I couldn’t find you on Discord so here goes a long feedback:
First:
Ohmygosh ZOE!!!! You are SOOOO expressive. I had a lot of fun in the tutorial at the start. She can sound a slightly condescending in one line, but not in all. The process is mostly really funny and engaging. I had a laugh when I threw the cup away, and also when she came to pretend she was a costumer and made her voice deeper. I was also amused at other times, for example when she mimiced the espresso machine sounds.
Mechanics-wise:
- I would use a different control for throwing out the cup. Ctrl is a bit out of reach for my fingers.
- I am missing a command to listen to a line again. Specifically with a reminder about what the costumer asked for. Still in the tutorial.
- There is also some fine-tuning to be done regarding when we have the wrong coffee.
- Plus there is no way to skip the tutorial.
Here’s what happened in the long version and my full feedback. I was so amused at listening to her pretend she was a costumer that I missed what she wanted. So I didn’t know what she wanted.
And apparently if I have a coffee that’s the wrong one she keeps going “wap-wap”. So I’m stuck here fooorever?
Which leads me to dread that I might have to listen to the whole intro again when I try to restart.
I may have found bugs. Here’s what I did:
- Get medium cup. Make double espresso. Try to give it to the lady. She will go “wap-wap”. Now go get a big cup. It will make the sound of getting the cup, but how can I have it if I’m still carrying the other one? Bring the cup to the espresso machine and double press space. Nothing happens. Try throwing it away. It doesn’t always respond to that. Go get the big cup again, go back to the espresso machine and try making the coffee pressing double space. I hear no feedback. I opened my eyes and saw two coffee beans and a checkmark. How, if I didn’t hear the audio feedback for that? I guess it has a checkmark, so I’m bringing it to my costumer. But she goes wap-wap again.
The music is chill and pleasing.
Restarting, I think it would be an excellent addition to have her say “Do you need some instructions to get around here? Press the up and down arrows to decide.” - then if we say we don’t need instructions she’ll say “Do you want a practice test where I pretend to be a costumer?” and we can do the same.
The game has so much potential, but these bugs (no reminder for what the costumer wants, these functional bugs with no audio feedback for what’s happening and the no way to skip the tutorial) are unfortunate events that got me dreading a little to try again. I think I would love to try again but I don’t trust I will always know what the costumer wants, so I wonder if this could be fixed for the end version of the game?
Amazing work, keep it up.