Hello Chefs!
After another set of playtesting sessions with my wife (and LCT level designer) Lucy and basic on feedback from our awesome testers, we have done some rather significant changes.
To show you how a social-distancing game-dev work looks like on our end, here is an image of Lucy playtesting while adjusting level designs in Unity:
List of changes
- Complete rework of the order spawning system. Most of the code in there dated back to 2017 (which is when the very first prototype of LCT was created). It was extremely buggy which often resulted in some orders not being spawned at all or failing to disappear after being completed. The order spawning should now be much less buggy.
- You can now keep running while serving an order. As a bonus, if you hold the serve button and run you can change the order to which you will serve the dish. By default if two or more orders require the same dish it will be served to the order the chef is closer too. Take a look at how it looks like in action here:
Watch on YouTube - The amount of additional tip granted when getting a combo (serving two dishes to one order in quick succession) is now tied to the restaurant (was constant across the whole game before). Lucy decided to lower the amounts of combo tips in the Pancake Splash dramatically to make its difficulty a little more consistent.
- Removed stars from the level UI. This means the players will now learn their star score during the summary screen at the end of the level. Not an easy decision to make but we feel this will add a little immersion and make the UI clearer at the same time.
- Minor updates in the Pancake Splash level configurations to make the gameplay more dynamic.
- Cornelius was sometimes not able to blend in the Burger Ring at all (jumped to activate the deep frier upon blending start). All chefs should now be fixed in that regard.
- The green ticks that signalize an appliance has finished processing are now more consistent across restaurants and pieces of equipment.
- The top counter of the double oven in the Pancake Splash kitchen was in the wrong position. It is correct now.
- Blender wire in Pancake Splash was in the wrong position. It is correct now.
- Minor typos fixes
We are open to all suggestions - please feel free to reach out to us in the discussion board.
Cook safe!
Lucy & Jan Mysior
Yellow Dot Games