🍔 Ctrl + Serve

A typing game about burgers, legacy, and the crushing weight of parental expectations

Description

Ctrl + Serve is a typing-based restaurant simulation game. Every single thing you do, such as walking to a station, chopping an ingredient, taking an order, or assembling a burger, is done by typing commands. Just you, your keyboard, and the slow dawning horror that a customer has been waiting at the register for forty-five seconds while you were busy mistyping "lttuce".

Premise

You play as Otto. You have a computer science degree that cost a small fortune and has thus far been useful for exactly nothing. Life is great.

Then, your parents, the beloved and well-respected Sir and Loin, proprietors of the best burger joint in the neighbourhood, announce they're leaving for vacation....and they're leaving you in charge of the restaurant.

This is your shot at redemption. Your chance to prove that those four years of higher education weren't a complete waste. Your opportunity to turn "burger flipper with a bachelor's degree" into "burger entrepreneur with a bachelor's degree."

How It Works

The restaurant has seven stations and you'll be bouncing between all of them:

Station	Task
🧾 Register	Take customer orders before they lose patience
🍅 Prepare	Chop ingredients to stock your supply
🔪 Sharpen	Restore your knife's edge and maximize ingredient yield
🔥 Grill	Load and cook patties
🍟 Fryer	Plunge a basket of fries in the deep fryer
🍔 Assemble	Build the order, bottom to top
🛎️ Serve	Hand the order off to the customer

To move between stations, type the station name. To do anything at a station, type the provided prompt. To ruin everything, mistype something at a critical moment.

Progression

Each in-game day is three minutes of increasingly chaotic service. More customers arrive as the days progress and the pressure mounts. Survive a day and you'll be rewarded! Between shifts, visit the shop to spend your earnings on upgrades. Improve your movement speed, keep customers patient a little longer, boost your knife's durability, and upgrade your stations for better yield. A new station will also unlock as the week progresses, expanding what you can do, and naturally, the number of things that can go wrong.

The Stakes

At the end of the week, your fate, and the restaurant's, is decided. Survive the week and your parents come home to pass judgement on everything you’ve done. They’ll review the receipts, the Google reviews and the state of the grill. The unspoken questions of whether a computer science degree was really necessary to flip a burger or use a deep fryer hang in the air.

Three different endings. One is earned. One is survived. One comes with a brand new station and a lot of humility. And soap. You're going to want to see them all at least once just to say you did.

In all three endings, Otto still doesn't have a job in computer science. Some things are beyond the game's ability to fix.

Built With

Engine: Godot 4.2.1 (GDScript)
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Gallery

A selection of in-game screenshots. Not all scenes depicted.

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Contributors

Andre Ulep
Ara Santos
Karin Plavin
Lara De Leon
Leeroy Dilim

This game was developed as part of a course project for COMP2060: Introduction to Video Game Development at the University of Manitoba.

Credits

Addons

Godot Dialogue Manager

Environment

Character

Artwork

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More information

Updated	9 hours ago
Published	2 days ago
Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Authors	thesedevsarecooked, KarinP03, Lara De Leon, DilimLeeroy, Ara Santos, seigfrieds
Genre	Simulation
Made with	Godot
Tags	Cooking, Typing, Working Simulator
Content	No generative AI was used

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