A downloadable pizza panic for Windows

Pizza panic is an "endless runner" type of game with a pinch of (bad) physic.

Run your scooter among the cars but keep the pizza boxes on the tray!

Controls:

WASD (or arrows) + mouse position to help balance the pizza boxes stack.

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It was made for the Houdini Game Jam 2020 with no prior knowledge of game development but I missed the deadline by 1mn due to a slow upload. No big deal. The motivation was about learning Unity.
Update: Game has been added to the official game jam submissions :)

Team

Made in solo

How was Houdini used in your game's development?
  •  a HDA builds facades based on a seed.
  • Scooter, driver and cars are modeled in Houdini
  • No texture, only vertex shading


(Note: based on a video posted as a comment, it seems the building did not make it to the Windows build. I do not modify my entry because it would be after the deadline)

Besides Houdini, what other tools did you use and what did you use them for?

  • Game was developped in Unity under Linux.
  • Background sky was painted in Krita.

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The initial idea was to have a 2D game where you control a tray while playing with the scooter to avoid obstacles in 3D.

I wasn't sure how to implement a force feedback from the keyboard input (which is only binary) so I used a 2D physics system of a ball falling down between two slopes. The X coordinate is also used to drive the leaning of the 3D scooter.

The mouse input drives a force on top of the tray to push back the pizza boxes and "help" balancing the stack.

I ended up having the 3D pizzas boxes following the animation of the 2D version by assigning the corresponding XY sprites coordinates.
Z is driven by the scooter position and inherits an animated offset when they fall off the scooter to simulate speed.

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Credentials - Content not created by me for the game:

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Easter Eggs

There is possibly an endless list of integrated bugs that are obviously hidden features the player has to discover. Among the few I am aware of:

  • Scooter loses restriction in leaning, meaning it can spin forever (woohoo!)
  • Retry screen pops for no reason (that I have found yet)
  • Buildings are not appearing on the sides of the road (please buy the DLC)
  • UI text appears behind the buildings (double negative bug! if the buildings do not appear, the text cannot be behind them)

StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows
Authoratnx
GenreSurvival
Made withKrita, Unity
Average sessionA few seconds
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
pizza_panic.zip 27 MB

Install instructions

I'm on a Linux machine and have no access to Windows. I cannot guarantee the game works under Windows.

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GOOD

Somehow it seems the buildings on the side of the road didn't make it to the Windows build. Not sure why but I'll have a look.

Thanks for the video.