I loved the simple gameplay loop and clear objective. Learning who liked what was fun and the art was charming! A simple intro would be nice as it took me a second to figure out what to do, but once I did it was smooth sailing for the rest of the play through!
Some notes I had while playing:
- As some others said, it would be nice to have some pointers on who likes what, whether it be a dialogue like "I could really use something sweet today" or something you can more easily puzzle out by looking at the person (enter a small preview of what the person has on them perhaps, i.e. show a candy wrapper for someone who like sweet or a rotten apple for someone who likes smelly etc.).
- Also, having a simple tooltip on the ingredients to show possible effects would be nice too, as right now it feels hard to remember, even when writing down, since the effects changed sometimes it seemed.
- One thing I was confused about was why I had 7l blood if I could only use 6l? Maybe I missed a mechanic, but when I played through it seemed like the only thing I could spend blood on was adding a drink to the burner, and with only 6 burners I couldn't spend all 7 blood. Maybe adding more uses for blood would be fun (if I didn't just miss them lol)
- And final note would be that it felt a little bad to not be able to adapt to the customer. Once I figured out what they liked, if they came in and I didn't have that made, it felt bad to serve them something I knew they wouldn't like. Perhaps adding some way to spend blood to 'recall' a drink to serve them, or be able to mix a new drink on an open burner just for them, or maybe even showing us who will come in the mixing stage so you can prepare drinks for those specific people (at least the ones you've figured out).
All in all, you did a great job with this MVP! The gameplay loop is tight, there are no major bugs, and it's a solid proof of concept. Good job and good luck if you continue to develop this! I'd love to help playtest or anything in the future if you do :)
P.S. it felt good when I hit my debt goal!
