been thinking about finishing Jacob's Restaurant properly

YES

not that I can see, I can't get very far in it; too hard So is the version you uploaded last time the full length of the game?

Sometimes I get stuck inside the checkpoint platforms, but can still jump out.

I didn't know you could jump through some enemies.

changed Grab to C, felt better for me.

Love the characters (I definitely stole the smoking crocodile head person character from this.. just realized, and even in the laying back position)

The name of the game makes me want to play it even more. Is there really a restaurant in this? That's so inspiring! I'd play it to the end definitely if there is. Don't tell me though.

Maybe if it gave you a slight chance before something pushes you off the ladder? It almost seems too fast when my character falls and hits the spikes before I realize what happened. maybe if the character floated and flashed white a short time just so i realize I've hit something? like Vlambeer game feel stuff, those minor things.


I like.

Just to let you know I have been working on this. Here is my unorganised todo list which started around the same time as the OP:



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jACOB'S restaurant notes:


I ducking landed on the final boss guy and it didn't connect. GOD DAMN THAT'S ANNOYING



can the finalplatform just move into you???


LEVEL 3 music ends abruptly on section ending with magic fish as well as the section after that


No lazer beam sound effect


heart effects are dumb, need changing


Life should replenish after completing a leg. It makes no sense to attempt completing the next section with only one heart left, so the player is

forced to kill himself until respawn.


**DONE -smoke coming out of stationry guns shouldn't appear outside room


**DONE** - level3, music ends instantanoiusly at the end of the 1st section.


**DONE** - So does the dialog music. The music then restarts in a hiccupy way.


no audio when loading no data file

Hide cursor

**DONE** crocodile jumping issue

I noticed the sfx for hitting a bird is not punchy enough. Volume needs to be increased.

**DONE** -- But I feel the music in general is too loud. SET GLOBAL.GAMEMUSICVOLUME TO 0.97


*DONE MAYBE*The sound ends too early at the end of some segments. A different system for dealing with this might be easy to implement.
the current system might be OK. Issue occurs at these points:
*DONE* The section after speed guy - with no dialog


Once completing the first phase, going though the dialog and starting the next one, there is a weird 'Hiccup' in the playing of the music. This

occured playing the game from the very start.

The hiccup occured in other segments as well, when the music started on the segment after the segment starting with the fish dialog.

This did not occur on last playthough with first instance of level2 music playing

NExt playthough, this occured on the start of phase three. I think it might be caused when the dialog music hasn't finished playing.
Ocurred again at next checkpoint. might be cause by the last music not finishing.
Did not occur at next checkpoint, everything had been given adequet time to finish dingdanging

*HICCUP FIXED FOR FIRST INSTANCE OF LEVEL3 MUSIC*


**DONE** -- After pausing and then unpausing, I found that the music had gone alltogether.

After restarting that part, and pausing then unpausing, the sound ended again.

Repeating this several times this continued to happen. Even after the track had looped.


I remember fixing this error, or at least no longer coming across it. I think the difference was that I was haxing to get to the

nessessary bit of the game, but idk. - nope appears regardless


After going to the NEXT checkpoint from this, the pausing issue no longer occured and pausing worked as intended.


*should now work*Lizard dialog 2 , Fish dialog 1: - jacob doesn't turn to face the chap.

Implemented code in the NPC objects that should correctly orient the character.
still doesn't work
changed stuff should work


**implemented should work** NPCs should also turn to face character






**DONE** At no point in the game is it mentioned that you can jump though most non-spikey enemies.
A good point to introduce it in is either the dialog of the lizard chappy right at the start, or (probably better) in another tutorial text

thing the other controls were mentioned in.


**DONE** The tutorial text doesn't show up that obviously. transparent black box background, maybe??


Dialog with speed guy after beating the fish boss is placeholder. So is space guy after that and the lizard guy after that and fish guy after that.


Another music Hiccup starting the third phase. No issue with pausing however.


**MAYBE DONE** Cloud particles are not destroyed after death.
added a bunch of particles to the destroy list


**DONE - I THINK COLLISIONS WORK AS WELL** -- The gate things in phase three are god damn stupid and annoying. I know this is messing with gameplay

which I want to avoid but I think if I increased the pace of opening and closing on those things it would actually have a decent effect on

gameplay.

gate closing stuff. change collisions from instadeath to pushing/hitting

Another Hiccup on second section with space guy


remove the score system entirely - it's dumb and stupid.

Sound stops abruptly when starting the second fish section in phase three. And in the section after that.


You can press enter to skip the final cutscene the first time seeing.


Ending credits never end.

It wouldn't hurt to put the other boss in there. plus fish enemies.


Maybe a selectable level screen when you beat a section.


sound effects changing:
-dialog sound is too harsh
-jumping and grabbing ladder sounds could be better/more prominent


lazergator cannot be jumped on - this is inconsistent.
Add in a closed hutch sprite, and add bouncing that doesn't cause damage. Also add a round beam damage area to stop player from jumping on

the guy to get past his lazer.



crusiergator has no knocking
off da lada mechanic. might be weird.


builder cannot be jumpeded on

I've added in the slightest of delays and also made the sound more noticable with birds, which helps a lot. But this is only with birds and I'm going to add in a generic sound effect for being knocked off de ladur.


Today I made it so that when you lose all three lives and die, the music slows down and the screen gradually fades white, which has a pretty cool effect.

OK, I've finally done enough tinkering and fixing that I'm pretty OK with releasing a kind of alpha version of the game, maybe finished IDK.

Here's the download link if you want to give it a go:

Download

thats some dang cool pixelart dude, i like the characters a lot. A bit hard but not too hard, I died many times but I keep playing due to the amazing characters I might meet

music & sounds were kick ass too, really takes all the things to a higher level

cool cool