Swipe The Roast

by cobrajs
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.22
Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.94
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★32%
Swipe the Roast: A game about grocery shopping

Drive your cart through the grocery store and grab as much food as you can, but try not to stack it too full, or else you will lose money from dropping groceries.

Note: This is a little unpolished. Especially the score screen. I didn't have time to add any sound either.

Keys:
X : grab left
C : grab right
Left : turn left
Right : turn right
Up : forward
Down : backward

screenshot

Comments13

devi ever26 Aug 2013, 03:40
Got an error : "cannot open data/apple.lua: no such file or directory"
PaidGEEK
PaidGEEK26 Aug 2013, 03:50
Same error for me.
mpath26 Aug 2013, 03:57
I don't have a windows machine and I have no idea what love is. Sorry.
cobrajs
cobrajsauthor26 Aug 2013, 08:33
Ok, I uploaded a new version with that error fixed. Love means Love2D, a cross platform Lua based game engine.
josefnpat
josefnpat26 Aug 2013, 12:56
Nice job, I like the hand drawn-ness of it! Remember to always save time for polish! (or the polish people. Not sure which.)
leafo
leafo27 Aug 2013, 05:42
cool idea, I wish there was more
Croze
Croze28 Aug 2013, 22:23
no groceries ever showed up on the shelves, and was fairly buggy. I personally liked the drawn on graphics, and game could be good given some polishing.
Latcarf28 Aug 2013, 22:47
That's very difficult, the cart can get stuck very easily. But the idea is original.
awppy28 Aug 2013, 23:56
I didn't see any groceries on the shelves and there only seemed to be one item per game?

Found it much easier to control when going backwards. That's how I'll do my shopping from now on...
cobrajs
cobrajsauthor29 Aug 2013, 01:35
Yeah, I was planning on drawing groceries for each section, but I ran out of time. There are separate sections of groceries, there's just no visual indicator :P
brobutter
brobutter30 Aug 2013, 01:08
didn't see any groceries and i moved way to fast to do anything.
VeloSpectre30 Aug 2013, 22:40
Pretty funny idea for a game. Hard to play though it seems. kinda fast movement speed. I like the item dropping system.
alts31 Aug 2013, 22:30
All I could think of while playing this was "Supermarket Sweep". And then I read your journal, and sure enough, you were thinking the same thing. Thank you.

I feel like this game has two ideas that would work independently, but when combined feel a bit weird. The dropping game doesn't need the narrative of the supermarket nor the distinct foods to work well. And the supermarket spree is hampered by the dropping mechanic, which puts limits on how frantic the shopping portion can be. I might split these up into two separate games, and consider how to fill in the gap left by the other in a way that accentuates the strong aspects of each.

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