Mister Maître by FerNandXor

Help Mister Maître with his waiter contest!
The game is self explanatory, so no more description needed here, except for extra bonus points when you bring more that 10 glasses, so you can improve your score risking with more glasses at once.
Software used: - GameMaker (HTML5 target). - Krita - Gimp - Audacity - Beepbox.co - Bfxr
All is made from scratch, except for Fonts (used Deneane and Opine Heavy).
Finnished in about 20 hours, in spare time. No time for entering Compo, but at least is a playable game :P
74 glasses is my current record, and I assume is pretty hard to get to this level :D
Itch.io Link: https://fernandxor.itch.io/mister-matre-ludum
| HTML5 (web) | https://fernandxor.itch.io/mister-matre-ludum |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/mister-maitre |
Ratings
| Overall | 406th | 3.605⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 571th | 3.316⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 462th | 3.289⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 222th | 3.895⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 630th | 3.395⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 373th | 3.353⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 544th | 2.971⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 618th | 3.222⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
The secret is using plate tilting to compensate movement, and make 3 or more delivers, trying to put 11 glasses or so in every delivery. But I don't know, may be others find a better way to improve score :D

Maybe there could also be a bonus below 10 glasses, such that there is always an incentive to carry more and that carrying more is always better than carrying little more often?
Good work :)
PS: i had no audio, is this normal? Just asking because the category is still up for voting.
Indeed, it has sound and music. I'm using Chrome, and works well. May be depends on your browser, I don't know if GameMaker has some issue on specific configurations.
About controls, I tried to use Mouse movement to tilt the plate instead of using more keys, but GM has a bug related to mouse tracking on HTML5, so I was forced to discard that decission :(
This game is really original, refreshing and humorous.
A good little hobby that allows to break many glasses without feeling the slightest shame for his own awkwardness.
Thank you for that ;-)
Great job!
First time I made it across with any glass I thought I might need to manually place them on the table. But I was simply a little too eager. So the sign confused me and might be better if it only showed after leaving off some glasses encouraging to run back (or moonwalk). To get more.
@amigopadilha are you tilting the plate with cursor keys? Also try not to hold movement, and give quick presses instead to gain some velocity. Thanks for playing!
@local-minimum, I thought about that, with more reactions even for the main character, but I was running out of time so I had to leave it out the game. I take note for the last advice. Thanks a lot for your extended review!
I love how the guy is just walking backwards to gets the other glasses ! it's funny !
The graphics were solid, I especially liked the different nervous looks on the waiter's face as you added more and more glasses. The sound was good, the music fit and the glasses had a good smash sound effect, which was the main thing that mattered.
I guess I didn't really care much about my overall score though, so maybe some kind of leader board would encourage score chasing a bit more.
I would be nice if it didn't show the tutorial graphics every time you restarted but they aren't there for long so it's only a minor nuisance.