Timmy's Late For Tea by Slippers

made by Slippers for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

Timmy is running late for dinner. He needs to text his Mum but he needs 100% phone signal in order to do so. Timmy is also afflicted with brainrot, and therefore he is only able to navigate the world while staring down as his phone, a hand-me-down Kekia 3310.

Tips and tricks:

Roads are dangerous, make sure you find a safe place to cross (look for a crosswalk / zebra crossing)
You will need to JUMP (spacebar) up the curbs if you go into the road
Timmy has 30 mins (real time) of phone battery left. If runs out, it's game over. The game does not take anywhere near this long.

Assets:

No AI used
All textures and meshes were made during the jam:
All code was written during the jam, no boilerplate was used.
Most SFX was created during the jam:
- Timmy SFX was recorded during the jam.
- Hospital beeping and car SFX are from Freesound CC0 (opted out of audio rating).
Fonts are Schoolbell & Poppins

Tools:

Godot 4.6.1
Blender
GIMP
Audacity
ProcTile (own procgen texture tooling)

Link	https://slipperhat.itch.io/timmys-late-for-tea
Link	https://github.com/AnalyticalGoose/ld-59
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/timmys-late-for-tea

Ratings

Overall	603^th	3.326⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Fun	617^th	3.065⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	366^th	3.478⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Theme	298^th	3.957⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	625^th	3.261⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Humor	79^th	3.957⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Mood	586^th	3.348⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Given		33🗳️	26🗨️

Feedback

Nathanial

Apr 20th · 21:25 UTC

Good sound design! Funny concept. Feel like the controls could be simplified, requiring numpad use seems unnecessary. Felt like the final obstacle felt out of place and improvised compared to the other ways to die.

snk

Apr 20th · 21:33 UTC

This game is amazing man! I just completed it but the idea of constantly looking at the phone is brilliant.

p.s. Modelling the KEKIA 3310 was time spent well :unicorn:

🎤 Slippers

Apr 20th · 21:36 UTC

@nathanial I was hoping to have Timmy give a running commentary as he went and comment on various things. Including how the lava was strange and how he didn't remember Liverpool having a volcano, but time got the better of me :smile:

Thanks for playing!

🎤 Slippers

Apr 20th · 21:37 UTC

@snk Haha! Glad you came back to see the final design, it was certainly quite the time sink to get it all setup. Thanks for playing and i'm really happy you had fun.

illiteratelexicon

Apr 20th · 21:37 UTC

Funny and definitely on theme. The controls are a bit hard to grasp though.
Overall Good Job !

🎤 Slippers

Apr 20th · 21:43 UTC

@illiteratelexicon Thank you for playing. A play tester did have quite a bit of trouble with the controls, so i've tried to plaster them in every description I can. It's definitely not the most ergonomic, and for that I apologise.

Pleased you found it funny at least! Thanks for playing and your feedback.

xiyuan

Apr 21st · 08:47 UTC

I thought this game was meant to be a metaphor for people who are always looking down at their phones. I even found myself wondering if I could put TikTok on the screen while playing, haha.

beareye

Apr 21st · 09:52 UTC

finally discovered why the humor category is on the jam XD very well done, you made me laugh

Local Minimum

Apr 21st · 12:06 UTC

That Nok... ehrm sorry, Kekia model is really well made. Kinda wish i could click on the buttons too and all that! I think I got a decent score with 154 given how awkward the arrow keys are placed on my keyboard. Multiplication with shift 8 didn't work for me cause the 8 just ate the input. I was also sort of wondering if there would have been an easter egg if you input 6 + 7 or something like that :laughing:

Nice little game outside the phone too.

Play-through: https://youtu.be/K9mT__plATY

Rhookx

Apr 21st · 20:41 UTC

good stuff, i had fun ! took me forever to find my way but I enjoyed the ride, and i like the easter eggs, F in the chat for sexy time with tha girl

Batisdark

Apr 22nd · 06:37 UTC

Best Kekia out there! Mint condition! :D I've send text to mum, but I have some questions... what the hell was that behind the hospital?! And another question - why no rotators? ;) that could work so well here hehehehehe >:)

I see way too many people walking like that in real life... and sadly, not only kids!

🎤 Slippers

Apr 22nd · 06:47 UTC

@batisdark That Kekia is mint condition, like new. Uhm, so that was lava. I was planning on having Timmy give a running commentary about how strange it was and have the whole game be super meta - but I apparently have ZERO concept of controlling scope, so totally ran out of time and scrambled. I was actually planning little bits of dog poo / the occasional landmine to step on! But rotators would have been great, and evil :bat:.

When I eventually learn to manage scope i'll be able to actually polish a game :laughing:! Thank you for playing!

@rhookx Thank you for playing. You blew it with Cindy? Bad Timmy.

@local-minimum Thank you for recording the video :wink:, and for playtesting, and for proofreading :nerd:.

@beareye Really pleased to hear you found it funny, thank you for playing.

Frib

Apr 22nd · 17:51 UTC

That was fun! The text messages were funny, sadly Cindy didn't appreciate my rizz. Started playing snakes but at some point I needed to check if I was getting closer or not so I quit with a score of 56 only :( finally managed to make it to the end, though.

Very cool game :D

bigfatgua

Apr 23rd · 03:29 UTC

I totally agree with @xiyuan—being able to overlay TikTok or other apps on the screen while playing would be such a cool feature! Also, I have to mention the screen reflection effect; the way it reacts to the lighting is absolutely gorgeous. I love that attention to detail. Great work!

schizoid2k

Apr 24th · 15:06 UTC

Poor Timmy was a victim of the pool and the road. :smile:
Nice game!

Scottyartt

Apr 27th · 11:06 UTC

So many controls in this game haha, I fell stupid myself

Jimbly

Apr 27th · 20:52 UTC

I enjoyed getting "BBQ'd", and at the end from what I saw through the slats it was exactly what I thought it was. I want to complain that I'm playing an 11 year old, and I walk pasted a swing set, and I don't immediately swing on it?! Oh, wait, you said brainrot. Nevermind. My only complaint is that I never realized that the right and left arrows did something on the phone (specifically, open the games menu) until after I beat the game and saw "Snek II high score" in the score board :laughing:. I probably would have gotten ran over by _even more_ cars if I was playing that while walking, though...

Prakkus

May 08th · 22:42 UTC

This is one of those ones where I love the concept in theory but in practice I found it so frustrating to not be able to look up!!! Timmy!!!! I've been too conditioned to be able to just look where I'm going in games. RIP Timmy.