A Pizza, My Heart

Challenge the laws of supply and demand by launching the world's first pizza-party parlor. Take part in the ancient arts of pizza slicing, oregano shaking, interpretive dance, cheese grating, dubstep and more. All of your favorite pizza-based activities are here in A Pizza, My Heart!

At first glance a cooking game, A Pizza, My Heart is an experimental cooking experience ranging from quaint to extraordinary.

Play it today, so you won't regret it tomorrow.

Controls

• A or left arrow: Move left

• D or right arrow: Move right

• Left mouse: interact with everything

Winning and losing

There are 4 levels in A Pizza, My Heart, each with a different type of party. You must succesfully serve at least 50% of the guests at any individual party in order to proceed. If you do not, the level will restart.

Every level after the grand opening has at least one VIP. VIP's are the guests at the front of the line, and must be successfully served. VIP's are indicated by their unique clothing.

How to

Although graphical tutorials are given during the grand opening, the following are textual explanations if you get stuck about how to fulfill an order. Keep in mind that Papi must be standing on the floor mat below the prep table in order to slice pizza, cut cake, or apply spices.

• Take an order: Give the customer their plate by dragging one from the dispenser to the waiting customer. Then take their order by clicking on the register once for each ingredient of their order in rhythm with the diminishing circles. Note the colored bar above the heads of customers, this is their patience, and when it gets to zero, they will leave the party.

• Slice pizza: To cut a slice for the customer, begin by selecting the pizza box with the correct topping. Then, use your slicer to make wedges by cutting along the lines indicated. For each cut, click and hold outside of the pizza, then trace a line to the center, and release the slicer. Bad cuts cannot be served to customers, so keep trying until you get it right. Then, select the appropriate spice from the spice rack to continue with the customer's order.

• Serve oregano: Grab the oregano bottle when the circle shrinks to nothing, and shake it in one motion by left clicking it and holding while simultaneously dragging it toward the prep table. Make sure to balance the speed of your drag so as not to over or under-season. The correct speed is innately known by true dough-artisans.

• Grind pepper: Alternately left and right click on the pepper mill. Pepper will only dispense if the speed of your grind is kept within the acceptable range indicated by the balance meter below the pepper mill. You must stay in this range long enough to succesfully season to the customer's tastes.

• Grate cheese: Click and hold the cheese, then drag it back and forth across the grater as fast as you can. Dispense enough cheese quickly enough to satisfy the customer, or you'll have to try again, but faster!

• Cut cake: Click the cake when the rotating slice indicator perfectly aligns with the customer's desired slice. The rotating slice indicator will briefly turn red to signify an acceptable slice point.

Credits

Code, music, sound, and art by Nox (@noxsucks)

Pixel art and legs by Lux (@thisislux)

Post scriptum

A Pizza, My Heart was originally made for Game Jolt Contest 10, and slowly finished over the course of the next year. I never anticipated that it would become a semi-art game featuring poorly drawn stick figures with curiously rigid upper bodies. It stands in contrast to my other work, but, if nothing else, this is my best shot at getting RockLeeSmile or Chris Priestman to play one of my games. crosses fingers without holding breath
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