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THE WORLD NEEDS BISCUITS! by PureImprov

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made by PureImprov for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

twnb<em>title</em>ai.png YOU HUMANS HAVE SERVED YOUR PURPOSE! NOW THAT THE WORLD IS ONE, YOU SHALL ALL BE REWARDED FOR YOUR SERVICES... A BISCUIT!

HOW TO PLAY

DROP CORRECT BISCUIT IN HUMAN MOUTH

EVERY 10 SECONDS THE FACTORY BELT SPEEDS UP

CONTROLS

LEFT MOUSE BUTTON - pick up (hold) biscuit

W/D - pan camera

Tech and Acknowledgements

Graphics - Blender 2.92, GIMP 2.10 and Stable Diffusion 1.5

Music - Korg M1 and Logic Pro 9

Game Engine - Godot 3.4.4

Font - Kaori Gel from https://sharasfonts.com/

BUG FIXES [Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:40:18 GMT]: -Fixed game breaking bug: debug in godot was not detecting case sensitive strings in preload() scripts -Fixed memory leak: instances were not being deleted efficiently enough, slowing down the game (and could probably be further optimised)

KNOWN BUGS: -Sometimes the biscuit conveyor belt gets jammed and biscuits get stuck in the oven (you can still pluck them out for fun) -The game can get quite laggy in HTML5, especially in the more advanced levels and with conveyor belt speeds.*

*I would recommend downloading the PC version for a smoother biscuit experience.

HTML5 and WINDOWS https://pureimprov.itch.io/the-world-needs-biscuits
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/the-world-needs-biscuits

Ratings

Overall 1026th 3.036⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 903th 3.018⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 730th 3.161⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1027th 3.071⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1030th 2.696⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 560th 3.161⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 254th 3.482⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 985th 2.94⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 31🗨️

Feedback

Falk Hoeppner
04. Oct 2022 · 14:59 UTC
Your itch.io link appears to be broken. Looking forward to playing this when it comes up!
llexical
04. Oct 2022 · 15:24 UTC
The world does need biscuits! Sadly it cannot have them as the link is broken :(
🎤 PureImprov
04. Oct 2022 · 16:04 UTC
@falk-hoeppner @llexical Thanks for warning me! I forgot to make the itch page public o_O, should be good now...
Falk Hoeppner
04. Oct 2022 · 17:33 UTC
Thanks for letting us know it was fixed! Well worth coming back to. Fun concept backed by a fun simple story (and good timing, as it popped up just as I was eating a biscuit!) The soundtrack fits well, supporting the fairly relaxed feel of the first couple of levels, then juxtaposing it with the more hectic nature of later levels as the speed ramps up but the music remains obliviously relaxed. One small improvement would be to put some sort of counter on the screen as to either how many more humans you need to biscuit this level, or an indicator as to where they are. I was a bit lost early on when I thought I had fed everyone but didn't click in that I needed to move the screen for more HUMANS to biscuit. Overall, great concept, fun game!
ElephantLung
05. Oct 2022 · 02:14 UTC
Amusing game! My hands hurts after trying to feed all these people haha.
nataku92
05. Oct 2022 · 02:17 UTC
Haha, simple but fun! Love the catchy background music, and I like how the humans queue up. Difficulty ramped way up for me by level 4, but it was still hilarious just watching the biscuits fly by and pile up by the end.
ThatANoNoWord
05. Oct 2022 · 02:25 UTC
I really like how fast the game ramps up. At first, the game is menial and simple to do. But as more customers pour in, the more you have to manage the biscuit distribution. And at later stages, grabbing biscuits alone become hell. The "Humans" look more like grey humanoid jack o' lanterns though. Other than this, great game!
Core Foliant
05. Oct 2022 · 04:51 UTC
But what can I to say) The World needs biscuits!!!! Great gameplay and so fun idea)!
PicusBGames
05. Oct 2022 · 04:51 UTC
lol, definitely original can't say I've ever seen anything like it! :) I had some issues grabbing biscuits after a bit but that might be my age and eyes rather than anything in the game lol :)
monika
05. Oct 2022 · 05:00 UTC
Fun! I REALLY like the detail that humans who want the cookie you are holding will start to bounce up and down. Cute AND functional. I thought I had a bug at first because I was only getting four humans, but it was because I wasn't panning the camera, in case anyone is reading the comments wondering the same thing. (Could be a thing to fix up, make that more obvious, but "making sure everyone understands the controls" is always a hard thing in game jam games so it's understandable.)
davidtheginger
05. Oct 2022 · 21:16 UTC
The html version does it no justice, don't touch it if you can: the difference between them is night and day. The music is quirky and fun and a great choice! There was a little wonkiness with the hitboxes when things got faster where you would have to click a little bit before the cookie showed up. I liked the core concept of franticly providing the masses the right kind of cookie, but feel like it would need a little more of a mixup between the levels beyond there just being more people for folks to be challenged and motivated enough to play more than a few levels.
LandoSystems
07. Oct 2022 · 18:47 UTC
Funny game. Wish the hit boxes were a little more forgiving for picking up the cookies but was able to manage. Agree with others that more variety in the way the humans appear would be nice. Maybe add arrows on the edge of the screen to show that there are still unfed folks at either end of the belt. Good work!
Taximan981
08. Oct 2022 · 00:59 UTC
A very unique idea that 100 people in a room wouldn't be able to come up with for this game jam so props to that! The cookie art was realy cute but the people gave me nightmares! Watching the belt speed up was fun and I liked it a lot, but the hitboxes could be really mean to me sometimes. great addition!
resacaGames
08. Oct 2022 · 01:29 UTC
Fun little game! Way harder than it seems.
Cedric86
08. Oct 2022 · 20:42 UTC
Phew you really need to click right on those Biscuits or you wont get em. :D
Fun gameplay. Enjoyed it quite a bit. One time the humans stopped comming for some reason and i just sat there looking at the biscuit conveyor belt speeding up.
Great entry. Well done.
candlesan
09. Oct 2022 · 02:23 UTC
Really fun setting where all the different people are coming up to be fed. Clicking fast enough to catch the cookies that are going by on the higher speeds gets REALLY difficult! There's something about this game and the setting and the goofiness that reminds me of being at the state fair. At the state fair there's all sorts of games of challenge like throwing darts to pop balloons or tossing rings onto coke bottles. Here's it's grabbing cookies on an increasingly fast moving conveyor belt to feed the humans :) Thanks!
Studio Vykanic
09. Oct 2022 · 22:51 UTC
Really unique and silly! I'm not sure I have played a feeding game like that before haha.
LDJam user 54618
10. Oct 2022 · 01:59 UTC
Very funny game! Personally I wish the difficulty would accelerate a little faster. I got to level 11 and I was like "does this ever end?"
I would say something about the glitch where biscuits fly off the conveyer and into humans' mouths, but all I really want to say is it's the funniest and most satisfying part of the game 😂
mypalmike
10. Oct 2022 · 06:23 UTC
Fun and silly. I like the music a lot. Well executed game jam.
ryusui
11. Oct 2022 · 02:42 UTC
The concept is cute, but I wish grabbing cookies didn't feel so fiddly; it's hard to grab them when the conveyor belt starts moving at an appreciable clip. I'd also have appreciated some visual indicator when a cookie is in place to register as being fed to a human when dropped. Since cookies clip through the human models, it's sometimes hard to tell if a cookie is in the right position or if I've overshot it.
Asheko
13. Oct 2022 · 16:51 UTC
The idea behind the game looks fun. The music is entertaining. The goal is clear and controls are intuitive.

There is one thing though, I played using the web browser and I only had the first 4 humans to feed and then nothing. The timer was going down without me being able to play the game.

Overall, the game looks to be quite entertaining if you don't take this "bug" into account !
Zbradaraljan
18. Oct 2022 · 00:35 UTC
Simple, straightforward, addictive, perfect for a jam! I would love a collision in the mouth (but maybe it would be too easy). And also when the speed of the belt changes the biscuit have some kind of a motion, I thought about playing around the physic of the biscuits is definitely something cool to consider
yetanother
19. Oct 2022 · 02:44 UTC
I was really bad at grabbing the biscuits, sorry people...
adjo
20. Oct 2022 · 20:30 UTC
This is a fun game. The music is really nice.
MaximeG
21. Oct 2022 · 18:31 UTC
was really fun to play, feeding some default material guys
chispaLBC
21. Oct 2022 · 18:38 UTC
simple but fun, good job!