# give-snacks-at-4am
This is (inshaAllah) a Roblox game where you find and distribute snacks to various places at 4am, inspired by the game "get a snack at 4am" by Stixxal.

## Inspiration
- I wanted to learn Roblox game development, and these small ending-focused games seemed simple enough
- While games like "Need More Heat" and "a superhero breakfast" were what I really wanted to make, I figured the "XYZ at 4am" games were easier to emulate
  - grab things, get endings quickly
  - They're complex in that the gameplay changes based on previous endings, I wasn't planning to implement that
- I put my own spin on it by making the premise more charitable! (giving snacks instead of getting snacks, the whole shebang)

## Cool Stuff!
- Someone suggested I use Trader Joe's pickle chips as a snack! I was excited to get a suggestion, so I made a parody version and added it. It's in the "Play" cutscene that plays whn you open the game.

## Gameplay
- Spawn in a house
  - Ideally you go to the kitchen and read a statistic first, but the cutscene hasn't yet been made
- Get snacks to donate
  - Go to the corner store
  - Look around for snacks (house, other store, etc)
- Donate snacks to food bank
  - Currently broken :(

## Images
![Game Start Cutscene showing the player character holding chips. The play button is next to the character.](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bee3f8a5-7695-4271-bce4-fc9768f3873e "Game Start Cutscene. Probably the most polished thing so far. Only the Play button works as of right now.")

![The ROBLOX player character stands in front of the corner store, a rectangular blue-and-white building with snacks.](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/44b899ca-04ef-4618-b976-6240741285bd "In front of the corner store.")
 
## Releases
### 1.0.0
- Initial release!
  - Finished:
    - Cashier dialogue
    - Partial corner store functioning
      - Chips disappear/reappear correctly, can be taken
      - Apples do not; more on this later
    - Basic map construction
    - Basic ambience
      - Sounds muffle/clear correctly based on whether a character is inside/outside
    - Day/night cycle
    - One ending
      - No food ending: you don't give food and the time runs out
  - Unfinished:
    - Most story bits, such as:
      - Initial food insecurity cutscenes
      - Gamepass character dialogue
    - Actually being able to donate snacks to the in-game food bank
      - ProximityPrompt currently doesn't do much
    - Food donation ending
    - Apple collection is buggy
      - This is due to a script that I put in all apples before realizing it was buggy, then tried mass-replacing it to no/mixed avail
      - Can be fixed manually, will try to do it algorithmically
    - There are barely any houses you can do stuff in