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eevee1 year ago(+1)

oh man

this is quite a twist on the genre.  i'm both fascinated to see where this could possibly go and also mildly horrified in the Age Of Covid.  but also now i'm thinking about how there is incredibly strong (sometimes even explicit) pressure in min-wage food service to come in even when you're sick.  i might need to lie down

i don't want to say "i want more of this", because i feel like that's uttering some kind of monkey paw curse in this particular instance, but i would certainly play more of it because i'm fascinated to see where this little dollop of worldbuilding could be going

i think the conspicuous omission is Consequences; i know i'm getting people sick but they simply leave before i see anything come of that.  admittedly i don't know what that would look like though, since the very nature of food service is that you see people for 20 minutes and then perhaps never again

(also maybe resize your assets outside of gamemaker?  i think a bunch of your art got nearest-neighbor scaled down in-engine and a lot of bits of outlines disappeared and that made it kind of hard to tell what things were supposed to be)

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actiniumhydroperoxyl1 year ago

It's hard to make this kind of thing feel like it has consequences for that exact reason- the goal for expansion includes sound effect feedback and better visual feedback to make it feel like an equivalent value to ordinary score. I suppose I should think of things to spend both values on, but my brain is instantly resistant to the ordinary upgrade formula that it might just become cosmetics. Eventually there would be Real Girl Levels with clear conditions and shit that tie into the story, etc etc etc.

Speaking of the story, the tone is supposed to be pretty lighthearted, but it's very hard to strike that balance in This Day And Age. I think I just have to embrace the Not For Everyoneness and go all in. Rest assured, though, no great plagues getting started here. 

also yeah art in gamemaker is hard to get the size right, especially when you're like me and a) don't know how the hell window resizing is even POSSIBLE and b) start on a tiny scale and don't realize you need to go bigger before it's too late T_T the first step is gonna be a test to see if building it bigger and camerascaling it to the sameish size will be effective at all lmao

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