NIGHT BITES
A downloadable game
NIGHT BITES
A drive-thru of the anomalous.
It's a rainy night, and you are the only one working the window at Night Bites.
Cars pull up, customers order, and most of them are... fine.
Some of them are not. Serve the normal ones. Refuse the rest.
How it works:
- Each car parks at your window. Listen to the order, then inspect the car with the four monitor cameras: side, rear, front and mirror.
- Check everything against the rulebook. Eyes, license plate, mirror reflection, headlights, trunk, the voice, the order itself.
- Press SERVE or REFUSE before the patience bar runs out. A wrong call, or being too slow, is a strike. Three strikes and you're fired.
- The rulebook changes every night: plate formats, sold-out items, new rules. Yesterday's normal can be tonight's anomaly.
Features:
- 5 nights plus an endless mode
- 16 anomalies, some visible through the window and some only on the monitor. Some customers break two rules at once.
- Persistent customers who don't take no for an answer. Refuse them, then name *which* rule they broke. They come back until every problem is named.
- Dale, a regular who gets stranger every night, and who will offer you deals: take a strike, get a reward.
- A fryer that burns if you stop stirring it. Smoke, static and impatient customers if you ignore it.
- Random upgrades between nights, daily events (rush hour, fog, power surges, news bulletins...) and a rulebook that fights back.
Controls:
- 1-4: cameras (side, rear, front, mirror)
- Q W E R: menu items, C: clear tray
- J: serve, K: refuse, L: repeat order (upgrade)
- Hold Space: stir the fryer
- Enter or click the speech bubble: skip dialog
- Y / N: answer Dale's deals, 1-9: pick a rule for persistent customers
- Esc: pause
Everything can also be clicked with the mouse.
Languages and accessibility
- English and Português (Brasil)
- Assist mode (longer timers, one extra strike)
- Reduce flashing option (no red flash, shake or static)
- Voice meter for the strange-voice anomaly, so it is not audio-only
Notes
- Estimated play time: [about 20 minutes for the 5-night campaign]
- This is [an early build / a jam / a first release], so bugs are possible. Please tell me what you find!
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That was a very fun prototype! It can be very addicting and I liked the spin on the theme and the genre of anomaly games. I've played only a few, but this felt fresh with the upgrade and serving mechanics. It could be easily expanded upon!
You can easily see a LOT of effort and love has been put behind on this project. It's amazing!
I don't have a lot of experience with anomaly games, but it did feel like I was refusing 80% of the clientele and only ordering one or two each night? Right from the bat I could tell not to serve a client only by looking at a single camera, and other times the answer wasn't clear at all.
I could spend hours nitpicking details, but for what's worth, your game is really well put together and high praise is deserved. Congrats!
I love the game! its really fun! different from others type of anomally games i played before. for a prototype it's really good!