For sure, I figured the feedback over there would help a little more. If you folks had the donate option enabled on this build I would've donated a few bucks towards development. I could see this as a good indie steam game with more refinement!
Thanks for playing y'all, I really enjoyed working on this one.
I hadn't done much with handling queues in this way in a game before and getting the potatoes lining up and moving into the customs office accurately was much harder than I expected. You can see like 13 hours of the dev over on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2268677589
Some how to play instructions for folks in the comments:
Your Mission
Allow permitted potatoes into Spudorado Reject potatoes deemed a threat by the Spudocracy Achieve the highest score by making correct decisions
Game Rules
Current immigration rules appear in the lower left corner You have three strikes before the game ends Allowing a banned potato or rejecting a permitted one costs you a strike
Almost ready to submit! I used the same variable in multiple places for the potato_info dictionary and good lord the weird behavior and late night bug fixing almost took me out.
I liked this game so much, that I rewrote it to move the player further to the left and right, so I wouldn't have to meta-game by using the A and D keys on top of the arrow keys. Also, a 25% reduction in the enemy speed feels great.
Yeaaaaaaaa, this is the first game jam I have tried also and I may have been ambitious here with only 18 hours remaining. So far we're at 650 lines of code in Godot 4. We just need the potatoes to shuffle in with proper animations, and then leave and follow the appropriate path for rejecting/approving and we'll be feature complete.
Thank you! The stamping feature is shaping up today but I need to update the art from placeholders and get audio/music and menus in. Then some animation of potatoes shuffling in/out, approved potatoes migrating out to the left side of screen, and rejected potatoes getting nuked into tater tots.
I have a #game-jams channel in my discord here, feel free to post there and I'm streaming my development progress as we get close to the deadline. https://discord.gg/WNWMUk6wJ2
Sure, let me know what engine you're using if you need help and I can probably give some assistance. Then you pick an HTML type for the Itch.io listing and upload the .html file or a .zip including an index.html file to make it playable in browser on Itch.
30 hours left, things are starting to shape up on this side, we have a basic passport icon and passport overlay, drew in objects for the approval/rejection stamps.
I went with two physical buttons represented in my game as stamps but I was planning to also use keyboard binds for fullscreen, close, just not as core gameplay controls beyond inputs to select one of the two physical buttons. I do have the player click on customs documents to select them before using one of the buttons as well.
We're closing in on the 5 hour mark here and I'd love to hear how your jam is going.
I'm working on a potato-themed customs officer simulator where you accept or reject spuddies at the border to Taterland by comparing them to a rules chart and picking a button.
Breaking everything to replace my two buttons with two stamp buttons, and make the headshots update dynamically, lol. We'll get there.