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Dish It Out by recursor

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made by recursor for LD 42 (COMPO)

Fling cup, bowls, and plates to land them on the table in the middle of the room. Points are scored for each dish remaining on the table when time expires.

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* Controls: *

  • Move camera with WASD

  • Rotate camera with Right Mouse button (or Alt + LMB)

  • Mousewheel zoom camera in/out

  • Enter dish launch mode by left-clicking and holding on a dish

  • Drag the mouse to change the throwing power

  • Release mouse button to throw the dish

  • Esc brings up the options menu while in-game

* Objective: * - Get as many dishes onto the center table as possible before time runs out

  • For a dish to count, it must remain on the center table

  • Each dish type has its own point value

  • If you toss all the dishes before time is up, press esc to enter the options menu and select 'End Stage'

** Version

v0.15 - Fixed mouse position bug when launching a dish

v0.14 - Removed launch height control as it made the game too difficult

v0.13 - Fixed issue where increasing/decreasing launch height would also increase launch magnitude ( this made it more difficult than it should have been)

v0.12 - Allow movement before the timer starts

Post your high scores below

HTML5 (web) https://proto.pixelbytestudios.com/jams/DishItOut/WebGL/index.html
Source code https://proto.pixelbytestudios.com/jams/src/LD42-recursor-src.unitypackage
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/dish-it-out

Ratings

Overall 332th 3.432⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 350th 3.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 219th 3.455⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 682th 2.5⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 432th 3.068⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 65th 3.705⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 51th 3.632⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 157th 3.4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

coatline
12. Aug 2018 · 22:20 UTC
Nice game! My highscore is 140! I love the sounds the dishes make when they clank together. I also like the slingshot mechanic. This game goes well with the theme.
anstabo
14. Aug 2018 · 18:19 UTC
It's a fun physic Game but if you don't read the control that you put in your post, there's no way of knowing that you have to press shift to increase height power. So maybe a pass on feedbacks could help a lot, or a more adequat input.

I like the idea for the menu to have everything pile up, because it's the core gameplay of your game.
Johannimations
14. Aug 2018 · 18:25 UTC
great audio i must say! but i found it difficult to controll. the idea is great, if you polish it up it has great potential!
🎤 recursor
14. Aug 2018 · 18:27 UTC
@anstabo The controls are in the Help dialog which includes using Shift + Mouse to increase launch height, but I agreee that the controls can be difficult to explain/grasp. Honestly, that was my biggest concern while making the game, but I'm glad you got it and I'm hoping other people will see it too. Without being able to increase the launch height the game is not very fun. Thanks for the feedback!
crazyrems
14. Aug 2018 · 18:37 UTC
That's completely unexpected but I found it very funny.
shp
14. Aug 2018 · 18:44 UTC
Very hard to land anything, when it happened it felt like pure luck! the controls themselves are nice but something about the physics feel odd. regardless, cool entry, fun concept!
Ezra LaFleur
14. Aug 2018 · 18:52 UTC
I love this so much for who knows why! It's just so fun to launch the dishes around even though I'm horrible at having them land on the table. Really fun and I've spent lots lots more time on this than any of the other games! Neat!
Sam Estep
14. Aug 2018 · 18:58 UTC
How is this real? I have dreamt of such glory but never imagined that it could manifest in the actual world. My unworthiness of witnessing such beauty did end up being reflected in my nonpositive score, but I count myself a better person regardless for having played it.
sh1rogane
14. Aug 2018 · 19:12 UTC
That was a hard game, only managed to get 110 after several tries. I must ask you @recursor what are your high score as the developer?

I was really digging the music and the sound effects was also nice. The controls was a bit clunky in the beginning but you learned after the first time. I'm quite sure that I still got points from dishes that managed to land on the stools, maybe a bug?
🎤 recursor
14. Aug 2018 · 20:29 UTC
@sh1rogane The stools are also meant to get you points for any dishes landing on them. I believe my best score is 160. Each dish has different point values with the cups being the most since they are the most difficult to land. I just fixed a bug in the launch height controls which had been increasing the launch magnitude as well as the height. This should make it a bit easier to control. Thanks for the feedback!
Gus the Shark
15. Aug 2018 · 01:00 UTC
Really cool original concept! It was nearly impossible for me though as I could only play with my touch pad and no mouse. I dig the chill music, it suits the game. I wish throwing was easier, maybe with a projection of the trajectory. That might be just me though. Nice work!
🎤 recursor
15. Aug 2018 · 13:40 UTC
@gus-the-shark Yeah that makes me think I probably should have had some dishes on an inclined surface which would have removed the throw height component entirely and probably made it more fun. Hmmm... perhaps in a post-compo version. Thanks for the feedback
Jupiter_Hadley
18. Aug 2018 · 14:23 UTC
Challenging game! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 42 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/pT1wbP1q_Ao
Endurion
19. Aug 2018 · 08:06 UTC
Hmm, hard to say what to make of this. It's basically a physics engine test :)

The idea is a funny one. But somehow the shot strength seemed to have a random percentage; from a gut feeling using the same power had some dishes go over or in front of the target table.
I also do not really see the theme in this; unless it's the space on the table.

I managed to get a lousy 50 points :)
LeviDSmith
19. Aug 2018 · 23:55 UTC
Neat unique game. Nice music. I managed to score 100 points on my second try. Maybe some sort of trajectory display would help me shoot better. The only issue I noticed was that if I used all of the dishes before time ran out, then I would have to wait for the rest of the time to tick down before I got the results.
velvetlobster
20. Aug 2018 · 00:47 UTC
The music is excellent. Throwing the dishes is fun and satisfying
noermel
21. Aug 2018 · 18:42 UTC
Hey! I really like your game especially the sounds. It is satisfying if you manage to throw a bowl and it acutally stops on the table.
The_Icy_One
21. Aug 2018 · 18:52 UTC
It's fun, and pretty satisfying, but feel like it would be even moreso if the dishes shattered when they fell on the floor. Other than that, the gameplay seems pretty much perfect, if a little tough.
dk5000p
21. Aug 2018 · 20:01 UTC
It was fun just hurling dishes but actually landing them on the center table was quite difficult. It also was weird that dishes did not shatter. I also did not really see the theme in this game. @levidsmith you can use esc to end the stage.
Drums
21. Aug 2018 · 21:30 UTC
Great audio and controls. Nice coding on the strength and everything too! Is there a way to pick them up if you miss? Because if not, you should end the game after throwing them all since there is nothing to do. Overall it's super tricky but fun. Good job!
suve
22. Aug 2018 · 00:13 UTC
A neat little entry. Weirdly relaxing. Mastering the throws is difficult, but rewarding. Nice job.
King Kujito
22. Aug 2018 · 16:31 UTC
This is solid.
RenD
25. Aug 2018 · 13:45 UTC
Really fun little game. At first, I was a bit afraid with the controls but it turned out OK and pretty intuitive to use. My main concern is the UI/feedback you implemented when pulling on the plates. The colors are misleading, because green seems to indicate that's fine whereas it's way too strong. The fact that the force is represented discretely and not continuously is a bit misleading also. I wasn't able to determine if you could aim up or down. But apart from that I played several times and had fun, that's the most important, congrats!
🎤 recursor
26. Aug 2018 · 22:24 UTC
@rend
It is a continuously increasing force, and the colors are there to give an indication of what range you are in kind of like in the golf games. Another thing that I should have explained is wherever you click on the dish is where the force will be applied. Applying the same strength force on different parts of a dish will cause it to behave very differently. You can actually cause a plate to flip forwards or backwards doing this (backwards flips work quite nicely). Thanks for the feedback and for giving it a shot.