Patty Panic by thomz12
🍔Play the browser version here!🍔
In Patty Panic 🍔, customers will be summoning you for their requests. Try too keep up with them as long as you can! Customers will be very unhappy if you let them wait too long, so be quick!
🎮 Controls
Use the arrow keys or WASD to move around. That's it! The rest should be clear while playing the game.
📽️ Gifs


🔨 Juicebox
I've created this game with my own game engine. I've created a new engine recently and this Ludum Dare was a great test to see if it's capable of creating a simple game in a short time! I'm overall very happy with how well it worked.

🎵 Music
The music by @koningmathijs used in this game is from another Ludum Dare entry of ours. Because of that, I've opted out of the audio category.
⚠️ Known issues
- ~~Web version will crash after game over~~
- Windows version uses Debug build due to an issue with the Release build
| Source Code | https://github.com/thomz12/LD55 |
| Web version | https://thomz12.github.io/LD55/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/patty-panic |
Ratings
| Overall | 59th | 3.9⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 44th | 3.983⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 289th | 2.85⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 326th | 2.629⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 86th | 3.933⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 81th | 3.517⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 121th | 3.55⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
Fun take on the travelling salesman. Very tight design, it feels like there's nothing you could add or take away from it. Only critique I can think of is to call a bit more attention to customers who's demand bar is about to fill up, as they all blur together a bit when there's a lot of them.
EDIT: Just read that this was created with your own engine, massive kudos for that. You should rate some more games to give this entry some visibility, it deserves it :)
Could also add different levels with bigger rooms and customers that are different in demand. In one place they have no problem with waiting in line and waiting for the invoice but want their food super fast...
All in All cool Game. And obviously cool engine!
One of the coolest entries I've yet seen this LD!


The graphics look relly cool, the artstyle looks great! I love all the little icons and animations. There's a large amount of variation in customer looks, so they don't get boring either.
One tiny bug I've discovered is that sometimes the customers waiting in the line don't show the `!` icon and there is no visible timer for them, but I haven't managed to figure out a way to reliably reproduce it.
The gameplay loop is easily understandable, and it eases you in slowly to get into the rhythm. It's a pretty good idea to start with just one customer, so the player has a chance to observe all the actions you need to perform in order to completely serve one person.
The audio side is cool as well. All actions have their own sounds, giving good feedback to the player. The music sounds pretty good too, but it makes me wonder if you've perhaps wanted to submit this as a Jam entry and submitted as a Compo instead? According to the Compo rules, all the music should be created within the 48h of the Compo, while the Jam allows you to use previously-made music (with opting out of the category).
Overall, it's a really good entry! All the more impressive given the fact it's made in a custom engine. Well done!

10,900 and I enjoyed the experience! Tight movement, great tutorial intro, clear UI/graphics that look nice, and pleasant surprises about combo-actions such as picking up multiple burgers (thank goodness there was no customer-specific ordering!) or leading a customer to a table where you're about to collect (thank goodness there was no need to clean/set the table!).
No splinters, except maybe a very slight one where a few times I wished the corners of the table were rounded in terms of the collider (or maybe the player was a circle) so that I could slip around the edges instead of jolting to a stop.
But so well put together, really impressive entry!
edit: saw that the music was not created during the 48 hrs despite being compo - that music really did add to the vibe! Appreciate you disclosing and opting out of audio. I docked a half-star on "overall" rating for coloring slightly outside the lines there. On the other hand, respect for running on your own engine, impressive, nice web experience.