Food Flinger

justinmullin 2023-01-09 18:32

This was very challenging, but strangely compelling. I didn't quite understand how the doors worked for some time, unfortunately because the game window wasn't quite wide enough for me to see they were closed at the start, and the food I was chucking at them was just going to waste. Once I figured out the door had to be opened, I was fulfilling a few orders before long.

I don't think I like very much that the buttons open the "wrong" doors - it didn't really add too much to the game other than annoyance. I would also maybe have liked to see the ability to request new deliveries of food. Sometimes I would not have the food I needed for a certain order, and just had to wait while precious time ticked down.

Overall, I enjoyed this for being unique, if a bit buggy. Thanks for your submission!

ofoof 2023-01-09 22:31

@justinmullin yeah I was really trying to make the game fit the right size and spent a while doing it. This was my first game jam so I didn't really know how to fit the camera and just made it fit if it was fullscreen 1920*1080 or at least my monitor size. that's definitely what I will need to learn before next jam. oh and yeah we were going to maybe do food request type of thing, but we just did a x3 powerup to save time

robotchimp 2023-01-10 02:09

Really nice for your first game jam! Took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out you had to move the mouse, lol. Fun, though! Cool idea.

ofoof 2023-01-19 01:21

https://ofoofgames.itch.io/food-flinger or https://ofoof.github.io/FoodFlingerWebGitHub/ for web version. Ive just got it working today.

retrisma 2023-01-20 03:49

This was an interesting idea for a game! It was fun to mess around with the physics, but it was pretty sensitive to try to play normally. Without a clear objective in mind it was more difficult to engage with also, it would have been nice to have some goal to work towards. Other than that, though, great job for your first jam!

aurailus 2023-01-20 06:16

I really enjoyed playing your game! The fruit was super spastic when I tried to move it, which I actually think added to the experience a lot. One thing I think could be improved is it doesn't seem like the game will give you all of the fruits you need to fulfill all your orders. I think a semi-random system that ensures that enough of each type of fruit are dropped (with some margin of error) would be good for that. Great job on your first jam!

wiredoverload 2023-01-20 06:20

Pretty fun idea for the main scoop mechanic and I especially enjoyed the fact that the scoop could get stuck on items on the floor until you wiggle it out and launch things at light speed. I found this to be a very easy game and was never in danger of having a timer hit under a minute though so I wish it was more of a challenge. I enjoyed the extra gameplay layer of having the move your guy around to press the buttons, but realistically in the game that only took a few seconds per order, so it didn't really make the game more challenging. If the guy had also had collision with the food, there could have been an interesting gameplay mechanic of having to clear out a path for your guy to go through. Also you were serious about the occasional gameplay lag spike, I survived through two but the third spike was so laggy I couldn't manage to clear out anything enough to fix it. Good overall game!

cobear25 2023-01-21 03:02

Awesome game! It was pretty challenging, maybe a little bit confusing to figure out, but the concept and crazy veggie physics are great.

aucguy 2023-01-25 17:09

This is a pretty fun game. It was difficult to maneuver the fruit, but that may have been the point. The peanuts were also too small. I liked the music.

hayricakir 2023-01-25 18:00

It is a bit difficult to pour the veggies, maybe there could be a button to rotate the basket. Other than that, a solid entry with fun gameplay and good music. Good job!

morpheyz 2023-01-26 19:28

This is a great game! Great take on the theme. It was quite challenging, but a lot of fun. It also took me long time to figure out how the doors worked. The sheer chaos when half the screen fills with flying veggies is awesome. :D

2026-04-21 21:33

fun & unique!