End of day 1! More progress:

Design: 90% (still unsure about upgrade system)

Art: 70% (missing customer animations and most of the interface)

Code: 60% (need to finish crafting and customer interaction)

Audio: 0% (leaving for last)

Concept:

Customers walk in, ask for a specific item, and it’s the player duty to handle the workers to produce the item requested.

Details:

• 2D, top down.
• 16bit sprites.
• Inspired by “Cook, Serve, Delicious”.
• Controls:
  • Movement via WASD.
  • Pickup and drop with E.
  • Choose option with 1, 2, 3 keys.
• Can only carry one item.
• Can upgrade the stations for 250g, making them work 25% faster.

Conditions:

• Win:
  • No “win” condition.
  • High score attack.
• Lose:
  • Money reaches zero.

Layout:

A room with several elements:

• South wall has the counter and the door where customers come in:
  • Max place for 5 customers.
• Top west corner has crates with a neverending supply of resources:
  • Wood.
  • Ore.
  • Leather.
• North and east walls have the stations, shown in a fan:
  • Smelter
  • Smith
  • Leatherworker
  • Carpenter
• In the center, you can find:
  • Crafter

Example of play:

• Customer comes in, randomises request, chooses he wants a dagger.
• Daggers are leather + ore.
• Player goes to the customer, accepts the order, UI reflects this.
• Player goes to the crate to grab ore, brings it to the smelter.
• While it smelts, goes to the leather crate to grab some and take it to the leatherworker and make a small hilt.
• Ore hot, Player picks it up and takes it to the smith, asks for a small blade.
• Hilt should be ready, P picks it up.
• Gives it to the crafter.
• Blade ready, Player brings it to the crafter.
• Crafter joins the components, makes dagger.
• Player grabs dagger, gives it to the customer, gets paid.

Please let me know your thoughts!