Ludum Dare #41compo
SUSHI IS FISH + RICE
I only had Sunday to jam, so I spent most of Saturday thinking about incompatible genres. I don't think deckbuilding and cooking are inherently incompatible, but the folks who usually play deckbuilders (fairly hardcore) and the folks who usually play cooking games (fairly casual) are in pretttttty different buckets. I originally sketched out a deckbuilding + farming game, but it turns out combining ingredients is a hell of a lot easier than sequentially going through seed -> water -> harvest lifecycles. And in terms of ingredients, Nigiri is pretty dang easy (1 fish + rice).
I didn't get quite as much of the deckbuilding in as I wanted (I wanted some utility cards to affect the state of the "board" and make it a little more strategic), but overall I'm pretty happy with what I managed to get in with about 11 hours to jam. If I'd had more time I'd like to add:
* Day Cycle (throw away extra inventory at the end of each day)
* Tip Bonuses (finish orders quickly to earn more $$$)
* Just particles and notifications EVERYWHERE to make things more clear.
* Utility cards -- the true "meat" of the deckbuilding. Ramping these up was the meta progression I had in mind.
* Game Over state (either win or lose).
It's fairly hard right now -- the goal I set myself was to get to $250 as a "game over" but that might actually take awhile.
Ooops realized there's a real game called Sushi Go so typing dumb things like Sushi Build Go is probably not so good. Renamed to the just as dumb "SUSH IS FISH + RICE"
Comments7
mrPenguin4 May 2018, 15:34
I think this game has too much code and is not meta enough and not a board game enough for me, I guess I'm being too much as a kid wanting new things and exploring other Ideas than the traditional windows games that everyone is doing, not edgy enough for me...
mrPenguin4 May 2018, 15:37
Also you may want to check https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/christmas-tree that has a bit of code (still not a lot, but plain c++ without engine or anything (using SFML)) :)
Aszu4 May 2018, 15:45
Great game!
I think this was the game i most enjoyed to this date. hahaha
this ^ was my score when i stopped. I thought 250 was the goal, now i properly read that there's no gameover yet. So yeah, it needs a goal, otherwise one gets bored.
But the mechanics are great, the order's time seems balanced, profit is not bad too, i liked it very much. Hope you'll expand!
also, you needed some music and sfx to get a better mood :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I think this was the game i most enjoyed to this date. hahaha
this ^ was my score when i stopped. I thought 250 was the goal, now i properly read that there's no gameover yet. So yeah, it needs a goal, otherwise one gets bored.
But the mechanics are great, the order's time seems balanced, profit is not bad too, i liked it very much. Hope you'll expand!
also, you needed some music and sfx to get a better mood :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
niterich4 May 2018, 16:46
For only having Sunday to work on it, I think you did a really good job. The basic mechanic of buying enough materials to satisfy orders but not too much to clutter your inventory added an interesting twist to the game.
As someone who doesn't like sushi, I had a lot of difficulty telling which fish to buy on sight alone. What do you mean the yellow meat comes from those black urchins?
As someone who doesn't like sushi, I had a lot of difficulty telling which fish to buy on sight alone. What do you mean the yellow meat comes from those black urchins?
differentname9 May 2018, 20:53
It's fun for such a simple game. Clever way of using deck building. Of course a little visual feedback would be good when I successfully fill an order or make an item that's not going to anyone, but who has time for that?
RockhopperGames10 May 2018, 16:53
A shockingly well realised genre combination! The name and concept struck me immediately and as I continued to play, I was amazed how much the theme of running a restaurant fit with the mechanics of deckbuilding. This is a superb game, and you should be proud of what you accomplished here!
I didn't seem to make much progress, ended up at $77, which I think is less than I started (though I did have a bunch of cards in hand). Perhaps always buying rice too late every time, effectively for $3, was hurting my profits :). I think if the profit margins were a little bigger it would have left me feeling like I was accomplishing something, and not just treading water.
Eventually the game got stuck - I could select cards, but it would no longer make sushi. I think maybe I had a card selected when I clicked Refresh.