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Roll Rush

Spread, chop, scrape, roll. Seven venues, and the queue does not wait.

  • Arcade counter game
  • One player
  • Free · no account · no install
  • Written for Frosty Rollers

Roll Rush is the counter itself. One roll is four jobs: drag the toppings that were ordered onto the plate, chop the mix with three scrubs across it, scrape it into rolls with one swipe up the plate, then slide it into a tub and serve. Two plates run at once, three at the fête, and the orders keep landing whether or not you are ready for them. Three walk-offs end the shift.

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Where Frosty Dash is about getting to the trailer, Roll Rush is about what happens once you are in it. It was written for the same business — Frosty Rollers — and it is the closest thing on this site to a job description.

It is a completely separate engine from Frosty Dash, sharing nothing but the house rules: no image files, no audio files, no libraries. Every graphic in it is an inline path and every sound in it is synthesised.

Arcade counter game

Four jobs, over and over, faster than last time

Rolled ice cream is made in front of the customer on a frozen plate, and the game is that process and nothing else. Toppings go on in the order they were asked for. The mix is chopped into the plate. It is scraped up the plate into rolls. The rolls go in a tub and the tub goes over the counter.

The shape of it

Type
Arcade counter game. One player, mouse or touch, no account.
The shift
Two plates run at once — three at the school fête — and orders keep landing whether or not the last one is finished.
Losing
A customer who runs out of patience walks off. Three walk-offs and the shift is over.
Getting faster
Every serve shortens the clock on the next order slightly, so the shift is a curve rather than a wall. It stops tightening at a floor, but by then it is fast.
Tips and kit
Tips buy kit between shifts — a proper fourteen-inch blade instead of the stubby one, and other things that change the job rather than the score.
The daily
One run a day off a shared seed of the day, so everybody who plays it gets the same shift.

Mouse or touch

One roll is four jobs, in this order

The whole game is played by dragging on the plate. There is nothing to learn beyond the order the four jobs go in, and the order never changes — what changes is how long you have.

The four jobs

Spread
Drag the toppings the customer asked for onto the plate. The wrong topping is a wasted plate, not a warning.
Chop
Three scrubs left and right across the plate, to work the toppings through the mix.
Scrape
One long swipe up the plate. That is the move that turns the sheet into rolls, and it is one swipe rather than several.
Serve
Slide the rolls into the tub and hand it over. Then the next order, which has been counting down the whole time.

Serving cleanly and quickly buys the customer on the other plate a little more patience, which is the only defence there is against two orders landing on top of each other.

Seven venues

Seven places to work, and none of them are the same shift

A venue is not a difficulty setting. Each one changes something about how the shift behaves, so clearing one teaches you very little about the next.

The seven

  • School fête — three plates instead of two, and a long clock. The one to learn on.
  • Festival Friday
  • Heatwave
  • Wedding booking
  • Night market
  • Gale in the tent
  • Rush hour — the queue joins and loses patience whether or not there is a plate free for them.

Venues cleared, tips banked and kit bought all carry between shifts, so the seven are a career rather than a menu.

frostyrollers.com

Both web games were written for a real business

Frosty Rollers sell rolled ice cream, made in front of you on a frozen plate. Frosty Dash and Roll Rush were both written for them, about them, and are theirs — this site hosts the two games because they are good, not because it made them.

They trade weddings, festivals, corporate days and parties, from a towable catering trailer or a pop-up tent. There is no van and no food truck anywhere in the business or in either game, which is worth saying plainly because it is the detail people get wrong on their behalf.

What that means in practice

One source, two sites
The games are not forked or rebuilt for this site. They are built out of the Frosty Rollers repository into one self-contained file each and dropped in here, so the two hosts cannot disagree — three lives a level on frostyrollers.com is three lives a level here, because it is the same code.
Free either way
Both games are free to play in the browser on either site. No account, no download, no advertising and nothing to buy.
The trailer is real
The trailer Frosty is running towards in every level of Frosty Dash, and the counter you are working behind in Roll Rush, are the actual business. That is why the details are right.

frostyrollers.com — the business itself