Wobbly Waiter by CG_Fred

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made by CG_Fred for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

​A tiny game made for LDJam 49 in 8 hours.

How to play

​Use Arrow keys and deliver bottles to the table. Don't drop anything or else you get to play for it.

Ratings

Overall 936th 3.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 525th 3.614⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 575th 3.477⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 230th 4.091⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1346th 2.409⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 631th 3.318⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 119th 4⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1079th 3.091⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

robbietaco
04. Oct 2021 · 14:32 UTC
Great little game! Made me laugh, would love to see it expanded upon!
Final Act
04. Oct 2021 · 14:44 UTC
Great game and the audio effects are funny!
Weirdybeardyman
04. Oct 2021 · 21:15 UTC
I managed a record profit of $3 it took me ages to get in the positive. I don't think I should take up waiting anytime soon. Just nice, fun and light-hearted, with a good measure of frustration thrown in.
azagaya
06. Oct 2021 · 23:01 UTC
I made $5! Nice game! i really liked the controller, although at first i imagined it would feel annoying. I was wrong! I liked the background song! so relaxing. Fun Idea and very nice implementation! Congratulations!
Webox
11. Oct 2021 · 18:43 UTC
Hahah top notch sound design, great job fred as usual, very neat idea and nice execution, I'm 100% broke, It's so hard to save bottles. Great job!!
LDJam user 259103
17. Oct 2021 · 16:25 UTC
This was hilarious! I found sometimes there was just no time for me to get back to te conveyor, but I didn't really mind too much. Nice work :)
kalevrk
17. Oct 2021 · 16:28 UTC
A challenging, but fun game! I liked how you had to take the waiter's momentum into account, kind of like the original Prince of Persia game, because there were a lot of times where I rushed back from the table to get the next set of bottles and then overshot it and they fell anyway. The sound effects were hilarious. Great job especially given that you did it in 8 hours.
Teo Miklethun
17. Oct 2021 · 16:31 UTC
Only things I'd suggest is to (a) make it so that if you press left while pressing right, then let go of right, then the game will take you left and (b) make the speed controllable, so it feels like there's a risk/reward to going fast.
🎤 CG_Fred
17. Oct 2021 · 17:26 UTC
Thank you all for the kind comments and I'm very glad that you enjoyed the silly noises I recorded for this silly little game.
kythehuman
17. Oct 2021 · 18:46 UTC
I loved the character rig and mouth sounds always get bonus points from me!
🎤 CG_Fred
17. Oct 2021 · 20:35 UTC
Thanks @kymakesgames :)
Angrybeard
17. Oct 2021 · 21:04 UTC
cool concept and 1A sounddesign :)
Nobongo
18. Oct 2021 · 02:21 UTC
The accapella sounds are always calming and the gameplay was fun too! Balancing the bottles on the table was tricky but rewarding. It could have been cool to see a pixel filter thrown over this so that it looked like an old Atari game.
Harrison Dunn
18. Oct 2021 · 02:29 UTC
Yes, I love all the self-made noises. Mouth sfx! Unfortunately, the movement/squeak is a bit too much. It's too loud and repetitive. I wish there was some way to mute just that. :(

The controls feel a bit too unstable. Sometimes I would just sprint and other times it would move only a small step, making it feel really unreliable. Maybe this was intentional?

I liked the idea and the mechanics felt like it matched the theme. Well done on making this and congrats on finishing!
ModdingMachine
18. Oct 2021 · 17:56 UTC
Lovely, deffinitly felt pretty wobbly, I loved trying to stack the bottles so I could deliver more at once. Sound design was ecceptional :thumbsup:. Well done!
zapdos2
18. Oct 2021 · 19:06 UTC
Good job for 8 hours! Lovely audio too LMAO :D
Togis
18. Oct 2021 · 23:37 UTC
A lot of fun and humour packed in a game made so quick! Congratz, I had a smile on my face while playing ^^

Katchiiing!
Dunk
19. Oct 2021 · 15:49 UTC
Loved the foley sounds, scoped well for the jam, and the physics work very well considering the short time frame. Definitely challenging - would like to see if it's possible to complete without dropping a bottle!
Ava Skoog
19. Oct 2021 · 18:42 UTC
Really good! The audio half makes it, the physics does the rest 💜 Unstable but not frustrating, well tuned. Simple and easy to get into but fun to play for quite a while. Not as easy as it looks but not unfair. Nice and neat!
🎤 CG_Fred
19. Oct 2021 · 19:06 UTC
Thanks so much for the kind words! Means a lot to me. @harrison-dunn the controls are unstable due to the physics involved with the character and I didn't have enough time to fully get it to work as I wanted.