Tender Bar!

by infecsean

co-authored: @alb3rt-w

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.49

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.16

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.87

Welcome to Tender Bar! In this game, you play as a Bartender who is trying to serve everyone a drink.

Controls:
WASD - move
Left Mouse Button - Pickup, put down, interact with customers' order, buying upgrades

How to play:
You start with 90 health, 2 pickup slots, 1 money/drink, and 0.19 speed.
Through serving drinks, you will get money (represented by beer icon).
You can by upgrades in the vending machines in the room behind the counter.

Customers will enter every 10 seconds, don't let them wait! They will give you bad reviews.

Notable bugs:
These will be fixed in the next patch (if there is one).
- The collider detection of drinks are inconsistent, sometimes you can put down but not pick back up, sometimes you cant pick them up at all (ex. beer).
- After a customer finishes their drink, they will ask for more, but you can't interact with them.
- There is no gameover menu
- There is no restart function
- Sprites of customers overlapping

Tags: #2d, #pixel art, #tender

Genres: simulation

Comments26

LDJam user 04 Oct 2022, 01:10

Impressive! There were a few bugs here and there, but overall the game was quite challenging and fun to play. Absolutely recommend!

LDJam user 04 Oct 2022, 01:15

I am big fan of your game. It is so realistic, especially that you can put drinks on the floor. Can't wait for the official version.

LDJam user 04 Oct 2022, 01:42

love the artstyle and gameplay. can't wait for the official release!

Foursay4 Oct 2022, 01:51

Its a classic top-down mover game while you move as slow as a snail at first glance, but it doesn't not matter that this could turn out to be an awesome work in the end lol. One suggestion for the itch page is that maybe you want to rename your win and mac build because they share a similar name now

Jag4 Oct 2022, 02:26

I think you might need to put in more info about how the game is played because I was quite confused on what to do. I picked up a drink and brought it to a customer but nothing happened...

infecseanauthor4 Oct 2022, 02:41

@foursay @jag Thanks for the suggestions! Download file names are updated and instructions are added along with some bugs for "Not just me" stuff.

Paul Avallone4 Oct 2022, 02:42

I really dig the art style and music. I wish I could move faster and picking and putting down drinks by clicking is a little glitched. Good job .

jjbug4 Oct 2022, 02:47

Nice game, like the vibes. Music and graphics are phenomenal. I couldn't figure out how to pick anything up but it was cool chasing around the grey haired dudes who had thoughts about certain drinks, maybe I was supposed to give them those drinks but I pressed a lot of keys and couldn't figure it out. Not a problem though, loved the vibes honestly pretty good time would play again A+.

NiceKot4 Oct 2022, 13:51

Nice style and music.

I like the idea too, but it was kinda odd that customers kept running away to the opposite side of the room. And while I was trying to bring them anything they have already disappeared.

Wouldn't it be better if they came to the bar by themselves and expressed what they want? Or just make the room smaller. Or a mini map! :D

KITmani4 Oct 2022, 14:02

Fun and quite challenging gameplay. It seems to me that if we moved faster or at least used a dash, the game would become more fun. The music is good, but very loud (I immediately got into the settings). The presence of a option for the windowed pleased me. In general, the game is pleasant. Good luck!

resacaGames4 Oct 2022, 14:09

Game seriously need the player to move at least a little faster. I like this overcooked styled games and the idea fitted nicely, but the absolute snail pace of the player and the short waiting time of costumers made it at least for me impossible to play... maybe I was missing something. Graphics and mood were great on the other hand!

Sacha_Soul4 Oct 2022, 14:52

The speed is .. special in its onw way
But the game is Really fun ! I like it a lot !

Moonblast4 Oct 2022, 15:32

Love the art style, thank you for making this game

MsPlanlos4 Oct 2022, 15:34

Liked the idea and the graphics a lot but the walking speed... it really felt like the way you run in your dreams. D:

Raivk4 Oct 2022, 15:50

Nice music, movement speed is soooo slow! But great entry :)

huskitch4 Oct 2022, 16:18

Needs some screenshots

Cypheus4 Oct 2022, 16:35

Absolutely could not get any customers to accept drinks. I clicked on them in all kinds of ways, walked through them.... it just seems broken. Re-opened the game and same problem. The graphics are fine for what they are; I like SNES style stuff so it's cute; probably the best part since the rest isn't really working? The music is basic and sounds like something from a random youtube video tutorial but it gets the job done. =-D

Also, which employee decided it was a good idea to toss hordes of stools out at complete random on the floor xD

Eugenik5 Oct 2022, 01:03

Really fun, thanks for making it :).

LDJam user 05 Oct 2022, 02:38

The bartender move it waaay too slow and the music seemed like the "free royalty youtube videos". Sorry for the negative feedback but unfortunately i didn't enjoy it

MeHigh5 Oct 2022, 14:26

Fun game, I think you should make the next patch, I'd like to play it

c4ris6 Oct 2022, 01:41

Thanks for the effort I can tell you worked hart to make the game come together. I hope you had a good game jam!

broodjethomaat6 Oct 2022, 09:18

Fun, nice art, but the bartender could move faster :)

Lorwon7 Oct 2022, 14:18

I have to agree with some comments, sometimes the bartender feels really slow !

But it's really fun game overall

Well done !

Krasimir Balchev7 Oct 2022, 14:33

The starting speed feels way too slow. I don't if I was unlucky but besides the first customer the others maily kept coming to the other end of the room and by the time I could reach them and see what they wanted they already starting standing up and leaving. The game has nice vibes, and interesting gameplay ideas, and the work put into it must have been a lot but I really feel like the movement speed hampered my enjoyment overall.

Pixelydian7 Oct 2022, 19:30

Great concept! Art is very cute and the music is boppin'. It seems like you're already aware of some collision/pick up issues, and as others have said, the bartender is starting out a bit too slow. I'm totally all for the buff increases, and I liked the UI display in the vending machine room, but he seemed a bit too slow to really even get going delivering any drinks and even afford those bonuses. The stage design is good, just need some speed to get to those customers across the room. I feel like you have a great thing here and with a few bug tweaks, it would be super fun! Good work!

Mooptychunk11 Oct 2022, 02:39

Alright!

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