"Samurai Cafe: Your order in 10 seconds, or we are going to commit seppuku!"
That was the wonderful idea by Beet, the delivery robot, to increase the awareness of the little Cafe he ran with Bronks, the cook robot.
Now you have to make and deliver pizza for all the patrons that are coming!
Samurai Cafe is a twitchy action game. Your goal is to deliver pizzas on demand to the clients. If any of them waits for more than 10 seconds, the game is over.
This game was developed with libGDX for Android and desktop. I hope you enjoy it!
Nice idea. I have to admit.. I lost until I realized that I needed to drag to the tables. Once I actually read the How to, it was a great game. Had fun!!
This looks really cool, but for some reason I can't figure out how to drag the pizza to the "ready" tray. I tried clicking both the pizza and the tray and dragging/dropping but no luck.
Zerebruin: Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I didn't have a lot of time for balancing the game, so I had no idea if the game would be too slow or too fast for others. I'll try a better difficulty curve in the Post-compo version.
Hello ! As Zerebruin said, the game works quite well and looks nice. Also, your autotracker music works surprisingly well. But it is quite slow unfortunately.
Also, I tried to create random pizzas before customers came, but then I discovered that I couldn't destroy the useless extra pizzas so I stopped :p
Love the android port as usual. It definitely starts off slow. Do they ever ask for four-topping pizzas? It seems like it'd be pretty hard to tell what they ordered at that point, though I think that chaos would really add to the game.
Pretty fun game. I sometimes felt like there was too much time between customers though, which made it feel a bit slow at times. That said, I found myself playing it for quite a while! Well done!
Dragging pizzas that where done sometimes didn't work for me. I am talking about the ones that are already out of the oven. But the game is pretty fun as long as the dragging works ;-) played and rated from my android phone (nexus 4)
There is a "difficulty array" that lists the maximum number of toppings, the maximum number of clients at the same time on the screen, and the frequency between clients.
So it is possible to have multiple toppings, but because I had no time to balance-test, The clients will only ask for multiple toppings far ahead in the game (after 20 pizzas or so)
I clearly underestimated the gaming abilities of my LD raters :-D Next version of the game I'm going to crank the difficulty way up!
two things: 1) Sometimes ingredients asked for weren't that clear 2) I would've added a pizza following the mouse when you drag it. It got me really confused at first. Overall, nice game. And thank you for your video review! That was so nice of you!
Those are some pretty undercooked pizzas probably, haha :D
It is a bit hard to see the pizza toppings in the small order images - that might be due to my high resolution on a small laptop monitor though. Apart from that, I quite like the look of the game!
Like others remarked, the pacing is so sloooow. I would've liked to get multiple toppings, but I didn't have the patience to play so far.
The autotracker music fits rather well. Still: You should give http://abundant-music.com a try! Similar to autotracker in that it generates the music for you, but it has MUCH higher quality.
My only real problem with the game was the lack of consistency between the input methods. Having to switch between click to place and drag and drop kinda broke my flow. Also I could be that I just suck.
Ok, I learn two things playing this. I can't cook and now I'm hungry. Jokes aside... I think the theme matches perfectly with this kind of game. I loved the name and the main character! A samurai robot that works at a cafe that makes pizza! hahaha
This is a really neat idea, although the pizzas and toppings were a little too small. I'd definitely play a polished version of this! Also, kudos on using libGDX!
Kevin: Thanks! LibGDX is so much better than Slick2D, I'm loving it. As for the toppings, blame it also on my poor artistic skills :-) I will work on a post-compo version soon!
Nice idea, but the game is a bit slow. And suddenly there are 2 customers at the same time, so I lost. I like the robots and the music fits. Some sound effects would be great though. Your game made me hungry, now I want a pizza for myself :)
Solid entry, everyone has already said what needs to be said :)
Also, I enjoyed watching your review videos! They let me kick back and take in some LD when I was eating, or when my wrists needed a break from programming and gaming. Thanks for making those :D
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Also, I tried to create random pizzas before customers came, but then I discovered that I couldn't destroy the useless extra pizzas so I stopped :p
Yeah, throwing pre-made pizzas in the trash was a feature that got cut due to budged constraints ;-)
Autotracker music can get old, but it is nice for fast paced game!
Cheers!
Sadness.
There is a "difficulty array" that lists the maximum number of toppings, the maximum number of clients at the same time on the screen, and the frequency between clients.
So it is possible to have multiple toppings, but because I had no time to balance-test, The clients will only ask for multiple toppings far ahead in the game (after 20 pizzas or so)
I clearly underestimated the gaming abilities of my LD raters :-D Next version of the game I'm going to crank the difficulty way up!
two things:
1) Sometimes ingredients asked for weren't that clear
2) I would've added a pizza following the mouse when you drag it. It got me really confused at first.
Overall, nice game.
And thank you for your video review! That was so nice of you!
It is a bit hard to see the pizza toppings in the small order images - that might be due to my high resolution on a small laptop monitor though. Apart from that, I quite like the look of the game!
Like others remarked, the pacing is so sloooow. I would've liked to get multiple toppings, but I didn't have the patience to play so far.
The autotracker music fits rather well. Still: You should give http://abundant-music.com a try! Similar to autotracker in that it generates the music for you, but it has MUCH higher quality.
All in all, pretty cool game! Good job!
PS: I love your avatar.
As for samurai Pizza cats, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Feysoura: I loved idea #2! I'll be sure to implement it!
Drag-and-drop system not shown visually which make thats game part not very intuitive.
Good entry.
It feels very odd to drag something without having it follow the mouse, a click system would probably have been better.
Should consider equalizing the tables and the ingredients it seems as if they take different time to reach.
There is a bit much waiting between the very intensive pizza orderings for me.
Like the graphics, animations and the music.
EXACTLY! :-D
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=20047
Gonna play your entry now !!! :)
I laughed too hard at the seppuku line :)
Didn't realize my game was so hard... sorry about that! ;)
Also, I enjoyed watching your review videos! They let me kick back and take in some LD when I was eating, or when my wrists needed a break from programming and gaming. Thanks for making those :D