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High Caffeine Black Tea by SLEEPYMENACE

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made by SLEEPYMENACE for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

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Someone replaced the tea at your REFINED TEA PARTY FOR REFINED LADIES with HIGH CAFFEINE BLACK TEA! Chaos ensues! Reclaim your mansion's peace and quiet in this TACTICAL OJOU-SAMA DANMAKU game!

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Your caffeine-unhinged ojou-sama friends will throw everything they can find at you, and as you dodge their attacks all that garbage builds up and LIMITS the SPACE in which you can move!

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(In case you missed it, that's how we worked the theme in - it LIMITS the SPACE. The SPACE slowly gets LIMITED. Email me at sephiroth420dankkush@gmail.com if you want me to send you a chart.)

Controls

  • Move with arrow keys
  • Hold down the spacebar to shoot
  • Summon a maid to clean the garbage with C

Play the web version on Itch.io

Changelog

  • 2023/10/04: fixed build error causing enemy bullets not spawning in Linux build, added Windows build
Link https://steinuil.itch.io/high-caffeine-black-tea
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/high-caffeine-black-tea

Ratings

Overall 567th 3.569⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 465th 3.552⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 628th 3.286⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 630th 3.536⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 214th 4.19⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Humor 100th 3.966⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 41🗨️

Feedback

Zuu Zuu
29. Sep 2023 · 18:14 UTC
*hacker voice* I’m in
Headhog
03. Oct 2023 · 11:34 UTC
Hey, you didnt provide neither windows, nor mac nor online link, not many people will be able to play :sob:
Bstabuu
03. Oct 2023 · 15:38 UTC
![Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 18-30-45 image.png (PNG Image 1600 × 900 pixels).png](///raw/40f/a5/z/5f472.png)
The game is functional, but enemies are not shooting and there's no sounds? I'm using Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon. Giving it 5/5 for graphics though, nice style.
🎤 SLEEPYMENACE
03. Oct 2023 · 16:39 UTC
@bstabuu Yeah, uhhh, we're working on it. We had three minutes left on the clock and realized we had no idea how to actually export our game from Godot. We'll upload a fixed version within a day or so.

Thanks for the feedback!
chitoyuu
04. Oct 2023 · 11:06 UTC
Looks really cute, but it seems like the current build is still affected by the same problems as mentioned above. No enemy bullets or any music and sound effects. Clean Fedora 38 Workstation with just the nvidia drivers.
steinuil
04. Oct 2023 · 11:08 UTC
@chitoyuu I just uploaded a new version that should fix the enemy bullets issue, it's in the HCBT-linux-20231004.zip file
steinuil
04. Oct 2023 · 11:22 UTC
Also there is no sound because we didn't have time to put it in lol
chitoyuu
04. Oct 2023 · 12:29 UTC
So it took a few tries but I managed to finish the game for real this time. Graphics are cute indeed and the story was adorable too. Danmaku shmups are great and you should play more of them!

![yay.png](///raw/dbf/04/z/5f902.png)

> Also there is no sound because we didn’t have time to put it in lol

@steinuil Oh, ok. I thought there was supposed to be some because there was Music & Sound in the credits. Personally I think it's fair though if you've actually finished the assets within the 72h and just had to drop a audio player node into the scene, but I can understand if you don't want to do that.
steinuil
04. Oct 2023 · 12:55 UTC
@chitoyuu thank you for giving it another try, glad you liked it! I had to spend a lot of time looking at Touhou's spell cards and I really gained a new appreciation for them.

Yeah I thought about adding music and sounds after, but I don't know if it'd be fair since that'd change the experience a lot. ed also had very little time to make music (he had to leave after the first day) and while they're good tracks we weren't sure whether to put them in because don't really fit the mood of the game...
LDJam user 372602
04. Oct 2023 · 13:31 UTC
a inspired touhou game? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
LDJam user 372602
04. Oct 2023 · 13:42 UTC
can i make music for you?
🎤 SLEEPYMENACE
04. Oct 2023 · 13:50 UTC
what's a touhou?
coatline
04. Oct 2023 · 14:23 UTC
Difficult game, but I started to figure it out after a couple of tries. I do wish there was a restart button though. I did enjoy it for some reason. It is full of personality and I played more than I expected to. Good job!
LDJam user 372602
04. Oct 2023 · 14:26 UTC
@sleepymenace a bullet hell game
Shanluki
04. Oct 2023 · 14:46 UTC
Although the game seems a little incomplete i think it has some potential!
It would be great if you can use WASD for moving too.
grizeldi
04. Oct 2023 · 16:40 UTC
I love the idea, I really wish you could finish it in time. Some Touhou style music is missing though :)
Steffo
04. Oct 2023 · 17:35 UTC
Nice game!

The character's hitbox is a bit too large for a bullet hell game, I struggled to navigate between bullets even when no caffeine was there...

The shrinking screen mechanic was nice! :thumbsup:

A Restart screen would've been useful for when you run out of lives and want to play again!
Decentsauce
04. Oct 2023 · 18:09 UTC
I think the cups stacking at the bottom and filling up the room is a really clever take on the bullet hell genre! Initially I didn't understand that I needed to hold spacebar to fire so I think that could be better communicated and like others have commented a restart button would be good. The art has a lot of personality which I like. Overall I think some more polish would have really helped the game shine because I think that holds it a bit back now but otherwise this is a very good entry!
LDJam user 221750
04. Oct 2023 · 20:24 UTC
What I liked:
- Cute art

What I didn't like:
- Game is very difficult it seems to work incorrectly on my pc or in web version. There are no sounds and I can't attack most of the time for some reason. Also there are no sounds :(
steinuil
05. Oct 2023 · 01:33 UTC
Thank you for playing!

@steffo I noticed that the changes we made to make the character's and the enemy bullets' hitboxes to make them smaller in the last hour got lost in some git merge conflicts so I think I'll fix it tomorrow. Thanks for reporting this!

And yeah we wanted to put a restart button but we literally ran out of time to add anything by the end (including sounds). It is technically a feature, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to add...

@decentsauce we definitely didn't test spamming the button instead of holding it down. I'll try to fix it but in the meantime we'll add that to the instructions, thanks!
Ninai
05. Oct 2023 · 13:44 UTC
A gorgeous game, with a fun premises. Indeed more balancing and quality of life updates would be nice (i.e. WASD and a restart button) together with some key instructions. I found it a bit confusing to use the mouse in the startup screen and then space throughout the game. But I understand how those get lost in the chaos of a game jam. Overall a great contribution with a lot of potential. I enjoyed playing :)
Dan Burns
08. Oct 2023 · 02:09 UTC
Saw your note about audio - dang! Awesome work though, cheers!
Kilominior
08. Oct 2023 · 02:35 UTC
Fun bullet hell:)
The art is cute, and the idea is not bad.
Mr Bluecap
08. Oct 2023 · 03:54 UTC
This was a fun concept and I loved the conversations before each round. Some of the attacks seemed pretty intense, especially the last boss - I could not beat it for the life of me. And as everyone has said, a restart button would've been great. But this was a unique take on the theme, and I really enjoyed it -great work!
Metsker
08. Oct 2023 · 07:01 UTC
I definitely like it desu yo, if only i have a restart button... i would smash them all
Nanamaki
08. Oct 2023 · 08:48 UTC
I love the art and the characters. Really reminds me of the hard time playing Touhou. It is quite hard for me to finish the third level using the Marisa-like straight bullets with no upgrates no bombs and a relatively large hurt box. Give up desuwa! But really nice work desuwa!
Catulus Zesmar
08. Oct 2023 · 16:06 UTC
I love the theme and art for this. Played on itch and ran into some bugs with the garbage piling up and not being able to see it after a maid has cleaned once and having to refresh the page if I died. Obliviously I only encountered those bugs due to my lack of skill with these games but still had fun playing it.
LDJam user 372602
09. Oct 2023 · 01:10 UTC
@steinuil can i make music for this game?
Johnsensei
11. Oct 2023 · 12:53 UTC
お嬢様たちはとても悪い子だった。Given my username, I can appreciate anything Japanese. Clever idea and cute art. Of course, the lack of sound is an issue, but what I had trouble with is that I couldn't seem to restart the game after dying. What am I missing? I tried pressing all the keys used in the game plus enter, and clicking the UI icons, but I couldn't figure it out.
LDJam user 372602
13. Oct 2023 · 18:45 UTC
i want make music for this game without wanting money in exchange, for free, let me doooooooo
🎤 SLEEPYMENACE
14. Oct 2023 · 14:48 UTC
my brother in christ, we physically *cannot stop you* from doing.
LDJam user 372602
14. Oct 2023 · 14:59 UTC
sorry, gonna stop
DSK
15. Oct 2023 · 14:13 UTC
Really like the art style,so cute:)
LDJam user 277851
16. Oct 2023 · 13:08 UTC
I would never have expected to see touhouProject on ludumdare!

![Illustration3.png](///raw/b5d/34/z/60592.png)
🎤 SLEEPYMENACE
17. Oct 2023 · 12:13 UTC
@thyoi Oh my god, that's amazing! Thank you so much for the lovely picture! I remember playing your game back in LD51, I also remember liking it a lot but it seems I never left a comment. I'll make sure to check out your game this time, too!
Diana Codjebash
18. Oct 2023 · 08:25 UTC
Very cool, i like the visuals a lot
chitoyuu
18. Oct 2023 · 17:02 UTC
Time for a true display of skill!

![caffeine.png](///raw/dbf/04/z/606a7.png)
🎤 SLEEPYMENACE
18. Oct 2023 · 18:22 UTC
@chitoyuu This is now canon. I fucking love it, thank you so much! Gonna print it and get it framed on my desk.