About
Lou Bagel's Waffle Bar was created for a week long game jam,
"Weekly
Game Jam - Week 46",
which had the theme of 'Waffle'.
Inspired by the video game
Tapper,
my favorite game when visiting local arcade bar
Replay, where you serve
customers "Root Beer" to keep them from throwing you down the bar.
Taking a simple and well established concept makes planning and scoping much easier,
especially for a game jam where you only have a week. Then I simply had to incorporate
Lou Bagel and the theme 'Waffle' into the game, such as running down the bar to refill
the syrup instead of picking up tips like in Tapper.
Not a lot of new art was created for this game jam, except for turning it one-bit. The
customers are all actually characters from other artists or projects of mine:
It was a lot of fun to incorporate other artists into my game. Some of these characters
were just one-off art pieces that weren't created for much else, so they were happy to
see them come to life!
All the audio, including the amazing soundtrack, was created by the great
Scowsh,
who also did the audio on Dave-Man and several other of my projects.
This was my first game jam. It really boosted my confidence that I could make something
fun and enjoyable in a week.
Suprisingly I even look back at it years later and still get some pride and enjoyment
when playing it for a few minutes.
