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Cosmic Cafe Crisis by simbishy

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made by simbishy for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

You are an aspiring interstellar cook, feeding the galaxy in limited space, with limited space and limited time.

The only cosmic real estate you could afford was in low-orbit and so you must contend with numerous space junk occasionally colliding with your restaurant. Patrons may order one of two meals: "confusion burger" or "crunchie smoothie"! If a critical workstation of yours is damaged by space junk, take some time to repair it and get it back to working order! If you miss a patron's order, your reputation will drop. It is gameover when your reputation drops to 0.

Alas, your time as an interstellar cook will not be forever, and so it is your goal to just last as long as possible. Good luck!

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Made in <72 hours for LD54 game jam by vanillz (programming), AeroMech (3D Assets), simbishy (3D Assets), and friend (music/audio) who doesn't have account lel ^_^

-Graphics: all 3D assets made from scratch in Blender. Sourced from 3rd parties for free: UI button/panels, some texture maps for 3D assets. Logo made by programmer in Canva

-Audio: 3rd party samples sourced.

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Link https://npark3r.github.io/
Link https://vanillz.itch.io/cosmic-cafe-crisis
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/cosmic-cafe-crisis

Ratings

Overall 1079th 2.786⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1119th 2.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1106th 2.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 938th 3.048⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 262th 4.119⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 560th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 677th 2.667⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 984th 2.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

NicolasJL9
03. Oct 2023 · 01:40 UTC
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Phillip Scott
03. Oct 2023 · 23:16 UTC
Nice graphics, like that you have made the code monkey tutorial your own :thumbsup:
vanillz
03. Oct 2023 · 23:38 UTC
@phillip-scott Thanks for the kind words! The code monkey tutorial is the only content I've watched around Unity dev (had to pick it up quickly in time to skill-up for this jam!) We planned to adapt it to whatever theme we got :D Had a lot of fun extending what he taught to add some cool novel features <3
Alexascher
03. Oct 2023 · 23:58 UTC
Nice game! Reminded me of overcooked, but harder. I've managed to make only one burger before timeout. Also I sometimes confused "F" and "space"
vanillz
04. Oct 2023 · 00:08 UTC
@alexascher Thank you! :heart: It's an accomplishment to have made a single confusion burger at all! Really lives up to its name lol
kanity
04. Oct 2023 · 00:12 UTC
The visuals are super cute, and I love music and sound effects, they really fit the atmosphere of the game ^^ Overall it reminded me of Overcooked and I wasn't very good at Overcooked either xD I was a bit confused here trying to figure out how to prepare a meal. And maybe it's because I played on page and didn't download, but the screen cuts off right over customers' heads so I kinda have no idea what they want? >_< Lastly, I think the idea with stations being destroyed as you are in space and like asteroids or sth hits them is really cool! :)
vanillz
04. Oct 2023 · 00:15 UTC
@kanity :heart: Thank you! Re. the UI scaling: I'm still not very clear on how to correctly setup camera rendering, and especially UI scaling, for different aspect ratios! :dizzy_face: Still have some learning to do in this area. We hoped that the pause screen showing the burger recipe would help, but it's still a difficult recipe to execute haha
kanity
04. Oct 2023 · 00:42 UTC
@vanillz I reckon that's why it's called confusion burger xD
LDJam user 206001
06. Oct 2023 · 05:45 UTC
I had fun here. It's a casual game, a quick round and the kitchen is gone. Customers couldn't have been angrier. Through trial and error I tried to do something but guess what? I couldn't do anything lol. The falling rocks were a lot of fun, everything was very chaotic and cramped. Very well polished graphically. Just confused to understand what to do. I could start with simple things like juice and get more difficult...
GlennVerheij
07. Oct 2023 · 21:46 UTC
Cool art style. Its a bit hard for me to understand whats going on and what I was supposed to do. I saw the aliens, I gave them a dish but nothing happened. I have never played a game like this so for players like me a tutorial is pretty much mandatory. Also a bit more visual feedback on what is the correct thing to do and what is not the correct thing to do.
Crain
09. Oct 2023 · 07:35 UTC
Graphics were great! i love the artstyle and the audio was very good, gameplay wise i was a little lost lol, i feel like a tutorial would have made this game realllly good! i do really like the concept!
m0zrat
12. Oct 2023 · 20:52 UTC
Looks nice! didn't figure out how to prepare a complete meal
🎤 simbishy
12. Oct 2023 · 23:31 UTC
@m0zrat ty! We realised we made the game waaay harder than anticipated towards the end of the jam haha. Lessons learned for next time :)
🎤 simbishy
12. Oct 2023 · 23:34 UTC
@crain ty for your feedback! Definitely, I think we made the difficulty high enough that it warranted a tutorial, but we only kinda realised that towards the end of the jam.
🎤 simbishy
12. Oct 2023 · 23:36 UTC
@glennverheij ty for the detailed feedback! Definitely I think balancing gameplay was something we found hard. We only realised how difficult we had made it towards the end of the jam. Hope to improve on this next LD!
🎤 simbishy
12. Oct 2023 · 23:39 UTC
@lincolnsalles ty for the detailed feedback! Really good point (and consistent with all our other feedback). Either needed tutorial or easier recipes (at least to begin with). I've learnt gameplay/balance was one of the hardest aspects to get right! Thanks again for playing and leaving feedback :)