MELT DOWN

Have you got what it takes to make the best sandwich? At our patty melt shop, customers come to you with increasingly difficult orders. Using the ingredients in front of you, make melts that will make your customers happy—or face their snide remarks and wrath…and is that a spaceship I see? You really don’t get paid enough for this.

How To Play:

This game was designed for a custom interface built using the Xbox Adaptive Controller, and the layout can be seen below. While the experience works the best on that specialized setup, the input still maps onto a regular Xbox controller, as shown in the parentheses, and the game can also be played on a regular keyboard, using the bindings written in blue on the diagram.

To build a sandwich, choose an ingredient category (bread, meat, cheese, veggies, or sauce), use the UI navigation keys to choose a specific ingredient in the category, and use the plate button to put the ingredient on your plate. Submit a sandwich using the bell button, and use the trash button to discard the current sandwich and start again. 

Credits

• Production: Nellie Tonev, William Zhang
• Programming: Grace Rodriguez-Gomez, Nellie Tonev
• Art: Sally Jin, Max Zhang
• Sound Design: William Zhang

Special Thanks to Jesse Schell for voiceover! 

This game was produced for the Fall 2024 semester of 53-831: Building Virtual Worlds at the Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University, with the goal of developing an interface that will allow guests to perform a specific action, with that action being "make a sandwich" in our case.