Fish n Keys by BobFish
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A game in which you type a lot to make food!
Every 10 seconds a new order comes in at your fish n chips n random other things shop. You need to make fulfill these orders perfectly or you won't get a good score.
Try to get as many orders successful as you can in one week and then find out how you stand on the global leader board
Please post your score and leader board ranking in the comments :)
Everything made by me in GameMaker Studio 2 and sfxr but I used an extension by FriendlyCosmonaut for the dialog boxes.
Quite proud of the game play in this one and it took quite a while to get working well but unfortunately that meant I ran out of time to make it look anywhere near decent, I made most of the sprites in the last hour of the competition lol.
Please let me know ways you think the game play could be improved if I decide to continue working on this, I had an idea to have a phone so customers could call up and change their orders. You'd have to remember the changes as they wouldn't update on the order at the top of the screen.
Have fun!
Requires the use of function keys to submit orders, if you are on a laptop you may need to hold a FN key or toggle them some other way.
Tips: - Game lasts 5 days, goes until 5pm (17:00) each day. - once you've pressed enter to start making something you can press the letter and number keys to prepare the next thing so you can press enter to make it as soon as the last one is finished.
Controls: - spacebar continue text - Function Keys - Submit order (uses everything you've made shown on the right) - Number Keys - Choose quantity of item to make - Letter Keys - Held down with number key to make something - Enter - Makes the currently assembled food / drink item (you can release number and letter keys once you've pressed enter) - Backspace - Removes the bottom item from your list of what you've made.
Source code here: https://github.com/BobFish/LD51
Update 5th Oct - I have released a v2 version which simply fixes a few bugs I found including not displaying the high score leader board correctly.
| Link | https://github.com/BobFish/LD51 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/fish-n-keys |
Ratings
| Given | 13🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
One thing I missed was some way of visually telling how long it's taking to make items... without knowing that it seems like it'd be impossible to make 100% of the orders as things got more complicated. Overall nice work!!
I guess my keyboard is too cheap to play properly though... some combinations of keys just won't work. But that's a hardware problem.
Hmm, was I really that bad?
Some of the keyboard gymnastics you can hit in one motion are surpring 🤣
https://steamcommunity.com/id/minatur
But at it's base, I think this is a fantastic game. I think it would be better themed as a cash register operator taking order through drive through. Maybe you would have to interpret what the customer is saying rather than being given the exact thing to punch as I found it a tiny bit easy because all the letters corresponded (which is a great decision, just made it a bit easier to remember and play)
I like the tutorial at the beginning, and the logic with items corresponding with keyboard keys. It was very fun getting in to the flow of it all. Great idea and execution. :)
I noticed that after day 5 I could continue to play, although it didn't count anymore for the score. ;)
Well done!