Really well made game! I really like the idea of using mini games to gather ingredients!

Controls were a little tough, but you absolutely nailed the retro feel. Fantastic job with the art and music. 

Fantastic job, you nailed the gameboy feel thats for sure. As others have said, a little more onboarding could go a long way, but since you were going all in on the gameboy era, you even nailed that (i remember having to flip through a lot of manuals back in the day lol).

Think others have mentioned it as well, but the game screams gamepad and I hooked mine up and was super excited.. then was super sad haha.

Everything was well condensed for a game boy like game! I really like your ambition, but the beggining was kinda ambigous, but once you get the gameplay it really becomes fun! It's impressive that this is your first wild jam!

Really impressive entry, you absolutely nailed the Gameboy vibe. The visuals, sound, and even the idea of having a manual all come together really well. The minigames for refilling ingredients were a nice surprise and added a lot more depth than I expected.

I was a bit confused at the start and it took me a couple tries to understand how to actually make drinks, but once it clicked it became really fun. I do think a tiny bit more onboarding (or clearer hints early on) would help a lot without breaking the retro feel.

Overall though, this is one of the more polished and unique entries I’ve played. Great job, especially for a first jam.

Very cool game. The better you remember the recepies the faster you are. Also very cool the different mini games to refill you ingredients.

BUT it is very unintuitive what to do and how to do it (after I figured it out, it was ok). Post jam I would highly recomend to adress this. Also it was confusing, that everything screams "gamepad controls" but an actual gamepad does not work.

Really awesome work! Captured the GB essence perfectly and I would love to see this redone in GB Studio or something and flash it to real hardware :)

I was instantly drawn to the "Godotboy" Gameboy cover. I liked that you spent time making a PDF manual like the old school Gameboy games. I couldn't figure out how to make the drinks at first and got game over a few times... almost gave up but once I figured out the direction combo mechanics I thought it was a brilliant and unique mechanic not seen in this jam and very on brand with a Gameboy game (gave me ideas for my next game as well!). Also I was using P/O for my A/B but I think the written directions had them reversed? These were the only constructive feedback I had. Other than that I loved the graphics, the tinny Gameboy sounds, the surprisingly deep gameplay with the mini games... very impressed you pulled all this off in 9 days. Great job for your first jam!!

Very nice game! I was surprised by the amount of things to do, the minigames to refill are very nicely done! Love the music and the art as well. Fits very well the theme, very well done and really impressive to get that in just a week!

The game is cool! The first go around I was just taking orders and thinking I was on top of the world and then i lost because I wasn't actually making any drinks. Then I figured out how to actually play the game. I think I would have preferred a little onboarding because it was confusing and I almost gave up on the game without even seeing the brewing minigames which were nice! I know you wanted to keep it like an old retro game with the pdf. Also having A/B buttons like retro consoles, but not using those for the actual controls was a little confusing and I kept pressing the wrong buttons when trying to interact with things, but eventually got the hang of it and was doing fine.

Great idea and you completely captured the gameboy feel. Very nice work!

I appreciate that you stuck to your guns and wanted people to use the old fashioned manual. A lot of retro games arent 'hard' per se but they just weren't as beginner friendly and you nailed that, surpassing just looking and sounding like a retro game (both of which you did awesome at). I reached up to day 8 before throwing in the towel. 

I do feel the bee minigame is a bit irregular and sometimes I could instantly catch a bee by spamming the A button, but all the other ones felt fair and were enjoyable. I also do think having an indicator square over which drink you were selecting on top of having it display at the bottom like you had would make it a bit easier to remember where you are in the scroll.

Overall great game and great job!

this is really nice and i love the art style but i was at first a bit confused on how to play it but when i got it it as very fun nice work i love the art

This was a cool throwback to GB games. It reminded me of Game and Watch games, but everything tied together.

For now this submission is longest I have played. Fun, a lot of gameplay features. Very very good entry!

Hey, fellow retro consoler here, but I picked the Lynx. You did a great job in getting the original feeling. I have to admit I took less care in actually replicating the original hardware restrictions.

Very fun to play, I would suggest to add a gameboy frame to it so that you can play it on your phone, then it is an almost perfect emulation :-)

WOW a really interesting game!

A fellow GameBoy game! Well done, impressed you were able to do all your own art and stuff during the jam! I was not as successful in that regard. You also made me realize that I mixed up the standard for Z and X oops!