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A jam submission

Chef's LoopView game page

A chaotic cooking game where timing, ingredients, and a sarcastic raccoon boss all want you to fail.
Submitted by Magfor2 — 4 hours, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#4283.7043.704
Enjoyment#5173.9263.926
Creativity#6784.1114.111
Artwork#8654.0374.037
Audio#15733.3333.333

Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
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Sound Effects Credits

Upgrade/select UI by TechspiredMinds — freesound.org/s/729216 — License: Attribution 4.0

Jingle_Win_Synth_03.wav by LittleRobotSoundFactory — freesound.org/s/274177 — License: Attribution 4.0

Error 2 by qubodup — freesound.org/s/722376 — License: Attribution 4.0

Multiple PageFlips.wav by jomse — freesound.org/s/428645 — License: Attribution 4.0

"Modern Jazz Samba" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

"Coin sound effect" — creatorassets.com/a/8-bit-coin-sound-effects

fail5.wav by Tissman — freesound.org/s/457751 — License: Creative Commons 0

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Magfor2

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Comments

the workdays loops as the ingridients and prep steps, like it. Somehow i like the speech audio verry much ttv was forbidden and it sounds fitting

Developer

Hello! 

What I did here was record a “grunt” using my own voice, then modified it in Audacity and looped it. I created a script that randomly changes the pitch and volume to give the impression of speech variation. The loop plays while the text animation is active.


Thanks for playing and rating! 😊

Submitted

i love food/cooking games! nice way to include the "loop" element, was fun to time it! i think in the future if u added a final picture of the end result of each recipe/or new recipe added that would make the player even more pumped to keep going!

Submitted

This is a a very well made game, I can't believe you don't have more ratings. Overall fantastic game!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I guess I'm not very good at promoting my games =)

Submitted (1 edit)

This is pretty much as perfect as it gets for a game jam. Insanely polished in all aspects, smart mechanic and intepretation of the theme, not particularly challenging but you can't relax too much neither! It was a bit stressful just scrolling between a ton of recipes before finding the correct one. Oh, and the humour... top notch! I want to keep playing this game and would love a post-jam version with some more gameplay/challenge. Top marks! :D

Developer

I'm already working on a post-Jam version. I'm so happy to hear you liked it!

Submitted (1 edit)

I liked this game very much. It takes the "flash-gamy combine elements to make food for customers fast enough before they leave" type of game and puts it on a spinning wheel. I like that all controls are on keyboard and how the game makes you sweat. The weakest like I find though is the recipe book which is in itself a very good idea, I just think it falls a little short. Basically it has 30 pages of recipes which you have to fiddle through with E and Q, the recipes are not organised in categories or alphabetically (I think at least lol), which is just too much recipes to fiddle through at once, which may be part of the theme (your boss hands you this unorganised notebook and expects you to work with it and yells at you when you don't manage). But I think what you could implement is basically category-bookmarks that you can flip through with the W and S keys moving up and down through the categories. Example: let's say you reach the eggs category, you then flip through the individual Egg recipes with E and Q like in the game, you find poached eggs, cook it and the next recipe is cheese sandwich, you then move up with W to find the sandwiches category etc. you get the gist. I think this would make the game easier in a way but also more challenging because you have two new keys you have to use. Anyway very good game keep it up!

Developer

Thank you so much for playing, for the constructive feedback, and for caring enough to suggest solutions to the game’s problems. I’ll take all of it into consideration with great care for the post-jam version.

this is freaking epic

Developer

Almost like The Lord of the Rings of cooking roulette jam games 😄

Submitted

This I think is one of my favorites so far: so polished, so fun! I just think it would be a bit better if there was a more streamlined solution to the cookbook. A bunch of my time was spent fiddling through it, especially when I didn't know which direction the needed page was in. I liked flipping through it, but not when I missed it somewhere and I found myself wrapping the whole thing around haha

Developer

myself got lost in the book several times. I have a more polished version of the book where it automatically selects the recipe, and I'm testing it out with friends. After the JAM, I'll release a new version for free here =)

Submitted

Really well polished, nice work!

Submitted(+1)

Really liked this game because of the "skill check" kind of gameplay, rewarding you for fast reactions with more score. That's really addictive. Probably the one issue is the sheer number of recipes. Having to flip through so many pages does make it pretty difficult to keep up, especially with the game encouraging a go-go-go mentality by rewarding you for quick efficiency. Really loved this one.

Developer

Surely it's something that needs to be balanced. The number of recipes does get in the way. In my case, I managed to memorize most of them hahaha.

But today I would’ve added automatic recipe selection.

Thank you for playing my game.

Submitted

What a well-made game, it turned out very beautiful and fun to play and it even matched the loop theme, and so far I haven't had any technical problems while playing.

Developer(+1)

I did my best to make the game feel polished. I'm really glad you liked it =) ❤️

Submitted

Very fun and unique take on the theme! I thought it was really cool how the spinner sped up the more ingredients you got on a menu. Adds a layer of difficulty to the game. The audio design is on point, and I like the racoon boss's character a lot. Amazing job!

Developer(+1)

I wanted to give it that combo feeling from arcade fighting and rhythm games.

And who doesn’t love a grumpy raccoon, right? Hahaha

So glad you enjoyed it — thank you from the bottom of my heart for playing my game!

Submitted(+1)

This was very fun! It got really stressful when I would mess up a long recipe. The only thing I'd change about this is maybe having an option to skip a recipe that you know you won't have enough time to complete. This is a really minor criticism though and it didn't really take away from my enjoyment. I got very easily sucked in and played for a VERY long time.

Developer

Thank you my friend! It's this kind of reaction that motivates me to create games and makes me want to do this for the rest of my life.

Submitted(+1)

Very cool!

Developer(+1)

O seu jogo é muito lindo! Quem não gosta de um bebê moralmente corrompido, né? kkkk

Submitted(+1)

Good !!!

Developer

thank you my friend! =)