Chaos Space Kitchen

by seano
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.95
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Cook for the customers.

BUT

The more customers you have, the worse it gets.

Written in Java using libgdx

The HTML is the most stable.

If anyone could be so kind as to run this from a command line and post the output, I can patch it up. But I have no idea why it's crashing at the moment.

Apologies!

screenshot

Comments36

Poorwill
Poorwill4 Dec 2017, 18:19
Nice responsive controls and fun gameplay.
darkgrisen4 Dec 2017, 18:21
I really liked this game! Best game so far!
AlexHoratio
AlexHoratio4 Dec 2017, 18:23
Pretty good!! I really love the graphics. I think that the premise is really quite interesting and it could be expanded on with some success. One piece of feedback I can give is that I think maybe the hitboxes for fitting the food into the appropriate recepticle could be a bit more lenient as I frequently spend too much time just throwing it repeatedly at the correct piece until it goes in.

Overall, nice job!
Jimbly
Jimbly4 Dec 2017, 18:46
How do I run this? Download is just a .jar? I tried running `java` or `javaw` `chaos-space-kitchen.jar`, which I thought was how I might run jars, but nothing happened.
Jimbly
Jimbly4 Dec 2017, 18:56
That got it to run, though it seems to crash whenever I accidentally throw something at an animal instead of into a receptacle, only useful bit in the output is `# Problematic frame: C [gdx-box2d.dll+0x1f6eb]`. Perhaps this requires a different version or flavor of Java than I have (looks like I've got "v1.8.0 portable" from a previous Ludum Dare), perhaps making a bundled version with all of the dependencies so people can just run it directly would be good (and perfectly legit to do post-competition, as that's packaging/porting, not development).

Was fun for the seconds I could play it though ^_^.
schizoid2k
schizoid2k4 Dec 2017, 21:45
Nice game... love the smooth scrolling. You have to be on your game to advance, which increases the pressure.

I did get one crash for some reason though, but it happens :grinning:
Talia
Talia4 Dec 2017, 22:23
haha total chaos. the difficulty curve is a little bit to big. anyways, it is fun to play!
elemel
elemel4 Dec 2017, 22:36
Frantic and fun. Liked the graphics. Was a bit frustrating with the hero sliding around on the floor.
Colossal Gnome
Colossal Gnome4 Dec 2017, 22:59
Really fun. I found it to be very challenging, Love the graphics and audio. fits the theme well, level difficulty increases rapidly. Nice job!
SVR_Audio5 Dec 2017, 01:26
This is really cute, good game, it kinda intense and chaotic, really cool, overal it is a great job !
6smith
6smith5 Dec 2017, 02:00
fun, but controls are a little floaty
Dave Siegel
Dave Siegel5 Dec 2017, 02:05
This was really fun. It has a nice frenetic feel to it.
orcdraco
orcdraco5 Dec 2017, 14:13
The game is indeed hectic from the first level, and as it progress, it gets a lot chaotic. Well, it really fits the theme. And great job on music+sound and graphics as well. :)
Gulyasarni665 Dec 2017, 17:09
This is amazing! I liked the artwork and the music, but it was too fast paced for me :D
I like how it says "Too much pressure" when you lose.
Good job!
seanoauthor5 Dec 2017, 22:31
Thank you everyone who has played this and thanks for all the feedback. it really helps! ill be using to make post compo version, so the more feedback the better. Im off to play more games...
Move127
Move1276 Dec 2017, 00:39
Really good game. The artwork and music are great. The controls felt weird at first, since there is a lot of sliding around. However, it felt satisfying to throw the stuff into the receptacles and that was partly because of how the controls worked.
neontropics
neontropics6 Dec 2017, 01:19
I like the kinda floaty controls! Gets very hard very quick though, and the. Good humor in the design. The pigs are a bit more of a random hindrance than something you can actively avoid.

Great DIY-y looking graphics and music - I like that there's multiple music themes.
Hugimugi7
Hugimugi77 Dec 2017, 13:52
Interesting game, and fun.

But I think it needs some more improvement.
xclementx
xclementx7 Dec 2017, 14:17
Nice controls ;) Everything is working great. Well done!
gamedevbynight
gamedevbynight7 Dec 2017, 15:19
i really liked the graphics and the music. Good job!
TobiasNL7 Dec 2017, 16:58
Smooth, fitting music, and a nice camera system! The game itself was quite fun to play aswell, although when you fail you have to start all over again, which over time gets old rather quick. Nice entry though!
nizlow7 Dec 2017, 18:25
Let me start by saying that those graphics were really good, I really liked them.
The music also adds to the game, fun but not annoying. The gameplay itself was ok. I don't know why you can't throw the food into a specific direction but instead throws randomly? Still filling the cooking pot just in time feels satisfying.

All in all, good game!
ksbdude7 Dec 2017, 19:45
Really good game, loved playing it.
FYI the window title is still "TestGame"
Overall really enjoyed it
MarshCannon
MarshCannon7 Dec 2017, 20:06
Great presentation! The audio and especially the graphics were great! I liked the idea, but it seemed very unforgiving about putting food into the containers. A lot of times where it seemed like it would definitely go in it would just fly over the oven. If you smoothed that out a bit it would be fantastic!
The Dankasaur
The Dankasaur7 Dec 2017, 22:37
Pretty great game! I enjoyed it when I was able to play it. I was only ever able to get to level 2 before the game kept crashing on me, which was too bad because I really wanted to move ahead. Otherwise, great job!
one-seed-fruit
one-seed-fruit8 Dec 2017, 03:12
It's fun and cute, but it's too hard for me! It gets really hard when those things are running around and bumping me around.
okk
okk8 Dec 2017, 07:27
Bug report: Have crashes on third level when throw kitten to the stove.

Game is pretty fun, good job =)
Kashif8 Dec 2017, 12:56
The game was interesting but it kept crashing a lot.
seanoauthor8 Dec 2017, 13:29
@kashif @okk any chance you could provide some stack trace from the crash ? It would be really appreciated!
sbarrio
sbarrio8 Dec 2017, 16:48
Nice little game, the graphics are funny and well animated. Good job!
blobo
blobo8 Dec 2017, 22:08
Well made! It gets very challenging very quickly, but i had loads of fun!
Simone17 Dec 2017, 22:09
Cool animation and also the sound fit well! :)
I got just a bit annoyed when the character was pushed around by running pigs, but it's a minor detail :)
Ashtrail
Ashtrail28 Dec 2017, 13:41
Nice music and graphics (I think the latter could be a bit more consistent though, for example with the contour color of the sprites).
The gameplay and controls are pretty fun but the item spawning is a bit too random in my opinion (sometimes I'd have a grill spawned on top of an oven for example). The time limit is quite short too and after many tries I couldn't pass the 3rd level.
Overall it is a nice game, it could a use a bit of polish to be even better if you're willing to keep working on it :).

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