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Mini Jam 189: Cooking

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Can you escape the kitchen before you become the meal?
Submitted by jsuvs — 55 minutes, 22 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of the Limitation#83.7503.750
Concept#133.8333.833
Enjoyment#173.4173.417
Overall#173.5423.542
Presentation#423.1673.167

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
jsuvs

Software used
Unity, Blender, GIMP, Audacity

Use of the limitation
the enemy runs as a timer counting down and the player must escape before it reaches zero

Cookies eaten
roughly 47

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GradientSubmitted1 year ago

Oh wow this is an awesome concept, having to balance feeding and picking, it’s all about these micro decisions which makes for good gameplay and you nailed it! Especially in such a short time. Incredible work!

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Temporal Tea
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Conall Barrett1 year ago

Pretty fun, although I may have liked a jump button to be able to retrieve a knife that got thrown into a corner I couldn't reach. Might have been nice to be able to see the timer while picking the lock, although I understand the stress of not being able to see the loss condition while you're trying to finish the win condition.

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Pig MasterSubmitted1 year ago

Really cool game, cant believe the monster didnt like my knife smh

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Time Soup
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MicrikacikSubmitted1 year ago

Really fun game! Although, as empty.soap said, to win I just have to cook everything in advance and stare into door. But if the ingredients, for example, appear from some other shaft after some time, it would make the game more interactive.

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Cave Food
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jsuvsDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback. Having the ingredients arrive down a shaft is a good idea to fix this problem

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empty.soapSubmitted1 year ago

It was fun! I managed to get out on my 3rd attempt :D 

But the winning run wasn't super enjoyable: first I just cooked everything in advance (which was fun), but then I was mostly just staring at the grey wall while holding the mouse.

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Tentacle Taste: A Recipe Typed in Madness
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jsuvsDeveloper1 year ago

true about the winning strat being just holding on the door, I found the same but ran out of time to figure how to fix it. Maybe the food should go cold or stale to force it to be cooked just-in-time. Thanks for playing and the feedback  

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melodysakuraSubmitted1 year ago

so good!!! The use of the limitation was perfect and when the timer got to red I genuinely felt panic (also the monster scared me the first time cus he snuck up on me as I was picking the lock). Having to juggle picking the lock and feeding the monster was challenging and well integrated into the story of the game. My favorite so far, I'm gonna keep trying to actually get out lol.

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Don't forget to eat!
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jsuvsDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

thanks for playing. One thing I added if you want to try it is if you drop the knife down the chute the creature instantly gets angry and climbs up 

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