu.
In summary, I really liked this game. I gotta say, there is something oddly satisfying about trying to gently shake the air our of that container. While I felt like I had to work against the physics instead of working with it, I really had fun playing it, more than I usually get out of this type of physics games. I've even managed to get my score down to 14 days after a few more playthroughs. I loved it, well done!