Tick Tick Za!

co-authored: @poole-doodles, @vchadha
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.78
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.83
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.06
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.28
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.94
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TICK TICK ZA!


What's up dude, and welcome to Tick Tick Za, the world's first ever 10 second pizza kitchen!
Here at Tick Tick Za, pizza scientists and engineers have created the optimal method for producing high quality pizzas at record breaking times.

The kitchen can be a bit tricky to navigate at first, but with proper training you'll be a pro pizza chef in no time. It all starts with production. Every 10 seconds a pizza crust will come out the shoot in the center back of the kitchen. A display screen on your left will tell you what your order needs to look like and the screen to the right will list off the ingredients. Your job will be to complete each task as quickly as you can so the customer can leave satisfied with their perfect pizza. But three wrong orders and our artificial intelligence, Z.A Z.A, will shut us down due to safety compliant violations. Be careful, the machines can become overworked and will run into problems throughout your shift.

SAUCE SPRAYER

Our state of the art sauce sprayer holds three sauces, _Marinara_, _Alfredo_, and _BBQ_. Toggle between these three sauces with the lever on top and then spin the valve to spray your selected sauce on our finest dough. The type of sauce can be seen as the droplet in the top left of the ingredients display screen.

CHEESE SHREDDER

Take our gourmet cheeses from the table to the Cheese shredder where you will need to rub them against the blades of the grater. This will shred up your choice of _Mozzarella_, _Parmesan_, and _Ricotta_ cheese to a nice fine grain that cooks evenly in our oven. The type of cheese to use can be seen in the bottom left of the ingredients display screen.

MEAT DELIVERY

*Tick Tick Za* orders its meat fresh from local grass fed pastures where the animals are ethically raised and processed to high quality standards. There are always issues with delivery though, so you might need to search through several boxes to find the meat you’ll need for an order.

VEGGIE WHEEL

People love their veggies, and it's important to us to have quick rotation between the toppings so that each ingredient never goes bad. That's why we put them on a wheel that spins, and you can spin it too! Simply spin the wheel to find the ingredient you're looking for and pick it out of the pile.

COOLER CABINET

Here we keep our cold fresh items such as seafood and frozen veggies. They are kept in stacked cold hold drawers but can be difficult to access if another drawer blocks it. Try to close each door after using a topping to ensure they maintain their proper internal temperature.

PEPPER PRODUCTION

Tick Tick Za’s signature ingredients are the home grown peppers we use on our pizzas. To grow these delicious peppers all you need to do is use the watering can on the planted pots to grow some of the spiciest peppers known to pizza.

TRASH CAN

The Pizza Corporation requires that we have pineapple as an option to put on our pizzas. If you want it, you can get it from the trash can.

Z.A.Z.A

The artificial intelligence that is linked to each of the machines is Z.A.Z.A. She oversees production and will adjust equipment speed based on demand. Ideally, the better a pizza cook you are, the more orders will be coming your way. She keeps track how many pizzas you've delivered successfully and shows it on her main monitor. But, you break her heart three times by failing to complete an order and she’ll shut us down.

And that's it! You should be on your way to making beautiful and unique pizzas fresh from the one and only Tick Tick Za!

_Tick Tick Za! is created by the development group known as "The Lost Rats" featuring Justin Roderman, Varun Chadha, and Sean Poole_

Comments8

Nachodlv
Nachodlv4 Oct 2022, 02:30
Really neat game. I was hard to get the hand of it at the start, there were too many elements to take into account. Once I learned where all the ingredients where it was a little bit easier.
I would consider tone down a little bit the difficulty.
It was really fun game and i loved the music choice. Good job!
GERD4 Oct 2022, 02:38
Really funny concept! I think easing the player into the difficulty would be better though, like keeping the topping count low for longer and limiting the amount of toppings in the kitchen as well.
CrimOudin4 Oct 2022, 02:38
I love the game and concept. I wish it was a little easier for longer so I could relax and play it.
Nice graphics and lots of options thought.
Vulpez4 Oct 2022, 02:41
Loved the pizza thematic! Kind hard to set up a pizza at the begining cause there are too many igredients placed in different spots, but you get used to it.
Cool game, great job!
Rose
Rose4 Oct 2022, 02:45
Very creative game! I liked all the different interactions you can perform. It was well balanced - at first it was tough, but as I played more, I got better at finding things and more successful at making pizzas. I wish I got points for partially complete pizzas but I understand that the pizza must be perfect. :)
Thiefaine4 Oct 2022, 17:32
Wouah, this game is incredible. lots of interaction, very funny to do, check in the drawer, spread the sauce, find the ingredients it's cool. But it's so hard for me x) specially the sauce I always forget to add it at the right time
It's a really great game !!!
LDJam user 2376238 Oct 2022, 04:06
It took a while to get comfortable with where all of the ingredients are. I had fun after a few runs of trying to figure out what everything was and what I was supposed to be doing. Let's see if we can get some highscores going for this game!
JonhTheHutt
JonhTheHuttauthor18 Oct 2022, 15:01
Thank you all so much for playing our game! It means so much to have such positive feedback and it really makes me and the team happy! We're going to continue working on the game on itch.io (and we've tweaked the level progression there so it's a little more fun to play :sweat_smile:), and we're taking all of this feedback to heart. Keep being awesome!
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