Santa's Diner

Made in 48 hours for ACM Studio Snowjam 2022: "Frozen"

A small endless game about Santa running a bakery, balancing proactive customer service skills and not freezing to death.  Your furnace runs out of coal, so you have to make sure to refill it or you (and your limited supply of ingredients) will freeze.

The game runs forever, with slowly accelerating time punishments, but you'll lose if you run out of fuel or fail to complete 3 orders within the allotted time.  

I recommend playing with WASD/Space/LMB, but left in arrow keys regardless if you prefer that!

Retrospective:

I'm generally quite happy with this project. I wasn't able to work on the game Friday afternoon so it's more of a "Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning" game jam, but I think I threw something pretty enjoyable together. My regrets are not making the feedback more satisfying (there's no feedback for missing or completing an order) as well as leaving in some strange mechanics (orders will only work in their assigned arrangement, you can't mix ingredients, etc.). 

Credits:

Santa and dungeon sprites by Elthen: https://elthen.itch.io/2d-pixel-art-santa-sprites

Kitchen sprites by Reakain: https://reakain.itch.io/kitchen-assets

Food sprites by ElectrikJelli: https://electrikjelli.itch.io/free-pixel-food-icons

Music is Passacaglia by Handel and Halvorsen, arranged by mrepic62, modified by me: https://musescore.com/user/1137681/scores/1149426#login-modal