Cute game concept. Keep the good work!
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The Bakery At The End of the Universe's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #419 | 2.946 | 3.125 |
| Music | #498 | 2.475 | 2.625 |
| Sound | #525 | 2.121 | 2.250 |
| Aesthetics | #687 | 2.239 | 2.375 |
| Story | #697 | 1.414 | 1.500 |
| Fun | #719 | 1.886 | 2.000 |
| Overall | #741 | 1.886 | 2.000 |
| Mechanics | #813 | 1.532 | 1.625 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Free assets provided by the jam.
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Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement! I'm already working on my submission for Metroidvania 28! It's looking pretty awesome so far. A lot of the lessons I learned from this game jam I've been applying all week to the next one.
Thanks. Yeah the reception has been much more positive than I expected TBH. If you want a challenge, you can try falling off the planet. There's a bug that allows it. I addressed the lack of things to do in my DevLog: Post Mortem: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Yeah that was my problem. I couldn't figure out the game loop. This morning I realized it would've been fun to make into a platformer where you jump away from the planet farther and farther. Right now the only real thing you can do is figure out how to fall off the planet.
I wrote a devlog about the things that kept me from finishing the game: https://dragonforge-development.itch.io/the-bakery-at-the-end-of-the-universe/de...
79 days ago(+1)
Hahahaha yeah I have thought of a couple things I can do to prevent gravity making you fall. One is to make the gravity vector towards the middle of the planet, but an easier one I think is to change the collision so that you can't walk up on stuff that is less than a 90 degree angle. Sorry about that.
Thanks for your well wishes and I hope you got something out of the post mortem.
Good note on the skippable splash screens. I have made a note to add that feature in. I actually have a boolean value set when working on it that I can toggle to turn them off, so I don't think about that. In the future, I actually plan on doing background loading under the splash screens, but I can make it skippable anyway and have another loading screen underway. Those (and the menu) are actually structured as plugins that I made so I can drop them into games quickly. But this was actually my first game jam dropping them in as a plugin, and I learned a lot. It also manages all the sound, display, control configuration, volume, etc.
Esc going back to desktop instead of main menu is in fact a bug. Same thing happens if you press B on the controller to dance, because it's also the cancel/back button. I need to turn listening off for the menus when the game is playing. Thanks for the input. It was really helpful.
Thank you! I had plans for that, but well, I explained what happened in my devlog. I even had conversations planned between the customers as you served them. Originally I was going to place tables all over the planet and make it like a cook dash kinda game. However I'm really glad it had atmosphere. I'm actually really sad I had to yank out all the music I had paid for. It had a very chill vibe then and the dance music was even better.
I just tried downloading it again. I did get a warning because it isn't signed, so I got a Windows warning and had to press Run Anyway. But when I did that it ran fine.
Weirdly, I used Butler to upload it as an exe, and then I uploaded it as a zip, and instead of replacing the exe with a zip, its still there as an exe. Maybe this is a feature?
I'm glad you had fun with it!
I wrote a post mortem. It never really came together for me. https://dragonforge-development.itch.io/the-bakery-at-the-end-of-the-universe/de...
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