Zeba's Broke!!!! by slimefriend
Zeba's Broke is a gig economy hellscape simulator (only you're a witch)
Take orders, collect tips, and try not to run into birds!!! (Why are there so many birds???)
CHANGELOG
Turned down player speed
Less Birds
| Link | https://slimefriend.itch.io/zebas-broke |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/zebas-broke |
Ratings
| Overall | 344th | 3.802⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 268th | 3.781⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 490th | 3.469⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 104th | 4.385⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 603th | 3.667⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 220th | 3.833⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 334th | 3.5⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 277th | 3.872⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 81🗨️ |
I made 50 bucks on my day. I really enjoyed the music and mood it created together with the choice of the paper map. The smooth fly and controls helped into aclimate myself into the city, good job there!
If anything, I'd take out the seagulls and make the challenge be some other constraint, they are too disruptive to the whole atmosphere :)

My only complaint was that I kept getting pulled out of flow when a new gig came in - I couldn't think of any reason I would turn one down (even if it didn't pay well, I could just ignore it seemingly without penalty), so disrupting gameplay to accept/decline an order felt harsh.
Overall though, I enjoyed my time filling in for Kiki :)
What do you think about adding some visual indicator that you're going slow enough to make max tip?
Good job. My friend also wanted to make a Kiki's Delivery-inspired game but he bailed, so it's nice to see the idea come to life after all
> What do you think about adding some visual indicator that you’re going slow enough to make max tip?
I think this is a bad idea actually. Some things should be left to the player's intuition
Music is super fitting and chill, you feel like you are cruising over the city! Add some nice city graphics, add "night shift" with lighted streets, maybe tweek broom physics so it's not a simple "slide with acceleration", and ship it! Really not that far from a finished game, would love to see more :smile:
Great work on the gig-app interface etc making it feel authentic.
Music is great as well!
I also wasn't sure what effect the timer on delivery has exactly, as I eventually realized you can still deliver the food and even get tips after it has run out.
Great job!
And the game is playing very nice and engaging, you have a solid tasks,controls and visuals.
What I liked it's the map. At first I was thought that you add real world map and I will be fly all over the globe :)
Nice idea witch fly delivery :tophat:
Biiiiiiiirds!
A f***ing seagull scared me hahahha