Ludum Dare #37compo

Cocoa Catastrophe

by eggplant

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.30

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★47%

Another 3 months, another Ludum Dare!

I really wasn't sure to do with this theme, so in desperation I just went with this. Santa won't start Christmas until he's had his cocoa. He has locked himself in his room until that happens. You are the unlucky elf who must prepare cranky Santa's cocoa, but beware, too many wrong guesses as to what he wants and Santa will be angry. Requires Java to run. The idea, code, art, music, and sound effects were done by me with the following tools:

code - Eclipse/Java + standard libs
art - Gimp
music - GarageBand
sound effects - Bfxr

It's a pretty crappy game, and the music is awful, but hey it's Ludum Dare and I also had to study for finals. Enjoy and please leave feedback!

Comments18

hijomo15 Dec 2016, 04:59

Nice game. The feedback scene felt like it was too long. That time did build tension though. I liked the art.

Eggplantauthor15 Dec 2016, 22:45

@hijomo Thanks! The feedback scene could be cut down.

Lukbebalduke15 Dec 2016, 23:09

Nice music and graphics, I just felt like the game is a little bit short.

Well made :)

phoenix198715 Dec 2016, 23:26

Nice little game. I do agree the feed back is a bit long. Graphics and sound were good and fit the theme well. Great job and I hope you continue

Uruca Games16 Dec 2016, 01:23

The gameplay is stable. If the game had music and sound effects the gameplay experience would be better. He would even play with Santa's angry voice is

Eggplantauthor16 Dec 2016, 06:05

@Lukbebalduke Thanks! Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of time due to having to study for finals. Hopefully next time I can make something better.

@phoenix1987 Thank you, I appreciate that!

@Uruca Games There should've been music and sound effects. If you didn't hear anything a glitch must have occurred.

fafastudio16 Dec 2016, 18:47

Pretty cool game, maybe a bit too simple !
I liked the way you put some christmas song in your music (at least, that's what i heared).
Though the game is stable, and neat enough to finish it ! =)

Hempuli16 Dec 2016, 19:36

I liked how santa looked when I got the cocoa right! I wonder if there's a logic as to what information santa omits from his description of the drink?

acotis16 Dec 2016, 20:23

Haha, I like this! The Santa faces were really funny. One complaint I have is that for some reason I have to middle-click in order to use the buttons. Is that intentional? Also, it took me a minute to figure out that the feedback scene was over and I had to click "return". Still, the music wasn't that bad -- it was a short game, so although it was repetitive, it wasn't annoying.

Nice!

Yvanor16 Dec 2016, 21:00

Yeah I saved Christmas ! Simple little, short but pleasant to play. Good job !

Eggplantauthor17 Dec 2016, 03:32

@fafastudio Thanks! Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of time when I made it so it ended up a bit simplistic. The music is something I made up really quickly in GarageBand, but it's meant to sound Christmas-like.

@Hempuli Hmm...maybe he was too busy to describe what he wanted and the elf didn't want to risk asking? Honestly I didn't bother with that part. XD

@acotis Hm, you shouldn't have to middle click. On my computer left clicking works fine. I should have made the return more obvious too. Thanks for the feedback!

@Yvanor Thank you, I appreciate that.