Unibun
Game made for 2025 Ebitengine Game Jam which theme was UNION.
Unite the ingredients to make the definitive burger!
Unibun is a turn base game, where you control the ingredients and your goal is to unite with the patty meat and delivered to the client.
- Buns: Basic unit. Together can be merged with the patty meat. Alone, can be merged with Cheese & Lettuce. If they hit to each other you will lose!
Combinations:
- Bun + Patty + Bun: Necessary to pass the game
- Bun + Lettuce: Can cross walls
- Bun + Cheese: Press Z and direction to prepare a dash. The Bun will dash next turn 10 steps
To pass the level:
- Make the Bun + Patty + Bun combination
- Go with your united Burger to the client.
Good luck and let's see if you can beat the 15 levels!
Controls
- Arrows/WASD --> Move around. Ingredients move 2 steps. Burger moves 1.
- Z/X + Arrows/WASD --> Dash (when united with Lettuce)
- ENTER --> Select menu options
- SPACE --> Pause game
Tips
All ingredients move 2 steps, with specially to make the Bun + Patty + Bun combo is not ideal. You would have to use the walls, or to push the Patty.
Modes
Game is about uniting the 2 buns with the patty meat, and go to the client.
The game has 2 modes.
- Normal --> 15 levels
- Endless --> random level. Not too validated or tested....
Note: the game has a couple of typos about the theme word, saying UNITE instead of UNION. And I realized after submission. My brain got that word as theme the whole time. Just... ignore the wrong word!
Comments
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This game is actually hilarious! I didn't expect it to be turn-based, but once I got the cheese-bun dash and used it to kill my bottom bun I was dying laughing. "bunstructions" also got me good.
I got stuck on lvl 3 because I couldnt form the burger, but then I went and read the "bunstructions" and saw I can make it sideways too.
The music is banging and I enjoyed the different versions of the song for in game vs level select - did you make the music yourself?
I didn't enjoy the controls for burger-dash requiring me to hold Z and press an arrow - something about that just didnt feel right. Regardless, I absolutely love this concept and would like to see more burger topping/condiment powerups.
If eventually you wanna give it another try, on the level selection you can just skip one if you get stuck. (ideally the following levels are more difficult but I struggled a bit to define the difficulty).
Happy that you liked the music! I'm not the author, I wish! The author is Isaac Ebert( https://www.gamedevmarket.net/asset/8-bit-chiptune-puzzle-pack-2 )
Thanks for the honesty about the dash command! Initially I considered to just be always dashing by default, to avoid the extra key. But it was too chaotic and I choose to make it with the Z + direction. And even if myself I had to check the keyboard and it didn't feel too natural I thought "It's turn based, it should be fine". But it seems it wasn't hahaha
Super thanks for spending the time on the game and this proper feedback! I will try to do the same I when I play yours!
Maybe you could do something like "press Z and release, then the next arrow input causes a dash" where when you press Z the bun kinda glows? just a thought!