Feed Your Starter!!! by Papabirb


It's 2020, the year of impulsively making sourdough bread! Keep your brand new dough alive, feed your starter!!!
Features
- Should work on any device that can run HTML5!
- Tested on Windows 10, Mac, Google Pixel XL
- (Hopefully) Colorblind-friendly!
- (Hopefully) Dyslexia-friendly!
- Only two buttons! (Unless you count the start screen, then it's three.)
- Time-based score! The longer you keep the dough alive, the higher it goes!
Tools
- Code: Godot engine using GDScript
- Art: MS paint & Paint.net
- Music: LMMS
- Sounds & Voice acting: Audacity + ToneBoosters Timemachine plugin
- All recordings of myself and my boyfriend were obtained during the event as per the Compo rules.
- Font: OpenDyslexic 3
| Youtube | https://github.com/papabirb/Feed-Your-Starter-LD46 |
| Youtube | https://papabirb.itch.io/feed-your-starter |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/feed-your-starter |
Ratings
| Overall | 732th | 3.22⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 837th | 2.86⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 948th | 2.7⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 69th | 4.18⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 339th | 3.7⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 421th | 3.2⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 112th | 3.7⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 677th | 3.02⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 24🗨️ |
@aryanjumani Thanks! Nice score, thanks for sharing it! I love hearing how far people got! :D
@melonking Nice score! That's pretty close to my desktop scores from testing, which I forget the exact number but it was usually around 120. Good job clicking! Clearly your irl starter trained you well :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: I'm glad you liked the game!
Mood and humor on top. Gameplay and music are a little bit repetitive but really good job for a compo. You were all by yourself so well done !
@gavinrg Ha, my boyfriend mentioned autoclicking macros when I was making it. You'd probably end up close to my mobile score, I imagine! Yes, the voice at the beginning was my voice, as was the "FEED IT!" sound effect :) I recorded my bf for the "MOIST IT!" sound effect. All recordings passed through the TimeMachine 8bit filter (with some settings changed) at least once. I spent day 1 on the bread dough spritesheet, so you're not wrong! Glad there's no secret bugs to squash and I'm glad you had fun!!
Nice little clicker game. I made it to 80s.
P. S. I would try to make a starter IRL, but the supermarket has been out of bread flour for weeks now... lots of people having the same idea! :bread:
Nice graphics and animations! I would appreciate also the font to be pixel-made to fit the theme.
The gameplay is pretty basic, but working!
The intro feeled a bit unnecessary, but ok :)
It was a pity that the game said to me "No bread for you, failure" even if I did 94 seconds. Or is there some threshold which says "Yay, you won"?
The music is also pretty basic, but it fits the overall feeling.
Keep creating! And thank you for playing my game :)
I have no experience with making fonts, and wanted to emphasize accessibility for players, so I went with the open source dyslexia-friendly font. I'll have to do some research into whether pixel fonts are dyslexia-friendly for future games. Glad you liked the graphics, though!
It was my first time using the Godot engine so I kept the gameplay pretty basic on purpose :)
There's no winning threshold, it's a highscore-based game. None of us get bread at the end!
I've been busy with end of semester schoolwork, so I haven't had a chance to re-visit your game with hopefully working commands, but I fully intend to & your comment here will make it much easier to find when I'm ready! Looking forward to properly playing your game, thanks so much for playing mine!
Btw. the dyslexia helping fonts can be hard to read for others, so having options is the best. For a jam game, one font is enough though. :)
I understand about the dyslexia font being hard to read - honestly, it was a last minute thing where I couldn't tell if I had the correct rights to use the default-with-Windows font I'd been using during development for the compo submission, so I went digging for my dyslexia-friendly font as a replacement to make sure I was still following the rules. Definitely going to keep 'options' in mind for fonts and otherwise in the future!
Hope your sourdough is doing well!