Wobbly Waiter

by cg-fred
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.09
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.41
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.09
​A tiny game made for LDJam 49 in 8 hours.

How to play

​Use Arrow keys and deliver bottles to the table. Don't drop anything or else you get to play for it.

Comments20

robbietaco4 Oct 2021, 14:32
Great little game! Made me laugh, would love to see it expanded upon!
Final Act
Final Act4 Oct 2021, 14:44
Great game and the audio effects are funny!
Weirdybeardyman
Weirdybeardyman4 Oct 2021, 21:15
I managed a record profit of $3 it took me ages to get in the positive. I don't think I should take up waiting anytime soon. Just nice, fun and light-hearted, with a good measure of frustration thrown in.
azagaya
azagaya6 Oct 2021, 23:01
I made $5! Nice game! i really liked the controller, although at first i imagined it would feel annoying. I was wrong! I liked the background song! so relaxing. Fun Idea and very nice implementation! Congratulations!
Webox
Webox11 Oct 2021, 18:43
Hahah top notch sound design, great job fred as usual, very neat idea and nice execution, I'm 100% broke, It's so hard to save bottles. Great job!!
LDJam user 259103
LDJam user 25910317 Oct 2021, 16:25
This was hilarious! I found sometimes there was just no time for me to get back to te conveyor, but I didn't really mind too much. Nice work :)
kalevrk17 Oct 2021, 16:28
A challenging, but fun game! I liked how you had to take the waiter's momentum into account, kind of like the original Prince of Persia game, because there were a lot of times where I rushed back from the table to get the next set of bottles and then overshot it and they fell anyway. The sound effects were hilarious. Great job especially given that you did it in 8 hours.
Teo Miklethun
Teo Miklethun17 Oct 2021, 16:31
Only things I'd suggest is to (a) make it so that if you press left while pressing right, then let go of right, then the game will take you left and (b) make the speed controllable, so it feels like there's a risk/reward to going fast.
CG_Fred
CG_Fredauthor17 Oct 2021, 17:26
Thank you all for the kind comments and I'm very glad that you enjoyed the silly noises I recorded for this silly little game.
kythehuman17 Oct 2021, 18:46
I loved the character rig and mouth sounds always get bonus points from me!
Angrybeard
Angrybeard17 Oct 2021, 21:04
cool concept and 1A sounddesign :)
Nobongo
Nobongo18 Oct 2021, 02:21
The accapella sounds are always calming and the gameplay was fun too! Balancing the bottles on the table was tricky but rewarding. It could have been cool to see a pixel filter thrown over this so that it looked like an old Atari game.
Harrison Dunn
Harrison Dunn18 Oct 2021, 02:29
Yes, I love all the self-made noises. Mouth sfx! Unfortunately, the movement/squeak is a bit too much. It's too loud and repetitive. I wish there was some way to mute just that. :(

The controls feel a bit too unstable. Sometimes I would just sprint and other times it would move only a small step, making it feel really unreliable. Maybe this was intentional?

I liked the idea and the mechanics felt like it matched the theme. Well done on making this and congrats on finishing!
ModdingMachine
ModdingMachine18 Oct 2021, 17:56
Lovely, deffinitly felt pretty wobbly, I loved trying to stack the bottles so I could deliver more at once. Sound design was ecceptional :thumbsup:. Well done!
zapdos218 Oct 2021, 19:06
Good job for 8 hours! Lovely audio too LMAO :D
Togis
Togis18 Oct 2021, 23:37
A lot of fun and humour packed in a game made so quick! Congratz, I had a smile on my face while playing ^^

Katchiiing!
Dunk
Dunk19 Oct 2021, 15:49
Loved the foley sounds, scoped well for the jam, and the physics work very well considering the short time frame. Definitely challenging - would like to see if it's possible to complete without dropping a bottle!
Ava Skoog
Ava Skoog19 Oct 2021, 18:42
Really good! The audio half makes it, the physics does the rest 💜 Unstable but not frustrating, well tuned. Simple and easy to get into but fun to play for quite a while. Not as easy as it looks but not unfair. Nice and neat!
CG_Fred
CG_Fredauthor19 Oct 2021, 19:06
Thanks so much for the kind words! Means a lot to me. @harrison-dunn the controls are unstable due to the physics involved with the character and I didn't have enough time to fully get it to work as I wanted.

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