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A jam submission

Bready Set Go!View game page

How Many PB&Js can you make in 90 seconds?
Submitted by DJdevil8 — 1 day, 8 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Cleverness#794.5004.500
Playability#904.6674.667
Theme#1034.1674.167
Artistic Style#1084.1674.167

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • Can easily see how you could develop this further to include other spreads/foods. Music was super fun. The clink of the knife really got to me as i failed (in a good way). The stress of trying to catch them mid air before the fall was a great driver for me. as an unrelated side note, I wonder if controlling the knife with the mouse might be more enjoyable and worth testing rather than wsad.. perhaps picking it up and using it and putting it back... perhaps a hungry child could try and steal them.. great job!!
  • Solid game! No bugs were encountered, only problem I had is that the toast is really easy to miss with the knife. I feel like it should be slightly more forgiving of misalignment. Your game nicely innovates on the theme and you leave a lot up to the player for some really clever strategies. The artstyle and music is top notch and I love the sound effects. Outstanding job! Keep kicking ass!
  • I played this for 20 minutes on accident. This has a lot of replayability, also I can see speedrunners going CRAZY over this! Tutorial is also very readable. The theme is clearly there- you spread jam and peanut butter on bread. I find the fact you have to toast bread HORRIFIC- however it adds an artificial timer which creates a lot of mechanical depth and skill. Its also very interesting that you can toss things and have them drop into their respect spots. The art style is very simple and clean. Having a volume slider would be great!
  • EXTREMELY addicting! one of the stand out games of the jam for me so far!
  • Great game all around! Fantastic job!
  • Fun, cute and engaging right out of the gate, and obviously, nails the theme perfectly. My 7yo son loved it immediately and couldn't put it down. We played "co-op" by each using the keyboard or the mouse independently. The art is more than enough to sell the concept but could absolutely be improved.

Did you include your Game Design Document in your downloadable files?
Yes

Tell us about your game!
How many PB&Js can you make in 90 seconds?

Use WASD to move your knife. Use SPACEBAR to spread with your knife.

Use the Mouse to control your hand. Left click to drag and drop items around the screen.

I have a how-to play screen in game with pictures but the general flow of the game goes like this:

Grab bread
toast bread 2x
dip knife in Jelly/PB
spread Jelly/PB on toast
drag a PBed toast to a Jellyed toast or vice versa to make a PB&J
Place PB&J on Plate to score points

Also, you can run out of PB and Jelly so make to sure replace them if you run out. Empty Jars go in the trash!

We also prefer to keep a clean kitchen around here so don't go dropping things on the floor otherwise you'll get a time penalty!

You'll quickly realize the challenge of this game is managing your knife and your hand together. It won't be as easy as you think.

Have fun!

Did you remember to include your Game Design Document?
Yes

Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes

Extra Notes
This was my first time every attempting to create a video game. I've always wanted to but never had a push. This was just the motivation I need and I had a BLAST! really was such a fun experience thank you!

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Comments

Submitted

Simple but fun game. It feels really polished. It may have less content compared to really strong submissions  but this game does what it sets out to do really well and thats all you need. Really fun game

Submitted

>me playing this game:

(its fantastic btw)

Submitted

I had an absolute blast playing this game and I didn't manage to make a single PB&J!

I thought the knife 'schwing' was really clean and had a ton of fun failing miserably. Your glass clinking noises were really on point.

My only critique is that I wish it were a little easier on the whole to encourage me to play longer. 

Submitted

Very very well polished, and fun to try and cycle through all of the different management tasks. Great job!!

Submitted

Loved this! The voice work was cute, the clinking of the jars sounded great. Fun to discover that you make the sandwich in the air! The game gave me that "pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time vibe," but really appreciated that it didn't push me into it.

A bug got my knife stuck between the plate and the jar, triggering the jar tink repeatedly in rapid succession - happy to say that was the only time I got stressed out haha! Really fun game. Will recommend!

Submitted

Really smooth and polished game, with a lot of quality-of-life mechanics. I don't know if it was intended to be a rage game, but the knife mechanics do a really good job of making me mad. If the rage was intended I think it's really good that that was the isolated mechanic which induced the rage, and that everything else just flowed. Very good submission, enjoyed it a lot. 

Submitted(+1)

This was extremely satisfying! Tried making 3 sandwiches at once, and was really impressed with the difficulty of it. Really "smooth" submission for the "jam" lol 

Submitted

Neat aesthetic. Funny sounds. Displays the theme well. Addictive gameplay loop. Good job!

Submitted

That knife caused me real rage. Loved it xD

This whole time I was sitting there throwing bread up with my mouse not knowing it would auto float. Hard-mode.

Submitted

Neat artstyle, nice music, and great concept.  I enjoyed the complexity of the mouse for the bread plus WASD knife spreading.  Great game!

Submitted (1 edit)

I GOT -10  til i died, i like the idea a lot, the tinkle glass jar sounds perfect..... once they got jam on what ya do?


Read the instructions and went back...got it now...nice 

This game is fantastic and so much fun. once I got it down, my high score was 7 and I could have kept going but the sandwiches made me so hungry I had to go make one in real life. Fits the theme, incredibly fun skill based gameplay, I only wish there was an infinite mode where I could make a huuuuuuge stack of sammies. Maybe a ham and cheese mode too???? Love the game, excited to see more :)

Submitted(+1)

This game, makes you feel like you're your own worst enemy. Which is partially fun initially, but when you haven't beaten the game for even the 7th time it starts to kind of piss you off.

These were more notes from playing:

  • "How To Play" very straightforward, felt like I was ready to play
  • Once you click on the toast it just falls and you lose?! Thought I could temp place on the plate or even throw it into the trash.
  • Not being able to trigger the toaster with just one slice is annoying
  • Didn't feel like I could control the knife well
  • Would be nice if it highlighted the toast with the knife to know if it'll spread on both or just a single
Developer

Thank you so much for playing and for all the really good feedback! I'll see what I can do about some of your points before the jam ends!

Submitted

Fun i got 7 points it was hard!

Submitted

well executed!

I could definitely see this being a fun mini-game in a mario party style game against friends.

PS. only got 5, i was trying to multi-task and put bread in while spreading and got confused XD

Submitted

Fun! I scored 7!
I feel the plate hitbox should be a bit bigger, but otherwise it's really cool!

Submitted

Fun! I scored 6!